Anthropologist Claims Sasquatch Are Psychic Beings Who Read Minds
Posted Saturday, August 29, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So I was scrolling through YouTube the other night, looking for something interesting to dig into, and I stumbled across this absolutely fascinating clip from Coast to Coast AM Clips. It features an applied anthropologist who has dedicated decades of his life to studying Sasquatch, and let me tell you, his perspective is unlike anything you typically hear in the mainstream research community.
This researcher, who specializes in healthcare for Native American peoples, started his journey into the Sasquatch phenomenon as a hobby. But over the years, it became so much more than that. He began conducting long expeditions, sometimes lasting up to two years, going out into the field much like Jane Goodall did with her chimpanzee studies. In fact, he actually conducted an ethnographic field study among the Tacuna Indians of Upper Amazonia back in 1973, working alongside the Colombian Institute of Anthropology. He's traveled all over the world, even into the Himalayas, investigating these unknown hominids.
What really caught my attention was his take on the psychic and interdimensional nature of Sasquatch. He claims to have had over 400 experiences with them and over 300 experiences with ETs over a 12-year period. And here's where it gets really interesting, he says the Sasquatch are profoundly psychic beings. They can literally read your mind. He noticed that whenever he brought a camera into the field, they would stay away from him. But when he went without one, they would walk right up to him.
He shared this wild story about hearing a voice say, "I am the Sasquatch man. I am of the Sasquatch people, and I am here watching you right now." And then another voice chimed in saying, "I am a star person and I too am here observing you and have been for many, many years, longer than you know or could ever understand." He even described a moment where someone with him was getting upset, and when he asked if they were okay, they freaked out realizing they could also see the 7 and a half foot tall Sasquatch standing right there.
The researcher refers to Sasquatch as a "human type," a nature people who don't need clothing. He describes them as paraphysical interdimensional beings, which is quite a mouthful, but he says it took him a long time to even accept that himself. He questioned his own reality until he met others who had similar experiences, which helped objectify what he was going through. Now he says he has 60 people who've come forward with Bigfoot telepathic experiences, Bigfoot UFO experiences, and Bigfoot ET experiences in various combinations.
One of the most compelling parts of his talk was his criticism of mainstream Bigfoot researchers. He estimates that 95 to 98% of them don't believe in the Bigfoot-UFO connection and consider anything psychic or telepathic attributed to Sasquatch as absurd. He points out that none of them have actually had these experiences themselves, and they shut it all out based on their own personal belief systems. He calls this subjective data collecting, and he's been guilty of it himself in the past.
He also had some strong words for the hunters out there. He says most scientists involved in the Bigfoot search are really just Bigfoot hunters who believe in shooting a Sasquatch to get a body, treating them like some new species of butterfly that needs to be dissected. He argues that these people don't really understand who Bigfoot is, they just want a corpse. And he considers this essentially wanting to murder another human type, because in his view, Sasquatch are people, not animals.
His approach was completely different. He never brought guns into the field. He wanted to make contact in the sense of friendship, bringing food and herbs, using gestural language like the Native American peoples do, simply holding up his hand to show he had no weapon. He wanted to communicate that he meant no harm.
He also touched on the famous Roger Patterson film from October 20th, 1967, taken at Bluff Creek, California. He mentioned that Russian scientists spent six years analyzing the film frame by frame and concluded it was a real creature. Meanwhile, the Smithsonian Institute refused to even scientifically analyze it, subjectively saying it couldn't be real and was probably someone in a monkey suit. It's pretty telling when foreign scientists are more open-minded about potential evidence than our own institutions.
The researcher also published in the International Journal of Cryptozoolology, which is based in Tucson and consists of world scientists interested in investigating the Yeti, Sasquatch, Nessie, and many different unknown animals worldwide. He's not some fringe character, he's a legitimate academic who has put in the work.
One story that really stood out was about the 60th person who walked into his office just a week before the interview. This man had seen him on television, had just arrived from Washington State, and wanted to talk right away. He'd had lots of telepathic experiences with Sasquatch, though no ET or UFO connection. The Sasquatch even asked this man if he would go with them and spend time understanding who they were so he could come back and tell people they were real people and not animals. The information this man shared matched what the other 59 people had told him, plus his own experiences.
If you're even slightly interested in the deeper, more esoteric side of Sasquatch research, this clip is absolutely worth your time. It challenges so much of what the mainstream research community pushes and offers a perspective that respects Sasquatch as intelligent beings with their own agency, culture, and connection to something bigger than our everyday reality. Go check it out and let your mind wander a bit.