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Ape Canyon’s Bizarre 1924 Bigfoot Attack

In July 1924 five miners claimed that they were attacked by a group of apemen. The story goes that a member of the mining party, a man named Fred Beck, took a shot at one of the creatures after being spooked. Later that night, the monsters appeared at the miners’ cabin, tossing boulders and rushing the door to break it down.

According to The Oregonian, the first paper to break the story, the apemen were covered in long black hair. They stood at 7 feet, weighed over 400 pounds, and possessed great strength. At one point, they made a hole in the cabin’s roof and dropped a rock inside, knocking Beck in the head. Despite the apemen’s mastery of rock-throwing, the gun-toting miners were able to hold their ground. By the morning, the creatures had retreated, allowing Beck and the other humans to run out the log-fort and return to civilization.

At a time when the word “Bigfoot” hadn’t been coined yet, people referred to the miners’ violent apemen as “mountain devils” and “gorillas.” As word of the ambush spread, the story also became increasingly outlandish. A skeptical mention in the Engineering and Mining Journal put the number of combatants involved at “more than twenty animals,” while one Native American editor tied the apemen to the Seeahtik, a mythical tribe who used hypnotism to hunt for their game.

Although the Washington media’s interest in the Bigfoot assault eventually faded, the gorge where it happened was christened “Ape Canyon,” ensuring that the battle remained a part of local folklore. After the modern conception of Sasquatch took off in the late 1950s, researchers like journalist Betty Allen rediscovered the Ape Canyon incident and incorporated it into Bigfoot mythology. Probably encouraged by this new Bigfoot mania, Fred Beck sat down with his son Roland to create a memoir of the failed 1924 siege, titling his 1967 booklet “I Fought the Ape Men of Mt. St. Helens.”

Despite the long passage of time, Beck remembered the greatest Bigfoot brawl of the century rather well. Before that fateful day in July, Beck and the other miners had already come across large, unfamiliar tracks. The week of the incident, they heard whistling outside every evening, as though two creatures were trying to communicate with one another. During his description of the attack in the booklet’s first chapter, Beck clarifies a couple details that were misreported in the press. It was actually his friend “Hank” (a pseudonym) who shot the first apeman, for example, and it wasn’t true that Beck was hit in the head by a rock.

At most, Beck and his mining party saw only three apemen at a time, although there might have been more. When things quieted down in the morning, the miners came out of their cabin, and Beck spotted one of the creatures standing near a cliff. He shot it three times, sending the damn dirty ape over the edge, down to a fall that was four hundred feet below. After fleeing to a park ranger station at Spirit Lake, Beck wanted to keep the whole ordeal a secret, but “Hank” couldn’t keep his mouth shut. The story spread, journalists requested interviews, and curiosity-seekers and law officers scoured the area for signs of the attackers.

In the second chapter of the booklet, Beck reprints a 1964 news article about the Mt. St. Helen apemen, mentioning his own incident and the 1950 disappearance of a skier on the mountain. Further on, he admits to having been clairvoyant since childhood, noting a history of “visions” and “spiritual meetings.” Because a psychic element just wasn’t enough, Beck completely twists his story and speculates that the apemen were beings from a lower plane of existence. As a lost link between humans and their ancestors, the apemen sometimes manifested into our own dimension, anxious to ascend their petty state. They are curious, largely harmless critters, and are only searching for a higher consciousness.

This spiritual gobbledygook, although not entirely unwelcome for entertainment purposes, is entirely absent from the original ’20s reportage. There’s been debate over how much influence Roland had on his father’s written account, and even whether Fred Beck could remember the story as accurately as he thought he did. In terms of more practical solutions, a logger named Rant Mullins admitted in 1982 that he rolled rocks onto a cabin in the Mt. St. Helen area in 1924. Mullins had also faked giant footprints for decades, suggesting he was responsible for another important part of Beck’s “ambush.”

Another theory argues that the miners mistook a rock slide that hit their cabin for the monsters, and yet a third maintains that the assailants were teenagers from a local YMCA, who couldn’t be seen clearly due to the time of night. As for the Bigfoot that Beck shot and sent down into oblivion, this was either the case of an overactive imagination, or the brutal assassination of an innocent apeman attempting to reach a higher consciousness.

