Sasquatch Shaman: A Native Guide's Lifetime of Encounters With Bigfoot

Sasquatch encounters, indigenous Bigfoot lore, and decades of firsthand sightings on the British Columbia coast — Thomas Sewid returns to Codega's Codex of Curiosities with more stories than most researchers will accumulate in a lifetime. Thomas Sewid is a member of the Kwakwaka'wakw people, a former hunting guide and commercial fisherman, and the owner of Sasquatch Legend — the largest Sasquatch store and museum in North America, located in Forks, Washington. He hosts the Sasquatch Island YouTube channel, leads guided Sasquatch expeditions on the Olympic Peninsula, and has coined the term Sasquatch Shamanism to describe the indigenous knowledge framework he's spent decades building and sharing. In This Episode:Thomas's first encounter: two Sasquatch spotted from the deck of his salmon seine boat at night — a massive male with red eyes that slowly shifted to yellow as his rage cooled, and a female curled in the fetal position facing away from the spotlightThe Kwakwaka'wakw tribal curse for harming a Sasquatch — and the two men who shot one during WWII and were both dead within six monthsThe night one charged his camp: trees shaking, a boulder tumbling down a rock face, and a massive face peering at him from a cedar V before he loaded the family into dinghies and fled into 35-knot seasHow he went back the next day with two buddies, chainsaws, guns, and a jug of water — claiming his territory by peeing around the perimeter and shaking his fist — and how the local clan has left him in peace ever sinceSasquatch Shamanism: the framework of respect, seasonal migration, shellfish territory protocols, and indigenous oral history that stretches back to the Civil War era through Sasquatch elders who live 130 to 200 yearsWhy Sasquatches became nocturnal — Thomas's theory tracing it back to the moment an ancestor broke tribal law by making fire, and the evolutionary chain that followed all the way to modern humansHis most recent sighting: March of this year on the Olympic Peninsula, 13 minutes of night vision footage watching a Sasquatch crouch, crawl through ferns, then stand and stride away — white-gray soles of its feet visible in the thermal scopeTrail camera strategy at a Squatch Watcher Ranch apple orchard — an 8-foot-plus male that tore out a steel mesh fence section to give his clan family room to flee if humans approachedWhy tree knocking is disrespectful — and why Thomas forbids it on all his expeditionsThe Sasquatch Island interactive sighting map at sasquatchisland.com — and what separates a genuine Sasquatch researcher from a speculatorBest Line of the Night:"All of a sudden I see it stand up — just boom, boom, boom — walking away from us, the white gray soles of its feet coming up. And then it just disappears." Thomas Sewid: Website: www.sasquatchisland.comSasquatch Legend Store & Museum: sasquatchlegend.com (Forks, Washington)Sasquatch Island Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/753712284709607Sasquatch Island YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@sasquatchisland4149TikTok: @SasquatchIslandBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/codega-s-codex-of-curiosities--6244705/support.📬Inquiries: [email protected]📺 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channe...💻Website: www.codegascodex.com📲Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/groups/ccofcuriosities🤳Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/codex.of.curiosities/Support the Show!🛒Codega's Store: https://codegas-bodega-shop.fourthwall.com/🎙Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Codega...📦Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.mx/hz/w...Disclaimer:Neither The Host (Rye Voss) nor the podcast (Codega's Codex of Curiosities) are responsible for the views and opinions of any of the guests.* All claims made by individual guests are at their own discretion and may not reflect on the overall views of Codega's Codex of Curiosities or Rye Voss