Woman Recalls 48-Second Face-to-Face Encounter with 9-Foot Bigfoot
Posted Saturday, August 29, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So I just stumbled across this wild video over on the BigfootStacy YouTube channel, and honestly, I had to share it because there are so many layers to unpack here. The main story that kicks things off is absolutely jaw-dropping — a woman describes being out on an expedition when suddenly a white light shot out of a tree right at her face. She threw her arm up to block it, and her friend Sherry asked what was happening. She said she could feel energy running down her arm and heard her ribs pop back into place. Three days later, X-rays confirmed her ribs had healed. Three days! If that's not the kind of story that makes you stop scrolling, I don't know what is.
But that's just the opening act. The video then shifts into a collection of news clips about Sasquatch sightings popping up all over the place — campers being spooked, sheriff's offices posting safety tips on social media, and multiple witnesses describing a large, furry figure moving through the woods that didn't look like any bear or coyote they'd ever seen. One person even estimated the height at around 10 feet. You know sightings are picking up when local law enforcement is telling folks how to stay safe out there.
Then comes the meat of the video — an extended interview with a woman who had not just one, but multiple encounters, and her background makes her testimony especially compelling. She spent years as a highway patrol officer and then a correctional officer, so she was literally trained in report writing and professional witness observation. When she says she knows how to document what she sees, she means it.
Her first encounter happened at 3:30 in the morning when she stepped out her back door on the way to work and came face to face with a nine-foot-tall male standing right there. She got every detail because a motion-sensor light from Costco came on and spotlighted him. She describes him as having smooth, grayish-black skin, a brow ridge, and completely black eyes — no white sclera at all, unlike human eyes. And here's the part that gave me chills: she says he didn't look like an ape. He looked more like an ancient human. That's a description that lines up with a lot of the older Indigenous accounts of Sasquatch being more humanoid than ape-like, which researchers like Dr. Jeff Meldrum have noted over the years.
The encounter got even stranger. After about 48 seconds of staring at each other, she says she got "grabbed" — not physically, but by this overwhelming wave of fear she'd never experienced before. And despite years of dealing with riots and hand-to-hand combat in her career, this fear hit her out of nowhere. The only thought she could form was, "He's going to eat me." And the moment that thought entered her mind, the Sasquatch apparently gave her this disgusted look and just walked off into the forest. She ran for the garage and told her husband they needed to sell the house. She wanted to move into a five-story high-rise at the very top. Can you imagine being so shaken that you want to never touch ground level again?
But she didn't sell. And what happened next on their 20-acre property is honestly some of the most fascinating behavioral evidence I've heard in a long time. A whole family group moved into the area — a mom with a baby on her hip, a teenager, and another shy one she never got to see. Different-sized footprints in the snow confirmed multiple individuals, with the biggest measuring 18 inches long and 11 inches wide. For reference, that's well beyond what even a large bear would leave, and her own horses couldn't match those prints.
Now here's where it gets really interesting from a research standpoint. These Sasquatches were interacting with her horses in a very specific way. They were braiding the horses' manes — and not just any old braid. It was a three-strand braid with a loop at the end, tucked back up into the braid itself. She recognized it immediately because that's exactly how she used to braid her own long hair when she worked in corrections, so it wouldn't come loose. The precision and the matching technique is the kind of detail that's hard to write off as coincidence or wind damage. She's lived in the Mojave Desert where the wind blows 365 days a year, and she's seen every kind of wind roll imaginable. None of them produce a braided loop tucked back into the hair. She actually cut some of those braids off and gave them to Jim Meyers, who's got them on display at his museum for anyone who wants to see them in person.
She also talks about the hair samples she collected from the top strand of a four-strand barbed wire fence — big clumps of black, brown, or cinnamon-colored hair that she sent off to a lab for analysis. Every single time, the results came back identifying it as raccoon guard hair. Her response to that is pretty pointed: she wants to know what raccoon is trapezing itself up to the top wire of a barbed wire fence. Fair point.
She also gets into why she thinks the scientific community stays quiet about Sasquatch, and honestly, her reasoning tracks with what a lot of researchers have speculated. The lumber industry, logging, hunting — these are massive economic forces, and acknowledging a large, undiscovered hominid sharing the forests would disrupt all of it. She points out that US Forest Service rangers have almost certainly been encountering Sasquatch for decades, but they're not allowed to say anything in an official capacity. Ask them off the record, though, and the stories come out.
This video is absolutely worth the watch if you want to hear a detailed, firsthand account from someone with a law enforcement background who isn't easily shaken. The healing light story at the beginning is wild on its own, but the braided horse hair evidence and the face-to-face encounter description make this one stand out. Definitely check it out when you get a chance.