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Ape Canyon’s Bizarre 1924 Bigfoot Attack

In July 1924 five miners claimed that they were attacked by a group of apemen. The story goes that a member of the mining party, a man named Fred Beck, took a shot at one of the creatures after being spooked. Later that night, the monsters appeared at the miners’ cabin, tossing boulders and rushing the door to break it down.

According to The Oregonian, the first paper to break the story, the apemen were covered in long black hair. They stood at 7 feet, weighed over 400 pounds, and possessed great strength. At one point, they made a hole in the cabin’s roof and dropped a rock inside, knocking Beck in the head. Despite the apemen’s mastery of rock-throwing, the gun-toting miners were able to hold their ground. By the morning, the creatures had retreated, allowing Beck and the other humans to run out the log-fort and return to civilization.

At a time when the word “Bigfoot” hadn’t been coined yet, people referred to the miners’ violent apemen as “mountain devils” and “gorillas.” As word of the ambush spread, the story also became increasingly outlandish. A skeptical mention in the Engineering and Mining Journal put the number of combatants involved at “more than twenty animals,” while one Native American editor tied the apemen to the Seeahtik, a mythical tribe who used hypnotism to hunt for their game.

Although the Washington media’s interest in the Bigfoot assault eventually faded, the gorge where it happened was christened “Ape Canyon,” ensuring that the battle remained a part of local folklore. After the modern conception of Sasquatch took off in the late 1950s, researchers like journalist Betty Allen rediscovered the Ape Canyon incident and incorporated it into Bigfoot mythology. Probably encouraged by this new Bigfoot mania, Fred Beck sat down with his son Roland to create a memoir of the failed 1924 siege, titling his 1967 booklet “I Fought the Ape Men of Mt. St. Helens.”

Despite the long passage of time, Beck remembered the greatest Bigfoot brawl of the century rather well. Before that fateful day in July, Beck and the other miners had already come across large, unfamiliar tracks. The week of the incident, they heard whistling outside every evening, as though two creatures were trying to communicate with one another. During his description of the attack in the booklet’s first chapter, Beck clarifies a couple details that were misreported in the press. It was actually his friend “Hank” (a pseudonym) who shot the first apeman, for example, and it wasn’t true that Beck was hit in the head by a rock.

At most, Beck and his mining party saw only three apemen at a time, although there might have been more. When things quieted down in the morning, the miners came out of their cabin, and Beck spotted one of the creatures standing near a cliff. He shot it three times, sending the damn dirty ape over the edge, down to a fall that was four hundred feet below. After fleeing to a park ranger station at Spirit Lake, Beck wanted to keep the whole ordeal a secret, but “Hank” couldn’t keep his mouth shut. The story spread, journalists requested interviews, and curiosity-seekers and law officers scoured the area for signs of the attackers.

In the second chapter of the booklet, Beck reprints a 1964 news article about the Mt. St. Helen apemen, mentioning his own incident and the 1950 disappearance of a skier on the mountain. Further on, he admits to having been clairvoyant since childhood, noting a history of “visions” and “spiritual meetings.” Because a psychic element just wasn’t enough, Beck completely twists his story and speculates that the apemen were beings from a lower plane of existence. As a lost link between humans and their ancestors, the apemen sometimes manifested into our own dimension, anxious to ascend their petty state. They are curious, largely harmless critters, and are only searching for a higher consciousness.

This spiritual gobbledygook, although not entirely unwelcome for entertainment purposes, is entirely absent from the original ’20s reportage. There’s been debate over how much influence Roland had on his father’s written account, and even whether Fred Beck could remember the story as accurately as he thought he did. In terms of more practical solutions, a logger named Rant Mullins admitted in 1982 that he rolled rocks onto a cabin in the Mt. St. Helen area in 1924. Mullins had also faked giant footprints for decades, suggesting he was responsible for another important part of Beck’s “ambush.”

Another theory argues that the miners mistook a rock slide that hit their cabin for the monsters, and yet a third maintains that the assailants were teenagers from a local YMCA, who couldn’t be seen clearly due to the time of night. As for the Bigfoot that Beck shot and sent down into oblivion, this was either the case of an overactive imagination, or the brutal assassination of an innocent apeman attempting to reach a higher consciousness.

