Hunter Shares Two Eerie Bigfoot Encounters in New Mexico Wilderness

# New Mexico Hunter's Chilling Account: Footprints Inside Tire Tracks and a Log That "Wasn't There Before" If you're into accounts that give you that deep-in-the-woods, primal kind of unease, this one is worth carving out some time for. A hunter named John sat down with Sasquatch Theory and shared not one, but two unsettling experiences in the Gila Wilderness of New Mexico — and the details are the kind that stick with you long after the video ends. ## The First Trip — January 2021 John and his brother, an experienced hunting guide who knows that country like the back of his hand, drew an archery muley deer tag and headed deep into the backcountry. We're talking a four-wheel-drive trail that takes three and a half to four hours just to reach a parking spot. No other tracks. Nobody else around. Things got weird fast. They started finding scat scattered along the choppy ridges they were walking — and John describes it as looking almost human. Not quite right. Abnormal. The kind of thing that makes you stop and pay attention. Then came the part that really got me. On the way back to the truck, around 10 in the morning, John looks down and sees footprints. Plain as day. Inside their tire tracks. Whatever made them had come up the road after they did. John put his boot next to one — about an inch longer than his, and skinny looking. He backtracked them and they came straight out of the mountain. No way a person navigates that terrain barefoot in 20-degree weather. It just doesn't happen. And then there's the feeling. Both brothers noticed it. A sense of dread. Thick air. John makes a point of saying it's not the same feeling you get around bears or wolves — they've had close encounters with both. This was something else entirely. The tracks walked right past the truck and about a hundred yards beyond, then turned and dropped off the same side of the ridge the brothers had been hunting on. Whatever it was had been down there with them. ## The Log in the Road On the way back down the mountain in four-low, creeping along because of how steep the trail is, they came across a big log blocking the road. No trail going around it. No tracks from vehicles going around it. It wasn't there on the way up. John got out to inspect and found those same tracks — as if something had deliberately rolled that log out into the road. Deliberately. That's the part that gets under your skin. ## The Second Trip — September, Unit 23 Fast forward to this past September. John drew another muley tag, this time in Unit 23, which sits right across the road from where the first incident happened. He and a buddy camped in the unit, hunting north of the previous location near what they call the scenic overlook, right along the continental divide. The first morning he switched up his approach and had his buddy drop him off on the opposite side of the dirt road. Too early to go in, so he stood in the woods waiting for enough gray light to navigate. Super quiet. Sneaking down toward a ravine, planning to cross mid-hill and skirt the other side. He got close to where he was going to cross — about 200 yards from the bottom of the ravine — and that's when he heard it. Heavy rocks. Not little pebbles. Shelf rocks. Like something heavy shifting its weight, or a couple-hundred-pound rock sliding down the hill. He stopped immediately. His mind went to elk. But the discussion cuts off right there, and honestly, that's the kind of cliffhanger that makes you hit play on the video yourself. ## Why This One Stands Out A few things make John's account particularly compelling. First, the Gila Wilderness is one of the most remote and rugged areas in the Southwest — it's the oldest wilderness area in the United States, designated back in 1924, and it borders the Blue Range and the continental divide. The terrain is brutal. If you're seeing barefoot tracks coming out of that mountain, you're not dealing with some lost hiker. Second, the log detail. Researchers and witnesses have reported objects being moved or placed in patterns for a long time, and the idea that something could roll a heavy log into a road without leaving any vehicle tracks around it — that's the kind of detail that separates a curious story from a genuinely unsettling one. Third, the footprints inside the tire tracks. That's not something you can easily explain away. Whatever was out there was following them, or at least moving through after they had passed. John's brother still lives down there and still hunts that area. They talk about it every time they connect. You get the sense this isn't a story he's telling for attention — it's something he's still processing. The full interview goes into much more detail, including what happened after he heard those rocks sliding. Definitely worth the watch over on the Sasquatch Theory channel. Bring a coffee. You're going to want to settle in for this one.