I swear I had an encounter with one of these little folk in Drumheller. I came from Calgary to do a roofing job and as I was driving back into town I saw something about the size of a large prarie dog by the road. I didn't pay it any mind because I was more worried about any deer on the road, but it looked like it did a little dance and threw something. A moment later a beer bottle smashed on the front of my vehicle. "F*cking little b*stard!" I exclaimed. That's when I looked directly at it, as it turned to run into the ditch. It looked like a little man wearing a chicken feather vest. I told a local at the liquor store what happened and he told me that it was Drumheller's 'F*cking little b*stard' which bemused me as I had not told him I called the creature exactly that. The next day I did pickup at the Boston Pizza for supper and they had a gnome statue in the dining area. I asked the server why, and she said that little folk are territorial and the only way to keep them out of the dumpster is to make them think one was already on the premise with the statues. I hate working out of town.
This channel produces first rate content. It has rapidly become one of my favorites. This American loves this Canadian history and the cryptid accounts. Keep up the great work.
This is one of those channels that I get excited about as soon as I get a notification for a new video. I hit the like button before the video even starts playing.
Theres tons in the Yukon you’ll find tons of people who have seen Bigfoot, ufos, little people and more.. there’s a documentary on the fox lake ufos.. people would see a craft with lights hovering just above the highway then come to hours later.. often far away from where they were.. I’ve seen a ufo that looked like a lantern.. at first I thought it was a skidoo until it started moving straight up and down the mountain and could see it over the trees.. definitely wasn’t on the ground.. eventually it just shot up into the sky and that was the end of that sighting
@@BasementPepperoni wow! I haven't caught up with a lot of his back catalog yet but I intend to. I've been subscribed for less than a year and I've never been disappointed in his work.
I’m from Michigan- I LOVE THIS! Thank you so much for teaching me the history more so of the region! I love to learn! I want to know all of the history before the people who took it took it. It’s very important. Such beautiful and distinctive, complex cultures and languages. Just beautiful. So much respect. ❤
Fascinating video. I work as a Professional Archaeologist, and I used to live and work in the Fort St John / Fort Nelson area of Northern BC - the traditional homeland of the Dane-zaa (Beaver) First Nations. We would sometimes have representatives of these nations, often Elders, join us while we performed our work. Several Elders from the Prophet River First Nation had told me how a section of their reserve lands - dominated by low rocky hills amidst all the boreal swampland - was the homeland of mischevious and malevolent “little men”. They also told me that they would always warn against members of their Nation voyaging out into those hills to hunt, less they be “stolen away” into the realm of the Little People. The connections to the other folklore you mentioned in this piece are fascinating! Would love to hear you discuss some Beaver and Slavey (Dene Tha) folklore in future videos! The Dane-zaa legend of the “Wechuge” is particularly unique and scary!
damn,dude.the effort and energie you put into the research and editing is quite staggering and extremely satisfying.Thanks a lot for sharing all this great and important knowledge.
Have enjoyed your content and research for quite awhile now and you have done nothing but IMPROVE every episode !! Thank you sir for keeping our history alive ! So much would be lost if it wasnt for great people such as yourself . May you and your family be blessed
Me and my family regularly binge watch your playlists. We often watch the same videos over again. They are so full of details and entertaining. You're a first class writer and narrator. Your channel is a Canadian national treasure. Thank you for all your hard work and contribution to Fortean fans everywhere.
This is an incredible episode. So many parallels to European and African folklore. I've had experiences with "little people". Athropophogite. Awesome! You added to my vocabulary; a rare treat. You rule the North....and then some. Thanks!!!
Hi I noticed a video you had done recently. In regards to, alligators or crocodiles in the Ottawa river. I lived in Ottawa, my mom had a friend who lived right off the Ottawa River, you could walk out the back door and be on the pier in 5 minutes. My mom was living there, i visited, she gave me a fishing rod and said the waters just down the path, get some fish. I didnt think twice, headed down, threw in the lure after baiting. Caught an assortment of white fish and sunfish. After a few hours, im standing on the Wooden barrier along the river, it heaves somewhat, water rises and shifts towards me. My lure is in the water, the shift of the water against the wood nearly made me fall in. As i look at my lure in the water, i see a huge eyeball, just arise from below my lure, i freeze, stare at it, and my eyes follow along its body as the river carrys it away. Im not certain how long i stood there, scared to move. I had no idea what i had seen, i do recall rambling back up to the house and telling my mom and the main resident about what i saw, they had mentioned Gar and Pike and the length and size, i said No Way!, what i saw was easily 30ft from the Eye 👁 to tail, it had a long elongated snout, teeth along the snout, the strength to swim against the current and ascend and descend with ease. Ive worked on older vehicles, Cadillacs, Fleetwood Brough series from the 60s, those cars are 22ft and sometimes longer with the fins, this Creature was longer than that car. Not long ago i saw a image of an extinct dinosaur with long legs, crocodile body, long snout, huge eyes, that image reminded me of what is would have looked like, if it came out of the water. It had a Tail, eye to tail, 30ft...
