Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre

A year after Mount Rainier’s sudden eruption causes widespread calamity and destruction in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States, the book’s unnamed editor receives a link to a web article entitled “Bigfoot Destroys Town” by Frank McCray Jr. The article details the fate of an isolated eco-community called Greenloop, which was located a few miles from the Rainier eruption. Among the residents of Greenloop was McCray’s sister, Kate Holland, whose body was never found among the ruins of the former community. McCray asks the editor to publish Kate’s journal, hoping that it will lead to closure over her disappearance.

The editor, a disaster management expert who has written several articles on the Rainier eruption, initially dismisses the article, but McCray appeals to his interest in the topic of Bigfoot, referencing a listicle he’d written on movies about Bigfoot many years earlier. The editor performs initial research on Greenloop, learning about its founders, Tony and Yvette Durant. After tracking Rainier’s mudslide patterns, the editor confirms that something other than the eruption caused Greenloop’s destruction and reaches out to McCray for further details.

McCray reveals that Senior Ranger Josephine Schell discovered Kate’s journal and photographed its contents before turning it over to police custody.