Native Legend or Historical Event?

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  @notmyworld44 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I know a young Native American man who pastors a church in Talihina OK, on the Choctaw reservation. I was visiting there one weekend and asked him about Bigfoot in the area. His response was, "Wayne, you would be hard-pressed to find anyone around here who has not either seen one, or knows someone who has seen one."  He was quite serious.

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  @steelydanlover · 1 year ago

  Much respect to the brave and honourable Choctaw Nation who gave aid to the Irish people during the 1840s Irish famine, we shall never forget their generosity and humanity. From Ken in Ireland 🇮🇪

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  @Tsiri09 · 2 years ago (edited)

  This is part of my heritage. I'm part Choctaw. Proud of it, too. We lived in Oregon on the edge of a forest. I rode a mustang horse I adopted in Nevada. He was afraid of nothing; we'd seen mountain lions in the desert and bears in the forest- no reaction. We were looking for a camping site on a long ride when he began to react to something. His eyes rolled, his muscles went tight- he was terrified. I looked around, trying my best to see what was scaring him. I didn't see whatever it was. A LARGE rock sailed past my head- now I was scared. I still thought it was high school jerks, but quickly changed my mind when the sound of a large tree branch broke the silence. Then I noticed there was no sound- that branch sounded like it was being torn off the tree and it was sent sailing towards us. A stench that to this day filled the air and I turned my horse and we left at full speed. I didn't turn around- there WAS something pursuing us. Look, it wasn't a bear- bears don't throw rocks the size of cantaloupes or tree branches.  Bears smell very different. I heard hoots and howls and what sounded like growls behind us. I NEVER went back. Months later, I talked to a Forest Ranger- he said simply, "so they've come down this far have they?" My blood ran cold- he knew what I was talking about. All he said was not to go back into that area and soon there was a bulletin on local news that the area had a "killer bear" and it would be handled. I didn't see it but I KNOW they're there.

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  @Jeffrey_k96 · 2 years ago

  Choctaw army vet here from Haskell county, stones throw away from leflore county line. We have many bigfoot tales and signs here in Oklahoma, especially up in the Ouachita mountains and Kiamichi, in a town called Talihina. Thats the halfway point of our nation. Ive seen some things in the Talimena area..

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  @ianswinford5570 · 2 years ago

  Here’s an idea for a video: the Giants of Lovelock Cave. Stories tell of local Native Americans going to war against a race of vicious cannibalistic giants that lived in nearby caves. This would be a perfect video on your channel, bro!

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  @hatfieldmccoy0311 · 2 years ago

  Semper Fi Brother, I am mixed Eastern Band Cherokee and an enroller member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw and Scotts Irish. I have heard this story before from my papaw. I have had an experience night hunting coyotes. I did multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan as an Infantry Rifleman, so I have some issues with sleep at night so I spend alot of nights running the woods and hunting at night. I have run into black bear, bobcats, mountain lions, but this night I was up on a hill over looking a field that hadn't been planted yet, still to early of spring to plant that field butts up s thick woods with a creek that ran through it. I did some rabbit cries calls and started scanning the tree line  with the red light on top of my rifle scope looking for eyes to pop up in the tree line. This night I just heard what sounded like trees getting broke over not just branches breaking but actual trees pushed over it was getting closer and I was expecting to see a pregnant doe to pop out of the tree line but what I saw as as I scanned back down that tree line was huge shoulders and moving quick my scope was just full of a big dark furry things and moving fast. I was in shock trying to understand what I was seeing. I knew immediately it was no bear because the muscle tone was to clear and to human like to second guess. Before he took off back into the tree line I was saw these huge shoulders through my scope and I remember his shoulders were just over top of this knot on a tree so I could go back to measure for reference. I went back the next morning trying to make sense of what I saw and this things shoulders were at least 94 inches. 7 foot 10 inches. I know what I saw, and let me tell you, I used to night hunt or fish every night alone and not think a thing about it. Since this happened I have been out night hunting but twice and both those were with a group of at 5 or 6 Buddies with us. I don't tell many people be I am known to be pretty good in the woods and I help people teach wounded deer or help guide deer hunts and don't want to ruin my reputation as a hunter and tracker. But I know what I saw and I wish I would not have

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  @PsilliPig · 2 years ago

  Actually, in 1846 an ancestor of a friend of mine in Southern California testified in an affidavit stating that he had encountered a female Sasquatch who wandered into his farm yard, went to the well and got herself a drink, and just sat for a bit before leaving. These Bigfoot are referred to in sixty different native American languages. Now I live in the Pacific Northwest and yes, they've been here longer than that the local First Nation people can remember.

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  @lukethomas.125 · 2 years ago

  Alright, Bedtime Stories, now Wartime Stories... perfection

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  @Vietnam_Vet_67 · 2 years ago (edited)

  My Great Great Grandmother was a full blooded Choctaw. When I was about 6 years old she spoke of this but I can&apos;t remember what she called it. She knew the English language but would speak broken English. She told that her older sister by 17 years lost 2 of her children to this Big Hairy Man as she called it. She would speak of her lost family from time to time. <br>I just wish I could speak with her today to dig into her story.

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  @Momo_Kawashima · 2 years ago

  Monke: haha am stronk<br>The boys unleashing a volley of .50 cal:

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  @clintm7796 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m a member of the Choctaw tribe and a US Army Veteran. Just FWI, &nbsp;the current &quot; seat &quot; of the Choctaw Nation is in Durant Oklahoma in Bryan county.

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  @sharonwhiteley6510 · 2 years ago

  My BFF from 1st grade to HS graduation, &nbsp;was half Cherokee. &nbsp;She spent every summer and major holidays with her Dad in NC. &nbsp;She was extremely proud of her heritage. &nbsp;She always told me that her Dad and other family members, &nbsp;would warn her about where she walked, especially around dusk. She was adamant of &quot;something the elders warned about but wouldn&apos;t discuss &quot;.<br>She unfortunately passed away following graduation. &nbsp;I am almost 70 yo and still remember her stories after her time with the Cherokee. <br>May she rest quietly and greet me with happiness and tears of joy.

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