Bigfoot Researcher Finds Glowing Eyes and Giant Footprints in State Forest

If you've ever wondered what it feels like to stumble onto something that could change everything, this video captures that exact moment. A researcher with the Pacific Northwest Bigfoot Search channel headed out to check a trail camera in Oregon's Tillamook State Forest and ended up spending over an hour and a half in the woods, shaking with adrenaline, casting footprints, and listening to brush move around him while he worked alone. The whole thing started with a trail cam image. At 2:58 in the morning, something triggered the camera and left a pair of glowing eyes sitting "pretty high up off the ground." The researcher, Tanner, has walked this section of forest countless times and says he's never seen anything stand that tall in the area. That alone was enough to get him out of bed and heading back to the site with a tape measure and plaster of Paris. What he found when he got there was a series of large footprints in the soil. The stride between one cast print and a partial track nearby measured roughly five feet, which is a massive gap. For comparison, the average adult human stride is somewhere around two to three feet depending on height and pace. A five-foot stride suggests something with a very long leg or an unusually wide gait, both of which line up with eyewitness descriptions of Sasquatch that have come out of the Pacific Northwest for decades. The cast itself came out at around 16 inches long with a 9-inch toe spread. To put that in perspective, a typical black bear track in the Pacific Northwest runs about 4 to 5 inches wide for the front pad, and even a large male bear rarely leaves prints longer than 7 or 8 inches. A 16-inch print with a 9-inch toe spread is in a completely different category. Tanner himself admits the track "does not look like a bear," and he's spent enough time in these woods to know what bear sign looks like. What makes this video worth watching isn't just the track evidence, though. It's the atmosphere. Tanner is out there by himself, talking through what he's seeing in real time, and you can hear the nervousness in his voice. At one point he mentions his legs are literally shaking. He keeps scanning the trees around him because he can hear branches breaking and brush moving while he's talking at full volume. The fact that something is still moving through the area while a person is standing right there talking is exactly the kind of detail that separates a forgettable hike from a genuinely compelling field report. There's also some interesting history baked into the location. Tanner mentions that a former neighbor had a sighting back in 2012 or 2013 of a female Sasquatch breastfeeding an infant on the other side of the highway from where he was working. The Tillamook State Forest has been a hot area for reports for years, and it's not hard to see why. The forest is massive, heavily wooded, and borders a lot of private land where people live and work outdoors. It's the kind of terrain that can hide something large for a very long time. One of the most compelling details comes near the end of the video when Tanner finds a well-used game trail leading up the hill from where he cast the print. He describes the trail as very well used and notes that something big has been moving through since he last checked the area. He also mentions finding another track impression in the moss heading uphill, which he scanned with a LiDAR device. He set up a second trail camera on the spot before heading home with the cast. For anyone who follows Sasquatch research, the Tillamook area has produced a steady stream of reports over the years, including vocalizations, wood knocks, and track finds. The combination of a trail cam capture at 2:58 AM showing elevated eye shine, a 16-inch track with a five-foot stride, and fresh sign on a game trail all in the same location on the same day is the kind of multi-layered evidence that researchers live for. None of it is conclusive on its own, but stacked together, it paints a picture that's hard to dismiss. Tanner says this would only be the second Sasquatch track he's ever found in his life, and you can hear in his voice that he knows exactly how significant that is. He's planning to get the cast cleaned up and examined, and with a fresh trail camera now watching the game trail, there might be more to come from this spot soon. Definitely worth checking out the full video. The raw, unfiltered reaction of someone finding possible evidence in real time is something you don't see every day, and the Tillamook backdrop adds a layer of credibility that serious researchers will appreciate.