Man Shares Two Bigfoot Encounters in Same Wooded Area
Posted Friday, July 24, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's something genuinely compelling about this one. Donna D'Errico, who runs the Mythbound series on her YouTube channel, took her camera right to the spot where a witness named Todd had two separate encounters just months apart, and the details he shared are the kind that make you lean in a little closer to the screen.
The first incident happened back in March. Todd was camping with a few buddies at a logging landing in the woods, a spot surrounded by heavy timber. Around 3 AM, he stepped out of his van to use the restroom and grabbed a pair of night vision goggles set to short range. Standing at the foot of his friend's tent, he looked up into the woods and saw a pair of eyes staring back. He figured it could be a deer, a raccoon, maybe an owl, all animals that can have that wide-set eye spacing. But when he zoomed in and focused, the face that came into view wasn't anything from the usual forest playbook. He described it as defined and humanish, with clear features where you'd expect them.
What happened next is what really got the adrenaline going. Branches started snapping and crashing outside the tent, and the noise kept up for a full hour. The group figured it might just be some random person wandering through their campsite, but nobody wanted to go out and check. Then, around 4 AM, something actually grabbed the top of their tent and started shaking it hard. Todd's friend woke up in a panic. They had just enough cell service to call another buddy sleeping in a vehicle parked parallel to Todd's van, and that friend peeked his head out and confirmed what they were feeling. He told them there was something hunched over the top of their tent, actively shaking it. By the time he turned to grab a better flashlight, it was gone.
The night wasn't over. Around 4:10 or 4:15, the fourth member of the group, who had been asleep in another vehicle, woke up and started calling for his friends. He told them something had peeked its head out from the side of the van. The group grabbed a spotlight and searched the woods but couldn't find anything. By 7 AM, they were awake and surveying the area, and what they found was telling. Broken branches were scattered everywhere through the woods, and they located a footprint that showed clear toe impressions. Todd estimated it at about 14 inches long. When they returned weeks later for a closer look, remnants of the impression were still there, enough to measure again and confirm the size, though not detailed enough to cast.
About a week and a half before the interview, Todd decided to go back to that same campsite alone, which is the kind of brave (or stubborn) move that only someone still processing what happened would make. He pulled up in his truck around 9 PM on a Saturday, parked near the mouth of a road with four different branches leading into the woods, and stepped out. That's when he heard a big branch break right behind him. He turned around and saw something in the brush that moved from a half-kneeling position to standing. He got a fleeting glimpse before it turned and walked back into the trees. He estimated it was about 35 to 38 feet away.
What he described seeing matches a lot of what witnesses across the country have reported over the years. Tall, taller than a human. Reddish-brown hair. A face that was clear enough to make out features, a nose, defined eyes, a defined mouth, defined ears, but with that almost human quality that so many people struggle to put into words. Todd was clear that it wasn't a deer or a bear. He's spent enough time in those woods to know the difference.
A 14-inch footprint with visible toes is significant. Most adult human footprints max out around 12 inches for someone of average height, and even very tall individuals rarely push past 13. Anything in the 14 to 18 inch range has been a consistent marker in Sasquatch research for decades, with documented casts from sites like the Bluff Creek area in Northern California and various locations across the Pacific Northwest falling into that range. The presence of clear toe impressions is also worth noting, since Sasquatch tracks are often distinguished from bear tracks by the wider forefoot and more defined toe separation.
The behavior described here, the prolonged presence near the campsite, the tent shaking, the vocalizations from the fourth member of the group hearing something peek out from the side of the van, all of it fits a pattern that researchers have documented in other encounter reports. Sasquatch are known to be curious, sometimes territorial, and occasionally bold enough to interact with physical structures like tents or vehicles when they feel they have the upper hand in terms of cover and darkness.
Donna's approach of going to the actual location and letting the witness walk through the events on the ground adds a layer of credibility that studio interviews just can't match. You can see the roads, the tree lines, the distances Todd is describing, and it grounds the story in a way that makes it harder to dismiss.
This one is worth the watch. The footage is on Donna D'Errico's channel under the Mythbound series, and the full interview goes into even more detail about both encounters.