Witnesses Claim Bigfoot Bodies Recovered After Mount St. Helens Eruption
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
Forty-six years ago, Mount St. Helens blew its top in one of the most violent volcanic eruptions in U.S. history. The blast killed 57 people, leveled 230 square miles of old-growth forest, and unleashed energy equivalent to roughly 1,600 Hiroshima bombs. But according to a fascinating video that recently crossed my radar, there's something else that may have been buried in that chaos, something the government allegedly didn't want anyone talking about.
The video lays out four separate witness accounts, all collected by researcher Linda Coyle Suchi and published in her 2009 book. None of these witnesses knew each other. None of them had any reason to coordinate their stories. And yet, the details line up in ways that are hard to dismiss.
The first account comes from a man identified only as Bradshaw, who was assigned to oversee piles of animal carcasses in the blast zone in the weeks after the eruption. That's normal work. Scientists were cataloging dead wildlife across the devastated landscape. What wasn't normal was the pile covered with tarps and surrounded by armed National Guard personnel facing outward, not letting anyone approach. When the tarps finally had to come off so the load could be trucked out, Bradshaw was close enough to see what was underneath. Large bodies covered in hair, human in their proportions but not human in any other way. Multiple individuals. Some burned badly, others largely intact. Then the tarps went back on, the truck drove out through the checkpoints, and Bradshaw was told to keep quiet.
The second witness was a civilian in Spokane, hundreds of miles from the mountain, watching a large twin-rotor military helicopter, almost certainly a Chinook, fly low overhead. Slung beneath the aircraft was a cargo net carrying something coated in gray ash. Through the mesh, this person saw long, hair-covered limbs that were too large and wrongly proportioned to be anything recognizable. When they reported it to federal agencies, the threatening phone calls started a few days later.
The third account happened two months after the eruption, far from the mountain itself. Dredging crews were working on the Cowlitz River, clearing channels choked with debris from the eruption. According to the account, they pulled up two Sasquatch corpses. A helicopter arrived, the bodies were removed, and the work continued as if nothing had happened.
The fourth account, saved for last in the video, involves individuals who weren't dead yet.
What makes these accounts compelling isn't just the content. It's the pattern. Large, hair-covered bodies with nonhuman proportions. Military personnel present. Removal by helicopter and truck. Witnesses told to stay quiet. And critically, no contact between the witnesses. Rumors mutate and get