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I grew up in the mountains and was terrified of this dude when I was a kid. He was my boogeyman. Now I listen to his story while I drift to sleep. Love it!

Lore Lodge: "The Wendigo may, depending on the story, also be a giant." Wendigoon: *G I A N T ?*

I grew up in North Carolina in the Appalachian Mountains. My neighbor was in his 70s and had a great story about his camp being stalked by a Wild Man. It freaked us all out and when we went camping we always ALWAYS set "traps" for them. By traps I mean sticks tied to cans.... we were kids lol.

"A spiritual being, that shoots poison arrows" Well that's scarier than most poltergeists.

She said, “The cave was very nice but I just didn’t like the granite countertops.”

I know this will probably be lost in all the comments, but the story that's mentioned around the 17:00 mark about the boy being kidnapped by a wendigo, has a Norwegian equivalent! Except the boy in the Norwegian folktale is kidnapped by visually impaired trolls and fools them by making them slice an iron nail instead of his finger until he is ready to escape. It's probably not super interesting, but it's always fascinating to see what sort of tropes different cultures have in common. Anyways, great video!

Englishmen looking at Natives: "Savages, I can't believe they live this way" Natives looking at bigfoots: "Savages, can't believe they live this way"

I'm Ojibwe and what I was always told is that the wendigo will grow as big as his appetite, meaning that it grows bigger with every meal.

I live on the yurok Rez. In Klamath glen. We actually have a Bigfoot grave in our town site

A former Boeing employee who was a whistleblower against the company was just found dead from “self inflicted wounds” in his hotel during the week of his legal interviews. Sounds like something up your alley

"Nom Nom, some Wagyu kids." Probably one of my favorite lines so far. 😂😂

Had to admit I was surprised by your new sponsor. Litigation attorneys...only thing scarier than the Wendigo.

You should check out the japanese legend of "namahage" ogres and how much it has in common with these native american legends. Love the channel, keep it up!

Okay, you can’t just offhandedly toss out the Mooney reports, and not expect us to scream for, I don’t know, a 2 hour deep dive into this. So DOOOOO EET! (Please?)

I smoked a joint and binged you New follower, happy to be here 🖤

You know it's a good day when one of these comes out

I grew up in Yurok/Wiyot territory. It's nice to hear about my home area and the entities around it. I've had my share of experiences out there in the redwoods

Bigfoot claims he once saw Chuck Norris but nobody believes him.

My Friday nights have been rough this year and it's been nice to have these videos to look forward to. Some nice murder, mystery, and mayhem to keep me company. 😅

Having already seen Trey The Explainer's video on the same topic, I can't wait to see the direction the Lore Lads take

One of the cool things my culture (Plains Cree) has adopted from Saulteaux people is the grandfather teachings. And the grandfather for honesty is represented by a Bigfoot type creature.

Reminds me of the story of Devil's Island. A true story. Some prisoners escaped but had no food. So, as one died they ate him. Fast forward. The survivors were recaptured. Two men, one who had previously escaped, got away. The guy who had previously escaped, although not starving, killed and ate his companion. A short time later he was captured. When asked why he ate his pal, he said he got a taste for human flesh. This time, he was executed.

I have fished the pigeon river in Haywood county NC, which is just east of Cherokee NC and The Qualla Boundary. The peaks rise around the river to 5,000 ft and the river flows NW towards Newport TN where it meets the French Broad River. Keep up the Native American influence. Thanks for providing a factual education on these matters!

13:31 in the 1500's, edward topsell described a new creature from the america's called the bear ape, this "ape" turned out in modern hindsight to be a three toed sloth, given that sloths are very southwest of that area, it's possible sloths had still been considered a type of ape by many at the time

A whole multi-part series just on the first Nations beliefs and concepts about bigfoot? Count me in!

Once again a fantastic video! Virtual handshake from an avid watcher from England. I find all American history fascinating and found your channel by chance and been soaking up all your videos. It is fascinating leaning about all the brilliant stories (and sad ones about the missing people) in your vast and beautiful country. We don’t get many stories in England as it’s so small, unless you count next doors cat going feral and being mistaken for a 18ft giant lion for two weeks then everyone realising their mistake when it staggers back home. Great videos, will catch all of them!

These women running off with Indian Devils sound like that era's crunchy mom tbh

The Danny Devito voice Aiden does at the start of this video? Yeah. We need more of that. I would be in a state of bliss if I heard him, in that voice say: "Christmas shoppin is for the birds. Next year everybody's getting a bottle of 151 and a luchador mask. Even gramma. Especially gramma".

