Hunters Become Prey as Bigfoot Creatures Surround Montana Cabin
Posted Thursday, September 03, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
A recent video making the rounds tells one of those stories that sticks with you long after the screen goes dark. Two experienced elk hunters, Ethan Brooks and Logan Pierce, set out for a four-day trip into the remote mountains west of Montana's Bitterroot Range in November 2022, and ended up in a fight for their lives against a coordinated group of Bigfoot.
The Bitterroot Range has long been considered one of the most active hotspots in the country for Sasquatch encounters. The dense old-growth forests, rugged terrain, and relative isolation make it the perfect kind of territory where these beings could thrive undetected. Researchers have been collecting reports from this region for decades, with loggers, hunters, and even Forest Service employees sharing stories of strange knocks, towering figures, and structures built in the trees. So when Ethan and Logan headed into this area, they probably thought they were prepared for anything the wilderness could throw at them. They were wrong.
Ethan was a practical carpenter who believed everything in the forest had a reasonable explanation. Logan, a former Marine, was cautious but skeptical about Bigfoot. Neither of them expected what was waiting for them at that old ranger cabin, nearly a mile from their pickup truck and about 10 miles from the nearest paved road.
The first night, the cabin was circled by mysterious creatures knocking on the walls and scratching at two opposite sides almost simultaneously. The next morning, they found at least three sets of enormous footprints along with markings more than eight feet high on the trees. When they finally saw a creature taller than eight feet with their own eyes and discovered their truck had been deliberately sabotaged, they had no choice but to retreat back to the cabin.
What happened next is the kind of thing that makes you realize how little humanity truly understands about what's out there. Multiple Bigfoot coordinated to surround the cabin, test the door, climb onto the roof, and try to lure them outside. The hunters became the prey, watched and tested by a group of beings far more intelligent than anything they had ever imagined.
The details in this story are what really get under your skin. The way the creatures responded to a gunshot by calling out to others in the area, essentially revealing the hunters' position to the entire group. The deliberate sabotage of the truck. The young pine tree that was twisted tightly rather than split straight the way wind would snap it. The elk skeleton arranged almost ritualistically, with the long bones placed parallel and the skull facing the forest. The bark stripped from a tree at an unusual height. The old ranger log book with a torn page warning about activity around the cabin after 11 PM from three directions.
These kinds of details line up with patterns researchers have been documenting for years. The deliberate arrangement of bones, the tree structures, the coordinated group behavior, the testing of human responses, all of it matches reports from other witnesses in different parts of the country. It's hard to write this off as imagination when the physical evidence keeps stacking up.
If you want to hear the full story, definitely check out the video. The way it's told really captures the tension of those four days, and there are some details that didn't make it into this summary that are worth experiencing for yourself.