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In 1924, gold prospectors led by Fred Beck claimed they were attacked by ape-like creatures in Washington. "Siege of Ape | dG1fNUJrU2hGeXY4Sm8
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00:00The Ape Canyon story is really one of the classics of Bigfoot.
00:04This isn't just a Bigfoot story.
00:06This is THE Bigfoot story.
00:09What happened is that there was this core group headed by this guy, Marion Smith.
00:16His son, Leroy Perry Smith, his son-in-law, Fred Beck, a family friend named John Peterson,
00:23August Johansson, and another friend, Mack Rhodes.
00:26They established a claim for a gold mine in 1922 called the Vendor White Mine.
00:38Working up there year-round is not impossible, but you're not going to get anything done.
00:44Let's build a cabin.
00:46It was 10 by 20.
00:47Build this cabin strictly by hand, maybe with block and tackle.
00:51It was a formidable cabin.
00:53We got towards evening, and when they went to bed at the cabin that night after it got
01:00dark.
01:01There's this large impact on the cabin.
01:03They all look out through the hole, and they can see six or seven in the moonlight, six or
01:08seven of these large creatures dancing around the cabin, and all hell breaks loose.
01:13The creatures are throwing rocks.
01:14They're climbing on top of the roof.
01:16They're trying to get in.
01:17They're trying to dig underneath the cabin.
01:20They're beating at the door.
01:22One of the creatures reached through the chinking and grabbed the axe and was pulling it out.
01:28In the morning, when it got light, it had stopped, and they had decided that that's it.
01:35We're out of here.
01:36There's large rocks scattered everywhere.
01:39There's footprints, large human-length footprints, 13, 14, 15 inches long everywhere.
01:45I think the imagery is what draws people to the story.
01:51There's no evidence of it, really.
01:53It was just a story.
01:54Did this actually happen?
01:56Were these guys real?
01:57What if there's some sort of evidence left behind of the cabin or the mine?
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