Found your channel not too long ago, been waiting for a more recent video in hopes you’ll see this but your videos are a god send to a working man working long hours!! I appreciate your native history segments, you’ve done your research and are a fun person to listen to. Forever grateful friend, keep it up! :) please… for my sake

Also Davy Crockett tells a tale about killing a Yahoo.. or Yihoo aka wildman AKA Sasquatch

"Baaaabe, more Bigfoot lore"

Best lore lodge intro yet

6:20 The Saskettes? Now I want to see their kickline, should be a sight to see with their big feet.

The appearance of doggo brings joy

Interestingly, legends of Human-Like Monsters are also pretty common in Europe and Asia, a few examples like Ogres, Trolls, Oni, and a plethora of Giants. So it is possible that European Settles heard these Native American tales of Wildmen and they associate it to the legends they may be familiar with from the Old World. In fact, in modern days Bigfoot tends to be heavily associated with the Yeti from the Himalayas. Also you probably heard about Teddy Roosevelt telling a story about a Bigfoot encounter he heard from someone else, in that story the Bigfoot creature was referred as a Goblin

Appalachian here from the lands of the Cherokee, excited for this one!

You guys are the best. The fact that you care to provide the history of regions where crimes happened, and deliver Native American lore, is my favorite part of your channel - and that says a lot, considering I respect your case research more than I can express!

Coos Bay people (SW Oregon) mention the giants, nicknamed 'forest people' (nuk'wiinu me in hanis, nuk'wiin də k'a in miluk).

That fasting request seems to have been a way to weaken the settlement.

Love the video! Just wanted to say a map in this would've been so cool and I feel like that could apply well to many of your other videos! Could be something cool to think about in the future! Love your videos, keep it up!

That Danny DeVito impression floored me. 🤣

I lived in rural west salem oregon in 2013. My house was up next to a forest. One night around 11pm i was sitting on my porch and all of the sudden what sounded like was huge branch or tree was broke off and then nastiest, deepest growl ive ever heard was directed my way 25ft from the forest. I was stunned..I thought i was imagining it..and then it did the growl again. A bear, mountain lion, dog or human was not capable of this sound. I was so terrified that i went inside and didnt even try to look out the window. I was the biggest skeptic until that moment. From what i gather in my own research from others experiences is that it was a sasquatch trying to intimidate me. It was a truly unbelievable experience to me. No one ever believes in sasquatch until it happens to them. I wish people had more of an open mind to the existence this creature. Truly terrifying though.

Gotta say, I came here from Wendigoon/the Weird Bible Podcast, so I was *floored* when you casually mentioned getting beat up by Bigfoot. Only when you mentioned needing legal representation did I audibly laugh out loud and say “Okay this is an ad read” 😂 well done, you certainly got me

What you eat affects your odor. Look up the stories from vietnam.

I grew up on three different reservations. Each Rez had different ways of speaking about Sasquatch and we had a mass grave that was said to have been made after a battle with the wild men long ago

I live in Hawaii for a long time and there are stories of the Polynesian people making it all the way to the Pacific Northwest and their canoes catamarans

I lol’d at Wagyu kids… what’s wrong with me

I have that same Smartwool sweater. Oddly enough, I'm wearing it while watching this video. Spooky.

Honestly blown away by the level of research. In the year or so I've been watching, the editing, research and delivery has improved so dramatically. Thanks guys

as a man who has had the displeasure of making an overly strong first impression, i sympathize with tsul kalu greatly. I wont talk abut my mother in law, though. because i don't dare to 🤣

I am almost positive that the chief pictured is Wolf Robe, who is Souther Cheyenne, not Cherokee. They didn't geographically overlap, iirc.

That was great. I have to tell you, well i dont HAVE to tell you, but im going to. I love the history in your lessons(?) stories (?) lectures, but my favorites are when you talk a little civics. Its always a roller coaster. I laugh, frown, clap, cheer and sometimes cuss a bit. You even told me off once, which i appreciated. You do read the comments, you are confident and kind. A fine young man. If i were your grandma i would never stop bragging

Thanks for your hard work researching for your videos !

I grew up only an hour away from Cherokee NC, I always love seeing their stories popping up.

My mom is Seminole, from Florida, and she told us about how bigfoot would follow her and her brother and sister to school every morning and home in the afternoon. He never would get to close. She said they never felt scared of it. It was like a guardian.

