Trail Cam Captures Bigfoot Walking With Hiker Who Vanished
Posted Friday, October 02, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
Trail camera footage surfacing from the Colorado wilderness is raising serious questions about the relationship between a missing hiker and the resident Sasquatch population in the area. The images, captured back in November 2004, show a sequence that has researchers and witnesses buzzing with theories.
The story comes from a property owner who lived on the edge of the Routt National Forest for nearly four decades. After dealing with bear problems on his 160-acre property, he set up a network of 12 motion-activated trail cameras with infrared flash capability to monitor wildlife movement. What started as a practical solution to protect his livestock turned into something far more extraordinary.
For three consecutive Saturdays in October 2004, his cameras captured the same young woman - late 20s, long brown hair in a ponytail, quality hiking gear, trekking poles, the works. She appeared every weekend like clockwork near Bear Creek, about two miles from his house. Always alone. Always heading deeper into the wilderness along game trails and creek beds that most hikers would never find. Here's the strange part - she appeared on cameras heading in, but never on any return route cameras. Week after week, same pattern.
Then on November 14th, everything changed.
The Bear Creek camera triggered three times between 6:47 a.m. and 6:52 a.m. The first image showed the familiar hiker navigating the rocky stream bed, poles extended, nothing unusual. The second image, captured just 30 seconds later, revealed something impossible - a massive dark figure standing upright on two legs behind her. The description matches what countless witnesses have reported over the years: easily 8 feet tall, covered in dark brown hair, arms hanging past its knees, a bulk suggesting incredible physical power. Anatomical features that were clearly non-human - a massive elongated skull, limbs proportioned differently than any person.
The third image is the one that stops you cold. The woman and the Sasquatch walking side by side, moving deeper into the forest together. She showed no signs of distress. Her posture was relaxed, as if this was a planned meeting rather than a chance encounter.
The property owner followed the trail and found disturbing physical evidence. A meadow with trampled grass in a rough 20-foot circle, broken branches on surrounding trees, her abandoned high-quality hiking pack - intact but empty, no identification inside. The footprints told an even stranger story. Her bootprints continued alongside enormous barefoot impressions for several hundred yards beyond the meadow, the spacing remaining normal, suggesting she traveled willingly. Then her prints simply stopped. Abruptly. As if she'd been lifted off the ground. The Sasquatch prints continued another 50 yards before disappearing into rocky terrain.
Further into the wilderness, he found trees stripped of bark in neat vertical patterns about 10 feet off the ground - far higher than any bear could reach. And then there was the feeding site. Deer remains arranged with what can only be described as deliberate precision. Bones stripped of meat and piled neatly. Skulls lined up in a row, all facing the same direction.
This kind of sequential trail camera documentation is exactly what researchers have been hoping to capture for decades. Three images taken within a five-minute window, with timestamp verification, showing the progression of an encounter from initial appearance to voluntary accompaniment. Combined with the physical evidence - the parallel tracks, the abrupt termination of human prints, the bark stripping at impossible heights, the arranged bone display - this case presents layers of corroboration that are hard to dismiss.
The Routt National Forest region of Colorado has a long history of Sasquatch reports, with the dense pine forests and remote alpine terrain providing ideal habitat. Cases involving apparent peaceful contact between Sasquatch and humans, while rare, are not unprecedented in the historical record. Indigenous traditions across North America have long described respectful relationships between people and these forest beings.
What happened to the hiker remains unknown. The property owner who documented all of this became known in his community as either the man who saved a life or the man who made the whole thing up. His reputation suffered either way.
The full account, including details about what was found at that feeding site, is worth tracking down and watching for yourself. Sequential trail camera captures like this don't come along often, and the physical evidence backing it up makes it even more compelling.