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The Piasa Bird
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The Piasa Bird

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The Piasa Bird
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Tonight, we soar into the shrouded bluffs overlooking the mighty Mississippi to confront a chimeric nightmare born from ancient Native American rock art and woven into enduring folklore.  This is Episode 10: The Piasa Bird

In the shadowed cradle of the Mississippi River’s limestone bluffs, where fog clings like a shroud to the ancient rock and the water whispers secrets too old for human ears, the Piasa Bird stirs. 

Not as a mere echo of faded paint or a tourist curiosity, but as something primordial—half-dream, half-hunger—that has never truly slept. It is the year 1673 when Father Jacques Marquette first glimpses it, his canoe slicing through the river’s glassy midnight mirror. 


Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasa

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Piasa-bird

https://mythicmississippi.illinois.edu/native-illinois/piasa-bird/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/piasa-bird

https://www.museum.state.il.us/RiverWeb/landings/Ambot/Archives/vignettes/culture/Piasa_20Bird.html

https://www.riversandroutes.com/directory/piasa-bird/

https://historyillinois.org/legend-of-the-piasa-the/

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