Bigfoot Breaks Decade-Long Pattern in October Sighting
Posted Saturday, August 01, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's something about a pattern breaking that gets the heart racing, and that's exactly what happened in this video I just stumbled across on YouTube.
A man named Mark Hollis has been watching a strip of ridge he calls Blacktail Saddle from his cabin porch for the better part of a decade. He bought the place back in 2014, just looking for some peace and quiet outside town, and ended up with a front-row seat to something he still can't fully explain. For nine winters, a large upright figure crossed that exposed rock opening after the snow had already settled in. Sometimes he'd see it. Other years, all he'd get was the track line it left behind in the white. The order never changed. Snow came first. Then the figure.
But on October 24th, 2024, everything flipped.
Hollis was on his porch with his coffee around 7:12 in the morning when he spotted movement coming out of the north timber. The ground was bare. No snow yet. And there it was, broad through the body, dark from head to lower leg, moving with an unhurried rhythm that didn't match any hiker or hunter he's ever watched use that saddle. He grabbed his binoculars and watched it step onto the exposed rock. This was already strange. But then it got stranger.
The figure reached the middle third of the saddle and stopped. Hollis had seen similar pauses in past winters, so he waited for it to continue toward the south timber, the direction it had always gone. Instead, its shoulders turned back toward the north. The whole body followed. It retraced its steps and disappeared into the spruce it had just left. No rush. No stumble. No sign it had noticed him nearly a mile away. It simply abandoned the crossing.
What makes this account stand out isn't just the sighting itself. It's the consistency of the pattern that broke. Researchers who track Sasquatch reports often talk about how these beings seem to follow established routes, sometimes for generations, using the same saddles, the same creek crossings, the same ridgelines. When that routine shifts, it usually means something. A change in pressure from logging activity, a new road, a shift in the herd patterns they might be following, or something nobody can pin down at all. Hollis himself doesn't try to explain why the figure turned back. He just notes that nothing visible drove it away. The south side stayed open. Nothing crossed the rock after it left.
The detail work in this video is what really sets it apart. Hollis doesn't claim to have measured the figure. He doesn't assign a height. He admits the binoculars couldn't show a face, hands, or feet at that distance. He describes what he could actually see, the fixed rocks behind the subject, the space it covered with each step, the way its arms hung low beside its body without the uneven sway of someone carrying a pack. He even wrote down what he failed to notice. No second person. No equipment. No sound at the cabin. No later movement on the south side. That kind of disciplined observation is rare, and it's exactly the kind of long-term, low-frills documentation that builds a credible case over time.
He also mentions something that caught my attention. He kept a photograph from the morning before the sighting, a wide shot of smooth snow across the opening with no figure and no readable tracks. Years later, that plain image mattered because it fixed the conditions before the sighting happened. It's the kind of baseline evidence that researchers love, even when it shows nothing, because it proves the witness was paying attention before anything unusual occurred.
The video itself runs long and lets Hollis tell the story in his own words, which gives it a grounded, almost journal-like feel. There's no dramatic music, no reenactments, no claims of crystal-clear footage. Just a man describing what he saw from his porch over the course of ten winters, and what it meant when the pattern finally broke.
If you're into long-term sighting accounts, behavioral patterns, and witnesses who actually know how to say "I don't know" without filling in the blanks with fantasy, this one is worth your time. Go watch it. The whole thing is on YouTube, and it's the kind of report that stays with you after the video ends.