Bigfoot the Hairy Beast and Other Legendary Creatures of North America

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BIGFOOT Mount St Helens a volcano in Washington State erupted on May 18 1980 It is famous for being the biggest volcanic explosion in the history of the United States But in the 1800s Mount St Helens was famous for another reason Indigenous peoples living nearby believed that a group of huge wild humanlike creatures lived on the mountain They told stories of how the beasts stole salmon from fishing nets and even carried people off to eat them By the early 1900s Europeans who heard these stories wrote them down One of the accounts used the name Sasquatch which came from the Halkomelem word for hairy giant to describe the creatures Another story said a Sasquatch had been captured in British Columbia Canada in the 1880s and sold to the circus Later in October 1955 trapper William Roe was working in a crew on a highway in British Columbia He said he had seen a strange creature near a deserted gold mine in Jasper Alberta At first he thought it was a bear Then he realized it was a huge man about 6 feet 1 8 m tall and probably weighing near 300 pounds 136 kg It was covered from head to foot with dark brown silver-tipped hair 6