Bigfoot Hunt on Prince of Wales Island Reveals Glacier Cave Bones
Posted Monday, June 29, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's a video floating around YouTube right now from the channel Epoch Unveiled that dives deep into one of the most unsettling Sasquatch investigations I've seen in a while, and I had to talk about it. The footage centers on Portlock, Alaska, specifically Prince of Wales Island, a place that has quietly become one of the most compelling hotspots for credible sightings in recent years.
The story starts with a cluster of 226 sightings so consistent that local logging crews simply stopped sending workers into the northern grid. No press release, no explanation, just workers who decided the paycheck wasn't worth it. When the investigator asked the site manager why, the man looked toward the treeline like he'd already made peace with something he didn't want to discuss. He said, "Some things out there aren't worth the paycheck." That kind of quiet acknowledgment from working-class people who have nothing to gain from making things up is exactly the kind of testimony that makes this field worth paying attention to.
What really got me, though, was the encounter with the elder at the water's edge. He didn't use the word Bigfoot or Sasquatch. He called it the kakagaji, and he was very clear that it is not an animal. In his words, it is "a person who is not a person." The way he described it gave me chills. He said it doesn't hunt your body first, it hunts your memories. It watches you long enough to learn what you love, what you fear, whose voice makes you feel safe, and then it uses all of it against you. He warned that if you ever see someone familiar standing in the forest where they have no business being, don't call out to them, don't look directly at them, and don't follow them, because whatever you're seeing isn't them. It just knows everything about them.
That warning hits different once you hear what happened next in the investigation.
The team set up base camp, and within 11 minutes of activating their perimeter sensors, the thermal alarm tripped. The heat signature was massive, easily 10 feet tall, but the unsettling part wasn't the size. It was the stillness. No breathing movement, no weight shift, no biological micro-motion that every living creature produces without thinking. It stood like something that had chosen to appear, flickered on the screen for one second, and then vanished. The investigator tried to tell himself it was a sensor glitch, but he already knew better.
Then came the deer carcass. A freshly killed blacktail deer in completely untouched snow, rib cage cracked open, bones snapped clean, blood still steaming in 15-below air. The investigator did a full 360-degree pan and found absolutely nothing. No tracks in, no tracks out, no circling, nothing. In an environment where a red squirrel leaves a perfect impression in fresh powder, an 800-pound predator had materialized, committed violence, and vanished without disturbing a single snowflake. The break patterns on the ribs weren't random either. They were consistent, inward pressure from both sides followed by a sudden release, which is controlled force, not feeding behavior. This wasn't a meal. This was selection. Something had opened that body with precision and taken only what it wanted.
The tree broke me. A full-grown 500-pound spruce snapped mid-trunk and shoved inverted, roots facing the sky, crown buried in frozen earth, the break point jutting upward at exactly eye level like a marker placed deliberately for someone of a specific height to read. That's not instinct. That's authorship. Whoever or whatever did that wanted to be understood.
The drone footage is where things get really interesting. On the ridgeline, 500 feet above the snowfield, a dark bipedal figure stood perfectly still, perfectly upright, and looked directly into the drone's camera lens. It wasn't hiding. It was deciding. Estimated height between 8 and 9 feet, and it had been standing there watching the investigator for at least four minutes before the drone ever locked on. Four minutes while the investigator had his back to the ridge, standing next to a fresh kill.
The glacier cave is where the story takes a turn that honestly left me needing to pause the video and sit with it for a minute. Hair samples, long, coarse, dark brown fibers torn from something that size moving through at speed, bones arranged with the deliberateness of a space that something returns to across generations. The investigator realized these aren't creatures passing through. They live here. They have always lived here.
And then, from deeper in the cave, past the waterfall noise, past the groaning ice, from somewhere the headlamp couldn't reach, a voice called his name. Not distorted, not echoed, conversational, close, the way someone sounds when they're standing just around a corner in a familiar room. The elder's words hit him like a hand pressed against his chest. It hunts your memories. It learns whose voice makes you feel safe.
This is the kind of investigation that reminds me why I got into this field in the first place. Physical evidence, analytical observation, and a cultural framework from people who have lived alongside these beings for generations. The kakagaji isn't folklore in that part of Alaska. It's a field report.
If you want to see the full breakdown, definitely check out the video on Epoch Unveiled's channel. It's worth every minute.