Eight Trekkers Killed in Alleged Sasquatch Attacks Across Ohio Forests
Posted Sunday, July 19, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
If you've been following the ongoing wave of activity in Ohio's forests, you need to see what the folks over at Wild Assault just dropped. The evidence they're breaking down is some of the most disturbing and compelling material to surface in recent memory, and honestly, it's the kind of thing that keeps you up at night.
The video walks through a five-day stretch in late May 2026 where eight hikers vanished from the woodlands of Ohio, and the physical and audio evidence left behind paints a picture that's far more calculated than anyone could have imagined. What makes this case so chilling isn't just that these creatures were hunting, it's that they appeared to be working together with an almost unsettling intelligence.
The first incident centers on Jenna, a 35-year-old experienced hiker with over 200 documented trips through the South Loop Trail in Zaleski State Forest. Her phone was recovered three days later, mangled but still functional, and what it captured is genuinely hard to process. Six minutes into her vlog, she notices the silence, no birds, no insects, just that rhythmic timber-on-timber thumping that seasoned researchers know all too well. She pans her camera and catches a stooped silhouette between two massive oaks about 40 yards off the path, standing roughly 8.5 feet tall with its back brushing the lower limbs. Then comes the deep, raspy bellow from directly behind her, so close it distorts the microphone. A second creature had circled behind her while she focused on the first.
But here's where it gets truly disturbing. The phone kept recording for another 47 minutes after the visual went dark. The audio captures a moist snap, heavy exhales, and then the unmistakable sounds of feeding. Not frantic ripping, but methodical tearing, roughly four seconds per tear, with pauses for swallowing. The regularity suggests the creature knew exactly where to breach the thoracic cavity, targeting the natural breaking points between the ribs. At the 39-minute mark, a second set of footsteps arrives, each stride spaced six feet apart, and the two creatures communicate through a series of drones and clicking sounds before feeding simultaneously from opposite sides of the same body. The recording ends only when one of them steps on the phone and carries it deeper into the gorge.
The second day brings three teenagers, Caleb, Mia, and Jordan, who vanished from the Pleasant Hill Dam area of Mohican Memorial State Forest during a birthday hike. A trail camera bound to a tree captured six seconds of footage showing a massive dark form emerging from behind a sycamore with a slow, deliberate gait that suggests it knew exactly where the lens was positioned. No teenagers appear in any frame. The creature was simply walking toward the stream channel where the kids had stopped for lunch.
The physical evidence at that scene is staggering. One backpack was flattened completely, not torn, crushed flat as though something weighing well over 600 pounds had stepped on it. Another was shredded with a brutality that separated the stitching rather than cutting it. A third was pinned beneath a collapsed branch eight feet long and six inches wide, and there was no wind that afternoon. That branch was placed.
The real showstopper, though, is a smooth three-foot stone near the stream bearing a blood mark spanning two square feet and three distinct teeth indentations, each roughly two inches across, pressed so deeply into the rock that the stone cracked around each mark. Lab analysis confirmed human skeletal fragments lodged inside, specifically pieces of a thigh bone and shin bone. The jaw pressure required to scar stone like that has been measured at over 1,600 pounds per square inch. That's not any known predator. That's a Sasquatch biting through a teenager's leg and leaving a dental cast in solid rock.
Searchers also found a single partially consumed hiking shoe, a men's size 7 matching Caleb's, jammed between two branches only 1.2 inches apart at a height of 15 feet up a white oak. Three parallel gashes on the trunk, spaced four inches apart, matched a mold of Sasquatch fingerprints from a separate incident perfectly. And a single track measured 17 inches long with five clear toe impressions and a 6.5-foot stride.
This isn't a case of creatures simply passing through or being curious about human activity. The coordinated behavior, the placement of evidence, the methodical feeding patterns, it all points to something far more intentional happening in those Ohio forests. The video does a thorough job walking through every piece of evidence and the analysis behind it, and it's absolutely worth the watch if you want to understand what's unfolding in that region.
Make sure you check it out and draw your own conclusions.