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Fred was very similar to Edgar Casy [Cayce]. He claimed Fred had psychic powers. That he could go into a trance and predict things.” 28 (Edgar Cayce [1877–1945], “the Sleeping Prophet,” gave countless trance readings. Most concerned people’s health, with occasional departures into more arcane subjects, like Atlantis.) Some of Fred’s family found the “faith-healing period” embarrassing.
    Strangers drove out the Coweeman valley road looking for the residence of Dr. Beck. They came from places out of state and stopped to ask for direction to the “Doctor.”
    Well, our Uncle Fred was a self-appointed doctor. We didn’t think of him as a real doctor so we tended to look the other way and ignore the requests. However, our parents politely gave out directions to the Alfred Beck home. 29
    At some point, Beck also overcame his reluctance to discuss what happened at Mt. St. Helens and “delighted in telling the story to family members whenever he got the chance.” 30 One history includes this unexpected detail:
    Clifford said his dad received a telegram from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D.C. He remembers reading it. “Do not shoot the creatures [ape-men]. The Federal Government knows all about them. They are on official record.” Or words to that effect, Cliff added. 31
    For those around him, living “in the same neighborhood as Uncle Fred added excitement to a quiet community,” but Beck was not just a mystic. In 1956 he still worked at a Weyerhauser mill (producers of wood and paper) and continued there until around 1960, when his wife died and he was seventy-two years old. 32
The Birth of Bigfoot Hunting
    The attack at Ape Canyon remains a unique event, but the “Hairy Ape Hunt” that followed was not. Three years before Mt. St. Helens, Pennsylvanians were pursuing the “Gettysburg Gorilla,” and in 1931 there was a search for a short hairy creature on Long Island, New York. Ralston, Mississippi, had a“gorilla hunt” in 1952; a posse chased a peach-eating “Booger” at Clanton, Alabama, in 1960; and carloads of armed hunters set out after Texas’s “Lake Worth Monster” in 1969. Similar ad hoc expeditions have taken place around the country, but it was the development of a more systematic approach to finding ape-men that led colorful old Uncle Fred to turn his colorful old story into a book.
    In British Columbia during the mid-1950s, the Swiss emigrant Rene Dahinden and journalist John Green began a long-term, open-ended search for Sasquatch. Working independently and together, they interviewed witnesses and studied footprints and physical evidence, slowly piecing together a profile of the creatures as a species of bipedal primate. Hairy giants went from a regional to a national story in 1958, when enormous tracks appeared at a road construction site outside Bluff Creek, California.
    A bulldozer operator named Jerry Crew poured plaster into the prints, and the
Humboldt Times
ran a photograph of him holding the cast of what looks like the bottom of a flat, human-looking foot, sixteen inches long with potato-sized toes. The Associated Press picked up the story, and the whole country was soon aware of “Big Foot.”
    Scottish-born naturalist Ivan Sanderson followed with a magazine piece, “The Strange Story of America’s Abominable Snowman” (
True Magazine
, December 1959), which contains a detailed account of Crew’s story and suggests that something like the Himalayan yeti lives in the PacificNorthwest. Sanderson wrote other articles about incidents from British Columbia, including William Roe’s sighting of a female Sasquatch at Mica Mountain in 1955, and the Chapman family’s encounter with a Bigfoot at Ruby Creek in 1941. As the public read about these events, most for the first time, investigators reexamined old cases like Ape Canyon and visited Fred Beck, the