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Early Non-Native Accounts of Bigfoot in North America

There are many accounts of Native American encounters with Bigfoot recorded in history. However, European settlers and their descendants also had Bigfoot experiences. Here are some that occurred before the Bigfoot craze in the 1950s popularized the idea.

A white woman named Rachel Plummer, who was taken captive by a Comanche raiding band in Texas in the year 1836, is credited with making one of the earliest and most prominent references to Bigfoot by a non-Native American. After the Comanche set Plummer free in 1838, she wrote and published a narrative detailing her traumatic experience as a captive. She went into enormous detail about the creatures that lived in the prairies, in addition to providing specifics about their everyday lives and the roles that men, women, and children had in their lives. Among these animals were wolf packs, bears, elk, and even what her captors referred to as "man-tigers."

According to what she reported, "The Indians claim that they have discovered several of them in the mountains." They say, "They describe them as having the characteristics and proportions of a man." People report that they walk upright and stand between eight and nine feet tall. It was not until nearly a century later that five gold prospectors in Oregon documented the existence of a beast that was very similar to the one described. The men, venturing into the wilderness in 1924, claimed that an "ape man" had accosted one of their party members, Fred Beck, earlier that day, and had shot the creature, inflicting injuries as he fled. Later that night, a larger group of these animals battered the prospectors' hut with rocks and boulders. The men were certain that they were exacting their vengeance for the previous shooting that had taken place. The animals attempted to smash down the door of the cabin, but fortunately, the guys were able to delay their progress.

As soon as the sun began to rise, the apemen fled, and the five terrified prospectors made their way to the closest settlement. It was believed to such an extent that the United States Forest Service initiated an investigation and dispatched two rangers back into the forest with Beck to see if they could find any evidence of the beasts or even the beasts themselves. Despite the lack of evidence, the story quickly spread throughout the Western region, leading to the continued use of Ape Canyon as the name of the alleged attack site. Buffalo Bill and Daniel Boone, two of the most famous frontier folk heroes in the United States, have legends about Bigfoot in their backs. The Pawnee Indians of the Plains presented Buffalo Bill with a gigantic thigh bone as a gift, as described in his book, The Life of Honorable William F. Cody. Buffalo Bill also mentions this experience. According to their assertions, the bone belonged to "a race of man... whose size was approximately three times that of an ordinary man."

Daniel Boone's account went one step further when he told a story about how he shot and killed a "hairy giant" that was ten feet tall in Kentucky. He referred to the beast as a "Yahoo," which is a reference to the brutes that resembled humans that appeared in Jonathan Swift's classic novel Gulliver's Travels. As a result of the 1950s discovery of footprints in Bluff Creek, California, the search for Bigfoot experienced a surge in popularity. These tracks were believed to be the creature's. In the hopes of discovering some evidence that Bigfoot does in fact exist, a large number of people, including cryptozoologists, scientists, adventurers, and other Bigfoot fans, traveled to various regions in the state of Washington and Northern California. Despite the lack of conclusive evidence, people maintained their belief in the existence of a hominid that had been absent from human history for a significant period.

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BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS: The APE CANYON Incident

Our BIGFOOT ENCOUNTERS series returns w/ a legendary tale in the Sasquatch realm!  The story of five gold prospectors whom, in July of 1924 on the southeast shoulder of Mount St. Helens, claimed to have endured an overnight attack from an unknown number of BIGFOOT! 

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On This Day in Cryptid History

July 16th: In 1924, the Oregonian published an issue about a group of gold prospectors who were attacked by ape-men in their cabin, located in a canyon around Mt. St. Helens. The attack has become one of the most famous sightings of Bigfoot, and the canyon is now named Ape Canyon cause of it.

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COVID-19 Reading Log, pt. 4

The saga continues!

21. Dangerous Spirits by Shawn Smallman. This book is about the wendigo (referred to as “windigo” throughout—apparently that spelling is more common in Canada). It collects a large number of stories about the wendigo, both from First Nations peoples and from Euro-Canadian sources. The theses of the book include the idea that the wendigo as traditionally envisaged by various Algonquian peoples was often times a threat to the family—it often breaks up marriages, pits children against their parents and can sometimes be nullified via marrying it or by cooperation between family members. It also discusses how the wendigo has changed in the modern era, both by being adopted by Euro-American authors as an embodiment of the dangers of the wilderness, and by modern First Nations authors as a symbol of the consumptive nature of capitalism and industrialism.  To quote Ojibwa scholar Basil Johnston, “…modern Weendigoes wear elegant clothes and comport themselves with an air of cultured and dignified respectability.” Highly recommended.

