Case file · Cryptid
Ape Canyon attack
In July 1924 miners on Mount St. Helens told reporters that huge 'mountain devils' had thrown rocks at their cabin all night after one of them shot at a creature.
1924 CE · 46.20, -122.14 · status: disputed
The account
Fred Beck and his partners fled to town, and the press named the gorge Ape Canyon. Beck retold the story in a 1967 booklet, adding that he thought the creatures were spiritual beings.
The sceptical view
In 1982 Rant Mullens, a local man, said he and his uncle had rolled rocks down on the cabin as a prank. Others think the miners mistook falling rock or local youths.
Connections in the atlas
- Loowit, the fire mountain
- 'Stick Indians' of the Chinook Jargon
- Skamania County Bigfoot ordinance
- Rant Mullens reveals the carved feet
- Ape Cave, Mount St. Helens
- Bigfoot (Sasquatch)