Mississippi is said to have a
history of Sasquatch sightings, and encounters going back at least until the
1800s. Native American tales speak of a great, horrible war fought between the Lenape
and Iroquois tribes on one side, and monstrous creatures known as the Talegas
on the other. The war, fought in the Mississippi river valley, lasted the
lifetimes of four Lenape chiefs. It is said to be one of the largest wars
fought on the ancient continent. The Talegas eventually lost the conflict, and
fled down the river, to more southern locations. The Talegas were described as
being hairy giants.
There are other
pre-Patterson/Gimlin film footage sightings, and encounters with Sasquatch in
Mississippi, too.
In the early 1900s, there was a
series of sightings/encounters with a Sasquatch in the area known as the Burns
Rebrake area of Attala County. Men trying to clear the area were chased out. Hunting
dogs were attacked several times. Something was heard screaming from the woods
in the area on a number of times. As far as I could find, no truly organized
force that went searching for the creature (or creatures) found anything of
substance.
February, 1925—Forrest County.
One of the most amazing sightings I have ever heard of. A family was living in
a small 2-room cabin that was isolated from any neighbors. The father had gone
into town, via horseback, for an overnight business trip. At home were the
mother, and children. They were all piled into one bed for the night for warmth.
There was no latch on the door; a chair was simply wedged in place to keep the
door from opening. Outside, the dog began barking. The people inside the cabin
could hear the dog running away from something, as its barking faded. Not long
after, the door began to rattle. The door was pushed open—despite the chair—and
a Sasquatch entered the cabin. It stood, just inside the doorway, looking
around. It then made its way to the bed, and lay down, crosswise; it lay across
the legs on the bed’s human occupants. It lay there long enough that the
peoples’ legs were going to sleep beneath the creature’s weight before standing
up, and leaving the cabin. It left the door open. Though it was freezing cold,
no one wanted to get up, to close the door for fear of encountering the Sasquatch again.
In 1962, a group of witnesses near Lost Gap spotted a green-eyed Sasquatch. Searches with dogs, and even by helicopter commenced. The Sasquatch was never found.
In 1966, near the town of Winona,
a Sasquatch was seen beside the road by a passing trucker. The creature seemed
to be waving at the driver.
While researching this article, I
discovered that the Smithsonian Institution is said to have publicly admitted,
thanks to the efforts of the American Institution of Alternative Archeology, to
having destroyed “thousands of giant human remains” in the early 1900s. This
was done, it is said, to cover up the fact that a race of giants existed in
North America before the Asian immigrants crossed the Bering Straight 15,000
years ago.
