Game Camera Reveals What Watched British Columbia Cabin
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
I just came across something that stopped me in my tracks, and I need to tell you about it before anything else.
A woman named Amy Caldwell posted a story on a YouTube channel called Bigfoot Sightings Canada, and honestly, it's one of the most compelling game camera accounts I've heard in a long time. The footage apparently shows a Sasquatch pulling her brother Jason out of the Kootenay River rapids in British Columbia. Let that sink in for a second.
The setup is everything here. Amy grew up spending summers at her grandfather's cabin on the upper Kootenay River, about 12 miles south of Canal Flats. Her grandfather Earl built the place back in 1963, hauling lumber up on a borrowed logging truck. The cabin sits on a flat bench about 40 meters above the river, surrounded by massive old western red cedars that smell sweet and sharp in the summer heat. The land is bounded by the river drop on one side and a talus slope climbing toward the Purcell Mountains on the other. It's the kind of remote, old-growth setting where reports of unusual activity have trickled out of the region for generations.
In the summer of 2014, Amy and Jason drove up from Cranbrook with two Bushnell Trophy Cam game cameras. They had a loose plan to set one up along the river trail and see what wandered through at night. Simple enough. But by the end of the first week, nothing about the trip felt simple anymore.
The first night, around 2 AM, Amy woke up suddenly. Not from a dream. Something pulled her out of sleep. She describes hearing a low sound underneath the river noise, something rhythmic and patterned. Rise, hold, release. Rise, hold, release. It lasted maybe 40 seconds and then vanished. Jason heard it too. He told her the next morning over coffee that he'd initially thought it was a bear, but then decided it wasn't. His word was "deliberate." He said it was too structured, too deliberate to be a bear sound.
This is where it gets interesting, and where the family history starts to matter. Amy remembered something her grandfather Earl had said once when she was about 11 years old, sitting on that same porch at night. He told her the mountains above the bench were old in a way that most mountains weren't. He said the people who had been in that valley before any road came through knew things about the upper drainage that his generation hadn't bothered to learn. And that the not bothering was probably a mistake. Then he changed the subject, the way men of his generation did when they hit something they couldn't put a number on.
The Kootenay region has a long history of Sasquatch reports. The surrounding Purcell and Rocky Mountain ranges are prime habitat, with dense old-growth forest, rugged terrain, and remote drainage systems that see very little human traffic. Indigenous Ktunaxa people in the area have oral traditions describing large, hairy forest beings that match descriptions of Sasquatch remarkably well. The Ktunaxa creation stories and historical accounts reference these beings as part of the landscape long before European settlers arrived. When Amy mentions her grandfather talking about what earlier inhabitants knew, he's tapping into something that researchers have been studying for decades.
The discussion cuts off right as Amy and Jason are about to set up the cameras, but the title tells you where this story goes. The game camera caught 17 seconds of footage. Amy says she's never shown anyone past the 8-second mark. What happens after those 8 seconds is, according to her, the reason Jason is alive.
If the footage is real, and if the title is accurate, this would be one of the most significant game camera captures ever recorded. A Sasquatch intervening to save a human from drowning in class 3 rapids would fundamentally change the conversation around these beings. It's not just a blurry figure in the distance. It's an act of behavior. And behavior is what skeptics always demand.
I highly recommend watching the full video to hear Amy tell this in her own words. The way she describes the cabin, the cedars, the river, the sound that night, it all builds toward something. The footage itself is apparently in there too, and from what Amy describes, it's going to leave you with your hands cold and your throat tight, just like hers.
Go find it. You won't regret it.