Minnesota Hunter's 12-Year Bigfoot Trail Ends With Cabin Door Pounding

Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

Folks, I just came across one of the most gut-wrenching Sasquatch encounter accounts I've heard in a long time. A first-hand story from a Minnesota man named Rosco Wick, a Vietnam vet, lifelong hunter, and railroad car repairman, who spent 12 years on his 40-acre hunting cabin in the Superior National Forest before something came knocking on his door one November night in 1991. Not a bear. Not a branch. A fist, bigger than any fist should be, striking the door in threes. What makes this account so remarkable isn't just the encounter itself, but the long, quiet history that led up to it. Rosco had been keeping company with signs for over a decade before he ever laid eyes on one of these beings. And the way he tells it, with the calm steadiness of a man who kept his hands steady while everything around him came apart in Vietnam, makes it hit different. His story begins in Two Harbors, Minnesota, born in 1944, raised between Lake Superior and the big woods north of it. He married Selma, a Finn from the little town of Finland, Minnesota (yes, that's a real place, and yes, the irony is not lost on anyone). Together they bought 40 acres off a gravel spur in 1979, and Rosco built a one-room log cabin with his own hands over two summers. No electricity, no phone, no plumbing. Just a barrel stove, propane light, and 40 miles of national forest between him and the Canadian border. For 12 years, he hunted deer out of that cabin every November. And for those 12