Ferry Captain Encounters Bigfoot During Late-Night Flood Crossing

Something was waiting on the dock when the last ferry came home. That's the unsettling setup of a video that crossed my feed recently, and honestly, it's one of the most unique witness accounts I've come across in a while. Forget the typical deep-woods trail cam footage or the blurry shapes behind trees. This one takes place on a flooded river, on a working ferry, in the middle of a rainstorm, with a captain who had 18 years of experience on that exact stretch of water. The storyteller is Nolan Price, a senior ferry master working the Black Alder crossing. For those unfamiliar, this is a 1.4-mile river route connecting Alder Point on the east bank to Raven Cut on the west, typically an 11 to 13-minute trip under normal conditions. Nolan had been running this route for nearly two decades, so he knew every current, every gravel bar, every piece of drift that might fool a less experienced eye. But this wasn't a normal night. Four days of rain had pushed the river above flood stage. County gauges were climbing faster than the afternoon models predicted. At 9:12 PM, Nolan got the call from the public works night desk. The upstream trend was steepening. Still, the local current was inside operating limits, debris was manageable, and two vehicles were waiting at Alder Point for the final crossing before the road shut down. A utility van and a pickup with a stock trailer. Four passengers total. Nolan and his relief crew member, Tessa Ward, made the call to run one last trip. Load the vehicles, cross to Raven Cut, unload nobody (since the landing was empty), and deadhead back to Alder Point before the 10:00 PM shutdown. Simple enough on paper. The crossing went fine. The return trip is where things got strange. As the MV Greywater backed into the Alder Point slip, stern first, with the river pushing against her starboard side, Nolan saw something on the raised shore apron under the automatic landing light. The public was gone. The vehicle deck was empty. The stern gate was secured. And yet, a figure stood there with one hand wrapped around the guardrail. What he saw next is the kind of detail that makes these accounts stick with you. Fingers that were too long. Too thick through the joints. Dark hair lying flat along the wrist from the rain. When the landing light caught the face, Nolan described a heavy brow, a wide nose, and no muzzle. Rain ran over skin that looked gray-brown beneath wet hair. The eyes reflected the dock light for just an instant when the head turned, then went dark again. For anyone who's spent time reading witness reports, that description lines up with a lot of the classic Sasquatch characteristics. The heavy brow ridge. The broad nose without a muzzle. The dark, coarse hair. The height and build that seem to swallow up ordinary reference points. Nolan noted the figure was taller than the warning post beside it and broad enough to hide part of the yellow flood gauge. What happened next is what really got me. The figure didn't stand like a bear. It stood like something exhausted that had found the only patch of high ground left along the bank. When Nolan sounded one short blast on the horn, it didn't charge. It flinched, lowered its head, and kept moving toward the ferry. Then, as the ferry made contact with the wing wall fender, the figure dropped below the camera's sight line. And from below came the scrape of wet weight against steel. Something landed on the vehicle deck with two separate footfalls, heavy enough that Nolan felt the second one through the soles of his boots. Tessa, watching through the narrow window in the aft crew door, confirmed it: "It came aboard." I won't spoil how the rest of the night unfolded, but this is one of those accounts that stays with you. A working captain, a real river, a real storm, and something that shouldn't have been standing on that dock waiting for the last ferry home. If you're into unusual encounter locations and witness reports from people who had zero reason to make anything up, this one is worth your time. The video does a great job setting the scene, and the pacing really builds. Check it out when you get a chance.