Veteran Logger Shares Terrifying Bigfoot Encounters Near Mount Lassen

A logger who spent decades working in the timber industry is opening up about encounters that completely changed how he views the wilderness, and honestly, some of these stories are pretty intense. The encounters happened near Mount Lassen in Northern California, an area that has long been considered prime territory for Sasquatch activity, and Renee's firsthand accounts are worth paying attention to. Renee, who has worked in the woods his entire life and is now mostly retired, describes the first night on a logging job in the northern Sierras as anything but routine. Around 2 a.m., he was woken up by absolutely horrific screaming echoing through the timber. The sounds came from multiple directions, with one source coming down a ravine and another coming up from a nearby creek. When the two met across the road from his camp, they stopped screaming simultaneously and started breaking wood. The snapping sounds were loud enough to remind him of 2x4s being broken in the dark. Renee initially chalked it up to cougars fighting, but the sheer volume and intensity of the sounds didn't sit right with him. He eventually opened his door and told them to shut up, and remarkably, they did. Things escalated from there. About a week or two later, one of them came right up to his camper window in the middle of the night and screamed, nearly giving him a heart attack. But the most jaw-dropping encounter happened while he was driving back from church one night on State Highway, roughly 10 miles from Mount Lassen. He was doing about 55 mph when a massive brown hairy creature came into his vision from the right side, catching up to him as it came down a hillside. The thing was running on all fours and keeping pace with his vehicle before striking the front fender, smashing it into the tire, caving in the door, and bending the door frame back. The impact stopped him cold, leaving him sitting in the middle of the highway facing the wrong direction. The creature just kept on running. Renee is adamant that no bear could do something like that, and he believes the Sasquatch were retaliating against him and the logging operation that was destroying their habitat. Years later, after moving to northeast Washington, Renee had another run-in. He woke up thinking his cat was trying to open his door, only to find a gigantic ball of black fur hunched over his trash cans. The hair was around six inches long and looked almost like monofilament fishing line. When he hollered, the thing jumped like a frog, launching itself about 30 feet away, and bounded off over an embankment, hitting a pile of roofing tin before disappearing. He never saw arms, legs, or a head, just this massive airborne ball of fur. Other encounters followed, including something slapping the highest part of his roof so hard he thought a tree had fallen, and something running between his house and his motor home with thunderous stomps that sounded 40 or 50 feet away. Most recently, he heard voices in the woods that sounded like Eastern European mixed with something else, definitely not English, though he couldn't find anyone when he went to investigate. Renee's story is a fascinating look at how someone who spent their life in the wilderness slowly came to accept that something else is out there. The Mount Lassen area has a long history of Sasquatch reports, and the behavior he describes, including the territorial screaming, wood knocking, and apparent retaliation against logging operations, fits a pattern that many researchers have documented over the years. The frog-like jumping ability he describes is also consistent with some witness accounts from other regions, including a similar report from Pike County, Missouri mentioned in the interview. If these encounters sound as compelling to you as they do to me, definitely check out the full interview over on the Sasquatch Theory channel. Renee goes into much more detail about each experience, and his perspective as a lifelong woodsman adds a lot of credibility to these accounts. It's one of