Yeti. United States

Probably the most famous case of a Bigfoot attack on a person occurred in the summer of 1924. Five miners, Marion Smith, his son Roy Smith, Fred Beck, Gabe LeFever and John Peterson went to work at mount St. Helens, in the district of Skamania Washington state.

People were near his camp 8 miles from the lake Spirit, when faced with the first mystery. They saw on the ground the prints of unusually large footprints, similar to human, but with a length of 14 inches (35 cm) and with very short fingers. Soon after, people noticed some large creature, flitting behind the trees and chasing people walking on the heels. Growth it was 7 feet (2 meters), and in appearance resembled a gorilla but with long black hair and very large, vertically protruding ears (by the way, this is not a typical detail in the description of the Yeti).

At the sight of this kind of dangerous animal the miners very nervous and finally one of them Marion Smith broke down and fired a gun into the trees, which hid the creature. He wanted to scare him, but being not backward. The next morning, July 10, Fred Beck saw the creature standing near the edge of a very deep cliff and decided to shoot directly into it. After being shot fell straight down into the canyon from the height 400 ft (121 meter) and obviously died. But in the evening came the reckoning. Sitting in his cabin at the camp, the men heard a loud thud on the roof of the building and then part of their huts were damaged. But it was only the beginning, soon followed by new shocks, it was flying with great speed stones. They damaged the roof and window of the building and got into the Beck, but lost consciousness.

Later, the miners were told that their camp is attacked dozens of hairy creatures. Sam Beck was very scared and said he tried to shoot at these monsters, twisting in all directions. The battle with the hairy creatures, which the miners called "mountain devils", lasted all night and ended with the defeat of the people. The miners just flight left his camp, leaving all property, supplies, and tools. This story quickly spread throughout the County and the Indians began to say that the miners are faced with the so-called wild tribe Xiahtic (Seeahtik).

It is believed that these wild creatures have supernatural powers and that they are usually peaceful. But then they apparently took revenge for the death of their tribesman. The place where happened the massacre , called "Monkey canyon" (Ape Canyon). Monkey canyon Later this story repeatedly processed storytellers and authors of different books, it added new items, and the size of the creatures and the fury of their attacks increased. But it still remains not only one of the earliest cases of encounters with Bigfoot/Bigfoot in North America but also one of the most striking cases of encounters with Bigfoot at all.

More mysteries to this case, said mysterious disappearance of the climber Jimmy Carter in 1950, just at Monkey canyon. He was part of a group of 20 people, it was a warm and Sunny day, and his disappearance was sudden and mysterious. It was later discovered tracks like people quickly ran and tried to find shelter in the crevices. Canyon carefully searched more than seventy people in two weeks and found nothing, no remains, no other traces of Carter. One of the members of the search team Bob Lee told me that during the period of searching he felt someone staring looks from the woodlands.

"It was my worst experience of all time, told Bob years later in an interview - There was something strange on the slopes of those mountains and that the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. I had no weapons except ax and believe me, I never let it go. The disappearance of Jimmy Carter is still a mystery. Dr. Otto Trott, Lee stark and I believe that he was captured by mountain devils".

Next Bob Lee revealed that he found out that for 20 years in the APE canyon was noted as many as 25 cases a meeting with the "mountain devils", some including had an aggressive nature. For example, APE-like creature once terrorized the boy scouts troop.

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