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The Tale of "SCAR"

Notes from the tale of a Shoshone Man's friendship with a Sasquatch nicknamed "Scar"

The Tales of Scar, from Hawk’s Emails

A series of emails from a man called Hawk, read on The Round Table Of Knowledge By HTH, relaying his grandfather’s 50-year friendship with a Sasquatch he called Scar.

The grandfather

Hawk’s grandfather was born in the late 1800s in Montana, near the Canadian border, to a Shoshone father and a Flathead (Salish Kootenai) mother.1 The family moved to a reservation in Wyoming, and he was taken to a government school. He ran away and walked to Canada, hiding from white people the whole way, worked as a water boy on a logging crew, then walked back to Wyoming as a teen in the late 1910s.23 He spent his life in the mountains and stood 5’4".4 Hawk says that in many ways his grandfather was a forest person himself.3

He also told of other beings he saw in Canada: little people, a giant over 20 ft, eagle-like birds 5 ft tall, large featherless flying animals, a dogman, and beings with glowing eyes. He didn’t like to talk about them, and Hawk is clear these were not the forest people.5

1. First meeting: the bear fight (late spring, early 1920s)

Crossing steep, loose shale, the grandfather heard roaring below, slid about 20 ft over a drop, and landed beside a large black sow locked in a fight with a young forest person.6 The sow had the forest person’s left arm in her jaws and was swiping with her right paw while he sidestepped to stay on his feet.

The grandfather kicked at the two cubs blocking his escape. One bit his ankle and bawled, and the sow turned on him. He fired his single-shot brush gun into her face at about 4 ft and blinded her.7 The forest person straddled her back, pinned her with his left hand, and beat her head with a rock in his right, while the grandfather sat holding a hind leg.8

Strange behaviors after the kill

The coming-of-age quest

Scar later explained that he had reached the age when a young male is sent out alone on a quest to bring back a bear cub, which is why no one came to help him. He was hidden, but the sow caught his scent. He ran in and grabbed a cub, and the sow chased him. Looking back over his shoulder, he ran headfirst into a tree, and the fight was on. Telling the story, Scar smiled and shrugged, and the grandfather laughed hard and wished he’d seen that part.14

2. Scar as a young male

The grandfather named him for a scar running down the left side of his forehead onto his left cheek.415 Both were young men at the time.16

3. Second meeting: fishing (missing)

Hawk says this email came next, but Steve apparently never read it on air.2122

4. Learning to talk

They began by pointing: the grandfather would name an object in English, and Scar would name it in his own language.23

5. The match

Camping at sundown, Scar helped gather wood and squatted behind the grandfather to watch him light the fire. The instant the match flared, Scar yanked him backward several feet by his coat and swatted the match away. Then he looked the grandfather over and asked whether he would live, his way of asking if he was okay. Afterward the grandfather showed him, step by step, how a match works.28

6. Customs and communication

7. The family and the dry meat (1930s)

On his way to a mountain lake to fish, the grandfather heard a single knock answered by three, and stopped to wait for Scar. Scar, now over 7 ft, came down the slope with his father (10+ ft), his older brother (8+ ft), and a small stranger the clan had taken in.4243

The fostered stranger

The little one looked nothing like the family. He stood about 6 ft and was skinny, with black hair, a bare face, short legs and long arms, a flat nose, protruding ears, a round head with a brow ridge, and light brown eyes. He often moved on all fours.48

8. A 50-year friendship

The friendship lasted about 50 years.4 Hawk says his grandfather did tell him Scar’s real name and what his people called themselves, but he no longer remembers either.52 Hawk says these are not mind-blowing stories, just two friends growing up together in a fast-changing world, one of whom happened to be covered in hair and grew very big.53

Gaps still open

Sources

All videos: The Round Table Of Knowledge By HTH. Links open at the timestamp where each passage begins.

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