I dunno, man. American mountain lions have a "home range" that covers about 20 square miles per cat. If that one is of such a size, or bigger, I expect being confined to a 6 acre preserve withing easy walking distance of a housing estate would be a bit... cramped. They should look for missing pets and children - a cat that size can't get by eating just grasshoppers.
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Re: Yowies, Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Daniel Boone. I live not too far from where Ol' Dan'l is supposed to have killed that one, which he called a "Yahoo" as I recall. He got that name from "Gulliver's Travels". This is the first I've heard of it having supposedly attacked his son, however. I know his son James was killed a few miles south of here at Wallen's Ridge in 1773 I believe - but he was killed by Indians. He did have another son, though, whose name was Israel, and a daughter named Jemima who was at one point kidnapped by the Shawnee. That particular kidnapping went poorly for the Shawnee.
Such critters have a long, storied history around here. Folks used to call them "wood boogers", and Booger Hole, WV is named after one that supposedly lived in that area. About the time the Patterson film came out, the terms "Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot" became popular, and tended to replace "wood booger" in this area. The name has changed, but the beast remains the same.
Before the white folks came, the Indians had various names for them, depending on the tribe. "Sasquatch" I think is from a northwestern or Alaskan tribe. Here, the Shawnee called them "msissingw" which is nigh unpronounceable as it is spelled, and believed them to be caretakers of the forest, guardians against overhunting and such.
But stories of them have been around a long time, long before Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot" were names the critter was known by.
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Re: Yowies, Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Daniel Boone. I live not too far from where Ol' Dan'l is supposed to have killed that one, which he called a "Yahoo" as I recall. He got that name from "Gulliver's Travels". This is the first I've heard of it having supposedly attacked his son, however. I know his son James was killed a few miles south of here at Wallen's Ridge in 1773 I believe - but he was killed by Indians. He did have another son, though, whose name was Israel, and a daughter named Jemima who was at one point kidnapped by the Shawnee. That particular kidnapping went poorly for the Shawnee.
Such critters have a long, storied history around here. Folks used to call them "wood boogers", and Booger Hole, WV is named after one that supposedly lived in that area. About the time the Patterson film came out, the terms "Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot" became popular, and tended to replace "wood booger" in this area. The name has changed, but the beast remains the same.
Before the white folks came, the Indians had various names for them, depending on the tribe. "Sasquatch" I think is from a northwestern or Alaskan tribe. Here, the Shawnee called them "msissingw" which is nigh unpronounceable as it is spelled, and believed them to be caretakers of the forest, guardians against overhunting and such.
But stories of them have been around a long time, long before Sasquatch" and "Bigfoot" were names the critter was known by.
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