SheSquatchers Investigate Texas Forest After Eyewitness Reports Snapped Trees
Posted Thursday, September 24, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's a new documentary series hitting YouTube that's got the Sasquatch community buzzing, and the latest episode dives deep into the heart of Texas Sasquatch country. Hosted by Jason Kenzie, an experienced field researcher with 25 years of tracking animals across the globe, "Searching for Sasquatch" takes a refreshingly skeptical approach to the subject. Kenzie makes it clear from the start that he's on a mission to put his own doubts to rest, and if these creatures are real, he wants to find the evidence to prove it once and for all.
The Texas expedition lands the team at Sam Houston National Forest, a sprawling 163,000-acre wilderness not far from Houston that's teeming with frogs, snakes, turtles, nutrias, alligators, and an incredible array of bird species. But what makes this place really special is its reputation among researchers. With over 50 documented Sasquatch sightings and hundreds more from eyewitnesses who stay quiet out of fear of being ridiculed, Sam Houston is prime real estate for anyone chasing the truth.
Kenzie teams up with a group called the SheSquatchers, including Todd, Josh, Shane, Jenna, and Jen, for a five-day investigation. The banter between the crew is entertaining, especially when they call Kenzie out for being a "glamper" who travels with cots, sleeping bags, and tents while pretending to rough it. It's that kind of authenticity that makes this series feel different from the typical cookie-cutter Sasquatch shows.
But the real meat of this episode comes when Kenzie sits down with Rhonda, an eyewitness who lives right on the edge of Sam Houston National Forest. Her property backs up directly to the forest, and what she experienced on May 7th is the kind of encounter that will leave your hair standing on end.
Rhonda has five dogs, three little Chihuahuas, a Belgian Malinois, and a Red Heeler, all friendly animals accustomed to seeing deer, hogs, and armadillos right along the fence line. Around 5 to 5:30 in the evening, with the sun setting, she let the dogs out like any normal day. What happened next was anything but normal.
All five dogs, including the usually clueless Chihuahuas, bolted to the same corner of the yard with their hair standing straight up, growling and snarling like nothing Rhonda had ever witnessed. She initially thought it was just a deer, but when the dogs refused to break off and kept going crazy, she knew something was seriously wrong. She even did the thing most Sasquatch researchers talk about, she sniffed the air, trying to detect that infamous Big Bear Sasquatch smell that witnesses have reported for decades.
What happened next will send chills down your spine. Rhonda ran inside, grabbed her gun, racked it loudly, and screamed a warning. Then, in a moment that takes the encounter into almost spiritual territory, she commanded the creature to leave her property "in Yeshua's name." The atmosphere instantly changed, and she heard the unmistakable sound of timber cracking, like a hundred toothpicks snapping all at once. A massive tree came crashing down, and the smell of pine filled the air as the creature pushed its way through the branches directly toward her.
Just when she thought the falling tree might hit her house, it got jammed in another tree. Then a second tree fell in the opposite direction, creating a V shape. The deliberate nature of how those trees fell, in opposite directions, is something that really makes you think about the intelligence behind these beings.
After the trees came down, Rhonda heard something that confirmed what she already knew. Heavy footsteps, a normal man's gait, walking directly along the fence line. She could even count out the rhythm of the steps. Both trees are still standing where they fell, and Kenzie takes viewers right to the spot to see the evidence firsthand.
This is the kind of eyewitness testimony that deserves attention. Rhonda's account has all the hallmarks of a genuine encounter, the dogs' reaction, the smell, the deliberate tree-pushing, the heavy footsteps, and that eerie feeling of being watched. It's encounters like these that keep researchers going back to places like Sam Houston National Forest.
If you want to see the full investigation and hear Rhonda tell her story in her own words, definitely check out the episode over on the Stash YouTube channel. It's well worth your time, and the tree evidence alone is something you have to see to believe.