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So described as huge, hulking and often coated and hardened mud, clay,
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or even stone, giving rise to the term stone giants.
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Not just a forest dweller. These beings are said to
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abduct and consume humans, and they lived in caves in
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the deepest wilderness. In Iroquois myth, they're more than animals.
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They're dark spirits and physical form, representing chaos and danger
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to peaceful tribal life, and some legends suggest they once
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were men cursed or transformed by evil spirits.
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Well today and broadcasting seeds and we're back.
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Jenascua. First time I ever heard about this is when
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I was doing a report like in college on the Iroquois,
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which is the local well the local Indian confederation here
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in the area that we live in, right, yep, Yes,
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everywhere from Canada, I mean even into Canada all the
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way down you know, basically almost all of New York. Yeah,
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and parts of even Pennsylvania and whatnot. I think part
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of their territory yep. But either way, this is a
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legend that goes back to them. Now there's other tribes
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I think farther north too, that have like similar type things, right,
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the origins yep.
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They're all very similar in the sense that like structure biology,
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but I don't. But the stories change kind of, I guess,
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depending on where you go, because some places they say
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they don't have that aggressive tendency or nature, and then
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in some places they say they're you know, tearing people's
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heads off.
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Yeah, yeah, that was their way. That's literally their preferred way.
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Of just twisting their heads off.
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So described as huge, hulking and often coated and hardened
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mud clay, or even stone, giving rise to the term
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stone giants, not just the forestwiler. These beings are said
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to abduct and consume humans, and they lived in caves
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in the deepest wilderness and Iroquois myth they're more than animals.
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They're dark spirits and physical form, representing chaos and danger
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to peaceful tribal life, and some legends suggest they want
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where men cursed or transformed by evil spirits. Now, I
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did a little research in that it seems like very
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correlative with like the when to go.
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Yeah yeah, but but.
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I'm sorry, the when to go is so did by
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by uh modern culture. Yeah, yeah, it takes on, it
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takes on this whole nother thing. I mean, the other
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thing too, is the tribal origins are different because when
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it goes are uh like algonk Win, the o g
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Bwai and the Kree. But there's also tales of the
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when to go from out west, So I don't know
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what to believe with that, but yeah, and so loosely translated,
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when to go means the evil spirit that devout or
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is mankind done a lot? Like you know, yeah, yeah,
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but I think when you talk about the appearance now
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they talk about like a when to go is more
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like an emaciated corpse. Yeah, yeah, not a big difference
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between eight to ten foot tall, massive muscular you know, yeah,
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covered covered in hardened mud bark and you know, yeah
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type of thing. So it's like, I don't know, I
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don't know what to think, right.
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I don't either, man, This one's I mean, the reality is,
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if you think about it, with most animal species, there's
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variations when it goes when you go from like in
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canines for instance, look at the variation in canines. I
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know we've breeding them out as humans, but the reality
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is there is a variation even in the wild. So
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why wouldn't that be the same with something like this?
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Yeah, for sure, I mean just thinking logically.
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Yeah, so different traits though, like behavior wise between gen
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Osco and Sasquatch, right, yes.
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Yeah, we've not getting curious.
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We've got the behavioral divide. I guess you would call
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it right, and you've got shoot, I just lost it, dude,
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what what all?
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Right?
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Behavior Sasquatch tends to avoid contact and they're elusive, right well,
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gen Osco was reported is aggressive and territorial. Yeah, held
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large bleaner for the bigfoot Sasquatch. Jen Oscar's massive, muscular
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and has like the stone like armor, which just sounds
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like really matt at for like they literally the stories
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are that they met there for and like basically two
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it was to stop arrows. Yep, they later on they
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found that I guess it wouldn't stop bullets. That's the
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stories I've read so far.
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Yep.
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Like they uh, as soon as flint lock pistols and
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rifles started showing up, they started kind of withering away
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or at least going into hiding.
