Washington Hunter Details Multiple Bigfoot Encounters in National Forest

# Washington Wilderness Witness Shares Years of Unnerving Encounters on Reel_Adventures Channel A recent upload from the YouTube channel **Reel_Adventures: Dogman Encounters** features one of the most compelling multi-encounter compilations to surface in a while. The host walks through years' worth of experiences submitted by a viewer who goes by "Crazy" (gamer tag Crazy Hazy74), a 51-year-old lifelong outdoorsman from northeastern Washington State, just north of Spokane and right up against the Canadian border. The guy has a million acres of Forest Service land practically in his backyard, and the encounters he's sharing span everything from security camera footage to up-close structural finds in the Kaniksu National Forest. What makes this one stand out is the range. Crazy isn't a casual hiker who wandered into the woods once and saw a shadow. He describes himself as a former hardcore skeptic — the kind who used to roll his eyes at the Finding Bigfoot crew — until roughly 13 or 14 years ago when an encounter with a Sasquatch changed his entire worldview. He's spent decades hunting, tracking, and camping in these woods, which gives his observations serious weight. ## The Dogman Camera Incident The headline encounter happened in August 2024, around 1:00 a.m. Crazy had been playing video games, shut everything off to head to bed, and glanced at his security camera monitor. Something was there that hadn't been there when he started playing. He watched it for over an hour. Here's where it gets wild. At one point he got up to shut off the kitchen light, and the figure on the camera turned its head toward the living room window — as if tracking the change in light from outside. The host notes there's a photograph Crazy sent showing the eyes looking to the side, and while the host isn't presenting it as proof, it's the kind of detail that makes you lean in. After watching for over an hour, Crazy loaded his 12-gauge with a slug, walked out the back door of his double-wide, and fired a shot into the ground about ten feet from where the thing was laying. He yelled at it to go find a meal somewhere else. When he came back inside, the figure was still visible on the camera. He went back out a second time, creeping down to the spot with the shotgun pointed, and by the time he got there, it was gone. The kicker? His wife had fallen asleep on the couch with a Harry Potter movie playing loudly, and Crazy suspects the creature had been out there listening to it. The casual mention at the end — "some of them eat people" — lands hard after the Harry Potter detail. ## The Kaniksu Lean-To and the Pushed-Over Tree The second encounter took place in the Kaniksu National Forest, about 50 miles north of Spokane and only five miles from Crazy's home. He was deer hunting the first fall after his initial run-in and came across something deeply unusual: a giant boulder with a pile of fresh, steel-green Douglas fir limbs stacked against it. The limbs were roughly eight feet long and two inches in diameter, all snapped clean — no cut marks anywhere. Crazy climbed on top of the boulder to check for more signs, then looked underneath and found a hole or cave running around a corner he couldn't see past. For the first time in his life, he says, he got a genuinely bad feeling in the woods. He wasn't about to crawl in. On his way back to his car — about three-quarters of a mile through a meadow and along a tree-lined strip — a tree was violently pushed over right next to him. Not a wind fall, not a rotten tree giving way. He could hear the green roots popping as it went down. Something had followed him, or at least let him know it was watching. Structures like the one Crazy describes — stacked limbs forming a lean-to against a boulder, with what appears to be a den or shelter beneath — have been reported in Sasquatch research for decades. Researchers like Dr. Jeff Meldrum and the late John Bindernagel have documented similar formations in the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia, often in remote, hard-to-access terrain. The fact that Crazy found this in the Kaniksu, which stretches across parts of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, puts it right in the heart of historical sighting territory. ## Why This One's Worth Your Time The video also teases additional encounters — including an elk hunting story from 2011 that was just getting started when the discussion cuts off — and Crazy mentions having had Bigfoot experiences bad enough that he no longer camps in a tent, goes hunting, or hikes through the forest. That's a pretty significant lifestyle change for a guy who spent most of his life in the woods. The host handles the stories with a healthy dose of transparency. He makes it clear he wasn't there, can't verify anything, and is simply passing along what was sent to him. The photographs Crazy submitted — of campsites, landmarks, an old homestead, and the specific details tied to his stories — are presented without any claim of proof. That kind of straightforward presentation is refreshing, and it lets the encounters speak for themselves. If you're into long-form witness accounts from people with serious woods experience, this one's a must-watch. The security camera detail alone is enough to keep you up at night, and the Kaniksu structure story has the kind of slow-building dread that's hard to fake. Head over to Reel_Adventures: Dogman Encounters on YouTube and check it out for yourself.