It should be noted that wrapped up within the "Indian Devils" and the wendigo legend is the absolutely stone cold fact that some Native nations, especially in the Northeastern Woodlands like the Iroquoian Haudenosenee and Algonquian speaking nations, practiced ritual cannibalism in the context of warfare, which would fuel, especially in the early years like in the Strachey account and the 17th century documentation would become confused into "Bigfoot" mythology. In the context of mourning war, the linguistically different Haudenosenee or Wendat warriors became literal "devils" who took women captive and married them and would eat (parts of, not for food but ritually) men. They became temporary wendigos to Algonquians. Even to the nations that practiced ritual cannibalism, other native nations were "devils" as this Mohawk describes to James Smith in the 1750s- Also they're hunting Eastern Woodland Buffalo, not the Plains buffalo. "...Solomon seemed to be upon his guard, went very slow, and would frequently stand and listen, and appeared to be in suspense. We came to where the tracks were very plain in the sand, and I said it is surely buffaloe tracks ; he said hush, you know nothing , may be buffaloe tracks, may be Catawba. He went very cautious until we found some fresh buffaloe dung: he then smiled and said Catawba can not make so. He then flopped and told me an odd story about the Catawbas. He said that formerly the Catawbas came near one of their hunting camps, and at some distance from the camp lay in ambush, and in order to decoy them out, sent two or three Catawbas in the night, pan: their camp, with buffaloe hoofs fixed on their feet, so as to make artificial tracks. In the morning those in the camp followed after these tracks, thinking they were Buffaloe, until they were fired on by the Catawbas, and several of them killed; the others fled, collected a party and pursued the Catawbas; but they, in their subtly brought with them rattle-snake poison, which they had collected from the bladder that lieth at the root of the snakes' teeth ; this they had corked up in a short piece of cane-stalk ; they had also brought with them small cane or reed, about the size of a rye straw, which they made sharp at the end like a pen, and dipped them in this poison, and stuck them in the ground among the grass, along their own tracks, in such a position that they might stick into the legs of the pursuers, which answered the design ; and as the Catawbas had runners behind to watch the motions of the pursuers, when they found that a number cf them were lame, being artificially snake bit, and that they were all turning back, the Catawbas turned upon the pursuers, and defeated them, and killed and scalped all those that were lame. - When Solomon had finished this story, and found that I understood him, concluded by saying, you don t know, Catawba very bad Indian, Catawba all one Devil Catawba..." archive.org/details/accountofremarka00smit/page/22/mode/2up?q=catawba

It's really interesting how much these legends have in common with a lot of western fairy tales. The Tale of the "Indian devils" is somewhat reminiscent of Beauty and the Beast, although it also has some striking similarities with part of Tolkien's "The Fall of Gondolin". In the latter, Eol, the Dark Elf, kidnaps Aredhel, the sister of Turgon, the king of Gondolin. He marries her and lavishes her with the riches of his private domain, but she misses her home and eventually escapes with her son Maeglin back to Gondolin and the protection of her brother. Eol tracks the two there, however, and tries to take them back by force, although he is quickly captured... It is also noteworthy that the son becomes increasingly like his father, to the point that he is later the one to sell Gondolin out to Morgoth. The tale of the Wendigo has a lot of thematic similarities with Hansel and Gretel, where the wendigo is constantly checking to see if the child has fattened up enough to eat.

Love the always sunny reference! Dr. Mantis Tobagan.

Check out “Edge of the Knife”. A Haida story of a man’s transformation into a Wildman. Excellent depiction of the PNW “wildman” which is centered in realism. Definitely not a bigfoot legend but should be required viewing for anyone who wants to discuss the native wild man.

You make this easy for a dumb dumb like me to follow. Love your format and delivery. I'm hooked!

My knowledge of native Americans comes from my grandfather who was half Cherokee and my dad who was one quarter Cherokee. On top of that I'm from Arizona and so I'm surrounded by native nations and have grown up with quite original of the different cultures.

Jesus christ, the video sponsor integration made me feel like either you or i were having a stroke

This might be my new favorite lore lodge intro😂

Wendigo is not wild man or Bigfoot

Awesome as always thanks guys ❤

You're one of the few creators whose videos I always watch until the very end. Keep up the great work!

Hi Aidan! Quick correction (haven’t seen yet in the comments) - Yurok is pronounced “yuhr-OCK” (as opposed to “YOU-rock” which is incorrect). I worked for the tribe and loved my time on rez. I love your videos! Thank you for always honoring the original inhabitants of this land and making time to include Indigenous voices, authors, and stories.

The restrictions on the viewing these men remind me of the myth of Cupid and Psyche. She married Cupid but was not able to view him and got punished when she tries to. Really interesting connection.

25:12 as a Scottish gal, outlander is the worst

The “Tennessee Bald” is called the Beauty Spot. There’s a big bald and little bald mnt. I have had so many strange experiences up there. I live in Erwin, Tn.

