Siege of Ape Canyon | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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?