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xilrion In reply to Zeonista [2014-08-01 01:27:51 +0000 UTC]

i noticed on your profile page that you are listening to "sasquatch cronicles". i am a regular listener
in fact i send those guys a picture "sasquatch moon" just to show my appreciation for their work. they replied immediately and thanked me, very cool guys and very interesting show.

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Rush929 In reply to xilrion [2022-11-30 21:05:56 +0000 UTC]

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Zeonista In reply to xilrion [2014-08-13 15:22:15 +0000 UTC]

It is a great podcast show, the best of the Bigfoot podcast shows, and I have gotten to be a regular listener. I even have all three of William Jevning's books on Kindle for bonus fan points. The show has done great violence to my Seventies-era childhood view of Sasquatch creatures, but at the same time it has made them more real, with a true place in our world.

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Zeonista In reply to SamuraiTaiga [2014-07-25 14:28:01 +0000 UTC]

Oh! I have not heard of such creatures in Japan before. Yes, I am sure you could not confuse such a creature with the usual onsen saru.

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SamuraiTaiga In reply to Zeonista [2014-07-25 15:32:35 +0000 UTC]

In Japan, they are called Yamahito. They're supposed to be a myth, at least to modern city people.

The Japanese wolf is supposed to be official extinct as well, but several years ago wolves came down from the mountains during a very cold winter. I recognised them as wolves and that was before later learning online that they're not supposed to exist any more. A woman I know who lives in the southern part of Shiga prefecture told me that wolves often come by her family's farm.

I wonder how many other such creatures exist. I know that similar big hairy humanoid-ape things exist in Australia too. Those are said be very dangerous. They're called Yowie. Officially, of course, they don't exist. *rolleyes*

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Zeonista In reply to SamuraiTaiga [2014-07-25 16:40:11 +0000 UTC]

I live in south-western Ohio here in the USA. where the appearance of a black bear in the eastern suburbs of Cincinnati was a news story for about 3 days. About 17 years ago I learned Ohio had its own local variety of Sasquatch, the "Grassman", which is seen in the southern forests (especially Anthony Wayne National Forest) and the mountains of the east. It was a surprise to me, since I was used to considering Sasquatch as a creature of the West Coast states. But currently Ohio has the #2 rank of reported Sasquatch encounters behind only #1 Washington state! It seemed odd at first glance, but I should not have been surprised, since once a person drives about 60 minutes eastward from Columbus, Akron, or Cleveland the country turns rough & vertical very quickly, and the human population density drops off to single-digit numbers per 2 square kilometers. There is a lot of room for such a creature there, and plenty to sustain it. I suppose it is the same for Japan's rural prefectures that include a lot of mountains. I had not heard of "Yamahito" before, it will deserve some investigation.

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SamuraiTaiga In reply to Zeonista [2014-07-25 16:56:22 +0000 UTC]

True, the rural regions are surprisingly empty. Industrialisation and modernisation results in huge population movement away from the rural areas to the cities. Japan's population is extremely urban. Go hiking in the mountains, you'll hardly meet anyone since so few people go up into the mountainous areas. Japanese avoid the mountains, leaving them to temples and shrines. Mountains are for the Gods.

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Zeonista In reply to SamuraiTaiga [2014-07-28 16:54:09 +0000 UTC]

As a younger anime fan I was pleased and troubled by the discovery in Japan that Saint Seiya was absolutely correct in placing temples at the tops of mountains with many stairs! I did not get far into the mountains myself, but Kyoto, Asao-san, and rural Okayama satisfied me in that respect. Lower Okayama was very much standard Japan with big towns clustered in the rice fields and a remarkable bridge. Upper Okayama was rustic and largely underdeveloped, and it made a real contrast to Osaka and Tokyo! Yama-hito or other obakemono would not be out of place as encounters in some of the wilder locales. 

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SamuraiTaiga In reply to Zeonista [2014-07-29 06:06:07 +0000 UTC]

There's a place in southern Shiga that my wife likes to visit each year, a famous shrine with way too many stairs. Good exercise for the kids too. Takes up ages to get up to the top.

One of the shrines near where we live is really hard to get to, takes at least an hour to walk up there. Not so many stairs, only in some places, mostly a long dirt track with rocky bits, winding back and forth up the side of a mountain. The feeling is very, very, very spooky once you get there - but the view is amazing. We pray there each year.

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