Strange Tapping and Eerie Radio Calls Greet Hikers on Tyler Peak

Posted Saturday, June 27, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

So there's a video making the rounds over on the Xpedition_Edge YouTube channel that every Sasquatch researcher needs to see. Edge took his family up Tyler Peak in Washington State's Olympic Mountains — a region that's practically holy ground for anyone chasing reports of the unknown — and what happened up there is the kind of stuff that keeps you up at night. The hike itself was brutal. Three hours straight up a maintained fire break under the early summer sun, pushing through burning muscles and sunburn to reach the 6,400-foot summit. But the real story starts when they were stopped mid-climb by a sound that doesn't belong to any animal in the Olympic wilderness — a rhythmic, deliberate wood-on-rock tapping echoing through the trees. Now here's where it gets interesting. Edge grabbed a rock and tapped back. And something tapped back. The same pattern. From the shadows of the forest. That's not wind. That's not a branch falling. That's communication. The Olympic Peninsula has a long history of these kinds of reports. Researchers and witnesses have described wood-knocking responses for decades — it's one of the most commonly reported behaviors associated with Sasquatch encounters in the Pacific Northwest. The idea being that these beings use the knocking as a way to communicate across distances, to signal territory, or sometimes to acknowledge the presence of humans. Edge and his family experienced exactly that kind of exchange on Tyler Peak. But the tapping wasn't the only thing that got under their skin. As they neared the summit, they described feeling an invisible weight of being watched. That sensation — the feeling of being observed by something you can't see — is reported over and over again by people who venture into remote Sasquatch territory. It's one of those things that skeptics love to dismiss, but witnesses describe it with such consistency that it's become almost a hallmark of genuine encounters. Then came the radio calls. While resting at the summit, with no other humans for miles and the mountain completely deserted, three strange, inexplicable radio calls came through Edge's device on a frequency shared by no one else. Three calls. No explanation. No one on the other end. Just static and then silence. For anyone familiar with Sasquatch research, radio interference and unexplained transmissions in remote wilderness areas are a recurring theme. There are countless reports from hunters, hikers, and researchers of radios picking up strange signals, garbled voices, or humming in areas where there shouldn't be any reception at all. Some researchers have even theorized that Sasquatch may be able to manipulate electromagnetic frequencies — though that's a theory that remains, understandably, hard to prove. Whatever was happening on Tyler Peak that day, it spooked Edge and his family enough that they packed up in a hurry and started the descent in the dark. Adrenaline replaced exhaustion. They had to navigate a treacherous steep trail with whatever was up there still potentially watching them. This is the kind of footage and firsthand account that matters. It's not a blurry figure in the distance or a suspicious sound in the background — it's a documented experience from a family that went looking for answers in one of the most Sasquatch-rich regions of North America and found something that didn't want them there. If you haven't watched the full video yet, do yourself a favor and check it out. The tapping exchange alone is worth the click. And keep an eye on the Xpedition_Edge channel — these are the kinds of researchers putting in the miles and going to the places that need to be explored.