AIRLIFT FOR BIGFOOT!
Why I believe the archive of credible evidence proving the Army Corp of Engineers airlifted burned Bigfoot bodies during the massive recovery effort conducted in the aftermath of the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount Saint Helens in Washington. The number one reason is because the Army Corp of Engineers never denied it!
I believe that if there is a Bigfoot capitol of the Pacific Northwest it is most certainly located east of Mount Saint Helens.
I believe that if a Bigfoot Garden of Eden exists on Earth — where Bigfoot Adams and Bigfoot Eves share sweet succulent huckleberries — it is surely located beneath the majestic peak of Mount Saint Helens.
Mount Saint Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington in the Pacific Northwest. The volcano is part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. According to Wikipedia, the major eruption of May 18, 1980 remains the deadliest and most destructive in U.S. history. A massive debris avalanche, triggered by a volcano, caused the northern flank of the mountain to collapse, destroying 200 homes, 47 bridges and 200 miles of highways and railways.
Charles Ballew was 14 years old on May 18, 1980 when Mount Saint Helens erupted, spewing a massive cloud of volcanic ash across the county that killed 57 people. The thermal energy released by the eruption was equal to 26 megatons of TNT. Ballew recalls an estimated 52 million tons of ash made the sky “darker than midnight.” [https://youtu.be/L16h7BE6T6w?si=2RFpVSZf7EKO9Rl4]
USGS scientists recount their experiences before, during and after the eruption in what they call the most dramatic geologic moment in American history. [https://www.usgs.gov/media/videos/mount-st-helens-may-18–1980]
Research seismologists with the USGS have been monitoring Mount Saint Helens since that 1980 major eruption. Seth Moran, a seismologist from Cascades Volcano Observatory reports that, as of February 2024, there has been an uptick in volcanic activity.
“Mount Saint Helens will wake up again.” — https://www.youtube.com/live/O4ywuzTUFTo?si=YxW45Al8mJ6jrlRO
“The question you might rightfully ask is why it is even my business to publish evidence supporting my belief in eye witness, military personnel and FOIA documentation that - in the aftermath of the 1980 major eruption - the National Guard, US Forest Service and Army Corp of Engineers conducted a joint operation to retrieve, airlift and dispose of the scorched bodies of large animals known to inhabit the Mount Saint Helens region?
A military catalogue — titled the Environmental Manual — includes a classic drawing of a forward leaning, long armed, hairy biped… with notable big feet. The USGS website documents the 1980 eruption created landslides and lateral explosions in geologic mapping of the Sasquatch Steps Area on the north flank of Mount. St. Helens. [https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/i2463]
In online interviews retired Colonel Meri Gorton of the Washington National Guard shared his story about the May 18, 1980 eruption. Gorton describes the helicopter task of recovering deceased human bodies. He did not verify reports of the airlifting of Sasquatch bodies: [https://sasquatchthelegend.com/blogs/news-views/what-really-happened-at-mount-st-helens]
In Who’s Watching You? An Exploration of the Bigfoot Phenomenon in the Pacific Northwest, authors Christopher Leo Murphey and Linda Coil- Suchy authenticate the enduring urban legend that carcasses of dead large animals were airlifted from a hastily constructed helicopter landing zone near Spirit Lake in a 2009, book based on over 70 detailed and credible eye witness reports and 14 interviews with research scientists.[https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/whos-watching-you-an-exploration-of-the-bigfoot-phenomenon-in-the-pacific-northest-linda-coil-suchy/1124090916]
According to Mr. Bradshaw — the son of a Weyerhaeuser Supervisor — describes how the National Guard had collected the carcasses in heaps, and piled them up high for eventual cremation. The corpses were covered with tarps and according to Mr. Bradshaw:
“The pile was covered and no one was allowed to come near it. Armed U.S. National Guard personnel were guarding the pile. On the day that they were going to move this group of bodies, Bradshaw was standing very close to the pile and was told to keep his mouth closed about what he was to witness. When the tarps were removed, he was amazed to see that the bodies were those of Sasquatch. Some badly burned, and some not. They were placed in a large net and lifted into the back of a truck, which was then tarped over.” [
A Freedom of Information Act request for documentation was filed in 2016 with the US Forestry Service requesting “information that Bigfoot or Sasquatch bodies were recovered after the eruption of Mt. S. Helens in WA State, 5/18/1980.”
The Forestry Service response was abrupt…“there were no documented reports of big foot or sasquatch carcasses and there were no projects to locate and/or recover any bodies.”
In responding to the FOIA request for information about the orchestrated recovery of large animals killed by the eruption, two documents were returned. One — a 50 page document conducted by non-USFS researchers studying dead animals in the blast and eruption zone. Eighty elk and nine deer were recovered in the region at the time of the volcanic blast and landslide.