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Yeah, right, became way more elusive, elusive, illusory, lusory, hometed, vocalization, howls, knox,
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and mimicry for sasquatch, but for the god why do
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I keep forgetting how to say it? Genosqua. I think
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that low growls and terrifying shrieks habitat forest mountains, remote
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areas for sasquatch, deep caves, cliff side forests, right yep.
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And then temperament is curious and neutral and predatory and dangerous.
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So I don't like that.
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Yeah, I don't either. Uh So, Upstate New York, parts
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of the ad around ACKs and Alleghany regions have multiple
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retorts of unusually aggressive sasquatch that throw rocks, break trees,
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and charge at witnesses. Sounds familiar, yeo, yeah, just a
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little bit. Sounds kind of like what happened in your backyard. Yeah,
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just a little The other thing, that's a little it
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sounds like what happened to me and both of my
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encounters as well. Yeah, here's the other kicker, the odor. Yeah,
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you don't hear about the odor in all sasquatch sightings
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and or confrontations. And I had said, I wonder if
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it's a like a reaction to being startled or being
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you know, like an aggred, like as a skunk would, right, Okay,
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I've said that in past episodes of Maybe Not this
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podcast but other podcasts. But I think I did say
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in this podcast and I would not doubt and it's
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a cross between skunk and dcom Yeah, yep right, And
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that's exactly what it smells like.
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That's a real identifiable stench.
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Oh for And so they've got there's so let me
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read one of these.
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Okay.
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So the Bark and Stoneman of Canandagua.
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Is in Canandagua, Okay.
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In the winter of eighteen thirty eight, near the southern
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southern shores of Canandagua Lake, in which in what is
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western New York's Finger Lake region, a local fur trapper
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named Elias T. Henshaw was reported missing under strained circumstances.
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Henshaw was well known to the area and with a
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reputation for venturing deep into the hardwood forest alone for
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weeks at a time, usually emerging with pelts and stories
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of black bears and coyotes. But that winter he didn't return.
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A small search farready found his camp weeks later, totally
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undisturbed but eerie. His traps were untouched, his firepit could
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cold but carefully stacked, and a half skinned rabbit hung
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frozen in the trees. The only oddity enormous footprints in
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the snow leading away from the camp in the dense
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thicket that hugged the lakeside cliffs. These tracks, according to
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the journal of the local sheriff's deputy named Thomas Wilmer,
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measured nearly eighteen inches long and were deep enough to
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suggest something with stone or iron in its feet. So
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funny the way that they talk and wrote. Yeah, so
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the local had Nashone, which is the iroquois by these
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were Senecas. Seneca elders told the search party to stop looking.
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They warned them that Henshaw had likely been taken by
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the genos.
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Genaska.
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I might be wrong, by the Genosca. That's how it's spelled, Okay.
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A stone cloaked giant of the old woods, said to
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roll in mud and crushed bark until hardened like armor,
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blending into trees and cliffs. It's also camouflage. Yeah, think
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about it. Yeah, a protector. I mean think about that.
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Also in that area in the Fingerlakes, like down by,
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like Skinny Atlas Lake, And I mean you've been down there, dude,
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You've you've hiked in like like film or glen in
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places like that where they have that crushed stone. Yeah,
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that would totally. If they rolled in mud and then
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rolled in that, it would completely blend in, completely blend in.
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Plus it would harden like armor.
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Yeah, dude, and I'm not for nothing like even certain round.
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Aren't you going to penetrate that?
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Yeah? So blending into trees and cliffs a protector of
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sacred ground or a hunter of men who trespassed too far.
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Wilmer later wrote that one of the elders pointed toward
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the cliff and said, he walks with the bark of
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the pines and the blood of the stone. He is
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not a beast. He is the mountain's anger. Nobody was
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ever found. Locals say that an especially cold, quiet nights
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in near Canandagua, you can still hear rock scraping against
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rock in the woods, and sometimes a single deep exhale
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that rattles the branches.
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Mhm.
