Bigfoot Caught on Camera Dragging Wolf to Mine Shaft
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
A mine security camera from 1988 has surfaced showing what appears to be a Sasquatch dragging a dead gray wolf across a worksite in the dead of night, and the footage is sending shockwaves through the research community. Captured at the Black Ridge mine deep in the Bitterroot Range, the black-and-white fisheye recording shows the tall, hair-covered figure walking deliberately through a gravel yard under the sickly yellow glow of halogen flood lights, pulling the wolf's body behind him without any visible effort.
What makes this footage stand out isn't just the size of the creature, estimated at nearly 10 feet tall based on the warning sign visible in frame, but the behavior. The Sasquatch didn't eat the wolf. It didn't hide it. It walked straight to the entrance of mineshaft number seven, carefully placed the carcass across the barrier, and then raised its face to look directly into the camera. Those red reflective eyes staring through the screen give anyone watching the footage chills. It's the kind of deliberate, almost ritualistic behavior that researchers have whispered about for decades but rarely see documented.
The backstory adds even more weight to the footage. Two security guards, Jack Mercer and Gary, were working the night shift on October 17th and 18th, 1988. Mercer had served with an army engineering unit before coming to Black Ridge, so he knew how to read vibrations traveling through structures. Around 12:15 a.m., the seismic recorder started showing strange pulses at exact 12-second intervals. The needle would jerk left, return to center, then jump again. Mercer compared the sensor locations and determined the vibration was rising from more than 300 feet underground, not from the surface. The pulses were too steady and too uniform to be rockfall or equipment.
Then the perimeter sensors started triggering, moving progressively westward across the northern fence line as if something was traveling beneath the ground. By 1:15 a.m., Mercer had filled half a notebook with timestamps and sensor codes. The cameras showed nothing but fog and empty gravel until 2:14 a.m., when the halogen lamp on pole three flickered and the western perimeter alarm went off.
That's when camera 4 caught the figure. The magnetic interference matched every step the creature took, and the proportions were unmistakable. Dense black hair thickest across the shoulders, back, and thighs. A head that sat low between the shoulders with almost no visible neck. Arms long enough to reach nearly to the knees. Each stride covered about six feet based on the marker posts in the yard. The Sasquatch dragged the adult gray wolf by its rear leg, the wolf's head striking the gravel with every step, no blood trail visible.
For longtime followers of Sasquatch behavior reports, this kind of carcass placement isn't entirely unheard of. Researchers have long documented accounts from Indigenous traditions and early settler journals describing Sasquatch leaving animal remains at cave entrances or near specific landmarks, sometimes interpreted as territorial markers or warnings. The Bitterroot Range itself has a rich history of sightings stretching back well over a century, with the surrounding forests providing exactly the kind of dense, remote cover these creatures are believed to favor.
The footage cuts off before the full story is revealed, but what's shown is enough to keep anyone talking. The deliberate placement of the wolf, the direct eye contact with the camera, and the underground seismic activity all point to something far more aware and intentional than a simple animal encounter. Mercer himself didn't call the pulses a heartbeat, but the thought crossed his mind, and anyone watching can understand why.
This is the kind of clip that deserves a full watch with the lights low and the volume up. The original upload goes into much greater detail about the seismic readings, the sensor triggers, and the slow-motion breakdown of the figure's movement across the yard. Anyone interested in mine encounters, underground activity reports, or Sasquatch behavior studies will want to see this one for themselves.