Bigfoot Hunter Claims to Find Sasquatch Body in Adirondack Park
Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So a news segment recently surfaced on YouTube that's got the entire community buzzing, and honestly, it's one of those stories you almost have to see to believe. A Bigfoot hunter by the name of Snake, who runs the YouTube channel BIGFOOT HUNTER, was featured on ABC affiliate 7 News with reporter Joseph Sneed, and the claims being made are nothing short of extraordinary.
According to the segment, Snake says he stumbled onto something incredible back in the fall of 2024 while doing what he does best, tracking these elusive beings in Adirondack Park in upstate New York. He described smelling a decaying corpse and knowing immediately something was different about it. After approaching the scene and taking multiple pauses to make sure he wasn't losing his mind, the realization hit him slowly. He had found a body.
The specimen was named Dak, after the park where it was discovered, and Snake claims the most groundbreaking part of this whole thing is that DNA testing confirmed what researchers have suspected for decades. These beings are essentially humanity's long-lost cousins that have been hiding in plain sight all along.
Now here's where things get really interesting. Dak was measured at 8 feet tall and weighed in at around 300 pounds. The anatomical structure is reportedly just like ours, and based on the teeth, the age was estimated to be somewhere between late teens and early twenties. That detail alone raises a lot of questions about lifespan, family structures, and how these beings live if they really are that rare and nomadic.
Snake was pretty candid in the interview about what these beings actually are. He pushed back hard on the friendly forest creature image that pop culture has built up over the years. His description was that they are highly adapted, stealthy, intelligent, and capable of extreme violence. That's a far cry from the gentle giant narrative, and it lines up with a lot of the more serious encounter reports that have come out of the woods over the years.
He also shared some thoughts on where these beings tend to live and why sightings cluster in certain areas. Swampy terrain was mentioned, but the theory that really caught my attention was the idea that they migrate near cave systems. Snake pointed out that Adirondack Park has a massive cave system, and so do Western Pennsylvania, Eastern Ohio, and pretty much everywhere along the West Coast. When you actually map out the cave systems against reported sighting locations, the correlation is hard to ignore.
On top of all this, Snake has a memoir out called The Bigfoot Bible, and he was pretty blunt about what readers should expect. He said it's probably the exact opposite of the actual Bible, calling it raw storytelling that debunks a lot of the older theories floating around out there. He made it clear that in his view, these beings are not great apes, not aliens, not interdimensional travelers, and definitely not angels or Nephilim. That's a pretty bold stance in a community where theories run wild, and it'll be interesting to see how it lands with longtime researchers.
The biggest headline from the whole segment though is that Dak was put on public display at the New York State Fair, which ran from August 26th through September 7th. The last time the body was shown, around 60,000 people came through to see it. Sixty thousand. That number alone tells you how much public interest there is in something like this.
Whether you're fully on board with the DNA claims or still sitting on the fence, this is one of those stories that's worth watching the original segment for yourself. Snake comes across as someone who's been deep in this work for a long time, and the details he shares about tracking methods, migration patterns, and the cave system theory give researchers plenty to chew on. The video is up on the BIGFOOT HUNTER channel, and it's worth carving out a few minutes to hear the full interview.