Tree Planter Recounts Close Encounter With Two Bigfoot in BC

There's something about a firsthand Sasquatch encounter that just hits different, especially when the witness comes across as grounded and credible. That's exactly what makes this interview over on the Bigfoot Witnesses channel so compelling. A guy recounts a face-to-face moment with what he believes were two Sasquatches while working a remote tree-planting contract in northern British Columbia back in 2003 or 2004, and the details are wild. The setting alone is worth talking about. This wasn't some weekend hike a few miles from a trailhead. He describes being flown by helicopter roughly 20 to 30 minutes into the wilderness from a staging point that was already an hour and a half down gravel service roads off the Alaska Highway. The closest settlement was a gas station camp called Wonowan, and even that was 45 minutes away. For anyone unfamiliar with how remote the Canadian wilderness actually gets, this is the kind of place where you can go days without seeing another human being who isn't part of your work crew. So when this guy says he and his planting partner were the first ones flown into their cut block, he means it. No one was waiting to prank them. No one even knew they were there. That detail matters because skeptics always want to know, "Well, couldn't someone have just been messing with you?" Out there, the answer is pretty clearly no. The encounter itself happened when he wandered off the tree line to answer a call of nature and found himself in a small clearing overlooking the valley. That's when he came across the creature less than 15 feet away. He describes it as roughly 8 feet tall, around 800 pounds, with hair covering the entire body except the face. He mentions a very wide, pronounced nose and what he calls an ominous odor. Anyone who's spent time around wildlife knows that smell is often the first thing that tips you off that something big is nearby, and a heavy, unusual scent in the bush is one of those classic Sasquatch encounter markers that comes up again and again in witness reports. What happens next is what really got my attention. He decided to fire a shot near the creature to see if it would scare it off. Nothing. No reaction at all. Then he heard a noise from his right rear, and a second one walked out from behind some brush and joined the first. At that point, he did what any sensible person would do. He took off running, just like his dog had done earlier. The interview also touches on something interesting that doesn't get talked about enough. The host mentions there are supposedly four different types of what people call Sasquatch or Bigfoot. That's a theory that pops up in certain research circles, suggesting regional variations or even different species entirely sharing the same general description. It's one of those ideas that makes you wonder how little we actually know about what might be walking around in these vast forested regions. There's also a breakdown of a five-phase approach to investigating Sasquatch reports that gets mentioned early in the video. Phase one is identifying opportunities, phase two is conducting investigations of witnesses and locations, phase three is profiling research areas based on feeding habits and movement patterns, phase four is creating an intercept plan, and phase five is the actual intercept. It's a structured way of thinking about how to approach a reported sighting, and it lines up with how a lot of serious researchers approach the subject. One thing that adds weight to this particular witness is his background. His dad is a retired conservation officer and problem wildlife manager with 35 years of search and rescue experience in southern Alberta. He grew up in provincial parks, hunting and tracking since he was a kid. This isn't someone unfamiliar with the woods or prone to mistaking a bear for something else. When he says the thing was massive and had no reaction to a gunshot, that's coming from someone who knows exactly what a startled animal looks like. Encounters like this one are exactly why researchers keep pushing into the remote corners of Canada and the Pacific Northwest. The Yukon and northern BC have long been considered prime Sasquatch territory, with dense forest, rough terrain, and very few people. If something large and hair-covered is moving through those mountains, it's going to be the workers, the trappers, and the park rangers who stumble across it first, not the weekend hikers. The full interview is worth the watch if you want to hear the whole story in the witness's own words. The way he describes the moment he realized what he was looking at, and the decision-making process of whether to shoot near it or run, really paints a picture. You can find it on the Bigfoot Witnesses channel on YouTube.