I will be heading up to the site this weekend. Marc Myrsell will be leading the expedition to the site. I will be filming the location this weekend and posting the video to the site.
Has the site of one of cryptozoology’s most famous tales of Bigfoot-related violence finally been rediscovered? After years of expeditions, one paranormal investigation group thinks they’ve located the Ape Canyon Cabin, and they’ve provided evidence to back it up.
In July of 1924, four prospectors on a Mount St. Helens gold claim told journalists that they had endured a night from hell when numerous boulder-tossing, hairy “Mountain Devils” descended upon their cabin. The attack resulted in a one-sided gun fight, and one man, Fred Beck, claims to have shot one of the creatures, watching it tumble some 400 feet into the canyon to its ultimate demise.
The story spread like wildfire, and found itself the subject of newspaper articles, books, and several televised recreations of the incident. The tale has remained one of the most curious reports of Sasquatch-related violence, and its prominence has even earned the gorge an official name: Ape Canyon.
While the story has remained an important piece of cryptozoological lore for almost a century, the evidence has not endured the same fate, with the site and its cabin presumably destroyed when Mt. St. Helens erupted in 1980. For years researchers have hunted the remains of the cabin but with little success.. until now.
For the last five years, Marc Myrsell and his Washington-based Dark Waters Paranormal Investigation team have spent their warm months hunting down evidence of the Ape Canyon Cabin, and after a series of fortuitous clues, believe they’ve finally discovered its location.
David D
Thanks Wes. What is with these beings, and cabins? Just kidding, already know the answer. (remote locations). Be careful, and as Gibbs would say, “watch your six”!
Six
Huh?
J/K
Shane C
Should be quite the adventure, hopefully the weather won’t be to nasty.
JOHN E
They tossed rocks down the chimney. .Long cold nite.plus some….
Sean C
I thought Mr. Jevning said that the cabin was no longer there? Or maybe I just thought I heard him say that, when he had talked about going there. Wes?
Chris
Six
@Shaun C or Chris
I seem to recall hearing it burned down in a forest fire. The could have found the collapsed remains
The should find metal objects. I see in the article they found nails. Possibly lots of shell casings.
I don’t recall hearing the miners says they took time to pick them up for reloads.
Six
Self correction, I didn’t mean to infer that they had found shell casings. You would think there would be remains of a few. Many could have rusted out by now, but something should be of interest around there.
joe r
Hey Sean, If you click on the blue writing that says see full article and read the rest of the story it will tell you that the cabin is buried now but they have found nails, some silverware and possibly logs representing the side of the cabin, they will be making return trips now to try and do some excavation work.
James A
Didn’t Beck shoot one of the BF which fell over the canyon edge to cause the confrontation later that night???