Category: Proto-Bigfoot

Imperial Valley Press (El Centro, Calif.), July 18th 1924 “Mountain Devils” Prove Myth Says Party By United Press Leased Wire KELSO, Wash., July 18. – C. Parker, former United States forest ranger, Frank Hein and R. S. Bailey, who composed the party which left here last Monday to hunt down the “Mountain Devils” in the…

Imperial Valley press (El Centro, Calif.), July 16th 1924 More Parties Are On Hunt For Apes By United Press Leased Wire KELSO, Wash., July 16. – Although no report has been received from the expeditionary force which Monday went into the hills to hunt “Mountain Devils,” individuals who returned today from trips to the cabin…

Imperial Valley Press (El Centro, Calif.), July 15th 1924 Gorilla Search Will Probably Be Fruitless KELSO, Wash., July 15. – Although a party of four men under C. A. Parker, of the forestry service, left early Monday to hunt down and either kill or photograph the gorillas or “mountain devils” of Spirit Lake, the belief…

Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), July 22th 1924 “Ape Men” Prove Youngster From Summer “Y” Camp By the Associated Press. PORTLAND, Oreg., July 22, – Two boys at the Young Men’s Christian Associated camp at Spirit Lake, on the slopes of Mount St. Helens, believe they were the “apes” which prospectors reported hurled stones at their…

Casper Daily Tribune (Casper, Wyo.), July 18th 1924 “Gorilla Men” Branded Myth KELSO, Wash., July 18 – The story of “tall gorilla men,” or as some called them the “ape men” who were credited with having attacked a party of trappers in the mountains here last week, is a myth, two forest rangers declared here….

Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, Tex.), July 20th 1924 “Ape Men” Attack, Called Myth (By The Associated Press.) KELSO, Wash., July 19 – The tale of “tall gorilla men,” or as some called them, the “ape men” who were credited [with having attacked a party of trap]pers in the mountains here last week, […] is a myth,…