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The Ape Canyon "attack"

mysteriousmonsters65

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Hi all.

This is one of the most famous of the bigfoot stories. I have some questions on the media coverage. Was there any newspaper or magazine coverage when this happened ? I'm not sure about the timeline of when this story was revealed to the general public. I know bigfoot grifter Roger Patterson interviewed Fred Beck in 1966 so that in itself raises a huge red flag. Was this attack story largely quiet from 1924 to 1966 ?
 
OK. So I toddled off to Wikipedia.

Ape Canyon

Is there any reason (like material evidence) to not agree with:

The story caused a local sensation, prompting U.S. Forest Service rangers J.H. Huffman and William Welch to investigate. Huffman and Welch descended into the supposedly "inaccessible canyon" but found nothing. They demonstrated how 14-inch-long footprints found near the cabin could easily be faked, and concluded the miners probably placed large stones near the cabin themselves to bolster their tale. Despite the story being debunked by the rangers, "people still wanted to believe", and the prospectors' story was repeated and continued to spread in later years, inspiring new theories and claims of new sightings.
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I have no answers to your questions but Google gets me About 2,050,000 results for >the ape canyon attack<. The answers may be there.

A coolish tale.

You're welcome. :w2:
 
Beck tells the story of paranormal Bigfoots but that is usually left out when told by Bigfooters.
 
William Parcher said:
Beck tells the story of paranormal Bigfoots but that is usually left out when told by Bigfooters.
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Yes and very interesting. I also heard that the rangers who investigated the scene right after the story thought they were telling lies. Seems like the story was resurrected by Becks son with the help of bigfoot grifters Patterson and Green. Also when you do a Google search it can be very hard sometimes getting the skeptic point of view. Thanks
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
OK. So I toddled off to Wikipedia.


Is there any reason (like material evidence) to not agree with:



I have no answers to your questions but Google gets me About 2,050,000 results for >the ape canyon attack<. The answers may be there.

A coolish tale.

You're welcome. :w2:
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Thanks. I'm sure the usual monster hunters showed up shortly after but alas, nothing seen or found. However, the local Indians I'm sure verified they do exist....... Same old same old it seems.
 
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So when the bigfoot that Beck shot fell into the ravine did it really drop into another dimension never to be seen again ?:D Also they had been prospecting for 6 years before this "attack". Why did it take that long for these bigfeets to present themselves ?:rolleyes:
 
mysteriousmonsters65 said:
So when the bigfoot that Beck shot fell into the ravine did it really drop into another dimension never to be seen again ?:D Also they had been prospecting for 6 years before this "attack". Why did it take that long for these bigfeets to present themselves ?:rolleyes:
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That's too easy to answer. His friends, he other bigfeets, retrieved his body for a Christian burial. :D
 
Sasquatch are interstellar ambassadors -

I thought everyone knew that.
I heard a report of Project Camelot about it.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
As I said up thread., "A coolish tale". The story does seem to go off the rails in Chapter Three. But not quite a loss as I learned a new word - "Chinking".
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Wow and thanks for posting. It sure does get very strange indeed. Actually hard to read without laughing and shaking the head. Mental illness strange IMO.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
As I said up thread., "A coolish tale". The story does seem to go off the rails in Chapter Three.
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The whole part about the prospectors being there in the first place because a giant Indian spirit told them to follow a floating, glowing arrow through the woods to a location where gold could be found, only to be told upon arrival by a different Indian spirit who emerged from a door in a cliffside that they'd never be allowed to strike the gold because one of them used bad language at the floating arrow during the trip, DOES seem to be left out of most recountings of the story, as does the whole part about being haunted by drumming sounds from underground and finding footprints in logically impossible places.

That's part of a long tradition of censoring the "weirdness" out of Bigfoot stories by self-styled researchers and Bigfoot-believers who really really want to get science to accept the existence of Bigfoot, which they conceptualize as just another animal - possessing perhaps near-human intelligence but otherwise a completely mundane and natural critter. All the mystical magical aspects of Bigfoot stories are a bit of a roadblock there.

Although I've said before, lately there's been a turn away from that as Bigfoot enthusiasts these days are more and more commonly conceptualizing Bigfoot as a paranomal thing, with psychic, teleportation, and dimension-traveling superpowers.
 
UFO technology seems to always advance at a pace that leaves us dumb humans unable to fully capture or even understand it. No matter how good our own technology gets, always ten steps behind.

Bigfoot and his clan have that same ability, which is really odd for woodlands creatures. We have satellites watching anywhere on earth in high resolution imagery. There are islands off the Washington state coast infested with them, well traveled by humans and not one bone, body or clear video of them yet.
Why not give them supernatural powers from ancient spirits just to make sure they stay hidden a while longer?
 
Craig4 said:
He never had me. Run off and fetch an actual Bigfoot. Nothing else will do. We need not be detained by your silly little beliefs.
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I have always (well for a long time) said, "No ****". This huge smelly (by some reports) lives in the wild woods and manages to hide its poo? He has to go somewhere and I'm sure some woodsman could step in it by accident. If it existed.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
I have always (well for a long time) said, "No ****". This huge smelly (by some reports) lives in the wild woods and manages to hide its poo? He has to go somewhere and I'm sure some woodsman could step in it by accident. If it existed.
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They would also die. A body, bones, DNA nobody can produce any of that? No. We just get, "We know it's real and don't have to prove anything". What a joke.
 
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