Here be Bigfeet

[Originally posted Nov 24, 2018. Reposted here due to technical problems with the YouTube clip at the old location.] 

I just found this interesting YouTube clip, featuring Mattsquatch (real name unknown) lecturing about various types of Bigfoot-like creatures seen across the United States. 

Mattsquatch has tried to bring some sense and order into this bewildering topic, and draws the conclusion that there are at least 10 different types of Bigfeet out there. The “classical” type is known from the US states on the West Coast. This is the type seen in the Patterson-Gimlin film, and could be likened to a gorilla (or even to a huge upright-walking bear). In the South, a more aggressive and chimpanzee-like type is more common. The Florida Skunk Ape resembles an orangutan. Yet another form is the “human giant” or “relict hominid”, similar to the gorilla-like type from the West Coast but with a more human face. 

Finally, there are a number of more unusual creatures, including the Grass Man (which looks like a normal human in feral condition and only exists in Ohio), the Mountain Giant (with Alaska as a hotspot), the Devil Monkey and the extremely rare Little People. Mattsquatch also mentions a number of virtual monsters, who are said to attack and eat people. 

In the last part of his lecture, he talks about the Dogman, which is not a Bigfoot sensu stricto, but rather resembles an East European werewolf. He claims that these creatures, known as “Lobos” (Spanish for wolves), are often seen by US border patrols and Mexican migrants! 

Some of Matt´s private speculations are truly “out there” (ahem, the Nephilim? Aliens? Reptoids?), but I found the more ethnographic part of his lecture intriguing. Why would people in one part of the States be seeing a rough replica of the gorilla, while those in another part see a rough replica of the chimp or orang? If these observations go back to pre-colonial times, TV documentaries or sensational tabloid articles about African or Asian great apes can´t explain the similarities… 

All observations of hairy hominids are usually lumped together under the “Bigfoot” designation (“Finding Bigfoot” even considers the Jersey Devil or the Beast of Bray Road to be sasquatches), but just like with UFOs, we could really be dealing with many different types of creatures or phenomena.