Two Bigfoot Investigations Reveal Dark Figures and Giant Footprints
Posted Monday, August 10, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So I just stumbled across this wild compilation over on the Grim Encounters YouTube channel, and honestly, I had to share it because there are a couple of moments in here that are genuinely hard to shake. If you're into unsettling field investigations and the kind of footage that makes you question everything, you're going to want to check this one out.
The first segment follows a creator named D, who runs a channel called De's Dark Adventures. She's the type who doesn't shy away from the creepy stuff, and this particular case took her to Ohio, where a local farmer had been dealing with bizarre activity on his property for almost three years. We're talking strange noises, shadowy figures darting through his cornfield, a dog that wouldn't stop growling at things nobody could see, and — the part that really got to me — a large, human-shaped figure standing outside his window. The other farmers in the area basically told him he was losing it, but he wasn't convinced. When he found D's videos online, he reached out and asked her to come investigate.
Now, here's where things get interesting. The farmer had been rotating his crops, planting corn every other year and switching to beans in between, because he noticed the strange activity always ramped up when the corn was in. He believed the cornfield was attracting whatever was lurking around his property. D decided to head into the field at night with just a flashlight to see what she could find.
Less than five minutes in, a loud noise ripped through the silence. D stopped, scanned the area, and kept moving toward the sound. Then it happened again — louder, closer. The cornstalks started shaking violently, like something had been hiding right there in the rows, watching her. She backed up, then cautiously approached the spot where the movement had been. The noises kept coming, and they were getting more unsettling by the minute.
Then her flashlight caught something ahead of her. A figure. Standing in the corn. Watching her. She immediately backed away in shock, and what followed was a tense scramble to get out of the field. She became convinced the figure could move faster than she could through the uneven ground. At one point, she spotted it again — this time behind the corn, seemingly staring directly at her — before it vanished. She had to run through the exact section where she'd last seen it just to reach the farmer's house safely.
When she got back, she showed the farmer the footage, and even after reviewing it together, they couldn't explain what they'd seen. The dark figure moved in and out of the rows in a way that made the whole encounter feel impossible to pin down. Tall corn can block visibility just a few rows away, and hidden sounds are notoriously hard to locate, which can make ordinary movement seem way closer or stranger than it really is. But that still doesn't fully account for what D captured that night. Was it a person using the rows to stay hidden? Or was something else entirely following her through the darkness? To this day, neither D nor the farmer has a solid answer.
The second segment shifts to a backpacking investigation by Scott Carpenter, who uploaded his footage on January 24th, 2024. Scott had been exploring remote forests looking for evidence — altered stick structures, unusual sounds, footprints, brief sightings — the kind of stuff that keeps researchers going back into the woods. This trip was a continuation of his earlier work, and he started by returning to a stick structure he'd built during a previous visit. He'd arranged it as a possible territorial marker: a balanced stick, a small wooden pyramid, and several carefully positioned pieces.
When he arrived, the structure had been disturbed. The balance stick was gone — snapped in half and lying on the ground. Scott argued the wind couldn't have done that kind of damage, and he wondered whether it was deliberate. He's seen similar structures moved or destroyed before, and he believes these arrangements might mark trails, groups, or boundaries. The idea that something might be acting with purpose, rather than randomly, is something a lot of researchers in the Sasquatch community have considered over the years. Stick structures, after all, have been a recurring piece of evidence in reported encounters for decades, with some researchers suggesting they could be a form of communication or territorial signaling.
As Scott moved deeper into the forest, he started feeling like he was being watched from multiple directions. Branches snapped nearby, faint rustling came from the dense vegetation, and the tension kept building because he couldn't see what was making the sounds. He stopped frequently to listen and scan the area, wondering if the noises were meant to distract him or steer him somewhere.
Then he caught a glimpse of a dark figure moving quickly between the trees. It lasted only a moment, but he described it as large, dark, and incredibly fast. He climbed to higher ground hoping for a better view, but by the time he got there, whatever he'd seen was gone. No clear evidence, no footprints — just that gut feeling that something was out there, watching.
Later, he found what appeared to be a large footprint pressed into soft ground. He compared it to his own boot — a size 13 — and estimated the print was around 16 to 17 inches long. He pointed out what looked like toe marks and a deep heel impression, and the size and depth suggested something significantly larger than a typical human. He got excited comparing it to tracks linked to other reported encounters, and he wondered whether the creature might be making sounds or briefly revealing itself to influence where he looked — a tactic some researchers have discussed, where Sasquatch might use distraction or misdirection to control an investigator's attention.
By the end of the trip, he'd heard plenty of unexplained noises and caught only brief glimpses, but he wasn't able to record anything conclusive. Still, the disturbed stick structure, the footprint, and that fleeting sighting were enough to keep him going back.
Both of these investigations are worth checking out if you want to see the raw footage and hear the investigators' reactions in real time. There's something about watching someone genuinely process fear and confusion in the moment that you just can't get from a written summary. Head over to Grim Encounters on YouTube and give it a watch — it's the kind of content that'll have you staring at your own backyard a little differently tonight.