Bigfoot is booming in northeast Washington

KS Brooks
7 min readJun 24, 2021

By K.S. Brooks / Chewelah Independent

Bruce Trott of Chewelah Bigfoot Research Team measures a possible track. K.S. Brooks photo

While there is no concrete evidence that Sasquatch truly exists — there is one thing that’s certain — and that’s the fact that there are a lot of Sasquatch or Bigfoot groups in this area. Another certainty is that no two approach “Squatching” the same way. Some use scientific methods to different degrees while others communicate spiritually. One believes that Sasquatch could be a descendant of Gigantopithecus, “genus of large extinct apes … which lived during the Pleistocene Epoch (2.6 million to 11,700 years ago) in southern China,” as explained by Encyclopedia Britannica. Another is convinced the being is at least 50 percent human. Some believe they are possibly descendants of Nephilim, which are mentioned in the Bible, while others believe they travel between dimensions or even by UFO. But the largest percentage just isn’t sure exactly who or what they are.

“Something is out there, but I don’t know what,” is commonly heard coming from Sasquatch researchers.

Some of the researchers are skeptics, as in Bigfoot of Stevens County’s Will Ulmer. He created his Facebook page “to connect with the local residents… The best way to find a good area to research, you need to go to… the people who have …witnessed these creatures.” Ulmer, who has been researching Sasquatch for a little over a…

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