Doorbell Camera Captures 13-Foot Bigfoot Silhouette in New York

A doorbell camera in upstate New York just captured something that has the Sasquatch community buzzing, and the story behind the photo is just as wild as the image itself. The footage comes courtesy of a hunter, trapper, and seasoned wilderness tracker from Sullivan County, New York, who goes by Bill. He's also the guy behind the "Beyond the Backwoods" survival page, so when he talks about reading sign in the woods, the man knows what he's looking at. Bill commutes to New York City for work but spends his time off at his property in Hurleyville, where he keeps a close eye on things with doorbell cameras and trail cams. Smart move, considering the kind of activity he's been picking up. Here's where it gets interesting. Last November, during hunting season, a small buck got hit by a car right in front of his house. His girlfriend dragged the deer about a hundred yards into the woods across the street, which happens to border 300 acres of hunting land. When Bill got home and went to check on it, the deer was simply gone. And I mean gone. No drag marks, no broken branches, no hair follicles left behind, no tracks of any kind, not even coyote sign, and Bill is the kind of guy who can read a crime scene in the woods better than most detectives can read a city street. He walked the entire perimeter multiple times. The deer vanished into thin air. Then, not long after, his doorbell camera pinged him twice. The photo shows a dark, hulking silhouette standing near a tree. Bill measured the figure against the tree and estimated it at roughly seven to eight feet tall. The image is grainy, the kind of thing that could easily be dismissed if you didn't know the full story. But knowing what happened to that deer changes everything. Not one to leave things to chance, Bill ran his own little experiment. He butchered a deer he'd harvested during hunting season and left the carcass on the opposite side of his property to see what would happen. Sure enough, coyotes found it within a couple of days and started chewing on the ribcage. But here's the kicker: the hind quarter was broken clean in half. A coyote can gnaw on bone, but snapping an entire hind quarter like a toothpick takes serious strength. No bear activity in the area, no bear tracks, nothing. Just broken bone and a whole lot of questions. Bill reached out to researchers in the New York BFRO community, including Gary Hovenen, to discuss what he was seeing on his property. The photo eventually made its way around, and it even popped up on another channel before landing in the right hands. The host of the show also shared a chilling parallel story from Oklahoma. A buddy of his was bow hunting from a tree stand one morning when he shot a deer. He waited the usual twenty or thirty minutes, then followed the blood trail into the woods. The blood pooled in one spot like the deer had just collapsed and bled out, but the carcass was gone. He followed a second trail of tiny blood drips all the way back around to the base of his tree stand, where a broken hind quarter was sitting there waiting for him. Sound familiar? Sullivan County sits in the Catskills region, an area that has had its fair share of Sasquatch reports over the years. The dense forests, rugged terrain, and abundant game make it prime habitat. Stories like Bill's fit right into a long pattern of unusual activity that witnesses in the region have been reporting for decades. What makes this case stand out is the combination of physical evidence, or rather the lack of it, paired with a photo that, while not crystal clear, lines up with everything else Bill experienced. A deer that vanishes without a trace. A hind quarter snapped in half. A shadowy figure caught on a motion-activated camera. And a seasoned tracker who can't explain any of it. Definitely worth checking out the full video to hear Bill tell the story in his own words. The details he shares about tracking, sign reading, and the timeline of events really paint a picture that a short article like this can't do justice to.