Colorado Sasquatch Reports: Tracks, Encounters, and Close Calls

Just stumbled across a wild compilation of Colorado Sasquatch reports over on the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch YouTube channel, and honestly, this one is packed with some really compelling stuff. If you're into eyewitness testimony and physical evidence, you'll want to check this one out. The video kicks off with some fascinating track evidence from the San Luis Valley. A trucker pulled over to check a strap on his rig after a rainstorm and discovered a line of massive footprints in the mud. The stride was reportedly at least double that of a human, and the tracks measured about 1.5 times the size of a size 12 work boot. For reference, a size 12 boot is roughly 12 inches long, which puts these prints at around 20 inches in length. The trucker himself weighed about 250 pounds and barely left an impression in the same soil. The tracks eventually trailed off into the grass. This kind of physical evidence is gold for researchers because it rules out a lot of the usual explanations. Bears can leave big tracks, but the stride pattern and depth here suggest something significantly heavier than any known Colorado wildlife. But the real meat of this video is a voice-recorded sighting report from a man named Gareth, who describes an encounter near North Park in the Rocky Mountains back in 1973 or 1974. Gareth and his friend Jim were scouting for elk season and fishing for cutthroat trout along the headwaters of the Illinois River. Gareth got an uneasy feeling and left the stream to walk up the road, where he met Jim coming back down. That's when they both spotted something across the river on a hillside that had been logged a few years prior. At first, they thought it was a stump or rock, but then it stood up and started running diagonally down the hill on two legs at an impressive speed. What really got my attention was what they found afterward. Gareth and Jim, spooked but curious, eventually made their way up the hill with their rifles. They discovered the creature had been eating blackberries, but where it ran down the hillside, it had plowed through trees that were chest-high on the men. Some of those trees were estimated to be 8 to 10 inches in diameter. Think about that for a second. This thing was knocking over trees like they were matchsticks while running downhill at speed, and yet Gareth emphasizes how completely silent it was. No crashing, no snapping branches, nothing. Just gone. Gareth estimated the creature was at least 8 feet tall and around 350 pounds based on the length of its legs and the size of the trees it cleared. He and Jim were so shaken up that they drove to a little store in Rand, Colorado, where they ran into the local game warden. The warden told them there had been numerous reports of similar creatures in the area and mentioned what he called a "dead zone" in the Rockies where Sasquatch activity tends to concentrate during certain times of year. That dead zone concept is something researchers have noted in other regions too, where sightings cluster along specific migration corridors or habitat ranges. The video also covers a more recent encounter near Spruce Mountain, between the towns of Nucla and Naturita. A woman driving a work truck had a Sasquatch run out onto the road with what was described as a frantic, non-human face, light brown in color, and moving fast toward her vehicle. She panicked and sped around it. During the investigation into that sighting, another report came in from a man named Robert who had been dealing with two Sasquatch coming into his elk hunting camp every September for years. These creatures apparently steal shiny objects like shaving mirrors and solar chargers, and they've been known to run by the tents and slap the tops of them. Robert actually got a look at one while he was trout fishing. He caught movement to his right, turned, and saw a Sasquatch pull its head back behind a spruce tree to hide. When Robert walked over to investigate, the creature just kept walking up a trail toward a grove of aspens without even flinching. That level of comfort around humans is something witnesses report more often than you'd think, especially in areas where Sasquatch have grown accustomed to seasonal human activity like hunting camps. Colorado really does seem to be a hotspot for activity, and the Rocky Mountain Sasquatch channel does a solid job of compiling these reports with some analysis thrown in. Definitely worth a watch if you want to hear these stories straight from the witnesses themselves.