Haunted Valley

by William Jevning

Nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Range less than 25 miles northeast of Vancouver, Yacolt was once a gathering place for local Indians to trade with coastal and intermountain tribes. The Klickitat word Yacolt means haunted valley or a place of evil spirits. The name might have come from an incident when five children were lost picking wild berries. The demon, Yacolt, took them, so the story goes.

Genres: Bigfoot

56 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2012

Reviews

[Will Hoover · Rating 5 out of 5]

'Haunted Valley' is author and noted Bigfoot researcher William Jevning's firsthand account of his investigation of several Sasquatch type creatures that were repeatedly sighted by quite a few witnesses in the Yacolt Valley (in the southwest corner of Washington State), throughout the summer and fall of 1989. Although the book does suffer from the usual eBook style punctuation, spelling, and grammar errors (and apparent overall lack of sufficient editing), its author still manages to not only come off as quite a competent storyteller, but he also does a more than admirable job of capturing the reader's interest and very firmly holding it, from the first sentence to the very last.

I really enjoyed reading Haunted Valley, and despite it being such a short book, I honestly could read it again and again. In fact, before writing this review, I actually read it twice. And although it isn't a particularly in depth look at the overall Bigfoot phenomenon, per say (given that it mostly only focuses on the Yacolt, aka "Haunted Valley" incidents), there is still quite a lot of interest within these fascinating pages. Mind you, there's nothing particularly fanciful or far fetched about Mr. Jevning's level headed and matter of fact approach to the subject matter, but that doesn't stop the book from including quite a few intriguing and decidedly hair raising Bigfoot encounters.

The content should be sufficiently eerie for most casual readers, of course, and given that Mr. Jevning once worked with early Bigfoot research pioneers John Green and Rene Dahinden, AND started his own investigation team (the Pacific Coast Sasquatch Investigation Team, or PCSIT) way back in 1975, I would say that all of the above lends even more credibility to this brief, but exceptional account. An updated edition of Haunted Valley is reportedly on the way from the author, but until then, don't hesitate to read this great little book. It's a definite must for anyone even vaguely interested in cryptid creatures, or the paranormal in general.

[Jae Dutilly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Short but sweet BF story.

Rated 5 stars because it held my interest from beginning to end. Interesting how the PhD. Researchers wanted to take over the entire process and flubbed it up. Shows that experience often trumps education.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brief little story

Not bad. It would be interesting to corroborate the accounts with the newspaper articles of the time. Short story length.

[Mike Lannom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Would like to visit the area.

I would like to visit this area some time. I think I will check around Tennessee first. I hear they are in this state.

[Carobou · Rating 3 out of 5]

Goid Information

This book was a light quick read. Very entertaining, but it had a TON of misprints…couldn’t someone have edited it?

[lillian bowman · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book to read

I choose this book because it didn't have a lot of talking about the scenery and on and on .this is a book a good book to read not boring
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