Trail Camera Captures Sasquatch Mother and Newborn on BC Ranch
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
A 68-year-old rancher in British Columbia's remote Chilcotin country has come forward with trail camera footage that could shake up the Sasquatch research community. Sharon Ward, who runs cattle along the Chilcotin River between Hanceville and Alexis Creek, shared her story with Bigfoot Sightings Canada, and it's one of those accounts that stays with you long after the video ends.
The footage itself runs just 51 seconds. Captured on April 9th on a Browning trail camera strapped to a Douglas fir at the top of her north pasture, the clip shows a Sasquatch mother emerging from the pines and walking directly toward the lens with a newborn cradled against her chest. She stops close enough for her breath to fog the glass, then lifts the baby so the camera can see its face. Near the end of the clip, she raises her free hand and taps her own chest twice.
That gesture is what stopped Sharon cold. She claims she taught that Sasquatch family to approach the camera on purpose, or that they taught her, and after two winters of interaction, she honestly can't say which way the knowledge flowed.
The backstory is just as compelling. Sharon lost her husband Glenn in November 2021 and runs the place alone now with 90 cows and a bad knee. The Chilcotin was devastated by the Hanceville fire in 2017 and the Chilcotin River landslide in 2024, and her neighbor Wanda told her the country had been turned upside down twice in seven years, forcing every living thing to find new ground. Wolves moved onto her benches that fall and started pulling down calves, which is what pushed her to buy trail cameras with her 12-year-old grandson Owen.
The Chilcotin region has long been considered Sasquatch territory by researchers and longtime residents, with reports stretching back generations. Sharon mentions that people have argued about what walks around in these hills since before Highway 20 was paved, and her family's been on the same ground since 1926.
Sharon explains in the video why she won't be posting the footage publicly, and how a widow with a bad knee ended up with a camera that a Sasquatch family had learned to walk up to on purpose. Head over to the Bigfoot Sightings Canada channel and give it a watch. It's one of those videos that reminds you why this subject matters.