There are stories of a strange creature prowling the foothills of Fresno County, of a strange creature with long grey mangy hair and the face of an ape or baboon and has both human like hands and feet. It always appears to be sick, coughing and foaming at the mouth. Legend calls it the Devil Ape or Devil Fang, but lately it has gone by the name of Watts Valley Wolf Ape as it has been seen near the Watts Valley Cemetery.
There are stories aplenty of the Wolf Ape, that the first Native Americans that came over the Bearing Straight co-existed with the creature and that there are even drawings of strange creatures that traveled with the Native Americans. When the Europeans came they found these odd drawings, but no signs of the Wolf Ape.
There is a story that legendary photographer Ansel Adams was taking pictures in Yosemite one day when a pack of Wolf Apes came upon him while he was in his tent and he had to stay there for safety.
An even more peculiar story is that of a Wolf Ape entering a single room school house one day and terrorizing the students and teacher. The children piled up their desks together and climbed up to the safety of the rafters while the teacher was able to lock himself into a closet. The Wolf Ape tore through the children’s desks to get at their lunches. Finally after getting it’s fill it left.
Yet another odd story describes a preacher shot a Wolf Ape back in the 1950’s claiming it to be a “pet” of Satan. He hung it up on the church walls and the story claims the animal to be at least ten feet long. Apparently the preacher got into a bit of trouble as the Wolf Ape continue to hang on the church for several weeks, and understandably the place begin to smell foul. So the preacher sold it to a traveling circus freak show and with the money he made off of it he traveled up to San Francisco with the dream of starting his own church up there. He was murdered soon after and his body was so badly mutilated that it took several months to identify the body. Whispers of a curse of the Wolf Ape was the cause of the preacher’s death.
Things were quiet for a while, but around the mid 1990’s a Wolf Ape was seen at Bass Lake (which is in Madera County) drinking water from the small lake. Interesting enough, people mistook it for a hairy man who happened to walk on all fours.
The most recent and detailed story was recanted on a local Fresno radio station. There were two witnesses, a man and his uncle, who were hunting for garnets near Watts Valley Cemetery when a Wolf Ape came out of the bushes. The creature was described as six foot long grey haired mangy dog with a face like a baboon whose eyes were flat on its face like a human’s. It opened its mouth but only a moan escaped its widening maw and then made a strange sound like a cough. Both witnesses began to run from the creature as it began to chase them. The man threw his lunch at the creature but this only stopped him momentarily. It continued to stalk them over the hills and the two witnesses hopped over fences and ran through pastures trying to escape the creature. Cows fled as it chased the two men. Finally they found themselves in the Watts Valley Cemetery and hid behind some tombstones, hoping to lose the beast. Unfortunately it caught their scent and started to come towards them when, in a moment of genius, the uncle threw some cinnamon flavored chewing gum near the beast hoping the scent would distract it. It worked and the beast was momentarily occupied. Soon after that a caretaker for the small cemetery arrived and offered to give the two men a ride back to their car several miles away. All three watched the strange creature for a few more minutes in the safety of the caretaker’s truck before it went away.
Not much is known about this creature. Theories from failed genetic experiments escaping to another type of Bigfoot have been discussed.
JOHN E
Wow and I live close by …My foster daughter says she saw one with a deer on its back carrying it away by fort tejon …in april of 2015. I looked it up and saw that there’s been sightings in the area… how long before we all know for sure they are here ….time to fly a drone and spot one is there still a million dollars for one still to be turned in…alive or other… theres got to be a big bucks guy out there thats wants to prove to the world …right.
Steven B
This planet just keeps gets weirder and weirder….if not scarier and scarier…
Christopher c
Sweet beyond sweet! I never knew Ansel Adams had an encounter ,what book of his has this account? ,I want one for my collection,thanks so much- this is great ammo to add to my arsenal for the non-believers.
Christopher c
At min.:9:19 those are clearly coyotes yelping.
Liz C
Whatever seems to be making the laughing type noise is REALLY creepy slowed down!
Debbie C
When some people are scared, nervous they start laughing and making fun.
The woman is foolish to provoke this creepy thing.
These two people don’t act like they are taking it seriously.
The creatures sound kind of hyena like to me.
Steven B
Hmmmm…yes, the sounds do remind me of hyena…also sound coyote-like as well – with a little bit of baboon thrown in. I can’t say for sure it was Mr. Squatch or a dog-faced biped or just a coyote that had nothing better to do with his night. Sometimes common animals can make uncommon noises. My jury is out on this one… 😉
Rick F
I guess its safe to stay that having a pack of “Dentyne” on your person can assist in an escape from whatever is chasing you. I was at the Great Wall of China once back in 1986. I gave a little Chinese kid a piece of gum when he saw me have a piece. He opened it, put it in his mouth, and spit it out after about 5 seconds. I guess he was not a fan of Dentyne.
Tyler D
I wonder why he kept his identity concealed. The sounds that some of people said it made like the wheezing and the pig squeals are bizarre and disturbing to say the least. N the recordings does sound like hyena or a coyote yipping. I think it’s funny that the guy had to talk some sense into the girl before she called something in that they’ll later regret
Papa - Yeti
I bet those grave robbers of centuries past had some horrific encounters as they were too busy spading the earth to notice the Salivating bi –pedal wolf beasts hidden in the grave yard shadows, intently watching them extract fresh corpses for selling upon the black market. And who were they going tell their horrific story too, Scotland yard,?
