Game Camera Captures Sasquatch Near Historic Ape Canyon Site

A new piece of footage making the rounds on YouTube has got the community buzzing, and for good reason. The clip, shared by the channel Weekly Terror and JustAlexFoot, tells the story of a Washington timber lot owner who captured something on his game cameras that he says doesn't match any animal he's ever seen in 40 years of walking those woods. The account comes from Kabat Hargrove, a 46-year-old man whose family has owned 40 acres in the Mount St. Helens foothills since the 1950s. He runs 12 game cameras across his property, checking them religiously, the way most people check their phones. So when something unusual showed up on one of those cameras in October of 2024, he had thousands of reference photos to compare it to. The first image came in past midnight on a Thursday. A shape at the edge of the upper salt lick, standing at the tree line. The camera caught four frames before it vanished. In the first frame, it's there. By the fourth, only the empty lick remains. Hargrove describes the figure as too tall and too broad to be a man, standing on two legs with a posture that didn't look like a bear standing up on a stump, which is what his friend Dale initially suggested when shown the image. What makes this account stand out is what happened next. Over the following nights, the figure returned, getting closer each time. By the third night, Hargrove and his two friends were firing through the cabin walls into the dark. Their hunting dog, a shepherd named Ranger who had been on that mountain a hundred times and feared nothing, refused to leave the cabin the first night, pressing himself into a corner and whining in a way Hargrove had never heard before. By the second morning, Ranger bolted through an open door and was never seen again. The physical evidence Hargrove recovered is what really grabs you. A barefoot print in the soft ground at the salt lick, better than 19 inches long, with five distinct toes, pressed deep enough to suggest something carrying serious weight. The stride between prints was longer than a man could cover without jumping, and whatever made it had covered it walking. He also found a clump of coarse, long hair snagged on a barbed wire fence at a height of seven feet, well above where any known animal would rub against it. The location adds another layer to the story. Hargrove's property sits roughly nine miles from the site of the famous 1924 Ape Canyon incident, where five gold miners working a claim called the Vander White were driven from their cabin by a group of tall, hairy beings that reportedly threw stones at the roof and reached through the walls all night. The miners abandoned $200 worth of gear, real money at the time, and never returned. One of them, Fred Beck, wrote the whole thing down decades later. The canyon got its name from what those miners described. Standing over that 19-inch print, Hargrove says the Ape Canyon story stopped being a campfire legend and became something else entirely. Same mountain, same trees, a hundred years apart. The video walks through Hargrove's full account in his own words, along with the trail camera footage and clips his friends captured on their phones before things went sideways. It's one of those stories that hits different because of the details, the dog that wouldn't stay, the print next to a size 12 boot, the hair on the fence at seven feet. These are the kinds of small, specific things that either mean everything or nothing, depending on where you stand. Worth setting aside some time for this one. The footage and the full retelling are over on the Weekly Terror and JustAlexFoot channel, and it's the kind of video that sticks with you after the screen goes dark.