Gray Hominid Sighting and Deer Bones Found in Catskill Mountains

There's a fascinating interview circulating on YouTube right now that's got the Sasquatch community buzzing, and honestly, it's one of those encounters that sticks with you long after you've heard it. The clip features a woman named Lisa who lives in the northern Catskill Mountains of Upstate New York, and she has quite a story to tell. What makes her account so compelling isn't just the sighting itself, but the buildup of evidence she accumulated over several years before she ever laid eyes on one of these elusive hominids. Lisa's journey into the field started a few years back when she was laid up after some surgeries and started reading up on Sasquatch research. Like a lot of people who grew up spending time in the woods, she quickly realized there's a lot of nonsense out there mixed in with the legitimate research. But she kept coming back to the work of field researcher William Jevning, who actually hosts the channel where this interview appears. Her first real discovery came in the spring of 2018 when she ventured into a secluded area near a mountain stream, away from the summer tourists that flood her region. What she found was a fresh line of tree breaks that she followed from the stream up to a plateau and around the mountain. When she sent the photos to Jevning, instead of dismissing them, he took them seriously. That kind of validation from a researcher with 43 years of field experience is what keeps people going. Then came the hair samples. Lisa found hair caught on some barbed wire near her research area and sent it off for analysis. Some of it turned out to be from local coyotes, but the other sample was something else entirely. Unfortunately, the discussion cuts off before we get the full results, but the fact that it wasn't identified as any common local animal is significant. But the real meat of the interview is her sighting from January 30th, just about a month before this conversation took place. Lisa had recently moved to the opposite end of her road, which leads toward what she calls the research center. Most of the properties in her area back right up to state land in the Catskill Wilderness Area, and the last mile of her road has a sharp ravine on one side with a stream running through it, the same stream that flows down from her research area. She had actually walked that ravine in the summer and thought to herself that it would be a perfect travel corridor for a Sasquatch, a greenway where they could move at night unseen and head down to the valley where the farms are. Turns out she was right. She had stopped at her old residence to pick up mail, window down, driving slowly by the ravine, and happened to glance down. What she saw stopped her cold. About 75 to 100 yards away, walking along the trail closest to the road, was what she describes as a six-foot, solid gray figure that looked like a chimpanzee, but not quite. Here's where her description gets really interesting. She immediately went home and started comparing what she saw to chimpanzee anatomy, and that's when she realized this thing had features that were essentially reversed from a chimp. The lower part of its face jutted out more than the top, which is the opposite of what you see in apes. She saw no lips, but the mouth was incredibly wide, extending almost ear to ear, though she couldn't actually see any ears. The color was a uniform cement gray, and the hair was surprisingly short. It was slender but not emaciated, and it lacked the heavy brow ridge you'd expect in a mature adult. All of these details point to what researchers typically classify as a juvenile. The whole encounter lasted only about three seconds. She was so stunned she didn't stop the car in time, and by the time she turned around and got out to look, it had vanished into the trees. What happened next is what really elevates this account. Lisa went back the next day, this time prepared to look for tracks, but unfortunately the freeze-thaw cycles in the area had destroyed most of the ground evidence. Deer tracks were barely visible. But she did find something strange on the trail where she believed the creature had been walking, 24 deer rib bones, all within a two-foot area. Exactly half were from an adult deer, and one set was definitely from a fawn. Finding that kind of concentrated remains in one spot raises questions about what was happening in that ravine. During the interview, Jevning brings up his own experience with a gray-colored Sasquatch he saw back in 1988, and the two compare notes. He mentions that most people associate gray coloration with old age, but Lisa's sighting had all the physical indicators of a younger individual, slender build, no heavy brow ridge, shorter hair. Jevning counters with the possibility that his gray one had always been that color, having been seen repeatedly in the same area over many years. The Catskill region has a long history of Sasquatch sightings and indigenous legends about wild hairy hominids, so Lisa's account fits into a broader pattern of reports from the Northeast. The heavily wooded, mountainous terrain with its ravines, streams, and proximity to state wilderness areas provides ideal habitat for a reclusive species trying to avoid human contact. If you're interested in hearing Lisa's full account in her own words, including the back-and-forth with Jevning and his questions about the simian features she observed, the interview is worth checking out on YouTube. It's a solid example of why witness testimony, combined with physical evidence like tree breaks and hair samples, continues to be the backbone of Sasquatch research, even in areas like New York where most people wouldn't expect to find them.