Bigfoot: The Complete Story of America’s Greatest Wilderness Legend | Folklore for Sleep

The whole history of America's most famous monster, told from the very beginning and at a pace that's deliberately too slow to follow properly. That's the point. You're not meant to reach the end.It starts long before anyone used the word Bigfoot. Stories carried for generations by the peoples of the Pacific Northwest, and the Halkomelem word sásq'ets, meaning wild man, which English speakers turned into Sasquatch. Then the trappers and settlers with their own versions. The miners at Ape Canyon in 1924, barricaded in a cabin through a night of rocks landing on the roof. Albert Ostman, who claimed he woke up still inside his sleeping bag, being carried through the woods.After that it becomes a modern story. Bluff Creek in 1958, a road crew finding tracks in the mud and a newspaper printing the name that stuck. Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin filming one minute of shaky footage in 1967 that people are still arguing about today. Decades of plaster casts, hair samples and recordings in the dark. The Wallace family coming forward in 2002 with a pair of carved wooden feet. The DNA studies that came back as bear, and horse, and dog. And the fact that people went on looking anyway.All of it read in a low, even voice, with no music, no sudden sounds, and no reason to stay awake for the next part. If you drift off somewhere in the old forest and wake up in the middle of the film footage, you've used this correctly. Most people don't make it past the first half hour, and the story will still be here tomorrow night.Put it on, turn the volume down, and let it go on without you.Mythology & Folklore for Sleep — long, calm retellings of Greek myths, Norse legends, American folklore and old wilderness tales, made for insomnia and the hours when you can't sleep. Bedtime stories for adults, told in a slow, quiet voice. New episodes every day.