Marine Recalls Sasquatch Encounter Near Colorado's Seven Falls

So there's this talk that was posted on the Modern Explorer YouTube channel where a guy named Mateo Ramro gets up in front of a crowd at what sounds like a community event in Crest Town to share some of his Sasquatch experiences. And honestly? This one is worth checking out. Mateo's background is pretty unique. He's half Ecuadorian, half Coloradan, grew up splitting time between South America and the front range of Colorado, and then joined the Marine Corps where he ended up doing infantry and getting trained up by retired FBI and CIA agents for intelligence work in Afghanistan. While deployed, he was actually finding ancient ruins out there — the guy clearly has an explorer's mindset. After getting out of the military, dealing with some heavy trauma, and having a business venture in Ecuador fall apart (his neighbors literally broke into his house and stole all his merchandise), he ended up working at a place called Seven Falls in Colorado Springs. If you know anything about that area, Seven Falls sits right up against Pike National Forest, basically at the base of Pikes Peak. And that whole region has a long reputation for being... weird. There are stories about old tunnels, creatures, ghost sightings, orb photos — the whole paranormal menu. Mateo admits he dismissed most of it as either his friends messing with him or just drunk tourists seeing things. That is, until one particular night with his girlfriend at the time. Here's where it gets interesting. His girlfriend Caitlyn had been feeling off for several nights — that classic "we're being watched" feeling that a lot of witnesses describe before an encounter. Mateo kept brushing it off. But on this specific evening, after they'd been hanging out at the picnic tables near Seven Falls for about 30 minutes, things started happening. They started hearing distinct sounds coming from the dense scrub oak brush about 30 feet off the road. Mateo initially wrote it off as mule deer — and Colorado's front range absolutely does have a ton of mule deer, so that's not an unreasonable assumption. But deer don't typically just hang out making noise in one spot for half an hour. And then the pebbles started getting thrown. This is the part that really got my attention. Mateo describes a sequence where he goes to investigate with just his phone flashlight, and the sound signatures keep shifting — one stops, two more appear further down. Then a pebble gets thrown behind him. Then another one lands right in front of him while he's walking back. And here's the thing — his girlfriend is too far away to have thrown them, and she's freaking out at this point. What I find compelling about this account is how it matches up with patterns reported by other Sasquatch witnesses. The territorial behavior — the way the sounds seemed to be moving around them, almost herding or testing them. The object throwing, which is something that comes up over and over in encounter reports across North America. And the fact that Caitlyn's intuition was pinging hard for days before the actual event. A lot of researchers have noted that people often report feeling watched or uneasy in an area before a sighting, and the Sasquatch seems to be observing before making contact. Mateo and Caitlyn ended up going into the brush on a deer trail to investigate, which honestly is the kind of brave (or maybe foolish) move that a lot of encounter witnesses describe. The discussion cuts off right in the middle of his description of what happened next, so you'll have to watch the video to hear how it actually played out. The Modern Explorer channel has a bunch of these kinds of talks uploaded, and this one stands out because Mateo's military background gives him a really analytical way of breaking down what he experienced. He's not just telling a campfire story — he's dissecting the behavior patterns, what he got right, what he got wrong, and how it eventually led him down some pretty wild rabbit holes involving Carl Jung, synchronicity, and interdimensional reality. That's a whole other conversation, but it's worth hearing how he connects those dots. If you're into firsthand encounter stories from people who aren't necessarily trying to be "Bigfoot hunters" but just happened to have something happen to them, this is a solid one. Check it out.