You are lucky to be alive and tell the tale of the tail. Really, I believe you. There's more to this universe than dreamed of in the average philosophy. 😉
@davidlancaster8152 hi Yes I'd happily show on Google earth where it was around the Ottawa River. My thoughts after working on the channel locks in Ottawa later in life, was that it may have come with a ship from the new York region, as they had people who worked in the sewers and found alligators and crocodiles.
It's pretty wild what a child's imagination can do. I thought I saw Bigfoot when I was younger, was obviously a deer, but it ran past me in thick bush, startling the crap out of me and only caught a glimpse.
I sincerely enjoy listening to your posts of First Nations stories, legends, and tales! It helps all of us listeners to gain knowledge of the people's that inhabited this land before us!
I was a pilot for MNR, flying caribou surveys in the Ogoki area, north of Geraldton, Ontario. Was given a map with a no fly zone to accommodate the Little People. That’s just cool.
Jock Vallee and our host here have convinced me of the authenticity of the little folk. I am 75 . At 30 I would have scoffed at the idea. Now I believe in many things outside the norm. Seems to me the prevalent social and educational attitudes in the last couple hundred years have boxed us in to a narrow band of belief. There is more stuff going on that we do not know or understand , than there is which we think we know. A bundle of kindness extended hereby to you and all beings.
Māori people in New Zealand have a similar legend of little people, we called them Patu Paiarehe and they could be both benevolent and evil, depending on their mood.
@@davidlancaster8152 come on, we all like my icon, anyone who doesn't is a cop or a snitch right! hehehe thanks man, keep on my brother! No shortage of photo opp's if you want a similar one my cuz....
❤ Thank you so Much Again for Sharing this!! It's strange how there are so many different peoples, with such similar lore!! Totally 💯 Love this Channel!! 🤩 Namasté 🙏🕊️ Andréa and Critters. ...XxX...
This was among my very favorite videos you've made yet. Thank you for finding and sharing these fascinating stories. As always, tales like these have a double value: They give us a window into the native cultures who originally told them, and they seem to refer to an underlying reality. All across the world there are myriad tales of little people, who seem to dwell in a world, or perhaps a plane, very near to our own. There almost appears to be a world that perfectly mirrors ours, at least seeming to do so in the places where it intersects with our own. Thus, Little People encountered in Cree territory speak the Cree language, Little People encountered in Ireland speak Irish, and Little People encountered in the Dagara territory of west Africa speak the Dagara language. Are they merely using telepathy to impress their desired communications onto humans so that the human witnesses seem to hear the Little People speaking in their own familiar tongues, or is there actually a parallel world with similar cultural and linguistic realities to our own, with perhaps a historical cultural link between the Little Peoples of certain places and the indigenous humans whose homelands intersect with them? This area of study and of human experience is, in my opinion, far too well documented to be a mere traditional fiction. People are encountering something real, and they have been encountering it for a VERY long time. When, or perhaps IF we ever come to understand the deeper truth behind the existence of the Little People, we will also be discovering something fundamentally profound about reality itself. I don't have enough information yet to properly test whether my own hypothesis about this is accurate or not, so for now I will keep the majority of my own theory to myself, but I am certain that wen we study this phenomenon, we are on the trail of something monumental about what it means to be conscious and what it means to be human. Thank you as always for providing such stirring food for thought! All the best, --N
So glad to find something on little people! We encountered one in Silver Creek, BC. Were standing on my moms second floor patio where my mom had draped an old Hudson’s Bay blanket across the railing and was explaining the ‘points’ sewn into the material when my eye was drawn to movement. I looked into the field and a small man, maybe 4 ft at most was walking through the grass looking down as if searching for something he’d lost. I said “who is that?” to my mom and she looked but couldn’t see him. I then called my friend and she could also see him. The little man heard us shouting and looked our way and then hid behind a small low bush and played peek a boo with us. Wanting a closer look but also nervous we got into my car and drove the 150 meters to where he was hiding in a bush-covered dirt mound in the middle of the field and he had totally vanished! And there were no footprints. This was in daylight Labor Day weekend of 2015 and I was not under the influence of anything.
@@tarafaulkner Thanks💛! I wish I could see it again too - so badly! I look every time I go but have never seen it again. Not sure why only 2 of the 3 people present could see it though?
What’s crazy is I would have never believed this, yet after spending 6 months hiking the Appalachian trail I absolutely believe they exist, have communed with them actually. Also been very close to cryptids twice on that hike. Heard elemental water spirits as well. Fairies are real too. This world is wild. We are so involved in our own worlds that we miss all this. We are so disconnected now.
