Keith Bearden, Bigfoot experiencer, has introduced me to even more depths of understanding of these forest friends. His book, Forest Friends of the Night, is an absolute must-read!
In fact, now that I'm located here, Keith is going to share experiences and locations with me for quiet and noninvasive studies that I will share here.
This is beautiful state is my new Bigfoot Central, along with the fantastic Georgia museum, Expedition Bigfoot, in Blue Ridge, GA. (more on this amazing place coming soon)
Georgia has a few significant qualities that are shared by several other states in relation to Bigfoot's possible origins.
Let's look at this first feature, key Bigfoot locations in the Eastern US -
Now, let's look at key ancient mound regions in the Eastern US (more on why this is pointed out, later in this post) -
Is this a coincidence that they line up?
Here's an example of one contributing factor. When Europeans settled America, they came to the eastern shore and established their civilization. Without a train system, planes, or cars, they pretty much stayed where there were resources and settled towns and established farms.
Today, the population density still shows the arrival regions, the coasts.
Here's the US population density map -
Let's add more factors that tie into Bigfoot locations by studying Native Legends.
The Cherokee and other tribes have references in their legends about a big people, a mining people, a mound-building people who were the original tribes that existed when their Amerindian people arrived to this continent.
Judaculla was spoken of by the Cherokee people who inhabited the Georgia region (before the trail of tears drove them westward to claim their fertile and gold-bearing lands).
This giant was said to have slanted eyes and immense strength. Interestingly, according to the story, Judculla chose a Cherokee woman as a mate and took her to the spirit world. This intrigues me because of biblical references of Nephilim, the offspring of angels mating with humans. In such a case, it is believed God decided to flood the earth of the abomination. In fact, most native legends relate that they rebuked the giants of old.
Let's imagine if nephilim did exist and the people of earth couldn't handle their existence, but the spirit realm would see them as too organic to be one of them. You would have a being that is able to exist in both realms, physical and spiritual, and yet remains shamed and hidden for not fitting in either.
Given the newer acceptance among researchers and witnesses that Bigfoot can "toggle" between worlds, we have yet another layer to the mystery of our forest friends.
Why do we refer to them as forest friends?
Imagine if you were sitting at home and someone came in your front door and started eating from your fridge, drinking and throwing trash about, yelling, and even riding loud quads through down your hallway, past your baby's nursery?
Yet, we do this with their home. We invade and hunt, camp, start fires, and threaten their residence, yet they do not want confrontation, even knowing they could swat us with one hand and lay us down.
If you are an avid nature-lover, the forest is your cathedral. Enter it that way, with reverence, respect, and humble gratitude.
When evaluating the mound culture and Bigfoot correlation, looking at the maps above, we are reminded of the way Europeans approached the east coast and set themselves up in communities on its shores, spreading into forests and riverways to set up towns in fertile land. They weren't the first to do so on this land. We assumed the Amerindians were the first. But, they claims the early mining in Wisconsin and Great Lakes area was done by another people, the skeletons buried in the lands and found by European-origin farmers and citizens. These were a tall people with advanced knowledge to build mounds along major waterways, like the giant city referred to as Cahokia, where waterways converge.
In fact, today it is accepted among most researchers of Bigfoot that these peoples trek along watersheds and meet in springtime to meet up and mate with other clans at the convergences of waterways. This is a practice played out when one looks at the major rivers in the western half of the east coast/Midwest; Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, Georgia, Tennessee, Illinois, Mississippi, Louisiana. These are locations with not only mound culture and trade waterway, but locations of finds of ancient giant skeletons.
The Karankawa Indians of the Texas coastline were an unusual tribe. When the Spanish encountered them many centuries ago, they asked them how they got copper tools. They explained they traded with the people up north. The people up north were mining copper at the Great Lakes region. And, when giant skeletons were dug up in the Great Lakes, many were adorned with shells, likely traded from the Gulf.
This is the exciting path of research Keith and I will be exploring.
Decades ago, I was asked to give input on language and psychic skills of our forest friends, but at the time, people were threatening to kill one to prove they exist. I realized that there are better ways to prove they exist by showing their potential lineage and feasability. This is when I sat down and studied the only remains in America that could have been from a tall people - the mound giants. Then, as I realized the locations and the culture, and then the native legends of driving off the giants, I realized that between the native people and European populations, we way outnumbered them. The only option was to retreat.
And, when they retreated, all the knowledge of their ancestors amazing advanced culture was put to rest.
We see the forest people as crude and feral, but imagine if you took a human out of the city where they had a career and conveniences, and put him in the forest to survive.
If you came upon his descendents hundreds of years later, you would see a crude and rugged people adapted to the environment and you might assume they weren't sophisticated. (Example - the fictional story of the Planet of the Apes)
There are some voices in the Bigfoot subject whose knowledge and messages are quite poignant and need to be respected. I would put people like Ron Morehead and Arla Williams in that category. There are many more who contribute in so many ways, but these two offer insight and explanation into the "woo-woo" qualities of the Tall Ones. Ron Morehead has done an amazing job scientifically contemplating the magical qualities of these peoples with "The Quantum Bigfoot" and "Bigfoot Unveiled." Arla has a fantastic channel on YouTube where she shares the Oklahoma forest friends she interacts with regularly. Her use of respect, open-minded and loving attitudes, drumming, singing, and other native culture avenues to give comfort and understanding are exceptional examples.
Is there a carried oral tradition among the Forest People, reminding them of their origins? Do they stay near and revere the burial mounds of their ancestors? Is this also why Bigfoot are often reported in our cemeteries? Do they have a spiritual connection to ancestors and a reverence for the memorials?
Given the locations of these tall feral people, we can make an assumption that they too arrived on the Pacific and Atlantic routes to the shores, settling in quickly to these regions where resources were ideal and there was no need to go past the cities they built on the waterways they valued as a sea-focused people.
I am reminded of the legends told by the Paiute in Nevada. The Hav-Musuvs were a people said to have taken great ships into Death Valley long ago when there were great lakes there. They traveled by boat, traded with distant populations and when the lakes dried up, they went underground in tunnel systems. As well, the Paiute told of the red-haired giants of Lovelock Cave that lived on boats in the lake.
I anxiously await fall weather and some explorations into the Bigfoot regions of Georgia. I have a summer planned away with pre-production of my western screenplay, while sneaking away to locations around NW Georgia to share festivals and locations, history, and even prospecting.