Mt St Helens Bigfoot
What if it's True Podcast
Cameron Buckner
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In the mid-1960s, Butch's fascination with Bigfoot began after overhearing his father's conversation and reading an Argosy magazine article about 1930s gold prospectors in Ape Canyon near Mount St. Helens, who encountered curious but non-threatening Bigfoot creatures, culminating in a violent boulder-throwing incident after one was shot. This sparked a lifelong passion for Bigfoot hunting with his father, including camping trips south of Mount St. Helens where they heard tree knocking and whoops, and visits to local prospectors in Cougar, who confirmed peaceful interactions with Bigfoot and shared stories of the Ape Canyon event. Decades later, Butch and his father continued their pursuits, observing Bigfoot-like creatures and even hyena-like dogs in the Cascades, while Butch's own camping experiences, including pranks by a large-handed creature, reinforced his belief in the diverse, elusive, and generally harmless Bigfoot varieties across North America.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a story about a Bigfoot in England. |
| 0:13.8 | How many stories have you heard about Bigfoot in England? |
| 0:18.4 | Some people would say, well, they don't have enough forested land or they don't have enough wilderness to host a Bigfoot or a family of Bigfoot's or a whole population of Bigfoot's. |
| 0:29.6 | But if they're here, they might be there. So let's listen to this story. |
| 0:35.6 | My encounter had a massive impact on how I viewed the world and its wonder. |
| 0:42.3 | In the early fall of 2013, I was out on my property with my little Jack Russell named Scoot. |
| 0:50.1 | I live on 13 acres of pines, of cedars, and locust trees. |
| 0:54.5 | It was around 7 a.m. and I noticed that it was quiet, oddly quiet. |
| 1:00.8 | Normally, Scoot acted like a Doberman in a small dog's body. |
| 1:05.4 | Wasn't afraid of anything, but as we were walking, he stopped dead in front of me. |
| 1:10.6 | His ears were back and his tail |
| 1:12.1 | was tucked, and he began to shake violently. He had heard what I heard. It was a long, deep, |
| 1:19.1 | menacing growl. Just off the trail to our right, I saw a large figure standing behind a tree, |
| 1:26.5 | and I began to feel sweat, gathered down my back, |
| 1:29.7 | and Scoots started quietly backing up to my boots. |
| 1:33.7 | It was not a large man, but I could tell he wasn't human. |
| 1:37.6 | So my eyes focused more, and I knew instantly what I was looking at. |
| 1:42.0 | I couldn't tell if it was facing me or not at first, but I decided |
| 1:45.4 | to act as though I hadn't seen him in the hopes of it moving on. I bent down slowly to scoot |
| 1:51.9 | and I held him on his sides to comfort him. He was shaking so bad it felt like holding onto a washing |
| 1:58.1 | machine. My eyes were down for all of five seconds. |
| 2:02.6 | I could hear a slight leaf rustle, and I looked up quickly again. |
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