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The Inter-dimensional Truth of Sasquatch

June 05, 2025 • Stan Mallow

Venture beyond the conventional boundaries of cryptozoology as we explore the enigmatic world of Sasquatch on “Paranormal Yakker” with acclaimed paranormal author Maxim W Furek. Our fascinating conversation challenges everything you thought you knew about Bigfoot, suggesting that we may need to look beyond flesh and blood explanations to truly understand this persistent mystery.

Maxim shares the unexpected journey that led him from writing two simple chapters about Bigfoot hypotheses to full immersion in the cryptid community. What began as casual curiosity evolved into a comprehensive investigation of Sasquatch phenomena across North America, culminating in his groundbreaking book "The Lost Tribes of Bigfoot."

The discussion takes remarkable turns as we explore Albert Ostman's alleged 1924 abduction by a Sasquatch family—a case that preceded alien abduction narratives by nearly four decades. We dive deep into the Patterson-Gimlin film controversy, revealing how scientific discoveries ultimately vindicated what many dismissed as a hoax. Most compelling is Maxim's analysis of Chestnut Ridge, Pennsylvania, where Bigfoot sightings mysteriously overlap with UFO encounters, suggesting a profound connection between these phenomena.

Drawing from indigenous knowledge spanning thousands of years, Jungian psychology, and quantum physics, Maxim proposes a revolutionary theory: What if Bigfoot accesses our reality through inter-dimensional portals rather than existing as a conventional biological species? This would explain decades of fruitless searches for physical evidence while accounting for the creature's reported ability to appear and vanish instantaneously.

This conversation will transform your understanding of cryptids and challenge you to reconsider the very nature of reality. Whether you're a dedicated Bigfoot enthusiast or simply curious about unexplained phenomena, you'll find yourself questioning the boundaries between dimensions and contemplating what other mysteries might exist just beyond our perception.

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Hi everyone, I'm Stan Mallow.Welcome toParanormal Yakker.My guest today isacclaimed paranormalauthor and rockjournalist,Maxim W Furek.We'll be talking abouthis book, The Lost Tribes of Bigfoot,a book that challengestraditional beliefsabout Bigfoot.Maxim W Furek,welcome toParanormal Yakker.Stan, thanks so much.I'm looking forward toour conversation,and I'm really veryhonored to beon your program.So I've heard so muchabout you. Sothank you so much.I thank you, and I'mhonored that you weremy guest. So it's awin-winsituation. Great.When it comes tocryptids, Ground Zerofor you was your book,Coal Region HooDoo,which had 2 chaptersabout Bigfoot.However, you'reentering into theBigfoot multiverseoccurred when youattended the Annual Florida BigfootConference in Ocala.What Maxim happenedthere that brought youinto the Bigfootmultiverse? Great question, Stan. My wifeand I are snowbirds.We spend winters inFlorida, & we spendsummers inPennsylvania. So whenwe're down in Florida,we look, I go hikingall the time, I lookfor the Swamp Ape, andI had the opportunityto attend theOcala Bigfoot Expoa couple of years ago,meet a lot of people,get interviewed on aparanormal podcast fromTallahassee, and thatsort of opened up thedoors and got me alittle bit ofnotoriety down there.So as you mentioned,Coal Region HooDoo wasthe catalyst.I had 2 chaptersof the Bigfoothypothesis and theBigfoot enigma, andI was trying to justfigure out what thisBigfoot, this Sasquatchthing was. AndI realized that there wasno way to do it with2 chapters,but those 2 chaptersin Coal Region HooDooopened up the doors,and all of a suddenI was invited toexpos, and I mean, I don't know why it wasjust those 2chapters, but what I did was I decidedthat the 2 chaptersweren't enough. I hadto go further, and sothat's whythe latest book,The Lost Tribes of Bigfoot,wanted tocontinue with thatprogram, with thatproject, andget it right.So that's why I didthat. But it's awonderful multiverse.I mean, thepeople that are intoBigfoot are justwonderful and welcomingand, you know, prettyneat. They'vebeen good to me.The Lost Tribes ofBigfoot explores theuncharted waterssurrounding the cryptid'sforbidden realm,and studying thegripping, provocative,controversial manner.What Maxim was yourreasoning forapproaching thissubject of cryptids theway you did?Great question,Stan. The LostTribes of Bigfoot isactually a metaphor forall of thepossibilities of whatSasquatch could be.And I use the wordSasquatch rather thanBigfoot, because that'sthe coastalpeople from BritishColumbia, the term