Bigfoot Researcher Recounts 2012 Winter Attack by Three Sasquatch
Posted Saturday, June 27, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
A researcher with over two decades of wilderness experience is sharing what might be one of the most intense close-range encounters ever documented on camera. The footage, featured in a documentary-style video, shows a nighttime interaction in the dead of winter, deep in Sasquatch country, and it's the kind of thing that makes you hold your breath watching it.
The story begins in the winter of 2012, after five days and four nights of pursuing a group of Sasquatch through terrain where temperatures dropped below minus 20 degrees Celsius. The researcher, who describes himself as a student of tracking trained by a Cree elder and a military sniper, had been following tracks through two to three feet of snow when he found himself in a situation that would test every skill he had.
He had been sleeping in a spot when he woke up to find three Sasquatch standing approximately ten yards above him. As he reached for his camera, one kicked snow at him while the other two disappeared up the main trail. What followed was a calculated pursuit through pitch-black wilderness, guided only by infrared equipment and the trackway itself.
The encounter escalated when the researcher, who stands 6'5" and weighs 230 pounds, came within about 20 yards of one of the creatures. Standing over 8'6" tall and estimated at 800 to 900 pounds, the Sasquatch was clearly visible through his night vision equipment. But what makes this footage particularly compelling is what happened next. A third Sasquatch, one the researcher didn't even know was there, threw an 80-pound log at him from the left side. The researcher describes being completely unaware of this third individual until the log connected.
What stands out about this encounter is the apparent coordination between the three Sasquatch. The researcher describes a tactical situation where one was growling and protesting off to his right, drawing his attention, while another waited stealthily behind the primary target. This level of cooperative behavior suggests an intelligence and awareness that goes beyond what skeptics typically attribute to these beings.
The researcher later returned to the exact spot, standing where the Sasquatch had been, to demonstrate the scale. Even with his arms raised straight up at 8'6", he couldn't reach the height where the creature had been standing. The trackway was still clearly visible in the snow.
This footage comes from a research group that has been working since 2005 toward definitive proof and protection of Sasquatch. The team originally consisted of a biologist from Great Falls, Montana, a Cree Nations elder, Todd Standing, and a paramedic firefighter from Calgary, Alberta. In 2006, they publicly released two crystal-clear Bigfoot videos that led to a petition being certified and tabled in the Canadian House of Commons for species protection.
The researcher mentions that for every time he's filmed Sasquatch, he's seen them five times, and for every time he's seen them, he's been aware of their presence twenty times. This ratio speaks to how often these encounters likely happen but go undocumented or unnoticed.
The dermal ridge evidence mentioned in the video is worth noting for anyone unfamiliar with this line of research. Track casts have been analyzed by fingerprint experts who concluded the ridge patterns are consistent with dermal ridges and cannot be hoaxed. This type of physical evidence has been a cornerstone of Sasquatch research for decades.
The video is worth watching in full for anyone interested in documented encounters. The nighttime footage, combined with the researcher's real-time commentary as he's approaching the creature, creates a visceral experience that puts you right there in that frozen wilderness. The tactical awareness displayed by the Sasquatch in this encounter, the coordinated distraction, the hidden third party, the use of a projectile, all of it suggests these beings are far more aware and capable than mainstream science typically acknowledges.
It's encounters like this that remind us why researchers continue to venture into these remote areas despite the risks. The footage may not be the clearest visual of a Sasquatch ever captured, but the context, the environmental conditions, the trackway evidence, and the researcher's documented history all combine to create a compelling case for what's really out there in the deep woods.