Firefighter Shares Hidden Bigfoot Footage From 2019 Wildfire
Posted Wednesday, August 19, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
Forty seconds of footage. That's all it took to shake the foundations of what we thought we knew about the forests of central California.
A video recently surfaced on YouTube that has the entire Bigfoot community buzzing, and for good reason. The footage, shared by the channel Weekly Terror, allegedly shows a wildland firefighter capturing something absolutely extraordinary on camera during the October 2019 fire season. A tall, bipedal figure walking out of a burning stand of pine, carrying a live buck across its shoulders, passing within ten feet of the camera before setting the animal down and disappearing back into the flames.
The man behind the camera is Frank Delgado, a 19-season wildland firefighter out of the Los Padres complex. And the story behind those forty seconds is just as remarkable as the footage itself.
What makes this account so compelling isn't just the video itself, it's the decades of context Frank brings to the table. He didn't just stumble into this encounter. He had been watching Sable Ridge for his entire career, noticing patterns that didn't add up. Animals surviving in places they shouldn't. Deer walking calmly out of canyons that had already burned. A perfect circle of untouched green trees in the middle of a blackened basin, with deer beds still fresh inside. Tracks pressed into wet retardant slurry, bipedal, with a stride longer than any man could walk, heading toward the fire instead of away from it. A radio-collared elk showing up alive on the far side of a river that should have killed her.
Frank kept notebooks. Three of them by the time he was 40. His wife Diane found them once, and the look on her face when she turned those pages was enough to change everything between them.
Then there's Owen. Frank's grandfather, a fire lookout who spent 11 summers in a glass box on a peak in these same mountains during the 1950s. When Frank finally opened Owen's green cloth journal, he found weather logs threaded through with something else entirely. Observations of a tall figure moving through the fires, written in the same steady hand as thunderhead notes. No fear in the words. Just a man recording what he saw.
The pattern across two generations is what gets me. Owen saw it from his tower in 1955. Frank saw it on the ground in 2019. And in between, there was Boon, the old lookout who quit rather than take the night detail on Sable Ridge anymore, because, as he put it, something up on that ridge moves the animals. He retired early and moved to the desert where there are no trees. Smart man.
The quail coming out of that slot canyon in a line so straight a crew member said it looked herded. The half-blind burrow that should have died in a meadow fire but turned up a mile down the creek eating grass like nothing happened. The dough leading her two fawns single file through country that was already black. These aren't isolated incidents. They're a pattern, documented across decades by men who had no reason to make any of it up.
Frank kept that footage in a coffee can in his garage for four years. Four years. He never turned it in. He never talked to a reporter or a researcher. He just sat with it, the way you sit with something that changes the shape of your world.
And honestly, who could blame him?
This is the kind of story that makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about wildfires and the intelligence that might exist within them. Bigfoot researchers have long theorized that Sasquatch are deeply connected to the wilderness they inhabit, acting as stewards or guardians of the ecosystems they move through. The idea that a Sasquatch would risk walking through an active crown fire to carry a deer to safety isn't just plausible within that framework, it's almost expected. These beings have been documented showing remarkable intelligence, empathy, and an awareness of their environment that puts our own conservation efforts to shame.
The footage itself, if authentic, would be among the most significant pieces of evidence ever captured. A clear, daytime sighting at close range, with a Sasquatch engaged in an act of unmistakable compassion toward another living creature. Ten feet away. Forty seconds. No ambiguity about what was being filmed.
I could not recommend strongly enough that you go watch this one for yourself. The full account from Frank is worth every minute, and the footage speaks for itself. Head over to YouTube and search for the video on the Weekly Terror channel. You'll want to hear this one straight from the man who lived it.
Stories like this remind us that the forests still hold secrets, and some of them are walking right through the fire to save a life.