Legends & Tales Of Mount St. Helens

Batsquatch

--Excerpt as told by Butch Whittaker

Although not as common in the United States as other parts of the world, it has been sighted on our soil numerous times. The most widely recorded account belongs to mountaineer...Butch Whittaker.

The sighting took place in the year 1994, when Butch was out preparing to climb Mt. St. Helens, in the state of Washington. In the broad light of day, the creature soared overhead near the volcano top and even though Butch was in a state of disbelief about what he was seeing, he managed to get several photographs of the winged humanoid, before it completely disappeared.

It was later described by Butch as having blood-red eyes, purplish toned skin, wings of a Pterodactyl and the head and face of monkey mixed with the features of a bat. It was immediately dubbed, 'Batsquatch.'

The Batsquatch is described to be a great winged bat with purple skin, bashing red eyes and a loud deep base yell. People believe that this creature is another split in evolution and thus it was created and that it has no real connection to Sasquatch other than a similar sounding name. It's reported to be a carnivore as it eats small things like chickens, goats and hogs. May 1980 was the first time the creature was seen as it showed itself in the shadow of the clouds during the Mount Saint Helens eruption. In 1994, two men, a local mountaineer and a liquor shop owner both saw the creature and took pictures of it. During this time, livestock started disappearing, but no humans were taken. Another mountaineer reported a bizarre sighting of the creature. So he says he was knocked out while hiking and he fell. He slowly regained consciousness he heard a loud deep yell. He tried to focus on the creature that made the yell and soon saw a "log-like entity" being thrown off a cliff after a truck hit it. What caught his attention was that it had purple wings.

He pulled himself together and looked down the valley to see a purple winged creature dragging another. He described it to be about 30 feet tall and it showed human-like affection to the injured one. Then it flew off with the injured creature and disappeared. The mountaineer kept this sight as secret in fear he would be laughed at and shunned as a crazy person. So that's the legend of the Batsquatch.

Not surprisingly, the supposed pictures taken of the creature aren't anywhere to be found. I found one, but I can't confirm if it's legit. The fact that we haven't seen this creature since 1994 leads me to believe that this was just some type of legend told to people to keep them from going into the woods at night or during an eruption of Mount Saint Helens. So I'm going to say that this is just an urban legend and nothing more. But what do you guys/girls think? Is there really a 30 foot tall bat creature in Washington State or is this just some made up tale?