Bigtruth: Mississippi - Harper's History Vol. 1 #25

by Scott Harper

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.

Given this occurrence, if it is true, it’s impossible to say what evidence from Mississippi was destroyed—or from anywhere else for that matter. The Smithsonian Institution may have done irreparable damage to the field of archeology in general, and to the search for solid, concrete evidence to prove the existence of Sasquatch to the mainstream community in particular. They’ve had that evidence, and destroyed it. What else has been destroyed over the years? What other evidence has been in hand, only to be lost to similar purges of knowledge? Not only at the Smithsonian, but other places of learning, and information?

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