The research study failed to authenticate eye witness reports of Bigfoot recovery and airlift operations, but does authenticate the existence of the recovery effort described by Supervisor Bradshaw, in lands overseen by the Weyerhaeuser Company, the US Forest Service and Washington State Department of Natural Resources. [“The Government is Hiding Dead Bigfoot Bodies!!/orhistory.com: https://orhistory.com/archives/5658]
The academic journal, “Taphonomy of Cervids Killed by the May 18, 1980, Volcanic Eruption of Mount S. Helens, Washington, U.S. details that many animals killed in the blast zone died from suffocation, explosive shock, traumatic shock, and falling timber or pumis - and that all of the animal carcasses were recovered in over two dozen locations within the blast site.
Suchy’s, Who’s Watching You? documents two credible reports supporting rumors of Bigfoot recovery and airlifting in the months following the volcanic eruption. One account alleges two Bigfoot corpses were found in the sand following dredging of the Cowlitz River and an Army Corp of Engineers helicopter airlifted the bodies.
One of the most convincing eye witness reports details the specific use of a tandem rotor military Chinook rescue helicopter near Fairchild Airforce Base that hovered about 150 feet overhead while hauling a cargo net that contained three dead Bigfoot. “Hairy, grey ash coated arms and legs…I got a real good look at them.” [https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/whos-watching-you-an-exploration-of-the-bigfoot-phenomenon-in-the-pacific-northwest-linda-coil-suchy/1124090916]
“We don’t know…check with the National Archives.”
Response from Army Corp of Engineers to FOIA Request for all rotary wing assets used for rescue and recovery and dredging of the Cowlitz River for dead Bigfoots is clear and emphatic.
In the early 2000's a science teacher, Thom Powell, reported a story told by an anonymous government employee — suspected to be a former National Guardsman — who alerted the Bigfoot Field Research Organization about a “7.5 feet long burn victim with multiple 2nd and 3rd degree burns on hands, feet, legs and body.
On August,1999, an explosion of range fires erupted in Nevada that came to be known as the Battle Mountain Complex Fire. According to an anonymous government employee, a Bigfoot was hurt in the fire and airlifted to safety. [http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2012/09/anonymous-former-national-gaurdsman.html?m=1]
I served as a Flight Physician and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Stanford University Department of Surgery conducting research on how to safely transport the injured human spine…in the posterior compartment of the Stanford Life Flight BK117- aeromedical helicopter. That work took me on over 300 transports to hospitals, emergency rooms and isolated inaccessible regions within the 50 mile radius of Stanford University. I hold an MD, PhD equivalent and am a PubMed published researcher: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Sumchai_A[Author]
In 1982 I served as a volunteer physician for the United Nations High Commission on Refugees sponsored NGO — Airlift for Africa — located in the isolated Red Sea Province of the Sudan. Medical supplies, clothing and supplemental food items were airlifted into the region using United Nations C-130 Cargo Planes.
As a Flight Physician with Stanford Life Flight, I witnessed the blades of National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters slice through the air carrying teams of National Guard flight crews and county Fire & Emergency Services personnel to inaccessible regions of Santa Cruz county.
I am also a Bigfoot Believer! I have reviewed vast archives on Youtube of Bigfoot sightings and searched the library of books written about what anthropologists and cryptozoologists and thousands of amateur investigators have documented to be our human ancestor.
I have listened to audio evidence of the Sierra Sounds and the Ohio Howl and analyzed photos of the Tibetan and Russian Yeti, the Florida Skunk Ape and the Australian Yowie. I belief the strongest indirect evidence are human like footprints discovered all over the globe. I subscribe to dozens of youtube channels that post weekly Bigfoot sightings. I consider myself to be a qualified amateur expert.
As a medical scientist and author of a book about the evolutionary anthropology of the Upright Bipedal Spine, I believe Bigfoot may be an ancestor of Gigantopithecus blacki— a giant bipedal primate, the fossil record proves, once roamed the forests of Southeast Asia. It was shaggy, resembled the modern orangutang and was twice the size of an adult human. It probably crossed the Berring Strait land bridge between Eurasia and continental North America thousands of years ago.
I follow the research developments of anthropologist and evolutionary expert Jeff Meldrum, PhD of Idaho State University. Meldrum attended an event in Spokane Coliseum as a young child that showcased the famous Patterson-Gimlin footage of the female Bigfoot “Patty” captured in Northern California in 1969. He offers scientific analysis of Bigfoots “Big Foot” on National Geographics youtube video: https://youtu.be/rvT17_Z_Tio?si=tzPr82WG5Zg_Z90F
In addition to the trailblazing Patterson-Gimlin footage, I find two other video sightings to be most compelling. The Independence Day footage of a presumed Bigfoot mother and baby is as convincing in my opinion as the Patterson-Gimlin footage and involves two distinct subjects.
