Ancient Religion Knew What Bigfoot Is…We Forgot

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For the last hundred years, we’ve chased Bigfoot through the woods—trail cams, footprints, blurry frames, endless debates about proof. But what if that’s never been the only place to look?

This episode takes a step back from the modern search and goes somewhere most people never think to look: the deep past. Long before Bigfoot was treated like a campfire story, artists, scholars, priests, and mapmakers were already talking about something that looks uncomfortably familiar. Not as legend, not as metaphor–but as something real, known, and encountered.

We travel from the Vatican to medieval Europe, from cathedral carvings to ancient maps and early written accounts. Again and again, the same figure appears. A large, hair-covered, human-like being living at the edges of civilization. Sometimes feared. Sometimes fought. Sometimes respected. Always described the same way.

What’s striking is that the people recording these encounters weren’t asking whether these beings existed. They were arguing about what they were. Were they human? Were they animals? Could they think? Could they reason? Could they be saved? Those aren’t the questions of myth—they’re the questions of people grappling with something they couldn’t neatly classify.

This isn’t about one painting, one text, or one theory. It’s about a pattern that stretches across centuries. When the same details keep showing up in different places, in different eras, from people who had nothing to gain by inventing them, it forces an uncomfortable thought: maybe we didn’t lose the truth… maybe we forgot it.

Sometimes discovery doesn’t mean finding something new. Sometimes it means finally recognizing what’s been there all along.


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LINKS & REFERENCES BELOW

St. Augustines City of God: Can be purchased from all good bookstores.
A short summary of the chapters can be found here:
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120...
https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/120...

Wodewoses: the (In)humanity of Medieval Wild Men. A Paper:
https://api.research-repository.uwa.e...

The Last Judgment (Michelangelo):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Las...)

Fight in the Forest by Hans Burgkmair:
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/56725-fi...

A number of paintings from the episode are listed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_man

A good summary of Hanno's periplus:
https://www.livius.org/articles/perso...

Modern discussions around Hanno the Navigator and whether he discovered Gorillas:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/...
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starte...

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