Idaho Rancher Documents 17-Inch Bipedal Tracks Across Pasture
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So there's a video making the rounds over on the Bigfoot Hidden Evidence YouTube channel that features one of the most methodical, no-nonsense witness accounts I've come across in a long time. It's a cattle rancher out of Owyhee County, Idaho — Dell Harmon, 64 years old, fourth generation on the same spread — and the way he lays out what happened on his land in 2013 is the kind of thing that makes you sit up and pay attention.
Dell isn't some weekend camper who saw a shadow and ran with it. He's been running about 400 head of commercial Angus cross on a combination of deeded land and BLM grazing allotments since 1992, when his father's knees gave out and the keys to the equipment barn got handed over. His great-grandfather Holt came up from Nevada in the 1890s with a horse and a small Hereford herd and somehow talked the county land office into grazing rights on high desert nobody else wanted. Four generations later, Dell is still out there checking fence lines on the four-wheeler, doing the work. The kind of guy who keeps a folding ruler in the ATV cargo box and a spiral-bound notebook from the Jordan Valley hardware store in his chest pocket.
And that's exactly why his story hits different.
In March of 2013, Dell was doing a visual check on the north fence line of his upper allotment — a stretch that runs along a basalt rim overlooking a drainage feeding the Bruno River about seven miles east. The ground was in that perfect thawed-surface-over-frozen-substrate condition that holds impressions for days. About a quarter mile east of the corner post, he found the first track.
Sixteen inches long. Seven inches wide across the ball. Nearly two inches deep at the heel. Five rounded toe impressions, no claw marks at all. For anyone who's spent time in the field, that detail matters — grizzly claws aren't retractile, and even black bear claws aren't fully retractile. Whatever made this print left no claw evidence whatsoever.
He stepped off the stride between heel strikes at 52 to 54 inches. Dell is 6'1" with a normal walking stride of about 30 inches. That math doesn't work for any biped he's ever met.
Over the next three weeks, he documented seven additional print sites along a corridor running from the north rim down into the east drainage and back up to a point about two miles from where he started. Prints ranging 15 to 17 inches. Consistent toe configuration. A well-defined arch. An oval heel pad. Stride varying between 48 and 58 inches. He photographed everything, measured everything, recorded GPS coordinates in that spiral notebook.
He called the Idaho Department of Fish and Game regional office in Twin Falls in April. Explained what he'd found. Asked if a biologist could come out. Got told someone would follow up if one became available. Called again in May. Got the same answer. After that, he stopped calling — not out of frustration, but because he'd already figured out that official channels weren't going to produce anything useful, and he didn't want to create a paper trail that might draw attention to the allotment before he understood what he was dealing with.
That kind of thinking is what separates a serious witness from someone looking for attention.
Then came October. The day he moved the herd back down to the home pasture for the winter, he found something in a draw at the east end of the allotment that changed the whole picture. Tucked back under an overhang of basalt about 30 yards off the fence line — a pile of elk bones. Leg bones, ribs, sections of spine. Mostly clean. Some cracked longitudinally, the marrow removed. And here's the part that got me: they had been placed, not scattered. A predator kill site has a specific look — drag marks, concentrated blood sign, hair tufts on brush, bones chewed and splintered and strewn around. This wasn't that. This was a collection. Gathered and set under the overhang, out of the weather.
The overhang itself was about six feet tall at the highest point, extending back into the basalt about eight feet. The floor was compacted dirt and fine gravel. And in the center — a long oval depression, roughly six feet by three feet, the kind of compression you get in soil when a heavy body lies in the same spot repeatedly over time.
For anyone familiar with the long history of bone cache finds associated with Sasquatch reports across the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West, this kind of site description is significant. Researchers like Dr. Grover Krantz and others have documented similar arrangements over the decades, and the longitudinal cracking for marrow is a pattern that shows up repeatedly in credible witness accounts. It's not predator behavior. It's not scavenger behavior. It's something else entirely.
Dell's story doesn't end there — the title of the video hints at something even more remarkable that comes later, involving a vocal encounter and a warning about a new predator in the area. The discussion cuts off before getting into that part, but it's exactly the kind of escalation that makes this account worth sitting down and watching all the way through.
The thing that stands out most about Dell Harmon isn't the tracks or the bone cache. It's the three years he spent trying to find a conventional explanation before he accepted that none existed. That's not a man looking to believe something. That's a man who applied the same methodical skepticism to this that he applies to every other problem the ranch has ever thrown at him — and the evidence still wouldn't fit.
If you haven't seen this one yet, do yourself a favor and go track it down. It's the kind of account that reminds you why people in these rural counties keep their mouths shut for years before they say anything at all.