Experts in CGI analysis and human biomechanics believe the 2016 Independence Day footage is authentic and the majority of viewer comments believe it is real. [Watch “Bigfoot Independence Day” Footage with Baby: https://youtu.be/mQ2kU6e8Huo?si=bYR5dQ1F76Btw7H3]
Utterly mind blowing footage offering clear and convincing evidence of multiple Bigfoot stalking bison captured on a Yellowstone National Park trail cam in 2015 near Old Faithful geyser was posted by Mary Greeley and reported by Fox Montana news station. [https://youtu.be/pRpaKRlQH7Y?si=X1OPyTqdlMmXSTZy]
High tech scientific research conducted by Animal Planet, National Geographic, the Olympia Project and Expedition Bigfoot have convinced me that Bigfoot is more than a giant bipedal ape. I have come to accept the belief that the sum total of DNA evidence, hair samples, biomechanical and behavioral analysis of video and photographs, audio analysis, drone surveillance footage and the discovery of Bigfoot “nests” by the Washington Olympia project that resemble those constructed by Gorillas, prove the creature called Bigfoot is human…with a human capacity to feel empathy, fear and protectiveness and the intelligence to remain elusive from human contact…and exploitation!
I believe — as do the Klickitat First People of Washington — that Bigfoot communities have populated the Mount St. Helens region for centuries. The earliest witnessed event involving five humans and four Bigfoot is the infamous 1924 Ape Canyon Encounter near Spirit Lake on Mount Saint Helens. [Ape Canyon Encounter — https://youtu.be/gDlu4GNPLt4?si=dh6Llla-2ZA7h2mb]
Two miles east of Mt. St. Helens near a deep canyon now named “Ape Canyon”, four gold miners were awakened in the middle of the night by “Ape Men” who shook the wooden frame of their cabin and pelted it with gigantic rocks. The prospectors watched in horror as a huge hairy arm reach in through the window to grab an axe left by one of the miners. Shots were fired.
In his book titled, “I Fought the Apemen of Mount Saint Helens, Washington”, Fred Beck gives an account of the July 1924 event, that was preceeded by the discovery of 19 inch human like footprints along creek beds and springs, shrill whistles coming from multiple directions and a “booming, thumping sound — like something hitting itself in the chest.
“It was a hairy creature, and he was about a hundred yards away, on the other side of the canyon, standing by a pine tree. It dodged behind the tree, and poked its head out. At the same time, Hank shot. The creature I judged to have been about seven feet tall with blackish — brown hair. I shot three times before it disappeared from view.” It was not long before I saw one of he apelike creatures, standing about eighty years away near the edge of Ape Canyon. I shot three times, and it toppled over the cliff, down into the gorge, some four hundred feet below.” [https://believerpodcast.com/transcripts/bonus-i-fought-the-apemen]
Mount St. Helens has been the location of multiple verified and authenticated Bigfoot sightings that drew national attention in 1969. The Website of the Washington State National Guard hosts The Legend of Bigfoot on its website and urges caution and preparedness to prevent injury or death.
“The legends of Bigfoot go back beyond recorded history and cover the world… Bigfoot is known by many titles in many cultures, although the name Bigfoot is attributed to the mountainous Western region of North America. The name Sasquatch come from the Salish Sasquites, while the Algonquin of the north-central United States refer to a Wendigo. Other nations tell of a large creature much like a man but imbued with special powers and characterisitics. The Ojibway of the Northern Plains believed the Rugaru appeared in times of danger and other nations agreed the hair man was a messenger of warning, telling man to change his ways.
North American settlers reported sightings in the late 1800’s with the occassional finding of footprints, sporadic encounters and even a few grainy photos and videos adding to the mystery.
Those who claim to have seen Bigfoot describe a large, upright ape or a hairy human, sometimes standing over eight feet tall and powerfully built. The debate and research continue. Entire organizations exist to study and document Bigfoot and prove its existence and groups regularly search the Pacific Northwest — looking for ultimate proof.
In one very real sense, however, Bigfoot does exist. The Western Air Defense Section of the Washington Air National Guard adopted Bigfoot as its manscot and operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week monitoring the skies of nearly 73% of the United States and Canada.”
“From the foregoing, it is clear there was a great deal of warning and discussion about increasing seismic activity at Mount S. Helens prior to the major eruption that began at 8:32 am on Sunday, May 18, 1980.