thatthey've been using forthousands of years.That's theappropriate term.When you ask whatexactly is Bigfoot?Well, some people thinkit's Neanderthal,or Australopithecus, orGigantopithecus, or amissing link, orwhatever. Sothere's all theseentities out there thatmay be the possibility.So that's what the LostTribes ofBigfoot represent.Those possibilities inthe world ofcryptozoology.A Canadian prospectornamed Albert Ostmanclaimed tohave been abducted by afamily of Sasquatch andheld captive by themfor 6 days. How didhe describe hiscaptivity?That's probably oneof the mostinteresting andfascinating chapters inThe Lost Tribes of BigfootAlbert Ostman was,I believe, aSwedish-Canadianhunter-trapper. And in1924, something wascausing some havocaround his campsite,stealing things,footprints, all thesethings. So Ostmandecided to do this.He was going to hideinside his sleeping bagwith a rifle. And whenthe culprit arrived,he was going to jumpout and shoot theperson. Well, whathappened was it didn'tturn out theway he had planned.Ostman fell asleep,and something hoistedhim up and took himfor what he thought wasmiles and laid him downin this valley. Andhere there wasprobably what could bebest described as afamily of Sasquatch, amother, father, a son,and daughter.And they were watchingOstman. They werecurious. The daughterfed him sweet grass.They weren't malicious.Didn't do anything toconcern them. But atone point,Ostman feltthat maybe they weregoing to use him forsex. They were going touse him forprocreation.So he got a little bitweirded out and decidedhe had to make a plan.So what he did wasOstman had chewingtobacco. He gave that.He enticed the olderSasquatch totake the chewingtobacco. He did. He gotnauseous. And duringthe fact when theSasquatch wasgetting sick andvomiting, Ostman tookoff. So this was 1924.He didn't say anything.And then there startedto be a number ofnarratives in theBritish Columbia pressabout the wildman, about theSasquatch, about thesecreatures. So at thatpoint, and again,Ostman wasn't lookingfor publicity,but at that point hecontacted John Green, aBritish Columbianjournalist and one ofthe original4 horsemen ofSasquattery. And JohnGreen interviewed him.And keep inmind, Stan, thatthis was in the daysbefore the internet.This was the daysbefore microfichefiles. And whenyou didn't have theopportunity to go toGoogle and find outabout these cryptids.So everythingthat Albert Ostmansaid was based on hisexperience. And JohnGreen felt that it wasaccurate, that it wasgenuine. I mean, wehadn't heard anythingprevious tothis, but he,Ostman was able todescribe how a group,how a family ofSasquatchacted. He said,the one thing that wasunusual, he said therewas no smell. Andtypically whenpeople encounterSasquatch, there's thissmell of a wet dog or arotten egg or somethingpretty horrible. Butthere was no smell atall, which could leadus to believe thatperhaps that smell issome sign of,some kind of mechanism,either a weapon or awarning device orwhatever.1924, the first andonly, it was one anddone, the first andonly case of a Bigfootabduction. And thenfast forward to1961, Betty and Barney Hillgoing through theWhite Mountains ofNew Hampshire areabducted by a UFOand probed. And thenthat launched a cottageindustry of people likeWhitley Strieber andJohn Mack and all thesepeople that claim theytoo were abducted.So 1924 withBigfoot and 1961 withUFOs, 2, they'reconnected, but 2different realms. Theabductions andufology becamewidespread and becamepart ofJ Allen Hynek's CloseEncounters of theFirst,Second, and actuallythe Fourth Kind. So,Ostman playeda very pivotal role inthe history ofSasquatchery.Chestnut Ridge inPennsylvania is aregion with a longhistory of reportedBigfootsightings and otherparanormal activity andhas been the subject ofdocumentaries andparanormalinvestigations.Are there any theoriesas to why the area hasbecome a magnet for somany Bigfoot sightingsand paranormal phenomena?Glad youbrought that up. I havean article onChestnut Ridge and thecurrent issue ofFate Magazine. It's theBible of theparanormal. Our friendPhyllis Galdydown there in NorthCarolina. So we talkabout that. Butaccording to theexperts, eitherPennsylvaniaor Florida are number3 in Bigfootsightings afterWashington state andafter California. Sotake your pick. There'sa whole lot of peoplelooking for the SwampApe inFlorida and a wholelot looking for Bigfootin Pennsylvania. InChestnut Ridge, a 3county area in WesternPennsylvaniathat goes fromPittsburgh down toWest Virginia, there's themost sightings thatwe've seen,not only of Bigfoot,but Bigfoot and flyingsaucers or Bigfoot andorbs combined.So that to me lends tosome sort of aparanormal entity, somekind of aparanormal propertywith the 2 and aparanormal connection.Why WesternPennsylvania? WhyChestnut