Couple Hikes to Rumored Sasquatch Cave in the Ozarks
Posted Wednesday, September 30, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's something about a hidden cave in the Ozarks that local folks have whispered about for generations, and a couple of adventurous souls from The All-Around Adventurer decided to go find it. What they discovered at the end of their trek is the kind of thing that gets a Sasquatch researcher's heart pumping.
The journey started with a tip about an unmarked trail somewhere outside of Mulberry, Arkansas, tucked between Mulberry and the nearby community of Mountainburg. According to old local wisdom, someone once spotted a Sasquatch living in a cave hidden back in those woods. The adventurers grabbed their gear, loaded up a 360° camera, and headed out to see if the legend held any truth.
Now, getting there was no walk in the park. The trail isn't listed on any hiking app, and for good reason. It's less than half a mile from the road, but the terrain fights you the whole way. Fallen timber, slick pine needles, vines that grab your feet, and mosquitoes that apparently have a personal vendetta against one half of the couple. At one point, the hiker even wiped out while "surfing" down a slope and got a stick jammed into a burn on her leg. The forest, as the adventurer joked, was trying to keep them from Bigfoot.
But they pushed on, following GPS coordinates through the dense Ozark woods, past old logging roads, and eventually made it to the top of a mountain ridge. And there it was. A cave. Not just any cave, but one with strange divots scraped into the walls, almost as if someone had carved them out deliberately. The adventurer pointed out that the marks looked intentional, like someone had been shaping the rock over time.
What really caught attention was the black coloring on parts of the cave walls. It's not on the ground, and it doesn't quite match what you'd expect from campfire smoke staining. The adventurer wondered aloud whether it could be from the type of rock itself, or perhaps something else entirely. That's the kind of detail that makes a site worth a second look.
The cave sits right near Devil's Canyon, a spot with its own eerie reputation in the Ozarks. The waterfall that feeds the creek below comes from that canyon, and the whole area has that remote, untouched feel that the Ozarks are famous for. For anyone who knows their Bigfoot history, the Ozark region of Arkansas and Missouri has long been considered active territory. Reports out of Franklin County and the surrounding areas have been trickling in for decades, and caves like this one often come up in witness accounts as potential shelter sites.
The adventurers didn't spot a Sasquatch on this trip, though they joked about it the whole way there, even half-expecting to be "murdered by Sasquatch" before the video ended. But they did find the cave, documented it thoroughly, and raised some genuinely interesting questions about those wall markings and the overall shape of the place.
If you're into exploring lesser-known Sasquatch lore or just love a good off-the-beaten-path adventure, this one is absolutely worth the watch. The footage of the cave itself, plus the journey through that wild Ozark terrain, makes for a compelling piece of content. Check it out and see what you think about those divots in the rock.