Veterinary Technician Captures Bipedal Figure on Chilcotin Ranch Trail Camera
Posted Thursday, July 16, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So there's this trail cam footage making the rounds that has to be one of the most compelling pieces of evidence to surface in a while, and it's coming from a source with serious credentials. Francis Drummond, a large animal veterinary technician who spent nearly three decades working ranches throughout the BC interior and Chilcotin, captured something extraordinary on one of his trail cameras back in June of 2022.
The Chilcotin region of British Columbia has long been considered prime Sasquatch territory. The vast, remote landscape with its mix of dense timber, open range, and limited human population creates exactly the kind of habitat these beings are known to favor. For generations, ranchers and First Nations people in the area have passed down accounts of encounters, and the region continues to produce credible sightings from people who know the land intimately.
What makes Drummond's account stand out is the layered nature of what his camera captured. The footage from camera three, positioned 800 meters into the timber, shows a sequence of events that tells a complete story. First, six wolves move through the frame in single file with clear purpose. Then, 43 minutes later, his granddaughter Lily appears in the footage. She had been lost in those 800 acres for four hours before being found by her grandfather Raymond at the upper pasture gate. The camera caught her sitting exhausted against a fallen Douglas fir.
Then two wolves return and orient directly toward her position with their heads low, clearly having picked up her scent or presence. What happens next is what makes this footage so significant. A figure enters the left edge of the frame, and within three seconds of its appearance, both wolves are gone. Not the casual dispersal you see when wolves break off from prey out of curiosity, and not the purposeful retreat you see when a grizzly claims a carcass. Drummond describes it as the way a large animal moves when its entire assessment of a situation changes in under one second.
The camera was mounted at standard 42-inch PIR sensor height, which meant it only captured the figure from mid-thigh down. But what it did capture was remarkable. Long legs, long stride, dark brown hair nearly black along the centerline, with a tawny coloring at the outer edges. One arm visible swinging in the full loose arc of something carrying its weight upright at speed. The audio picked up something at the very lowest edge of what the microphone could detect, a deep sustained frequency that Drummond describes as something you feel more than hear.
The figure stood at the edge of the frame for four minutes and thirty-seven seconds before walking away into the timber in a long deliberate stride. Six minutes later, Lily stood up and walked toward the ranch.
Drummond has 32 years of field experience identifying wildlife in that terrain. His assessment of the proportions he observed, the shoulder mass relative to the arm, the way the figure held itself upright and still, nothing about it fit anything in his professional experience.
The Chilcotin has produced numerous credible reports over the years, including encounters documented by forestry workers, ranchers, and RCMP officers. The region's remoteness and the cultural significance of Sasquatch to local Indigenous communities, particularly the Tsilhqot'in people who have their own longstanding traditions regarding these beings, adds another layer of context to why reports from this area tend to carry weight.
What Drummond captured on that camera is the kind of evidence researchers have been hoping trail cameras would eventually produce. Not a blurry distant figure, but a documented sequence showing behavioral interaction between a Sasquatch and a wolf pack, with a human child as the apparent focus of the encounter. The wolves' reaction, the deliberate pacing of the figure, the timing of events, it all fits with what witnesses have described for decades.
The full account from Drummond is worth watching. He walks through the footage timestamp by timestamp and provides the kind of detailed, measured analysis that comes from someone who has spent a lifetime observing wildlife behavior in that exact terrain. His book, the Bigfoot Codex, compiles his research and findings if you want to dig deeper into his work.
Check out the video for yourself. The way the wolves leave tells the whole story.