1978 Mount Saint Helens Bigfoot reports

Record summary

Reports of large hairy figures around Mount Saint Helens and the surrounding Gifford Pinchot region circulated during the late 1970s, including accounts associated with hikers, hunters and logging country. These reports are useful for comparing wilderness visibility, occupational exposure, bear misidentification and the growth of a regional Bigfoot map before the 1980 eruption. The specific 1978 episodes are not always consistently identified in published summaries, so researchers should locate dated newspaper items, ranger records or named investigator files before treating them as discrete cases.