22. Mrs. Wakeman vs. the Antichrist by Robert Damon Schneck. This book gets points for what it is not. Unlike Schneck’s previous book (first published as The President’s Vampire and reissued as The Bye-Bye Man and Other Stories), a third of its length is not taken up by a story treatment for a screenplay poorly disguised as genuine folklore (that would be the titular Bye-Bye Man). The book is a combination of true crime, paranormal and general Ripley’s Believe It or Not! styled weirdness. The best chapters are those that actually do some folkloric analysis instead of just telling the tale. An example being “Bigfoot’s Gold: The Secrets of Ape Canyon”, which posits that the 1924 Ape Canyon proto-Bigfoot has more in common with 19th century stories about using magic to hunt treasure than it does with the cryptozoological literature.

23. Death in Yellowstone: Second Edition by Lee H. Whittlesey. A book I’ve been meaning to get my hands on for a long time—I ordered it when the quarantine started along with some cleaning supplies. The topic is divided up by subject; the first half involves deaths by natural phenomena (such as animal attacks, hot springs and hypothermia), and the second half involves human-caused deaths. Unsurprisingly, many of those latter stories date back to the early days of the park, when it was the first national park in a remote frontier. The book is very well researched, and the author clearly has done a lot of work in sorting through newspapers, army reports, etc. I do wish it had a map of the park, though—I’m a neophyte to Yellowstone, and there are a lot of geographic features rattled off by name in the book.

24. The Art of the B-Movie Poster! edited by Adam Newell. This is a big, glossy coffee table book of advertising art for exploitation movies. It’s sorted by genre—action, science fiction, horror, sex films, etc. Each chapter has a short opening essay about a few posters in particular, and there’s a paragraph of text every few pages. A lot of the text is devoted to talking about how deceptive some of the posters are compared to the contents of their films. Funnily enough, the book falls for at least one: the poster for The Day the Earth Froze appears in a section on alien invasion movies. As any Mystery Science Theater 3000 fan knows, The Day the Earth Froze is the deceptive American retiling of a Finnish fantasy movie, Sampo.

25. The Tree by Colin Tudge. It’s been too long since I’ve read any biology. The Tree is sorted by phylogeny, and the author has a deep appreciation for phylogeny and cladistics—a lengthy chapter is devoted to it in the front part of the book, and it’s one of the better general audience explanations of the subject I’ve read. The book is from 2005, so I don’t know how up to date his phylogeny actually is. The authorial voice is deeply British. And deeply anti-capitalist.

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The Ape Canyon Bigfoot attacks are one of the most famous Cryptozoological events. The encounter happened in 1924, two miles east of Mt. St. Helens, in a canyon now dubbed Ape Canyon. Five miners were asleep in their cabin the night that it happened. They awoke abruptly to crashing noises, seemingly out of nowhere, as rocks began pelting the building. The Sasquatch-like beings they encountered were said to be at least seven feet tall, covering in black/brown hair. The miners stirred from their beds, took up their rifles, and began firing into the directions the rocks were coming from. One of the miners, Fred Beck, claimed to have hit an attacking Bigfoot as he fired his rifle. 

“It was not long before I saw one of the apelike creatures, standing about eighty yards away near the edge of Ape Canyon. I shot three times, and it toppled over the cliff, down into the gorge, some four hundred feet below.”

The miners fled soon after the attack resolved, not bothering to pack their equipment or supplies. All they took were items they could carry on their backs. 

Fred Beck retold his story in 1967 and you can read the full thing here.

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In the year 2015, Prof. Mitchel Townsend was mentioned in a paper claiming. Believe Bigfoot Christmas Shirt. That they had discovered archaeological evidence for the existence of Bigfoot. The mysterious species of apes, believed to have resided in the forests of the area. North West of North America. First of all, let’s take a look at some of the contexts and histories of this hairy monster. Bigfoot, also known as Sasquatch, is a mysterious ape-like creature or ape that is thought to have resided in the forests of the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada. Many of the indigenous peoples in this area pass stories about the fiendish beasts that steal away the children.