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I got a friend in Canadigua. Maybe you got to
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check it out.
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Yeah, maybe right. I used to work in Canadigua actually
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at the v A hospital there.
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Very nice, very well. So.
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Aggression in the Adirondacks is another story. When sasquatch turns violent, well,
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most people picture Sasquatch as shy, elusive, and almost benevolent.
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There's another category of reports, far less romantic and a
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lot more terrifying, especially across upstate New York, the Adirontic
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Willness Wilderness and the Allegheny Plateau. These aren't the classic
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blurry in the distance encounters. They're up close, unnerving, and
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often hostile, and for some researchers, the violent behavior might
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point to something other than your run of the mill Bigfoot,
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perhaps even the perhaps, uh Genosca.
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You get it one day, man, You've said it too
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many times the other way?
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So what are you saying? Genosca, Genosco?
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Yeah, I think Genosca GENOSCOA.
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There it is the conditioning mind.
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The serpent tishan or blunt force trauma, and nobody's here
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to smack me. So yeah. An airandeck rock thrower nineteen
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ninety seven, Moose River Plains. Dude, I know that's not
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that far off from now Old Forge, Right now, it's
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not a group of ikers near the Moose River Plains
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Recreation Area reported being harassed for over two nights by
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what they initially thought were aggressive campers large rocks too
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big to be thrown by a human.
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See, I mean, come on, bro, Yeah, yeah, they lobbed.
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They were lobbed into their campsite from the tree line.
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These described guttural vocalizations snapping branches and sometimes pacing just
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beyond their firelight. Sounds really familiar to me, bro.
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Yeah, just a little bit, just a little bit.
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Go check out episode one and two. Yeah, right, right
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from the start. On the second night, a tree was
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pushed down. There you go, another tree, and one of
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them saw a shadow with shoulders wider than a refrigerator
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dart between trunks. The DC, which is the Department of
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Environmental Conservation, told them it was likely a bear buff
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charging throwing rocks, exactly right. But none of them bought it.
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That.
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So that's that one. That's crazy right. That's nineteen ninety seven.
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Now we jumped forward to two thousand and one. The
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Chestnut Redge Growler Alleghany Plateau two thousand and one and
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the Chestnut Redge area, which stretches between stretches into both
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Pennsylvania and western New York. There have been decades of
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reports of something far more aggressive than typical bigfoot sightings.
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I need to talk to Paul about this.
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Yeah, yeah, right, Yeah, absolutely.
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We're talking about our friend Paul Boggden. In two thousand
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and one, a bow hunter named Rob s was near Salamanca,
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New York, when he witnessed a figure hearing bark from
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a tree and letting out a low frequency war that
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he said he felt in his chest sounds familiar to.
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When he tried to retreat, the creature charged, stopping only
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after Rob tripped and fired an arrow into the ground.
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He decided as it as an armor plate. He described
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it as armor plated in dried mud, with a matted
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hair and a face that looked almost like a cracked mask. Hm.
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Wow.
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Another one Split Rock wild Way encounter. This was twenty
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twelve in the Easternadirondacks. A wildlife surveyor doing acoustic monitoring
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near the Split Rock wild Way, a protected corridor in
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the Eastern Adirondacks, and I think it's close over by
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Lake Champlain reported finding trees twisted at six feet high
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at like scrape marks and a large pine logs impaled
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into the soft ground vertically. Wow. Something with a no
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clear natural explanation. Two nights later, his recording equipment picked
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up tree knocks, stone on stone sounds and what one
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audio analyst described as a chest thump followed by a
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deep howl far lower than any known North American man
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used to go back out alone after that.
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Yeah, I don't blame them, so.
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Not just Sasquatch. Maybe something worse right. These stories have
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consistent traits extreme strength, stone throwing behavior. Now, like I've
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had stones thrown, but they were stones, not rocks not
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And here's the big one, bluff charges are full on aggression.
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Yeah, because it's it's it's too I mean, I would