What Is The Batsquatch? Does A Winged Bigfoot Exist?

Batsquatch is even more elusive than Bigfoot and has only a few scarce reputable sightings.

 Bigfoot reigns supreme as the cryptid to hunt for in the PNW, but the Batsquatch still has captured many people’s imaginations.

The first report of Batsquatch is from 1980 in the Mt. Saint Helens area.  The beast’s general description is  of a great winged bat with purple skin, bashing red eyes and a loud deep base yell.  Is it real?  That remains to be seen, but it is as harder to prove something doesn’t exist than it does.  To further complicate things, it appears that false Batsquatch information and patently fictitious accounts have found their way onto the Internet.  

Was it a Bigfoot hybrid or something that dropped through a rift that was opened up in the fury of the Mt. St. Helens eruption of Sunday, May 18, 1980

Timeline of Batsquatch Sightings

May 1980 – The first Batsquatch sighting?

It is widely reported that on  May 1980 was the first time the creature was supposed to have been seen as it showed itself in the shadow of the clouds during the Mount Saint Helens eruption.  However I am still searching for any first hand reference to this sighting.   If you have a link to an original source for the 1980 Batsquatch sighting, email me or post a link in the comments!

April, 2009 – Hikers report a close encounter with Batsquatch

Paul Dale Roberts posted on the site Unexplained Mysteries an encounter recounted to him by some hikers on Mt. Shasta that sounds like Batsquatch.

Caller: “Me and my friend were hiking around Mt. Shasta and out of one of the crevices, flew out this big creature. I mean this thing was huge. It was as tall as a man, as stocky as Hulk Hogan and had leathery wings. I believe the wing span was at least 50 feet from one end to the other. I was holding up my camera, but was paralyzed with fear as this thing flew by. I didn’t get a picture, sorry. What do you think this might be? Could it have been a pterodactyl? It was flying or gliding fast, it seemed to have a head of a bat. Thinking about it, it doesn’t have the head of a pterodactyl, I just saw a picture of a pterodactyl and the heads are not similar. I would think it had the head of a bat or maybe more like a fox. The damn thing finally flew into a clump of trees and vanished. I heard you guys might be going back to Mt. Shasta, if you do, please look out for this thing. If you see it, you will xxxx all over yourself, I kid you not.”

 

I  can imagine that if you were face to face with something like that you might be too struck with fear to snap some pics.  But with no physical evidence, it makes it hard to prove as a real encounter.

1994 -The first of several false Batsquatch reports

A report was posted on Batsquatch.com about an encounter two men had with Batsquatch that was supposed to have been printed in a newspaper.

Yelmidians take cover under shadow of suspicious creature. Mountain News
Fear continues to dominate the men, woman, and children of this town as a dark shadow looms overhead. Suspicions persevere and rumors spread as far too many sightings of “a winged bat-like creature” go unexplained. It started as childish rumors after the May 1980 eruption of Mount Saint Helens and has spread to community horror as the truth Batsquatch over Mt Rainier continues to emerge. While preparing for a climb in early 1994, local mountaineer and liquor store owner Butch Whittaker managed to take several pictures of the beast during a rare midday flight (see left). Butch Whittaker, expert in paranormal activity and unexplained phenomena, considers himself lucky to experience this encounter but adds, “I’m not surprised. These things happen to me all the time.” Although government officials deny the existence of any photographic evidence, our staff experts closely scrutinized all photos and found no reason to hold this position.

 

To date four goats, five chickens, two cows, and our prized pig are unaccounted for. No humans are reported missing but this is no measure of the never-ending toll placed on this community’s pride and mental well-being. All Pioneer Day festivities were canceled last week and with the recent loss of Priscilla Pig, scheduled dancing this Saturday presumably will fall prey to this monstrous being as well. Neither Police Chief Durhamm nor our Mayor will estimate potential long term effects of continued attacks but both were obviously saddened by the loss of Priscilla.

 

April 1994 – A solid report of Batsquatch at last?

One solid report of Batsquatch comes from an interview posted in the News Tribune out of Tacoma and written by C.R. Roberts.  Both the paper and C.R. Roberts are real and that makes this a much more believable account of a Batsquatch encounter.

Here is an excerpt from the article that Roberts wrote about Brian Canfield’s up close encounter with what sounds like Batsquatch:

The engine died and the dashboard lights fell dark. Although he hadn’t applied the brakes, the pickup truck he was driving stopped suddenly, abruptly, square in the middle of the road there between the edge of the forest and the scrubby clearcut field.

 

His headlights cut a hole through the night. He sat wondering what was wrong.

 

Then he saw the feet, descending. Bird feet. Claw feet. Then the legs, the torso, the chest. And the wings, folded, attached to the back of the broad shoulders. Then the head. That face.

 

The creature, nine feet tall. Thirty feet away. Blue-tinted fur, yellowish eyes, turfted ears and sharp straight teeth.

 

With a dust-raising thud it landed.

 

Brian Canfield, 18, held tight to the steering wheel.

 

He was alone and on his way home – from Buckley to the isolated settlement of Camp One, located in the Mount Rainier foothills above Lake Kapowsin. He doesn’t take drugs. He’s a high school senior know locally as an average, normal kid.

It was standing there staring at me, like it was resting, like it didn’t know what to think,” Canfield says. “I was scared, it raised the hair on me. I didn’t feel threatened. I just felt out of place.”

 

“It’s looking right at me like in a deep stare, like right through me. It’s standing perfectly still.”

 

It stood for – how long? – a few minutes. Several minutes. Then its fingers twitched and its wings began to unfold. Those wings were as wide as the road.
“It turned its head and looked back at me and started flapping its wings,” Canfield says. Then slowly it rose and so great was the trubulence the truck began to rock and sway.
Slowly the creature flew off in the direction of Mount Rainier.
“A few minutes later the truck just started,” Canfield says. “I took off as fast as I could.”

Source: Parational.com