You scoff, but here in WA bigfoot gets a bit more respect. Plenty of reports come from Ft. Lewis and from Ranger units training near Mt. Rainier. The US Army Corps of Engineers included bigfoot in their WA environmental atlas. And, the USAF at Fairchild AFB provides survival school participants a map with pictures of various native animals — among them, bigfoot.
I didn’t scoff, I posted.
(I believe in Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, the Montauk Monster, UFOs, Ghosts, Haunted Houses, Alien Abduction, the Legend of Atlantis, Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Reincarnation, Crop Circles, Mothman, the Bermuda Triangle, the Face on Mars and that Art Bell loves his teenage Filipina bride just for her mind.)
Thanks!
From a search: “Skookum was originally a Salish word for a demon or monster, hence something “awesome.”
Now, is your screen name because of the bigfoot thing, or an ego thing -you’re awesome! ;) - or, my first thought of the word is is “things are good” - everything’s skookum.
I used to have a WA State Game Warden help me once in ahwile. He couldn’t help me one day as he was spending all day traveling to a farm with a State Biologist. Seems a farmer saw a Bigfoot climb over his fence and left some hair. The biologist was going down for the samples, and my friend was going down to look/follow for track.
He didn’t talk much about it (which was rare for him not to talk!) - but did say “we do it just to satisfy the taxpayers”. Well, I know there are MANY things that they DON’T investigate that are also a concern. I found it real interesting that they would put two high-level employees out for a whole day just to humor one farmer. He was very non-commital about what they found.