Hunter Recalls 9-Foot Bigfoot Encounter in Eastern Washington
Posted Saturday, July 11, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So there's this wild episode that just popped up on YouTube from the channel My Bigfoot Sighting, and honestly, it's one of those interviews that sticks with you long after it's over. A guy named Kevin Frankenfield from Eastern Washington sat down to share not just one, but two encounters that happened years apart, and the details are the kind that make you lean in a little closer.
Kevin's a hunting and fishing guide who's spent his whole life outdoors, so when he says something spooked him, you know it wasn't just a deer in the bushes. Back in November, he was working a property up near Deer Park, Washington, camping out in a revamped 1976 camper with his little border collie, Luca. The property had thick trees, clear-cutting going on, and a four-foot fence with a hot wire around it. One morning, instead of bouncing out of the camper like usual, Luca jumped up onto Kevin's neck and refused to go outside. Eventually, the dog bolted under the bed and wouldn't come out. That's when Kevin turned around and looked out the window.
About 30 feet from the camper, standing right at the fence line, was something he estimates was at least nine feet tall. He says its hands were a foot and a half above the four-foot fence, so the math adds up. The build was massive, no visible neck, chest to back measuring 28 to 30 inches, shoulders and arms that looked like they belonged on a bodybuilder. The fur was cinnamon brown with darker tones, and here's the part that really got me, when it walked, it glided. No branches snapping, no footsteps. Just smooth movement across the property toward a neighboring farm that had cattle, chickens, pigs, and a resident pig that apparently went missing shortly after.
Kevin also heard the vocalizations that night, deep whooping sounds he recognized because he'd heard the exact same thing years earlier. That brings us to his first encounter on September 4, 2014, down at Pinchant National Forest near Moss Creek Campground, right below Mount St. Helens. He'd just gotten back from three months of guiding in Alaska, grabbed his 104-pound yellow lab Harley, and headed out to anchor up with buddies and catch some steelhead before setting up camp for the week. The details of that first encounter get pretty intense, and Kevin admits flat out that he has zero interest in going back into the mountains alone anymore.
One of the most fascinating parts of the interview is when Kevin talks about a friend of his named Jason who was out huckleberry picking with his daughter up near Cville. They walked past a tree and Jason stopped dead in his tracks because sitting against it, completely camouflaged, was a juvenile Sasquatch about six feet tall, casually reaching out and pulling huckleberries. When Jason whispered to his daughter to come back, the juvenile actually reached out and offered them a huckleberry. That kind of behavior, curious, non-aggressive, almost gift-giving, lines up with a lot of the patterns researchers have noted over the years, especially in the Pacific Northwest where Sasquatch encounters tend to spike during huckleberry season, salmon runs, and deer congregation periods.
Kevin also brings up something that's been floating around the Sasquatch community for a while, the story about a Washington state biologist who allegedly showed up to Mount St. Helens after the eruption and saw big hands and big feet covered in tarps, with men in military-style clothing standing guard. When he asked what it was, they told him it was deer and elk. Years later, supposedly dying of cancer, the biologist called into a Seattle radio station, 92.5, and let the whole thing slip. It's one of those stories that never quite gets confirmed or denied, but it adds another layer to the long history of strange sightings around the Mount St. Helens blast zone, an area that researchers have long considered a hotspot because the eruption wiped out massive swaths of forest and may have driven something previously hidden out into the open.
What makes Kevin's story stand out is how grounded he is. He's not trying to sell anything, he's not exaggerating for clicks, and he openly wrestles with the bigger questions, like whether Sasquatch is a flesh-and-blood bipedal creature like a gorilla or something else entirely. He mentions the smell question that comes up in almost every encounter report, and his take is interesting, he thinks they can emit a skunk-like odor when they want to, which would explain why some witnesses report a smell and others don't.
If you're into detailed witness accounts from people who actually spend their lives in the woods, this one's worth the listen. Kevin's calm delivery and the way he connects his two encounters, plus the vocalizations matching up, makes for a compelling case. Definitely check out the full episode over on the My Bigfoot Sighting channel.