Child Missing in Oregon Bigfoot Wilderness Sparks Urgent Search
Posted Monday, September 28, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's a piece of footage floating around right now that has the entire Bigfoot community buzzing, and honestly, it's one of those stories that sticks with you long after you've heard it. A game warden's body camera captured something in the remote wilderness of northeast Oregon back in June 2021, and the details surrounding it are the kind that make you question everything you thought you knew about what's wandering around out there.
The story starts with a terrifying 911 call. A father named Kyle Ambrose was camping with his seven-year-old son Mason in some of the most rugged country in the lower 48, up along the Imnaha River in Wallowa County. The boy went down to a creek, a trip he'd made three times that morning, and just vanished. Forty minutes of searching, shouting until his voice gave out, even firing his rifle into the air as a signal. Nothing. Then Kyle noticed something that every seasoned outdoors person knows to fear. The woods had gone completely silent. No birds, no squirrels, nothing. Just the creek and his own echo.
When Mason walked back into camp, he wasn't crying. He wasn't scratched up or muddy despite the terrain. He was smiling. And behind him, standing perfectly still at the tree line, was a Bigfoot. Kyle described it as over seven feet tall, dark rust-brown hair going black at the shoulders, a wide flat face with no snout, heavy bony ridge over the eyes, and a torn notch in its left ear. The call dropped before dispatch could get more.
Here's where it gets really interesting. Game warden Dale Quarry arrived on scene and started asking Mason what happened. The kid told it like he was describing a field trip. He said a girl found him. A really tall girl, taller than his dad, covered in brown hair everywhere except around her eyes and mouth. She had fingernails just like his. She sat with him, held out her hand, and walked him home, humming the whole way. Five notes down, down, down, then back up, slow and soft, like a lullaby. Neither Mason nor his father had ever heard that tune before.
Mason told the warden she had eyes like his. When pressed, he clarified, white around them like people. Not the reflective eyes you hear about in typical sightings. Human eyes.
Quarry followed the tracks from camp back up the slope. Right alongside the boy's tiny sneaker prints were bare footprints longer than his size 11 boot, wider too, with five toes and a flat sole shaped like a human foot. And here's the detail that gets me every time. The stride was short. Where the boy took small steps on the steep parts, the big prints took small steps too. Whoever made those tracks was walking slowly on purpose, matching the child's pace the entire way.
At 12:04 PM, with his body camera recording, Quarry filmed what appears to be a Bigfoot mother and her child standing behind a ponderosa pine. The child looked directly into the camera. And according to the account, that child had human eyes.
This footage, if authentic, would be groundbreaking for a number of reasons. The idea that these beings might have young, that they might care for human children who get lost in their territory, that they might deliberately return them, that's not a new concept in the lore. There are decades of accounts from children and adults alike describing being guided home by a hairy figure, a tall child, something that didn't feel threatening. Most of those stories get dismissed as fantasy or trauma processing. But when you stack them up, the pattern is hard to ignore.
What makes this account different is the body camera footage and the corroborating physical evidence. The tracks. The child's pristine condition after 40 minutes in muddy wilderness. The matching stride. The description of the eyes.
The full video goes into much more detail, including Quarry's emotional reaction and the implications of what he witnessed. It's worth every minute of your time. Go find it on the Bigfoot Den channel and watch it for yourself. Then come back and tell me what you think, because this one is going to be talked about for a long time.