Tiny La Push, Washington sat at the mouth of the Quileute River, the largest town on the Quileute Native Reservation. Situated at several trailheads leading deep into the Olympic’s temperate rainforest, the village was the perfect place for the Pacific Northwest Sasquatch Research Center, and the PNSRC was famous in the Bigfoot world. Not only were the surrounding damp woods recognized as a hot spot for Sasquatch activity, their remote wilderness made it more plausible that hikers might run into the occasional Bigfoot and later report the encounter.
When Vance arrived, the place looked deserted. As he climbed the steps to the wide front porch, the door was ajar and a bloody handprint smeared the jamb. Resting his hand on the grip of his holstered Desert Eagle, he called out, “Sutton? Ben!
