Les Stroud Shares Unexplained Sasquatch Encounters at Ontario Cabin

Posted Saturday, June 20, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

Survivorman Les Stroud has been dropping some seriously compelling stories lately about his remote cabin in Temagami, Ontario, and honestly, this one gave me chills. If you're not familiar with Les Stroud, he's the guy who basically invented the survival TV genre. He films himself alone in the wilderness with no crew, no help, just him and whatever Mother Nature throws at him. The man has spent decades in some of the most remote places on Earth, so when he talks about something he can't explain, you better sit up and pay attention. Recently, Les took a fellow researcher out to his personal cabin deep in the Ontario wilderness. This isn't some random patch of forest either. Temagami has a long history of Sasquatch activity, including those famous 2009 photos taken by a woman named Janis who spotted a massive, fur-covered figure about 50 to 70 yards from her cabin. She estimated it was around 10 feet tall and very broad. Those photos have been debated for years, but they don't stand alone. The area is packed with credible sighting reports from trustworthy people, and Les Stroud is one of them. Now, here's where things get really interesting. Les shared a timeline of events that, when you put them all together, paint a pretty unsettling picture. During the filming of a Survivorman episode with Joe McConnel, the first night a tree fell right next to Les's shelter with absolutely no wind. The second night, somewhere between seven and nine trees came crashing down all around Joe while he slept. A week later, Les was arriving at his cabin by boat on a dead-calm lake, glass-flat water, not a breath of wind, and a massive tree slammed down right next to the cabin as he was tying up the boat. But the story that really got me was what happened that same night. Les's son Logan and his friend Chris were sleeping in the cabin during a big storm. Throughout the night, something was hitting all four corners of the cabin. Not once, but repeatedly, moving from corner to corner. When Les asked Logan about it years later, his son described it as "like someone taking a fist and hitting the corners of the cabin." Both boys heard it. Both boys were terrified. And here's the kicker: they were too scared to walk the 15 feet to Les's room to wake him up. Les made a great point about this. The cabin is extremely remote, 30 minutes by boat, fast. There's no one around. And even if there were, why would someone be out on a stormy night just to prank a guy who wasn't even publicly interested in Sasquatch at that point? It just doesn't add up. There are no tree branches near the cabin that could have been hitting the walls in the wind. The area around the structure is cleared. When you stack all of this together, the falling trees with no wind, the tree falling right as Les arrived, and then something systematically hitting all four corners of the cabin throughout the night, it starts to feel like something was communicating, or at the very least, making its presence known. Les himself doesn't claim to know what it was, but he lays out the timeline and lets you draw your own conclusions. The researcher who visited also brought along Stacy Brown from the Bigfoot Underground channel, which added another layer of credibility to the whole thing. Multiple experienced investigators in one of the most active Sasquatch regions in Ontario, all paying attention to the same spot. This is definitely a video worth watching if you haven't already. Les Stroud is one of the most credible witnesses out there, and the way he tells these stories, calmly and matter-of-factly, makes them hit even harder. The full timeline, the details about the cabin layout, and Logan's account are all worth hearing in his own words.