Carol S
I’ll take regular ol’ bigfoot over this thing any day!
Papa - Yeti
► It always appears to be sick, coughing and foaming at the mouth. ◄ That is a very alarming characteristic, foaming at the mouth, and a compromised immune system, in which it is plagued with the mange parasite (which shows its ‘animal part of its genetic makeup’.) Nasty and creepy little mites by the way, but with its immune system is greatly compromised, and thus is infested with the parasite. / Rabies is a viral disease which spreads when an infected animal ‘scratches’ or ‘bites’ another animal or human. Your bitten infected pet’s saliva can transmit rabies to you when their saliva comes into contact with your ‘mouth,’ ‘nose,’ or ‘eyes.’ Dogs are the most common carriers of rabies, {Thus so must be for the Dog –Man / or “Wolf –Ape”
[hydrophobia], with dog bites accounting for more than 99% of cases. Rabies can also be transmitted by ‘raccoons,’ ‘skunks,’ ‘bats,’ Javelina,’ and ‘foxes’ ‘coyotes, wolves, and leads to the inflammation of the brain in humans. [Wolf –Ape/ Dog-Man][Sasquatch] – Intense fever. THe bitten scratched / infected, they’ll become very Violent in thier minds and in their movements, violent uncontrolled thrashing, insane in their fear of water -[Hydrophobia[we all remember ‘The Yellow Labrador Retriever “Old Yeller – that was cut by the rabies infected Tooth of a wild Razor back / Javelina of southern deserts and Mexico], paralysis in parts of the body, confusion, and on and off loss of consciousness characterize human infected with ‘rabies.’ Once symptoms appear in humans it almost always results in death, as a result of being bitten or scratch by a Fang or tooth. And speaking quite frankly upon this matter, it is most likely the very cause of insanity ‘Madness in the minds of the infected of the tales of centuries past as the result of being bitten / attacked by a werewolf.
Papa - Yeti
Not much is known about this creature. ►Theories from failed genetic experiments escaping to another type of Bigfoot have been discussed. ◄►You know Wes, pertaining to this Theory, and I’ve stated this before, although I do not know of what the results were, or in if the ‘Untied States Government’ has followed pursuit and has done their own experimentations. With the track record thus far of United State Agencies covering up the Death and Destruction done by the Creatures, and setting up innocent victims, drifters, the homeless, of The killings at State and Forest Service managed forests camp grounds and trails by Sasquatch. Why would we not suspect the United States Government of doing genetic “research”?
-But during the 1920’s in the days of Stalin, according to recently uncovered secret soviet documents, in the 1920s’ Russia had its top breeding Zoological scientist forcing copulation between soviet prisoners and enemies of the state with various primates, Chimpanzees, according to Soviet News papers Stalin demanded his scientist to create a new invincible super army insensitive to pain, and flesh eaters. Stalin promised huge unimaginable sums of Repels to his leading scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov. In 1926 Politbruro in Moscow passed the request to the Academy of Science with the order to build a “Living war machine”. Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was Stalin’s top Scientist in Zoology. He himself along with others worked feverously in secret laboratories to create the hybrid Human – Chimpanzee war Machines.
– [Did Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov have captured ‘Almasty???]
-Just the mouths alone upon the chimpanzee could grossly maim, Infect and kill a man while he slept in a tent or while he was awake with his guard down. (Did
-And Hitler was just as insane and feverious for creating human war machines, giving his storm troopers mind altering chemicals to create Soldiers that could perform their killing and warring with disregard for their minds and bodies needed sleep, crazed military warriors that had immense rage. So the question is this, was the United States government secretly working upon such mad insane war experiments? If not then why were the documents and scientists of Germany, as well as Japan top scientist obtained after the war, documents upon their hideous war crime experiments. One more thing to ponder pertaining to the Soviet experiments to create the perfect war machine creatures. Alaska was Soviet owned territory, and therefore the release of such genetic malformed failed created creatures and possibly even the primates which were tortured themselves were turned loose at the Canadian / Alaskan border. A lot could have happened there until the United States purchased Alaska from Russia.
Steven B
Interesting and thought provoking info, Papa. Great post. If it is ever proven to be true (US genetic bastardization), it would shed light on the motives behind the extreme measures to “cover-up”, as immoral, repugnant, and unconstitutional as they are. People in power that do wrong, love to do it but despise being caught doing it and will do anything to avoid being found out. This is why (I feel) they want Snowden so badly, no so much that he did wrong, but that he exposed *THEM* doing wrong. I don’t believe the “Squatch/Dogman cover-ups” are because they’d have to shut down parks etc. They just don’t want to be exposed as to their nefarious activities, genetic or otherwise (after so many person’s missing, wrongly accused etc., can you imagine the liabilities?).
It is my supreme fantasy that, one day, a very bright light will shine on these thugs in high places – not just in the Squatch related things, but *everything* where people were threatened, silenced, or “disappeared” for the sake of unlawful/unconstitutional activities being kept hidden.
Cheers
Steve