My ex-wife is indigenous, and grew up in Saskatchewan around the Qu-Appelle valley. She told me many stories of the little people. Personal experiences as well as some others shes heard. This was back in the early 90s she told me thse encounters. It was common in her community to hear these stoires. Every now and then, when i go back to her home area, i still hear stories. Elders used to talk about them with great respect and fear. To this day, i know they are not tales, but they are very real.
This is a very interesting documentary. Thank you for posting! Here from Vancouver Island. I was actually surprised that this video did not mention Vancouver Islands' historical First Nations Legend..... called When The Mountain Dwarves Danced. This story documents a very significant yet unfortunate event in Vancouver Islands history.
My friend was canoeing with his fiance and friends on Lac Laronge in northern Saskatchewan. The passed an island that Natives are cautious to givw wide birth to and gave it distance themselves. Apparently not enough tho. The rest of the paddle, one canoe seemed to drag a bit in the water. But only a bit. They stopped to camp for the night at an established camp site. While sitting in the dark around the fire something suddenly slapped his fiance in the back of her head and ran off with a sound of small feet running away quickly. It was enough warning and they never went anywhere close to that island again.
There are so many accounts of different ancient people's with no contact with one another, often separated by entire oceans, describing the same types of creatures with similar behaviors... Makes me believe that these things actually existed.
I cannot thank you enough for sharing these tales & historical accounts. I have such a longing for knowing my peoples’ stories. I’m part Potawatomi (belonging to the Anishinaabe) and didn’t grow up with friends or family that passed down this knowledge. As my bedtime story, I would’ve much preferred to learn about what’s covered in this video instead of Little House On The Prairie. Talk about children’s stories! Riddled with lies and…well, anyway, I believe these stories of little folks far more than that problematic literature. Indigenous folklore as a whole (but particularly Potawatomi/Cherokee for my own heritage and Chickasaw for my husband) is so fascinating to me. My hunger for knowledge has been satiated for now. Migwetch!
Hey man I'm from southern Ontario and part Seneca and Mohawk and I've always been interested about wrestling like the story of well dressed man you talked about. I was wondering if you could do a video on native wrestling stories in the Americas. I made a post about it recently on Facebook and you're story really intrigued me.
So as a youngster my grandfather from Matachewan first nation was a guide most of his life and I would always ask about forest monster stories and he had two, big water snake's in separation lake, and something that would hurl stones at hunters camps. I miss those stories.
43:05 what is this beautiful place? It looks so familiar. I love the photos of the frontier you use in your videos. All the cottages and farms in the middle of nowhere invoke such curiosity as to what goes on there and what lurks aboot in the darkness. Very intriguing to say the least.
From the Illinois Wisconsin border. Lake Michigan is a crazy lake with pretty intense power. Everything around it is affected by it. Same goes for all the great lakes im sure. This whole area is amazing. I could just imagine what Canada is like. Thanks for giving us a view into Canadian History.
Thanks for your great content!! I'm getting a start on a Fantasy Story that takes place primarily in British Columbia, and your content is so varied, I'm really enjoying it in my research. Cheers from the Okanagan BC!! (JUST outside the edge of the triangle... where I will remain)
Have you heard of the silver king of the rockies having a throne in pyramid below the borders of vermilion? Thinking Waterton to therialt? Alberta- montana ancient watershed?
Awesome, I live in the Thompson-Okanagan area near Kamloops. The only thing I've had happened, one of the weirdest coolest things lol.. is one time on a forest trail I was hiking in the evening and in some fresh snow off the trail under a tree I splayed my fingers out, and left my hand print clear in the snow. The next morning early I went for another hike, no one else had been out there and it is off the trail a bit. I remember it was 12/21/19. There was a light dusting of snow over night so when I got back to that location, the hand print I had left, and my footprints and everything else had all been covered with a light dusting of snow, so there were no fresh prints from anything there, no one had been there. But right under the hand print that I had left, was the smallest child sized hand freshly pushed into the snow. Right up against and below my palm. It was maybe half the size or slightly more than 1/3 the size of my hand (I don't have big hands) and you could see palm lines and everything. The thing is that there were no footprints anywhere! no animals, no boot prints, no footprints just nothing. It was like it was pressed into the snow from *thin air* ... I took pictures and still just stare at them sometimes, because you have to understand someone pressing their hand into the snow would leave tracks...there were NONE🖐
I had something throwing pebbles at me at Old Fort Erie / the old amusement park site as I walked the wooded trails. I've always wondered why my normally watchful dogs did not react to what was happening. Whatever it was followed along beside me in the brush, throwing little pebbles.
