Washington state has a strange mountain called St. Helens, which is an active stratovolcano.
According to local legend, this mountain was chosen by a certain terrible spirit, which the Indians had earlier called as "Skokum", a word that has several meanings: "powerful" and "monstrous".
For the first time, mention of the spirit is found in the writings of the famous American writer and artist - traveler Paul Kane and dates back to the middle of the 19th century.
As you know, Kane devoted many of his works to the Indians as the indigenous inhabitants of the American lands and traveled a lot.
One day he decided to get to Mount St. Helens, taking several aborigines as his escort.
However, the Indians, having learned exactly where Paul was planning to go, flatly refused to accompany him and began to persuade him to abandon such a crazy idea.
As the artist later described, his small expedition was 40 miles from the mountain, when superstitious Indians began to tell him "horror stories" that strange creatures live on it - boredom, who are hunters and cannibals, keeping the whole district in fear.
Kane rechecked the superstition and found out that once, having climbed this mountain, two Indians did not return from there, who were "devoured by evil spirits."
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After that, the aborigines associated all their misfortunes exclusively with these terrible creatures and by the tenth road bypassed the mountain, since boredom not only lived on its territory, but also often "walked" nearby, guarding unwary travelers to eat them.
Such stories only provoked Paul, and did not frighten him, and he decided, no matter what, to get to St. Helens and even offered big money to the Indians - the guides.
But they were so scared that they did not even want to hear about the dangerous journey.
It is known about boredom in the neighboring state of Oregon, whose residents also consider them to be evil spirits or even devils that can inhabit a person.
However, local cryptozoologists suggest that most likely, we are talking about Bigfoot, who appears in Native American legends and legends as "like a monkey."
The only catch is that yeti do not hunt people, and even less do they eat them.
Although, it is possible that such shocking cases are simply not known.
Local ghost hunters claim that in 1924, while searching for coal deposits in the area of the Maddy River, which flows near St. Helens, miners noticed her huge creature covered with wool at the top.
One of the men shot him, and the monster rolled into the abyss near the mountain, but further searches for his body did not give people anything.
At night, the miners' camp was attacked when several monsters began to shower it with huge boulders.
People began to shoot back, but this did not lead to anything. Only at dawn did the monsters disappear into the thickets of the mountain.
Around the camp were then found many giant paw prints, somewhat reminiscent of human feet, only of a large size.
Bigfoot researcher Henry Franhoni, interested in Native American legends about monsters from the mountain, began to study the problem of boredom and found that there are many place names in the state, in which the locals use the word boredom.
They were called paths, gorges, streams, etc., which is probably associated with the places of his appearance to people.
SMIRNOVA ANNA