Childhood Memory: Creature Perched on Roof Terrorized Grandmother's Home

Posted Thursday, August 13, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

You know, sometimes the best encounters aren't caught on camera at all. Sometimes they're just stories passed down through families, sitting on a couch late at night, passed from grandmother to grandchild. And every once in a while, one of those stories makes its way onto YouTube for the rest of us to hear. I recently came across a video on The Eye of Jupiter channel that stopped me in my tracks. It's a firsthand account from someone describing what their grandmother dealt with at her rural home, and honestly, it has all the hallmarks of a classic Sasquatch encounter that researchers have been documenting for decades. The storyteller recalls spending nights at their grandmother's house as a kid while their parents worked. Granny wasn't the type to sit around unarmed, either. She kept a .32 semi-automatic pistol and a butcher knife right by her chair. That's not paranoia, that's preparation. And it tells you everything you need to know about what was lurking around that property. Here's where it gets really interesting. The family had a routine. When the sun started going down, everyone came inside. Doors got locked. And here's the detail that really got me — instead of regular blinds, they hung blankets over the windows. Why? So whoever, or whatever, was outside couldn't see their shadows moving around inside the house. That's a level of awareness that suggests this wasn't a one-time event. This was a long-standing situation. The scratching on the house was apparently a regular occurrence. But one particular night escalated things significantly. A knocking came at the front door. Now, anyone familiar with Sasquatch reports knows that knocking is one of the most documented behaviors associated with these beings. Researchers like Dr. Jeff Meldrum and organizations like the BFRO have collected countless accounts of Sasquatches knocking on cabins, trees, and homes, often as a territorial display or a way to test the inhabitants. Granny did what anyone would do — she looked out the diamond-shaped window at the top of the door. Nobody there. Knocking again. She opened the door and looked out. Still nothing. The moment she shut it, the knocking resumed. So she called her uncle — a Vietnam veteran — who showed up armed and ready. What he found is what really makes this story stand out. There was some kind of substance on the top of the door frame that he described as looking like snot. And his conclusion? Whatever was knocking was up on the roof, leaning over the door. When Granny opened it, it was right there above her, looking down at her. The storyteller was sitting in the front room hearing all of this unfold in real time. And just when you think the story couldn't get any more intense, the narrator drops one more bombshell at the end — they actually shot something at that property. They don't say what it was, and the video cuts off, but that admission alone speaks volumes. Stories like this are exactly why I love digging through YouTube. So much of the most compelling Sasquatch evidence isn't grainy thermal footage or blurry tree-shake videos. It's testimony like this — detailed, consistent with decades of reported behavior, and coming from people who clearly had repeated encounters over time. The blankets over the windows, the weapons kept close, the scratching, the knocking, the creature on the roof — this checks every box. If you haven't seen this one yet, do yourself a favor and go check it out. It's the kind of family story that reminds us these encounters aren't just happening to hikers deep in the wilderness. They're happening at grandma's house, too.