Solo Investigator Hears Sasquatch Whoop in Hitachi Forest

Posted Monday, August 17, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

So there's this investigator out there who decided to take a solo trip into the Hitachi Experimental Forest, and honestly, the whole thing is worth your time. The area has been off-limits to the public for years, and now that it's open, locals are reporting some seriously strange activity. We're talking multiple eyewitnesses claiming they saw an upright, hair-covered figure standing around eight and a half feet tall bolting across the road and disappearing straight into the trees. Less than a mile from where this guy set up his investigation. What makes this footage interesting is the investigator's approach. He's not just wandering around hoping for the best. He actually breaks down how to properly document a possible Sasquatch print if you stumble across one in the wild. Dollar bill next to the print for scale, photograph it, zoom out, done. Simple stuff that a lot of people overlook when they get excited and forget to capture usable evidence. He also talks about breaking a stick to match the length of the print and measuring it later at home. Practical field tips that anyone heading into the woods can actually use. But here's where things get a little eerie. While he's pushing deeper into the forest, he starts finding trees that are snapped clean in half. Healthy trees. No fallen debris around them, no signs of another tree crashing down, nothing that explains why they broke. And then there's a tree bent at a perfect 90-degree angle that just shoots straight back up. He openly admits he has no idea what could cause that, and honestly, neither do any of the usual explanations. Healthy trees don't just snap like that, and they definitely don't grow at right angles without something seriously unusual going on. The moment that really got me, though, was when he describes hearing the loudest whoop about 75 to 100 yards away on the other side of a grassy area. He wasn't recording at the time, which is frustrating, but the way he describes it is chilling. He stopped, stayed quiet, and listened for several minutes to see if anything else would happen. That's the smart move when you're alone out there and something like that goes off. He eventually tried making a little noise himself, just a soft yelp, nothing crazy, to see if he'd get a response. Nothing came back, but the fact that he heard it at all in a place with this much history of reports is telling. He also drops a perspective that I think every skeptic needs to sit with. Out of the thousands and thousands of Sasquatch reports across North America, even if every single one was a lie, a hallucination, or a misidentification, you only need one to be real. One. And that one changes everything. It's a simple way of looking at it, but it hits hard when you actually think about the sheer volume of reports that have piled up over the decades. The Hitachi Experimental Forest has a long history of being restricted, and now that people are finally getting access to it, the activity seems to be picking up. If you're into tracking reports, documenting possible evidence, or just love watching someone go deep into a location with a heavy history of sightings, this one is definitely worth checking out. The broken trees alone are enough to make you want to pull up the footage and see what he found for yourself.