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There are Giants in the Earth
In the Himalayan snowfields, he's called a Yeti. Among the high Andes cordillera they know him as the Mono Grande, and all through the Cascade Range of the Pacific north-west, his name is either Sasquatch or Bigfoot.
Enormous tracks are found in Florida, huge jaw bones unearthed near New Delhi, giant teeth make their way into Chinese apothecary jars. He is one of the few remaining survivors of a great race of giants that once peopled the Earth.
Separating fiction from fact, and legend from reality, Michael Grumley provides a startling but fascinating evolutionary history of the life and habits of the three strains of hominoid giants alive today and roaming the nor so remote regions of this mysterious planet - Earth.
Enormous tracks are found in Florida, huge jaw bones unearthed near New Delhi, giant teeth make their way into Chinese apothecary jars. He is one of the few remaining survivors of a great race of giants that once peopled the Earth.
Separating fiction from fact, and legend from reality, Michael Grumley provides a startling but fascinating evolutionary history of the life and habits of the three strains of hominoid giants alive today and roaming the nor so remote regions of this mysterious planet - Earth.
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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Michael Grumley
7 books4 followersMichael Grumley attended the University of Denver, the City College of New York and the University of Iowa Writers Workshop, where he met novelist Robert Ferro. They lived together for many years and founded the writers' group The Violet Quill. Michael Grumley died of AIDS in 1988.
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August 8, 2024
A “POPULAR” OVERVIEW OF BIGFOOT/SASQUATCH/YETI LEGENDS
Author Michael Grumley wrote in the introductory section of this 1974 book, “This is a book about bigness and power, and about the human/animal line. It concerns the present and it concerns the last ten million years, and it has to do as well with the screams of all the Fay Wrays past and present. It is about the existence in the world of three disparate but not dissimilar strains of such giants. It is about King Kong himself, plucked from the screen, whittled down to a third of his screen size, and made quite verifiably real. It is a book about this Kong as the brother of us all.”
He states, “in 1921, the first attempt to climb the northern face of Mount Everest was made. Colonel Howard-Bury and the rest of his party of climbers and bearers were fortunate enough to see great dark spots moving across the snow valleys of the Lhapta-la Pass. The Tibetan porters were in no doubt as to the nature of the distant beasts; they were unquestionably members of the race they called ‘metoh-kangmi.’ The translation of this phrase into English has given us the unfortunate term ‘abominable snowman.’” (Pg. 7)
He suggests, “there is yet another possible explanation that I would like to put forward---that the giants sighted, heard, or reported in some parts of South America are indeed men, after all. I do not believe that this is true of those beasts encountered by Turolla in Venezuela… But I do think it is possible that the outsize creatures cutting up the livestock in the Matto Grosso region of Brazil, at least, are neither so hairy nor so simian as has been reported.” (Pg. 29)
He explains, “the Yeti tales proliferate in the thicket of mystical belief (call it either religion or superstition---Himalayan belief has never been just interested in the often patronizing interpretations of the West). In Nepal it is common knowledge that to look upon the face of a Yeti is to die. There are tales of children and adults withering away after such an encounter. The Sherpas of Nepal and Tibet meet their Yetis most often while they are tending and guarding their yak herds at heights of up to seventeen thousand feet. Sightings by Europeans … have occurred at altitudes between twelve thousand and twenty thousand feet, a range where the atmosphere in unquestionably rarefied, and where both inner and outer vision seem remarkably keen.” (Pg. 51)
He states, “Imagine a furry primate … Imagine that primate scratching about in a numbing white substance… he keeps his two front limbs pulled up close to is body in order that his hands and fingers will remain warm and usable… But imagine survivors. The great-great-grandsons of the original almost-ape who have trotted gingerly across the hardening and then melting ice, have managed to squeak through. By now, those who remain have developed strong enough muscles… to support their weight without their bodies having to stoop… the layer of fat on their bodies has given them a heftiness their ancestors would have found threatening, if not obscene.” (Pg. 62-63)
He recounts, “there is a story I have heard a number of times on the psychic grapevine that I would like to here relate. It has to do with the … Andean and the Himalayan ranges, and of their relationship to … the rest of the world and its history… It is said that early in the history of the world … there were set up at different times in the two highest mountain ranges two centers of religion and culture… The reasons behind choosing each of these sites had to do with the respective positions as earth chakras… The Andean center was chosen by these ‘gods,’ or extraterrestrial colonizers, because it afforded them the easiest ‘window’ on the world… in the Andes… the energy spotlight … swung around and across the seas until it focused on … the Himalayan Range… When Gautama Buddha… appeared on the earth, he appeared… as a direct manifestation of the god spirit and instruction… Five hundred years after Buddha, Jesus Christ appeared, himself an avatar of the original teachers… Before the during the long periods that preceded these men, the chakras of the earth shifted … There were eras when diffuse chakras shone in Lemuria and Atlantis… All the explanations… are said to exist now in only one true repository of knowledge… where the true dalai lama is also said to reside.” (Pg. 70-74)
He records one report that “gives bigfoot such a thoroughly malicious character and such a bloodthirsty mien… his character, in this incident…may have been that of an unhinged and solitary individual, already ostracized from his own pack or tribe, a renegade even among his own kind… Through the years, the Sasquatch reputation has softened, for there has been no evidence discovered, nor reports made, concerning the kind of homicidal behavior of this early incident in Idaho.” (Pg. 99-100)
He notes, “The Bossburg tracks have turned out to be some of the most interesting of all Bigfoot tracks, due to their excessively human appearance. The left foot is normal, but the right foot is what we would call a club foot… there is a dislocation of bones along the outer rim, and the third toe has been squeezed out of its normal alignment.” (Pg. 111)
He concludes, “The Sasquatch in the California night wanders through the Cascade foothills, striding beneath the stars, past … motels… trailer parks, where hunters and campers and adventurous men lie sleeping. He is unaware of men’s dreams, of their images of shaggy giant trophies on their walls, of furry skins hung over their portable TVs… They continue on their separate ways, unaware, a they have remained unaware for hundreds and thousands and millions of years, that they do not exist at all.” (Pg. 145-146)
This book may interest some who are looking into legends of Bigfoot/Sasquatch, etc.
