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A common refrain from the "bigfooter" community is the argument that many, if not all, Native American cultures have stories about a big, hairy ape man who roams the forest. Critics will often say that these legends were made up to mess with settlers, make some money for the tribe, or simply never existed in the first place.

The critics are wrong. From Alaska to Florida, the indigenous peoples of America held a firm belief that something was out there in the woods. Sometimes it's a solitary creature, more of an entity than an animal. In other cases, it's a separate tribe, race, or even species from their own. Documentary accounts of these "bigfoot" type creatures arguably go back to the very earliest days of American settlement, and the oral traditions go deep into prehistory. Could these stories bear any sort of truth? Welcome back to The Lore Lodge...

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0:00 Cold Open
0:22 Introduction
9:31 The Peopling of North America
12:40 The Algonquin "Bigfoot"
25:44 The Iroquois "Bigfoot"
38:50 The Muskogean "Bigfoot"
43:06 The Plateau "Bigfoot"
49:57 Surprise
50:43 Conclusion