I will be welcoming Pete Breidahl to the show. In 2008 Pete was a soldier serving as a “Peacekeeper” on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Island chain, when on a long-range patrol deep into its impenetrable jungles, Pete met a terrified young man that had never met a white man before.
But he wasn’t scared by the soldiers, he feared the creature he had encountered that morning while hunting. He described a classic “Bigfoot” type creature, and after a quick google search back at base Pete soon realized that Bigfoot and “Giant” sightings on Guadalcanal were very common indeed. Pete never forgot this encounter and returned in search of the creatures as soon as he had left the military.
Check out his book Hominid Hunter: The search for un-described South Pacific hominids
Charles R
A Bigfoot type creature on Guadalcanal. How does this happen? 80 some years ago there were around 100k Janpanes and United States Marines and some Army fighting for control of this critical island on the Solomons. Are their any stories about such a creature from them? One of my best friends from my youth and still is , Father was with the 1st Marine Division there in 1942, but never told any stories of this brutal and bloody battles.