Thoughts on Skunkiness

[thomassteenburg]

admin said:

I feel that it is something glandular, for sure. But there has not been enough reports about sightings accompanied by smell to draw any conclusions. I believe as Thomas mentioned..most smells are not accompanied by a coroberating sighting they are just put out there to stand alone. Whether they have something to do with Sasquatch presence..who knows?

Your right on the mark there my friend, it's another of the maybe, or maybe not questions.

Thomas Steenburg

[Gerry]

As are so many of them!
But common sense will put the majority of such claims in the slot where they belong. After that...only a romantic on the subject will still beat the drum that this has to be Squatch related.
Even though...I admit the smell thing has made me think..exactly what is going on here in these reports.

For those of you who are not used to reading my posts..I apoligize for my abruptness!
I have been weaned on tough boards where you are held accountable for anything you claim.
So I chose my words carefully!

But you will get used to it. From now on I am going to be here on a daily basis!
May the Good Lord Bless Bushman.
He is unique in his own style...and there is much to learn from him!!


Oooh, I feel a new topic coming on!

[Sean V.]

admin said:

For those of you who are not used to reading my posts..I apoligize for my abruptness!
I have been weaned on tough boards where you are held accountable for anything you claim.
So I chose my words carefully!

Nothing wrong with the way you write (speak?), you say it like it is. Something I wish more people would do. No point in mincing words, say what you have to say and leave it at that.

[spudsquatch]

I have a thought on this too. I also mentioned it on another forum but it didn’t seem to be very viable t anyone.
Anyway
I was telling a buddy about a story I had read on one of the sites from someone who theorized that long ago in Europe as Neanderthals were being hunted by early humans they retreated into caves which contained sulphur which may have, over time, become part of their diets. He thought this was interesting and he told me about a time a couple years ago when he and another fellow were out rock hounding. They were in a shallow creak bed somewhere off the forestry trunk road in Alberta

The fellow he was with selected a small boulder from the stream bed and broke it open with his pick. It had a very high sulphur content. My buddy has been rock hounding for years and has seen these rocks thousands of times but never thought they were anything more than typical lava stones. It also put him to mind of the "hundreds of times" when he would be walking the streams and notice that a rock was "missing". Only a hole in the stream bed where a rock should have been with no indication as to what may have disturbed it..

I doubted that they would be using it in their diets and I wondered what else they would need it for if they were not consuming it. I done a little digging and found a few websites about garlic being used as a natural insect repellent. It has been found that the repellant in garlic is indeed sulphur.

Link here www.mosquitobarrier.nl/.

Moist sulphur does give off slight amounts of Hydrogen Sulphide (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ewh-semt/pubs/water-eau/doc_sup-appui/sulphide-sulfure/index_e.html
which would explain the rotten egg smell.

I think sasquatch may use this sulphur keep the mosquitos at bay. He may be walking these stream beds and smashing rocks to find some bug dope.

I am curious as to if there is any correlation between the sightings that report a strong odour and the time of year (bug season).

[superd]

Hello Spudsquatch
The sulpher thing is interesting , but how would a sasquatch ingest it? Would he be able to break a rock and lick it off? Like salt?

After reading accounts, I formed the train of thought that the sasquatch smell thing was more due to diet and dampness of the hair. Many times , if a smell was present, it was described as rotten meat or a wet dog smell or both. If a sasquatch had some deer road kill for dinner, and it dug in like us on KFC, well I'd bet that some remains of the kill would get in the hair. Add that to hygene not being a sasaquatches big priority, and I could see the smell thing being pretty intense after a while.
Now add the fact of sweat glands and that sasquatch don't have money to buy toliet paper.
Now throw in a drizzly day in the bush and you have the receipy for a very smelly sasquatch.
Now for an experiment.
If someone would like to wear a fur coat, not wash , eat raw meat etc, don't use toliet paper and walk up and down mountain sides to sweat lots, for about a month, then we could do a smell comparison.

[spudsquatch]

Hello Superd

I agree with your take on it. That’s far more likely the cause of the odor.

When I first thought of it was when someone had asked why are there so many reports of rocks being thrown into streams and why would they be doing that. I wondered if it all could be related. Rocks being smashed in streams, “missing” rocks, sulphur in rocks, and rotten egg odors. For all the reasons you described they must suffer tremendously during the summer from bugs. I thought it might be possible that they know to rub the sulphur into their fur for relief. Just a thought

I liked your experiment idea too but I think it’s already been done. I’m pretty sure that’s what my old girlfriend used to do between visits.

[vilnoori]

When I lived in Africa I got a whiff of a couple of old people that had not bathed in 7 years. That was some stench. Enough to make you dizzy or even pass out.

Didn't I hear mention somewhere that maybe they were hanging their meat or even keeping it near their skin to tenderize it by allowing it to slowly ferment? Where was that mentioned...

[Deleted]

The raiding parties in the old days attacked at night and wore skins with the fur out.This gives excellent cover and protection.The skins were tied on tightly over the entire body and often included hoods.The mountain people would descend from the trees, growling like beasts on moonless nights and take supplies and slaves.The coastal peoples would retreat into canoes and paddle off leaving only terrified elders to witness the pillaging. Upon thier return in daylight the survivors would relate tales of wildmen that had disappeared back into the woods.There is an old story about one warrior that persued his stolen bride.It parallels the Beowulf story quite closely.What I'm getting at is that the Sas could be wearing similar garb without benefit of tanning and that would be odiferous! Speaking of tanning(haha),the Sas might be applying a sulphurous tallow mixed with ashblack to exposed skin on the face and hands and feet, another camoflage technique. It also might aid in insect control.Cheers!