Author Michael Grumley wrote in the introductory section of this 1974 book, “This is a book about bigness and power, and about the human/animal line. It concerns the present and it concerns the last ten million years, and it has to do as well with the screams of all the Fay Wrays past and present. It is about the existence in the world of three disparate but not dissimilar strains of such giants. It is about King Kong himself, plucked from the screen, whittled down to a third of his screen size, and made quite verifiably real. It is a book about this Kong as the brother of us all.”
He states, “in 1921, the first attempt to climb the northern face of Mount Everest was made. Colonel Howard-Bury and the rest of his party of climbers and bearers were fortunate enough to see great dark spots moving across the snow valleys of the Lhapta-la Pass. The Tibetan porters were in no doubt as to the nature of the distant beasts; they were unquestionably members of the race they called ‘metoh-kangmi.’ The translation of this phrase into English has given us the unfortunate term ‘abominable snowman.’” (Pg. 7)
He suggests, “there is yet another possible explanation that I would like to put forward---that the giants sighted, heard, or reported in some parts of South America are indeed men, after all. I do not believe that this is true of those beasts encountered by Turolla in Venezuela… But I do think it is possible that the outsize creatures cutting up the livestock in the Matto Grosso region of Brazil, at least, are neither so hairy nor so simian as has been reported.” (Pg. 29)
He explains, “the Yeti tales proliferate in the thicket of mystical belief (call it either religion or superstition---Himalayan belief has never been just interested in the often patronizing interpretations of the West). In Nepal it is common knowledge that to look upon the face of a Yeti is to die. There are tales of children and adults withering away after such an encounter. The Sherpas of Nepal and Tibet meet their Yetis most often while they are tending and guarding their yak herds at heights of up to seventeen thousand feet. Sightings by Europeans … have occurred at altitudes between twelve thousand and twenty thousand feet, a range where the atmosphere in unquestionably rarefied, and where both inner and outer vision seem remarkably keen.” (Pg. 51)
He states, “Imagine a furry primate … Imagine that primate scratching about in a numbing white substance… he keeps his two front limbs pulled up close to is body in order that his hands and fingers will remain warm and usable… But imagine survivors. The great-great-grandsons of the original almost-ape who have trotted gingerly across the hardening and then melting ice, have managed to squeak through. By now, those who remain have developed strong enough muscles… to support their weight without their bodies having to stoop… the layer of fat on their bodies has given them a heftiness their ancestors would have found threatening, if not obscene.” (Pg. 62-63)
He recounts, “there is a story I have heard a number of times on the psychic grapevine that I would like to here relate. It has to do with the … Andean and the Himalayan ranges, and of their relationship to … the rest of the world and its history… It is said that early in the history of the world … there were set up at different times in the two highest mountain ranges two centers of religion and culture… The reasons behind choosing each of these sites had to do with the respective positions as earth chakras… The Andean center was chosen by these ‘gods,’ or extraterrestrial colonizers, because it afforded them the easiest ‘window’ on the world… in the Andes… the energy spotlight … swung around and across the seas until it focused on … the Himalayan Range… When Gautama Buddha… appeared on the earth, he appeared… as a direct manifestation of the god spirit and instruction… Five hundred years after Buddha, Jesus Christ appeared, himself an avatar of the original teachers… Before the during the long periods that preceded these men, the chakras of the earth shifted … There were eras when diffuse chakras shone in Lemuria and Atlantis… All the explanations… are said to exist now in only one true repository of knowledge… where the true dalai lama is also said to reside.” (Pg. 70-74)
He records one report that “gives bigfoot such a thoroughly malicious character and such a bloodthirsty mien… his character, in this incident…may have been that of an unhinged and solitary individual, already ostracized from his own pack or tribe, a renegade even among his own kind… Through the years, the Sasquatch reputation has softened, for there has been no evidence discovered, nor reports made, concerning the kind of homicidal behavior of this early incident in Idaho.” (Pg. 99-100)
He notes, “The Bossburg tracks have turned out to be some of the most interesting of all Bigfoot tracks, due to their excessively human appearance. The left foot is normal, but the right foot is what we would call a club foot… there is a dislocation of bones along the outer rim, and the third toe has been squeezed out of its normal alignment.” (Pg. 111)
He concludes, “The Sasquatch in the California night wanders through the Cascade foothills, striding beneath the stars, past … motels… trailer parks, where hunters and campers and adventurous men lie sleeping. He is unaware of men’s dreams, of their images of shaggy giant trophies on their walls, of furry skins hung over their portable TVs… They continue on their separate ways, unaware, a they have remained unaware for hundreds and thousands and millions of years, that they do not exist at all.” (Pg. 145-146)
This book may interest some who are looking into legends of Bigfoot/Sasquatch, etc.
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