Is there the existence of Bigfoot

To the more adventurous species who hid in the forest and dodge. Modern world. The first major collection of Bigfoot stories appeared in the 1920s; This is a collection of local stories by J. W. Burns. Mr. Burns’s articles select different stories of indigenous people describing human-like beasts and argue that they are all proofs of the same entity, hence the name. Sasquatch. Records of non-native American Bigfoot audiences (such as whites) began around 1850, with notes about hunters being knocked down by the children. Beast with two legs. Other stories from the nineteenth century, including the “Crow Cubs” and the “Winsted Marijuana.”

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Have reportedly found large, hairless but non-human hairs. Believe Bigfoot Christmas Shirt. In 1924, an ore miner in Vancouver reported that he had been abducted by Sasquatch and that miners in Washington state also reported that they had been attacked by the Unexpected. The most famous witnesses of this species are in the range of half a century ago. One of the most famous witnesses was the discovery of huge footprints around a building in California, the USA in 1958. A construction worker made plaster statues of and this event helped popularize the name ‘Bigfoot’ as a monster nickname. A few years later, it was discovered that these footprints were actually a hoax. These feet were created by Ray Wallace. The brother of the construction supervisor’s brother.

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Wallace’s nephew and the rest of them shared the story of using a 40.6 cm long wooden foot to create such footprints. Perhaps the best-known evidence for Bigfoot’s existence is a video recorded in 1967 by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in California, which shows a large creature taking steps in the forest. Patterson and Gimlin made the video available to professionals from the movie studio of Universal Studios in Hollywood. They responded “We can try. But we will have to make a whole new set of artificial muscles and find an actor who can be trained to walk that way. This is feasible, but we have to say it is almost impossible. ” In 1999, Bob Heironimus, a friend of Patterson. Said that he was the one who wore the ape dress to record the footage.

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And that the whole movie was a hoax. Believe Bigfoot Christmas Shirt. Most scientists have denied the existence of Bigfoot, and regard it as a folk tale, confusion or tricks. There is little physical evidence for the existence of this species, and there needs to be a large population to sustain the lineage if they really exist. In spite of this, some researchers are still turning their research around Bigfoot: see the work of Prof. Grover Krantz, Professor Jeffrey Meldrum, and Dr. John Bindernagel. In addition, readers can view the work of Kathy Moskowitz, who has followed the archaeological evidence for the iconography of Bigfoot.

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Does The Bigfoot Eat People?

Curious individuals who are interested about bigfoot do often ask, "does bigfoot eat people?".

In one of my previous post, I had discussed the "Bigfoot" that was sighted in Norway House, Manitoba. Lucky for the residents of that area, no one were reported to have been harmed by the hairy monster.

Actually, there were numerous reports about bigfoots harming humans. Some of these incidents that I gathered around are the following:

- At around 1800's in the past, one aggressive bigfoot were known to had attacked the inhabitants of Thomsons Flat, Oregon. The presence of the creature had scared all of the residents except for one man who bravely stayed in the place. However, he was later found dead killed by a huge rock smashed right on his head.

- Another old report about bigfoot attack was the incident that occurred back in 1902 in the region of Ohio, Chesterfield. An 8 foot tall creature had suddenly attack a group of skaters. According to the skaters who immediately flee when they sighted the monster, the bigfoot was carrying a huge stick on its hand.

- 1924 at Mount St. Helens, Washington, a group of miners had sighted the strange beast. For some reason, they shot it. But at the following night, the bigfoot's fellow buddies had come to seek revenge. They had attacked the miner's cabin throwing stones and debris.

- Same year as above, a bigfoot had kidnapped an adult man named "Albert Ostman". The beast took him into its family and remained there for six days. According to him, he was able to escape when he managed to grab his rifle and fire it up on the air.

- Did you know that even the previous US President believed in the existence of bigfoots? He was the 26th President, Theodore Roosevelt. According to him, he had a friend who has a trapping partner that got killed by the beast somewhere in the deep woods.

