Bigfoot Researchers Leave Offerings, Hear Mysterious Drumming in Woods
Posted Friday, September 25, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's something genuinely intriguing happening over at Sullivan Creek, and if you're into active investigation work, gifting experiments, and unexplained audio in the woods, this one is going to pull you right in.
The folks over at Squatchin Adventures have been running a fascinating little experiment at their Sullivan Creek site, and the results so far are the kind that make you lean a little closer to the screen. Bill and Marshall have been leaving offerings out on a stump, colored stones, berries, little trinkets, and they've noticed a pattern. The berries keep disappearing. The stones, not so much. That alone is enough to raise an eyebrow, because if it were just a curious raccoon or a hungry squirrel, wouldn't everything get scattered? Wouldn't the whole setup get trashed? The selectivity is what's strange here.
So Bill decided to step things up. He brought out a proper table to keep things level, loaded it up with blackberries from his own garden, arranged his colored stones, and added something new to the mix, a little motion-activated ball light gifted to him by a friend named Angelique. The idea is simple: if something comes up and touches it, the light flashes. A clever little trigger. And Bill made it clear, he doesn't want a game camera on it. His reasoning is solid and honestly a little chilling. He's noticed before that game cameras seem to have a habit of malfunctioning right when something interesting is about to happen. They go off, things get moved, and then the camera mysteriously comes back on. If you've spent any time in this field, you know that pattern has been reported by countless investigators over the years. It's one of those things that doesn't have a clean explanation.
Then things got really interesting.
While they were setting up, a motion sensor light in camp flickered on and off. No obvious trigger. No visible cause. Just light, then dark. Bill tried to explain it away, but the timing was odd, and both he and Marshall noted it.
But the real meat of this footage comes later, during an evening walk. Bill and Marshall step out of camp to check the perimeter, and that's when they hear it. A rhythmic, hollow sound. Something beating on a bucket. Not random. Not natural. A pattern, repeating, with intention behind it. And it's coming from across the creek, from a direction where there's no nearby camp, no other people, no obvious source.
Now, bucket drumming is a behavior that has been reported in association with Sasquatch encounters for decades. Witnesses have described hearing deep, resonant drumming sounds in remote wooded areas, sometimes accompanying wood knocks, sometimes standing on their own. The sound Bill and Marshall captured has that same hollow, resonant quality. It's not a woodpecker. It's not a branch in the wind. It's not water hitting a log. They even considered the gold prospecting angle, someone washing out a pan, maybe banging equipment, but the pattern and the repetition didn't fit.
And then, as they moved closer to investigate, they started hearing something else. Chatter. Voices, or something that sounded like voices. Not words they could make out, but vocalizations, back and forth, that stopped the moment they got close and started up again when they pulled back. Anyone who's spent time researching vocalizations reported in Sasquatch encounters knows this pattern too. The silence when you approach. The activity resuming when you retreat. It's been described in encounter after encounter, going back generations.
They followed a trail down toward a wash, called out a hello, and got nothing. No vehicle visible. No camp setup. Just thick woods and a sound that vanished as quickly as it appeared.
What makes this footage worth your time is the layering of evidence. You've got the gifting experiment with selective taking. You've got the motion sensor anomaly. You've got the drumming. You've got the vocalizations. And you've got the reaction to human presence. None of it is conclusive on its own, but stacked together, it paints a picture that's hard to dismiss with a simple explanation.
Bill even called the setup what it is, a Bigfoot gifting table. No hedging, no embarrassment. Just a straightforward acknowledgment of what they're doing and why.
If you're curious about what active fieldwork looks like when things start getting weird, this is a good one to sit with. Head over to the Squatchin Adventures channel and give it a watch. The audio alone is worth the time, especially with a good pair of headphones.