Ridge? Somepeople believe thatit's a portal, some waythat things aretravelingthrough that thing.We don't know. All wecan do, all guys likeyou and I can do is tryto come up withdefinitionsand terms andhypotheses. And thenyou might say, well,you know what, I thinkthat makes sense.I'm going to go alongwith that. Or maybe no,I don't think that'sgoing to work.So we're justtalking about this likeFreud and Jung did.We're just trying togive itparameters. You know,the paranormal dust hasto have a beginning andend, you know, and anupside anddownside and allthat. So we're justtrying to go and chiselout the parameters ofthe paranormal tofigure out whatit is. But Chestnut Ridgeis a wonderfulexample of, you know,some of thoseoddities. I mean,it's just amazing.The Patterson-Gimlin filmof a female Bigfoot wasshot in 1967.And it's probablythe most famous filmtaken of a Bigfoot. Andit's touted by many asbeingundeniable proof thatBigfoot exists. Othersclaim it was anelaborate hoaxorchestrated by thefilmmakers.What, Maxim,has your research shownabout its authenticity?It's been called theZapruder film of theparanormal. You know,when John F Kennedywas assassinated in '63.This guyZapruder took a film.And that Zapruder filmhas been analyzed andso many times as wellas thePatterson-Gimlin film.I believe it'slegitimate.There's no zippers.There's no,it's not a man inan ape suit. The waythis creature walked isit just looks like acreature. Youcould see theglute muscles. It lookslike a cryptid. Oneinteresting thing.John Napier, he was theBritish primatologist,1972. He was in chargeof the SmithsonianInstitute. Andhe was given acopy of thePatterson-Gimlin film.So he had anopportunity to look atit and toscrutinize it,along with Russian andAmerican scientists.Napier believed that itwas a hoax.And the reason hesaid it was a hoax,because he felt thatthey just cobbledtogether severalcharacteristics.The upper part of Pattywas simian. It was likean ape. But the bottompart waslike a hominid.It was a bipedalcreature that walkedlike a human. So thatwas 1972. In 1974,they discoveredAustralopithecus inEthiopia. They calledLucy, it was man'searliest ancestor.They called it Lucyafter the Beatles, Lucyin the Sky withDiamonds. So thoseresearchers,they got drunk and theylistened to the Beatlesthat night. But thatwas in some'74. But whenJohn Napier heard aboutthis, he said, wait asecond, that Lucy isjust like Patty.Upper body like an apeand the bottom like ahominid. He goes, I waswrong. Hebecame a convertto the Patterson Gimlinfilm. He was one of theskeptics, one of thecritics. Andit was a greatexample of thescientific communitycoming full circle andgiving us the data thatwe needed togo and make adetermination. AndI love the PattersonGimlin filmbecause we debate it,we talk about it. Itmakes more sense thansay the 19th, the 2023Colorado train Bigfoot.Video and evenPaul Friedman's Bigfootvideo from I think1994. So the PattersonGimlin film holdsup and it is asreputable as the 2004Nimitz clip, the UFOthat was sighted offthe coast ofSan Diego, 1967 and 2004.2 legitimate videosthat sort of validateBigfoot andalso UFOs. Soagain, anotherconnection betweenSasquatch and Flying Saucers.That leads meto ask you thefollowing. There arethose who believe thereis a UFO Bigfootconnection. Aside fromwhat you justsaid, what are thereasons for saying that?Well, again, we havewitnesses. The Bigfootpeople are looking forflesh and blood. Andthus far we haven'tfound any DNA. Wehaven't foundcarcass. What we haveis we have evidencesuch as witnesses, thesmells, the grunts, thewood knocks,the wooden structures,things like that. Maybepebbles being thrown atthe Sasquatchers. But wedon't have a body. Andso it's not good enoughfor the scientificcommunity.Likewise, in the realmof Ufology, we havepeople that are lookingfor nuts and bolts. Butso far all wehave are anecdotalnarratives. We haveRoswell andKenneth Arnold. And wehave all of thesewhistleblowers thatallegedly work forgovernment secretoperations who havecome forward and statedthat they have beenworking in projectswhere they reverseengineerthese alien craftsand all that. But wehave yet to see any ofthe crafts. Now, keepin mind thatthe United Statesgovernment had 2important congressionalhearings. They had onein July of 2003, whereDavid Grusch cameforward and said thathe knows where thebodies are andhe knows where thevehicles are. And hewill tell us, becauseit's confidential, buthe'll tellthe right peopleunder the rightcircumstances. Well, ithasn't happened yet.And they did it again.The governmentdid it again inNovember of 2024. Andthey had Luis Elizondocome forward and Luissaid the same thing.He knows thatthey know. So again, wehave people talking thetalk. They're notwalking thetalk. So I'm frustratedand I'm