Alberta Hunter Recounts Close Sasquatch Encounter While Hunting Moose
Posted Saturday, August 01, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
A hunter in Alberta, Canada had what can only be described as a jaw-dropping encounter with a Sasquatch while out looking for moose, and the details are absolutely wild. The story comes from a recent interview on the Creek Devil YouTube channel, where host William Jevning sat down with a guest named Randy to talk about an experience that sounds like something straight out of a cryptozoology documentary.
Randy was deep in the bush north of Westlock, Alberta, about 20 kilometers off the highway on a skidder road that had never been logged or explored for oil. Just solid timber as far as you could see. He had his truck turned around, his tags lined up, and was about to head into a meadow to do some scouting on foot. After sitting quietly for about 20 minutes to let the wildlife settle down, he started his walk across the field in full stealth mode, crouched down with the grass up to his waist.
Then everything changed in an instant.
Randy describes a sound that hit him like a freight train, but with multiple tones, almost like it had a whistle mixed with a deep rumble. He froze. About 30 yards to his right, something massive had been laying flat on the ground, and when it stood up, Randy couldn't believe what he was seeing. Right between him and the creature, a large paddled moose, probably 50 inches across, jumped up with its eyes rolled back in its head, ears flat, bellowing as it ran past him.
What happened next is the part that makes this encounter so remarkable. The Sasquatch lunged forward and swiped at the moose as it passed, with hair and hide flying through the air. Randy says the creature's waist was at the level of the moose's shoulders, and the noise it was making was shaking his insides, like pebbles creating ripples in water. His chest and guts were vibrating from the sound alone.
The chase that followed was equally intense. Both the Sasquatch and the moose crashed through poplar, tamarack, and lodgepole trees, with the Sasquatch swinging its arms and knocking trees over like they were nothing. Randy describes the sound as a barrage of explosions, one after another, as the creature pursued the moose through the edge of the heavy timber.
What's striking about Randy's account is how detailed and grounded it is. He mentions being raised to believe Sasquatches and UFOs were all nonsense, and that talking about such things could cost you your career. But what he saw that day in the Alberta bush left no room for doubt. He stood there in complete awe as this towering figure, with no visible neck and its head stuck right on its shoulders, went past him in what he describes as a massive rage.
The encounter is a powerful reminder that these beings are still out there in some of the most remote wilderness areas of North America, and sometimes they show themselves to people who never expected to see one. Randy's story is one of those rare, close-range sightings that researchers and witnesses alike will be talking about for a long time.
The full interview is worth watching for anyone interested in Sasquatch encounters. Randy goes into incredible detail about the terrain, the behavior of the Sasquatch, and the physical sensations he experienced during those intense moments. Creek Devil does a great job letting the witness tell his story without interruption, and this is definitely one of the more compelling moose-hunting-gone-wrong tales out there.