- The most controversial incident that occurred in the past was on 1970. According to the newsletter published in 1990s, the California campground were allegedly torn down by a wild bigfoot that it even killed several people around. Although, the authorities kept silent about this incident until the media published the story in 1990.

Even today, there seem to be an endless reports especially sightings that occurs around the world about bigfoots. Now the question is, do they eat humans?

No Reports About Bigfoot Eating Humans

I had actually conducted further researches about bigfoot attacks that just recently happened. So far, there weren't any possible indication that they do eat their victims.

There was just one article that I came across which was about "Paiute Indians" from the North of Pyramid Lake. According to this people, they described the bigfoots as big and aggressive monsters with thick red long hairs. What do these monsters often do was to kidnapped children taking them inside their caves.

Paiute Indians do believed that the bigfoots ate the children that they had abducted inside their caves. Thus, they burned the entrance of the cave piled with sagebrush that killed all of the beasts.

Since the Indians had burned everything down, they weren't able to confirm if the children were really eaten by the bigfoots.

Another speculation that I have is, "Those monsters might probably be giant trolls and not bigfoots". Giant trolls do actually live in caves, they also have thick hairs and most of the above they do eat human flesh.

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#Sasquatch #Bigfoot ● 1811: On January 7 1811, David Thompson, a surveyor and trader for the North West Company, spotted large, well-defined footprints in the snow near Athabasca River, Jasper, Alberta, while attempting to cross the Rocky Mountains. The tracks measured 14  ●1870: An account by a California hunter who claimed seeing a sasquatch scattering his campfire remains was printed in the Titusville, PennsylvaniaMorning Herald on November 10, 1870.[12] The incident reportedly occurred a year before, in the mountains near Grayson, California. ●1893: An account by Theodore Roosevelt was published in The Wilderness Hunter. Roosevelt related a story which was told to him by "a beaten old mountain hunter, named Bauman" living in Idaho. Some have suggested similarities to Bigfoot reports.[13] (Note: Roosevelt's testimony is the only  ●1924: Albert Ostman claimed to have been kidnapped and held captive for several days by a family of sasquatch. The incident occurred during the summer in Toba Inlet, British Columbia.[14] ●1924: Fred Beck and four other miners claimed to have been attacked by several sasquatches in Ape Canyon in July, 1924. The creatures reportedly hurled large rocks at the miners’ cabin for several hours during the night. This case was publicized in newspaper reports printed in 1924. [15] [16] ●1941: Jeannie Chapman and her children claimed to have escaped their home when a large sasquatch, allegedly seven and one-half feet tall, approached their residence in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.[17] ● 1940s onward: People living in Fouke, Arkansas reported that a Bigfoot-like creature, dubbed the “Fouke Monster,” inhabits the region. A high number of reports have occurred in the Boggy Creek area and are the basis for the 1973 film The Legend of Boggy Creek.[18] ●1955: William Roe claimed to have seen a close-up view of a female sasquatch from concealment near Mica Mountain, British Columbia.[19]

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#Sasquatch #Bigfoot Encounters with these creatures continued with the European settlement of the continent. Beginning with the newspapersof the East, reports of encounters with wood spirits and demons that theNative Americans had knowledge of became prevalent. The idea that they were perhaps wild men and cannibalscarried over to the new settlers. However, the more developed the country became, the more these stories became regionalized and forgotten on the national level. That changed, however, with an incident in 1924, in which miners working in the Mount Saint Helens area commonly referred to asApe Canyon, discovered strange tracks in the woods one day, followed that night by a series of "bigfoots" laying siege to their cabin. Holding off their attackers until morning, the miners managed to escape, never to return to the site.[1] One of the most famous, and hotly debated, stories happened in the same year, only it was not made public until the 1950s. Interviewing Albert Ostman, a retired lumberjack, one of the first bigfoot researchers, John Green, reported on how Ostman alleged that in 1924, while camping in the Vancouver area, he was kidnapped and held hostage by a family of bigfoots for a total of six days. Although a terrifying experience for Ostman, he was able to observe a nuclear family structure, a pronounced sexual dimorphism among the female and males, and the creature's vegetarian diet. Treated without harm and mild curiosity, Ostman claimed to have escaped by confusing the bigfoots with a cloud of snuff from his personal stash.[2]