It all started with Phillip Martin. He was a 79-year-old Quinault tribal elder. He recalled that during a fishing trip over fifty years in the past, he encountered a creature. It looked like an ape like bushy hominid that was referred to as C’iatgo (Bigfoot). The creature threw a rock at his canoe.

There seemed to be a colossal splash and there were no cliffs in the area. It was solely flat lands.

Phillip stated “Well, the only real issue I might take into account was “C’iatqo”.

It seems that Bigfoot is the one around here that creates everyone to easily wish they existed.

C’iatqo is one of the various words that Native Americans throughout the country used to. They would talk about the creature that inhabits the geographic regions of North American. Martin, besides several other Quinault Indians, as well as members of various completely different Olympic Peninsula tribes. They were interviewed regarding the creature and its influence on Native culture for a show on the A and E channel.

During the Harvest Moon, a Quinault woman works as a storyteller. The location is Lake Quinault Lodge which is familiar with several native legends regarding the unexplained creature, Sasquatch.

She narrates the story of the “Glue-Keek”, a monster that frightens tribal group members and prevents them from hunting for and gathering food. The creatures legs are as immense as tree trunks. Its skin was as powerful and impenetrable as animal eye. Its eyes had a mesmerizing glow to them. The monster would start chasing women through the berry patch. He would take his immense, big feet, kicking over every basket of berries, and would squash them into the dirt.

According to the legends, warriors from varied tribes would gather and create plans to kill the monster. They would dig an oversized hole. That is how they tricked the Glue-Keek into falling within the pit and burn him. As the monster perished, he swore that he would return to drink the villager’s blood making it a vampiric creature. As his ashes ascended into the air, they transformed into mosquitos.

Whether or not Bigfoot’s existense will be established by science does not concern Martin. He recalls an incident when one women, who lived along with her husband on the Lumni reservation, they once shared. He said they detected a loud pounding noise outside their house. Whatever was pounding on them had to be a minimum of six, or seven feet tall. It scared the crap out of them. They thought someone was throwing rocks in an unbroken repetition. By the time, they got out there they failed to discover something. In a jiffy, they said, “Must be the unexplained monster Bigfoot.”

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