angry. And as aFloridian, I'm aresident ofFlorida, I wroteletters to 7 peoplethat were on thatcongressional UFOcommittee, includingMarco Rubio and includingChuck Schumer. Out ofthose 7, it wasonly Marco Rubio thatanswered myletter. And I waspetitioning him toencourage David Grucshto show hiscards. It's not enoughto talk the talk. Letus know what you have.You know, you've takenus to the brink. You'veteased us. You know,you're this close. Showus what you got. So atthat point,unfortunately,Marco Rubio was tabbedas Secretary of State.He's out of the UFOgame. And now I don't have anycontact that I can deal with.But I'm going tocontinue to write to myrepresentatives. AndI would suggest I wouldencourage yourlisteners to do thesame thing. Thegovernment knowssomething. And they'renot telling us whatthat is. Let's get onthose representativesand senatorsto go and open up thesedoors so we can findout what the government knows.Your research for the writing ofThe Lost Tribes of Bigfootinvolved you scouringAmerican and Canadianrecords forevidence of elusivecryptids. You alsopursued other sourcesfor the writing of the book.How extensive Maxim wasthe research that youdid for it? Well, I think, you know,when you take alook at the book, Ibelieve my book is acomprehensive accountof Bigfootand all of thetheories about what itcould be,Including the hoaxers.And I talk about theMinnesota Iceman. AndI talk about the Piltdown Man,these hoaxes thatwere perpetrated forvarious reasons, eithernationalistic pride, orto make money, or forthe hoaxers,15 minutes offame. But I talk aboutthat because even thehoaxers, unfortunately,are part of this wholetapestry, this wholecryptozoology tapestry.So I talk about that,but I'vetalked to numerouspeople. I talked to thebelievers, the peoplethat go out there intothe woodslooking for Sasquatchand listening to theirnarrative. And you knowwhat? My theory is thatthere's a portal, ainterdimensional portalby which both Bigfootand flying saucers gothrough. Theyshape-shiftthrough this paralleldimension, through thisinterdimensionalconduit to come here.Bigfoot, they say thatBigfoot doesn't walk,it glides. That it hasrapidtransport that you,by location, that yousee them in front ofyou, and then you seethem behindyou. And so we takea look at that, whichsmacks of theparanormal realm. ButI'll say this, Stan,you know, beinga Canadian, in 1958,when the HumboldtTimes, the newspaper inNorthern California,started to writeabout Bigfoot, they were writingabout the CaliforniaAbominableSnowman, and they hadthousands of peoplethat wrote letterssaying, Yes, I believein thisCalifornia AbominableSnowman, or Yes,I too have seen thisthing. But that was1958. But then westarted to realize,wait a second,Sasquatch has been partof the BritishColumbian and coastalpeople's traditionfor thousands of years.the white man,the white Americanjust found outabout it in 1958,but it's been aroundfor thousands of yearsin spoken language andtotem poles andsuperstitions and allthat. The tribes therein northern Canadabelieve that to seeSasquatch was ablessing, believe thatSasquatch was theprotector of theenvironment, and just awhole lot of thingslike that, that arejust so honorable andrespectful. I mean,when you talkabout Bigfoot, I mean,who would think that,it's almost likea religion,where this creature isrespectedand venerated.This next question is afollow-up to somethingyou just said. What,Maxim, can youtell me aboutthe world of Bigfootsynchronicity and theembracing ofinterdimensionaltheories?Yeah, what I did was myproposition was this.If it's not flesh andblood, andwe've had plentyof time to look in theHimalayas forAbominable Snowman, forYeti, for theRussian Almas,for Bigfoot, forSasquatch, for SkunkApe, we've hadthousands of years tofind DNA. We have nevercome up with anything.We've had some falsestarts, we've had somefalse flags, but wehaven't comeup with the real thing.So my proposal wasthis. If it's not fleshand blood,what could it be?And one thing, the oneperson who was reallyinteresting was Jacques Vallée. Jacques Valléewas the one who saidthat theextra-terrestrialhypotheses does notwork. Andthat's the one wherethe space brother istraveling trillions oflight years to get fromtheir planet to ours.It would take too long,it would take too muchenergy, nobody, noteven theadvanced space brothershave that technologyand know how to dothat. And JacquesVallée was saying thatit has to besomething like theinterdimensionaltheory. Now, none ofthis is new. Everythingis predicated onsomething that we knewfrom before us. Forexample, Einstein andRosen talked about thebridge theory,you know, we call itthe wormhole theory.And they said thatmaybe there's holeswithin thatspace-time continuum bywhich people cantravel. It's a theory,but if it