Sasquatch Museum Founder Recounts Colorado Bigfoot Encounter Stories

There's something truly captivating about sitting down with someone who has dedicated their life to documenting encounters with Sasquatch, and that's exactly what I found while stumbling across this gem of an interview on YouTube. The Cryptid Crew Podcast recently hosted Jim Myers, and let me tell you, this conversation is one that every researcher and enthusiast needs to hear. Jim isn't just some casual hobbyist talking about Bigfoot. He's the founder of the Sasquatch Encounter Discovery Museum in Bailey, Colorado, and runs Rabbit Hole Adventures, taking groups on horseback camping trips and night hikes through areas known for Sasquatch activity. Since 2013, he's built this museum into something remarkable, with over 200,000 visitors from 140-plus countries walking through its doors. That kind of reach tells you something about the hunger people have for real, tangible evidence and experiences. What really got my attention during this interview was Jim's description of a night hike in the Buffalo Peaks Wilderness. Picture this: a group is walking in, completely alone in the wilderness, no vehicles, no other people for miles. Jim hands a hickory stick to one of his campers and asks her to strike a dead log twice. Three seconds later, two loud knocks come back from up the hill, followed by the sound of something incredibly heavy running through the trees they can't even see through the dense forest. But that's not even the best part. When they reached a big aspen grove, someone whistled at them from up the hill. A clear, human whistle. They sat down, and what happened next is something Jim says he's never experienced before or since. Two Sasquatch began to interact with them. One sang a melody, and a second one responded with a big "woo" at the end. Two recordings were captured of this sound, and Jim describes it as melodious, whether it was a whistle or a voice, they couldn't tell. The part that struck me most was Jim's reflection on that moment. He said the thought that came to his mind was, "Why have I ever been afraid of these people?" When they sing like that, the last intention they want to give is that they are dangerous or aggressive. After about 30 minutes of this interaction, an enormous noise happened, something like a tree being shoved over, and everything stopped. Jim described it almost like a patriarch showing up and saying, "That's enough messing with these people. Cut it out." Jim also shared another incredible story from the Lost Creek Wilderness. A camper had brought a truck with a rooftop tent instead of sleeping on the ground, and that's exactly where Sasquatch chose to interact. At 4 AM, they threw open his tailgate with such force it rocked the entire truck, sent his lantern swinging, and scared him and his friend half to death. Three large grunts followed, right below their tent. What makes Jim's perspective particularly interesting is his belief that Sasquatch are not undiscovered great apes at all. He considers them highly intelligent, highly emotional people who possess abilities that humankind either lost long ago or never learned. He mentions telepathic communication, healing people of even terminal diseases, the ability to appear and disappear at will, and eyes that emit light rather than reflect it. He also describes superhuman strength, including the ability to pull trees out by the roots and jam them back into the ground upside down. Jim keeps an active gifting area about 15 minutes from his house, straight up the side of a mountain where no trail exists. Over the years, Sasquatch have taken well over 150 objects from this location and occasionally leave things behind that his team didn't place there. This kind of reciprocal interaction is something many researchers have reported over the decades, and it speaks to the intelligence and curiosity of these beings. The interview also touches on something that opened the episode, a strange light that shone down on an 8-foot-high tent at 3 AM, lasting about 10 seconds before disappearing. Jim mentions the high strangeness that often accompanies Sasquatch encounters, and notes that orbs frequently appear in the museum space where he records. If you're someone who has ever wondered whether these encounters are real, whether Sasquatch are truly intelligent beings capable of complex communication and emotion, or whether there's more to this phenomenon than the dismissive "undiscovered ape" narrative, this interview is absolutely worth your time. Jim's decades of experience, his museum, his guided adventures, and the sheer volume of encounters he describes make this one of the more compelling conversations about Sasquatch I've come across in a while. The singing encounter alone is something I haven't heard described quite this way before. Most researchers talk about wood knocks, vocalizations, howls, and whistles, but a coordinated melody between two individuals with a response call? That's the kind of detail that makes you realize how little we truly understand about what's living in our forests. Check out the full interview on The Cryptid Crew Podcast channel. It's a long one, but every minute is packed with insights from someone who has built his entire life around these encounters and isn't afraid to share what he's learned.