{"id":94410,"date":"2022-05-09T13:11:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=94410"},"modified":"2022-05-09T13:11:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T17:11:20","slug":"bigfoot-stories-from-the-bulkley-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/bigfoot-stories-from-the-bulkley-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Bigfoot stories from the Bulkley Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Guillon, a roaming reporter for CICK News in Smithers, BC has conducted a number of interviews with northerners who are sharing their Bigfoot stories.<\/p>\n<p>The legend of Sasquatch (or Forest People, Bigfoot) is documented as crypto-zoology,\u00a0a\u00a0pseudoscience\u00a0and\u00a0subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated,\u00a0particularly those popular in\u00a0folklore.<\/p>\n<p>According to wikipedia, as a field, \"cryptozoology originates from the works of Bernard Heuvelmans, a Belgian zoologist, and Ivan T. Sanderson, a Scottish zoologist. Notably, Heuvelmans published On the Track of Unknown Animals (French Sur la Piste des B\u00eates Ignor\u00e9es) in 1955, a landmark work among cryptozoologists that was followed by numerous other like works. Similarly, Sanderson published a series of books that assisted in developing hallmarks of cryptozoology, including Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (1961).\"<\/p>\n<p>Laura's piece on Sasquatch looks at the history of this nebulous creature and sites <a href=\"https:\/\/sesqui.ca\/en\/news\/kristi-lane-sinclair-on-the-legend-of-the-sasquatch\/\">Kristi-Lane Sinclair's article on the Indigenous history of this creature<\/a>. Here is an excerpt from her piece: \"To Indigenous people, legends of this ape-like or \u201cwild man\u201d creature has existed since time immemorial.\u00a0 The Musqueam First Nation calls the creature \u201cSesq\u2019ets\u201d, the Stolo Tribe calls it \u201cSacsquec\u201d, and to the Haida, \u201cGaagiixid\u201d. To the Nuxalk it\u2019s Boq\u2019s.\"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to hear Laura's interview with Bulkley Valley ecologist and forester Jim Pojar, a respected biologist of his own Sasquatch encounters.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Guillon, a roaming reporter for CICK News in Smithers, BC has conducted a number of interviews with northerners who are sharing their Bigfoot stories. The legend of Sasquatch (or Forest People, Bigfoot) is documented as crypto-zoology,\u00a0a\u00a0pseudoscience\u00a0and\u00a0subculture that searches for and studies unknown, legendary, or extinct animals whose present existence is disputed or unsubstantiated,\u00a0particularly those&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":94414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222],"tags":[14444,3683,14447,14445,14446,14448],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94416,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94410\/revisions\/94416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94410"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=94410"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=94410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}