works, thatwould explainwhy a spaceship couldget from A to B in amicrosecond or aBigfoot couldtravel from theirdimension to ours inthe flash of an eye.One other thing too, ifthat theory's true,one hypothesis is thatwhen Bigfoot entersfrom their dimension toours, theybring with themthis what we think is astench, thathorrible smell, but itcould representthe other dimension.And that's somethingthat is prettyinteresting. So again,we don't know,but there's ahypothesis, there'sthis theory. So, youknow, write it down,play with it, you know,either accept it orreject it. But again,we need theories, weneed words, we needlanguage to figureout the paranormal, tofigure out somethingthat is almostincomprehensible. Sothat's why we talklike this, and that'swhy we makeour conjectures.In your book, youalso delve intomass hallucinations.And Swiss psychiatristand psychotherapistCarl Jung's collectiveconsciousness.Can you expand a bit on that?Again, take alook at some of thepossibilities.Could it be masshallucinations? Well,look at the dronehysteria of 2024, wheneverybody waslooking into thesky, it was like aRorschach test, andeverybody was sayingsomething. There was alot of fear andhysteria in the air in2024. And it wasn'tjust here in America,it was over inthe UK as well.I don't know if youwere having sightingsin Canada, butcertainly, okay, wewere, it was justwidespread. And itmight have been a formof mass hallucinations,we were all lookinginto the sky,and we all seem to besaying pretty much thesame thing. So again,that's never beenclarified andexplained. We're stillleft hanging up as towhat that was.But Jung's collectiveunconsciousness,absolutely,we are part of ourancestors, we have ourancestral DNA, andwhatever it wasthat scared them,whether it was mammothor woolly mammoths, orsaber-toothed tigers,or whatever,that's in our amygdala.And when we're goingthrough a dark alleyand see a shape,that could be a residuefrom what was in ourancestors, collectiveunconsciousand their DNAthat stays with us totoday. It's all thesame, we share the sameenergy andvibration and light.You know, I think onething that peopleshould realize,especially during thesevery chaotictimes, is that,we have a lotmore similarity than werealize, andespecially with ourvibrational level andall that. So it's goodto be withthe same tribe,with the same, not onlycollectiveunconsciousness, butcollectivevibration as well.The Lost Tribes of Bigfoothas been published byHangar 1 Publishing, utilizinginnovative, immersivebook technology. Thatis my curiosity,what Maxim is immersivebook technology?That's a great question.Doug and AlexHajicek are theCEOs behind Hangar 1,and they're the guysthat gave us Monster Quest.But they have a thingcalled IBT, ImmersiveBook Technology, andit's a series ofbarcodes that areimprinted throughoutthe book. And if youtake your phone'scamera, it'll open up avideo of me, a briefvideo of me,giving a synopsis ofthose chapters. So it'ssort of liketraditional technologythat's beenretrofitted, just likewith the alientechnology. So they'veused that. And it'sjust wonderful. Andpeople that have readthe book, they alwayscomment about the IBT,they've never seenanything like it.It's relatively new.And I'm just like sofortunate that theydecided toutilize that withmy book, because itadds another dimensionto the book. It's justit's great.I mean, my book isunique, I think, notonly because of theresearch and becauseI like to believe I havethe abilityto distill complexitiesinto something that'smore understandable.But because it has IBT,it makes it uniqueamong all of thehundreds and hundredsof books that are aboutBigfoot that areout there. I mean, it'sa tough market, I'lltell you.Should viewers ofParanormal Yakkerwant to buyThe Lost Tribes of Bigfootand learn aboutother books you'vewritten, how, Maxim,can they do that?They could do it in twoways, Stan. One, theycould go and check meout on Amazon,Maxim W Furek,FUREK. So I have anumber of books thatare listedin Amazon.Or if they wanted topurchase an autographedcopy of one of mybooks, then they couldcontact me atMaximFurek.com.And that'swww.MaximFurek.com.And I'd be glad to goand give thema great dealand sign my name. So itwould be wonderful. ButI'll tell you one otherthing, too. If any ofyour listeners dohappen to purchase anyof my books, pleaseconsider putting areview on Amazonor Goodreads. It reallymakes a difference forus authors. It reallyhelps with thealgorithm orthe men in black,whatever, whatever'sworking behind thescenes. So,that would begreat if they could.Maxim M Furek,I thank you for being myguest onParanormal Yakker.Yakking with you hasbeen an extremelyinformative experience.Thank you.Thank you, Stan.I appreciate it. Andhopefully we could dothis again down theline in thenear future.