Some plants that are seeding, their seeds explode from the plant with great force, to scatter them at a great distance, to increase their chances of germinating. It has happened to me. A weed outside my living room window started seeding like that. I thought some crazy neighbour was throwing small stones at my window. Until i was out gardening one day and saw the plant in action. It could have been something like that? Maybe? Great story though, don't want to discredit it ❤❤
Moving to Alaska was when I first heard of the little people. I thought my son was crazy when he told me the little people were knocking on his truck window one night when he broke down. I googled it and….. I was shocked.
Your channel and videos are golden troves of our shared history and cultures, something I hope is preserved in these troubled and dark times for future generations to watch, learn from and appreciate our heritage.
Saying “the Memegwesi have that” about something dropped into a river gives me the same vibe as when I drop or lose something in an unexpected way and it ends up somewhere I can’t immediately reach, so I just have to deadpan “welp. that lives there now.” and go on with my day 😂😂
Super interesting stuff. Thanks for all your hard work! I drive through Morley on my way to work every day so I’ll keep my eyes peeled for little people haha.
I spent 25 yrs with natives here in Canada and heard many stories of these little people and including some who have seen them. I have not seen any little people but have come across evidence of them.
In the British Isles, they are known as the Fey/ little people and I absolutely believe in them. Too many peoples have stories of little people for me to think that they exist. That First Peoples have encountered them is no surprise.
My mother said that she seen a little person when she was in high school.. she was walking home with her then-boyfriend and they seen a little troll with the leather hat by the train tracks she said it look like it was looking for something in the grass it looked up and gave them an evil grin and they took off running... This took place in the 70's in Greeley Colorado.
Love your channel. Your narration and voice is so pleasing to my ear. Glad you were able to retrieve the works of the man from……MASS. CT….? USA. ( cant remember, sorry) pray He rests in peace. Thank you for all, blessings from Vt., USA 💐
its good to report these since no other similar channels even mentions these stories,also alot of the older tribal elders that are aware of these things are no longer around and stories like this would be lost forever ever ....its good to collect and archive these for future reference...
28:00 My brother attended St. Michael Residential school in Sask and said that the staff would talk about seeing the little people around the grouds of the school when working outside just like the staff say in this show. My late Kokum had attended the same school but I'm not sure if she heard anything. She told my late mom the name of them, but she also said its not good to talk about them and to give them respect and that they live near water and can walk into the ground. My cousin said she saw one in her room on the rez one night when she was a young child. Another one of my cousins also said she saw one outside the porta potty while waiting for her mom. I was staying in a hotel with her and her mom for the Indigenous Summer Games at Big River that time. I asked her what the little person looked like? She said the little person was an old man with a very wrinkly face and the way she described it looking at her kind of freaked me out at the time. I was 10 or 11 years old at the time. It was very unnerving. But yes they exist on the Saskatchewan plains. Some elders explained to my cousin that she was to put ribbon and marbles in the bushes as an offering for them because they like those. Oh and some people say that they may take things, specifically shiny items because they are said to like shiny items. Another time me and a few other people were out at bareass beach just outside Saskatoon, Sk enjoying ourselves and it was getting late. As we were visiting it was beginning to get pitch black outside just the moon and stars in the sky. There was a little fire in the bushes that started out of thin air. It was about 50 feet away directly in the bushes and it was contained to that little area. Obviously someone was taking care of that little fire and knew what they were doing because the bushes above and around it didnt go up in flames. We were super shocked and we left shortly after this. I haven't been out there since.
There are little people in the Adirondacks too, you’ll know your trek is accompanied by them when you find items near your fire in the morning, they copy you gathering fire wood. Some parts of the Adirondacks they will gather human items and leave a small pile maybe 3 or 4 pieces or garbage or human refuse, bottle caps, pieces of glass, colored plastic with the hope you will make it disappear.
This is so true! 🌿Keeping an open mind and having love and respect for the natural world is very important. Humans need to preserve more old growth forests and green spaces as we are not the only ones that live on this planet. There are many other species that live among us. The forest and mountains hold secrets that few know or believe. If we destroy it, then we may never know!
Yes they are real and only show themselves to certain people. My daughter who was very sick and Dr's found she was resistant to medication and they kept switching her until they would stop working and they said she was becoming resistant to them fast and would run out of options. One day my daughter told me she saw a little person sitting by her, she mysteriously got well after that, I believe the little person healed her. 🙏
We grew up with them in are house we woukd hear little feet running around little things being thrown around or coins being rolled across the floor with laughing and to are people on the southern plains whe. Thay come into your home and steal your things it's usealy a sign of a good home and protection from bad spirits or bad people stay away and after a while what thay stole thay return and again thays a sign of good luck as there watching over your home we do have a shrine for them were we leave candy toys coins tobacco fish or small exacts knife blades or make tiny clothing for them