I know they've been briefly mentioned in a past video, but i would love Lore Lodge to speak on the Kushtaka of Southeast Alaska.

4:15 Reminds me of the South Park thing where you have a new random dog laying next to you every other scene.

Pre-Premiere comment: I hope the Roanoke video's referenced. I still don't get why nobody's talked about that

Great video. You are a very educated and talented young man. Your best videos are when you have the ego in check. It is refreshing when you show humility. Sometimes huberous takes over, then the videos are not so enjoyable. Hope this is not offensive, just some unsolicited advice from an old man. Keep up the good work, much appreciated.

I once saw something in the woods, it had longer jet black hair all over it's body. It was 7 or 8 feet tall and lanky. It saw me on top of a cliff, maybe 20 feet away from it. It was already facing the cliff when I walked up. I couldnt see it's eyes or face. Only the jet black hair all over. The only features I could make out where the hands, with the hair coming up to them like a sleeve. Then it slowly backed into the trees. I never told anyone until years later, hearing a native account of the same creature. I dont go in the woods anymore

The Wendigo legends always creep me out, Great over all video as always Aidan

The Klamath legend says that yayahyahas is an old man who lives on the mountain who yells his name. He has one leg that is shorter than the other so that he can run better on the mountain keeping his short leg on the uphill side.

I'm Alaskan and I have a Native Alaskan Cousin ( I Called him Big Cuz Fred Roehl at SUBARCTIC ALASKA SASQUATCH ) He Seen them and his side of his families and Friends and people who Retelling Fred Roehl and then he 2nd Hand Accounting the things that happened to himself or other people too

GREAT JOB ON THE INFORMATION AND STORIES.

My Dad has a camp on the Juanita River and got a book about the Natives from the area. They had a chief they called "The Great One." He was described as irregularly tall and had legs as thick as trees.

I grew up in the san juaquin valley as well as in the lake tahoe areas. This monster as well as the predator like thing which was in fact invisible would cast a slight shadow despite its saran wrap like appearance within the Yosemite woods, were both completely terrifying boogey mem for me as a kid. Although im now 48, i still 100% remember the things ive seen, with great clarity. Scary stuff lol. Thanks for the story, it was really great!!!

Lived in NC nearly all my life never heard of any apes or Bigfoot here. Now the people that move in from other states and tourists seem fascinated by the subject. The towns are all to happy to start Bigfoot festivals etc.

The “MATERIAL WORLD” part startled me.

14:45 it's been years since i saw that episode (reason i got into wendigo skinwalkers and everything else like that) and i swear i've always remembered it with antlers 😭

Interesting and so well-researched ❤️

Valiant attempt on pronouncing Wewoka, but the way I've heard it pronounced (at least in Tulsa, Chandler and Stroud) is We - Woke - Ah, though even Oklahoma is prone to regionalism in terms of pronouncing place names

i misread this title as "the naive american bigfoot"... i thought we were going to learn about bigfoot's blissful ignorance

If a video makes an “allways sunny” reference, it will get my like

Please more Aiden Devito

Excellent video

I love all the content that o have seen on this channel, my only gripe with any of the videos is the lack of proper subtitles as the Auto-generated captions are frankly completely crap and end up making you more confused than if you dont have them at all

"Blah blah blah I don't like the history lessons blah" say the folks. Well... IT'S ALL RELEVANT NOW, ISN'T IT!? *shakes fist like angry old man-

I tune out for five seconds and suddenly this guy is talking about being bodied by Bigfoot and how he’s in the process of suing him. Took a solid ten seconds for my brain to catch up with the ad read.

"nom nom, some Wagyu kids " 😭 SIR.

@31:00 That puts on a whole new meaning to "Would you still love me even if I was a worm?"

OMG I loved the Wendigo in the Material World piece! That caught me off guard and I almost choke on my food! That was awesome! HAHAHA

The claimed Klamath word for bigfoot sounds suspiciously similar to a Nepalese Sherpa term for the yeti, Metoh (Meh-teh) Kang-mi, as stated in 1921 by Charles Howard-Bury. The name translates to man-bear snowman and was mistranslated by Howard-Bury as the filthy or foul smelling snow man. The press then changed it to the now famous Abominable Snowman. This in fact might be where the word came from.

Some of the wendigo stories or "bigfoot" stories from the plains region. They'll say they could hide behind trees.... that's not an important statement until you consider the size of the "trees" in those areas. It's basically an uneducated way of saying they could disappear Edit: the skin walker stories to me are the same... just described by different people different ways to the best of their knowledge

Is this video in any shape or form been inspired by the Trey the Explainer video from not long ago? Syill can't wait to enjoy this