I've wondered about that myself...that is to say whether all those stories of people disappearing in the woods are simple cases of bad judgement on the part of some confused hiker or some criminal mischief at work here or something else entirely different akin to "The Untold" if they ever get around to showing it. One would think that if any group of people as a whole would know Bigfoot best it would be those who shared the very same land with him for so many generations. These indigenous people of course are the Native Americans. Their stories tend to portray an animal that seemed to be quite fond of raiding their villages at night to steal salmon, women, and children. One really doesn't know what to make of such stories...if Bigfoot was stealing salmon for food why would it take women and children as well? Why did so many Native American tales portray Bigfoot as being cannibalistic? Why didn't they just move the village?...although I shouldn't say this since I'm familiar with one story in which a village was abandoned because of nightly visits by Bigfoot.
Perhaps as you seem to allude to, Bigfoot is trying to figure out us smaller primates and thus kidnaps a few every so often. It would appear to be the case if one is inclined to believe Albert Ostman's story from 1924. His kidnapping if true reads as though he were being kept as a curious pet although he thought of it as being more of a potential suitor for one of the female Bigfoot. Sounds too far-fetched in my book, but oddly enough, four yrs. later in 1928, an Indian by the name of Muchalat Harry was kidnapped in a similar fashion and held by a rather large group of Bigfoot until he too had an opportunity to escape.
If any of these stories are true, one does wonder what the reason behind the kidnappings are. Muchalat Harry's story was interesting because apparently he wasn't too scared until he started noticing a lot of bones around the area that he was being held in. He never did elaborate on exactly what kind of bones they were...then again after his escape, for such a brave and relatively young Indian at the time, he completely avoided going out into the wilderness again...took up "tepee-living" for the rest of his life...didn't even go back for his rifle or gear either...does make one wonder.
Posted on Oct 1, 2002, 6:00 PM from IP address 205.187.139.33