For YOU Crypto Types

[Ninurta]

That is EXACTLY what I hear too Phil. When you blow across a tightly held blade of grass, trying to get the loud hi-pitched whistle-squeal sound but don't quite get it right... you get a whole range of sounds exactly like we just heard on that tape recording! Bang on.

G

If it's ever discovered the Bigfoot are doing that and not the 'Biker Indian' guys... well, it means
the shaggy creature enjoys extracting the urine from its pompous cousin with the weird hat and
the slurred voice!!

That "Cherokee" character was so full of shit his eyes oughtta be brown, Cherokees never lived in Kentucky. They took the piss and "sold" Kentucky to Richard Henderson in the late 1700's, and laughed all the way back home - because they never owned any part of it to sell. Matter of fact, one of the Cherokee negotiators at that sales meeting grinned and told Boone, who was interpreting for Henderson and generally acting as a go-between, that "now that we've sold it to you, it will be up to you to hold it." He knew damned well why. NO ONE lived in Kentucky after about 1500 or so, except for one band of Shawnees that had a settlement at Eskippakithiki for about 20 years or so before even they had to abandon it - and it was THEIR hunting grounds!

The story goes that many generations ago, there was a race of red-haired giants called "Azgens" living in Kentucky, and they were supposedly a rough bunch, cannibals and whatnot. Just thoroughly unpleasant folk. So a coalition of some of the Great Lakes Indians, mostly Shawnee, went to war against the Azgens in Kentucky and wiped them out - every man, woman, and child of them.

Then the Shawnee couldn't settle Kentucky, either. The story goes, among the Shawnee, that the spirits of the dead Azgens would not allow settlement by the Shawnee, although they were allowed to hunt the territory when times were lean - they just couldn't put down roots there. that one attempt at Eskippakithiki only lasted 20 years, from about 1740 to about 1760.

The Cherokee lived in western North Carolina and Upper East Tennessee. Their stomping grounds were bounded on the west by the Clinch River and on the north by the Green River, but they didn't live in that whole area, they just hunted the most of it, and stayed in the mountains around the Smokies for settlement. The Shawnee had one settlement south of the Green River (which they called "Skipatheepi", which curiously enough also means "Green" or "Blue River"), but most of that territory was Yuchi. The Cherokee didn't even live THERE.

They sure as hell didn't live in Kentucky.

Anyhow, Chief Dots-His-Foxes or whatever the hell his name was had a recording of either A) someone blowing across a blade of grass stretched across his thumbs, B) the wing of an elm seed held between his tongue and the roof of his mouth, or C) a turkey call. It's possible that he might have been using a home-made deer call of the sort that my dear old dad used to call a "blate" when he showed me how to make them, but that's more of an outside possibility. Same goes for that "bigfoot researcher" who had the recording later in the video. The only difference there was the racket he recorded was longer. There wasn't any difference in the actual sound other than the length and volume of it, which means he was probably using something more durable than a blade of grass.

It's late here, so maybe tomorrow I'll tell another tale of the unknown. Can't say it was a bigfoot, or a panther, or what it was, because I never saw it. I know I have my own explanations for it that don't involve bigfoot or the supernatural, or even ABC's, but other folks differ in that opinion. Either way, nothing was seen, so it's anyone's guess.

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