Guest Shares Three Bigfoot Encounters Spanning 2018 to 2025

Three encounters spanning seven years, and one of them happened just ten feet away from a father and his son. That's the kind of story that makes you sit up and pay attention. A recent episode from The Cryptid Profiler podcast features a guest who goes by "Steel" — and for good reason, since his job requires him to keep his identity protected. What he shared with host Dano is the kind of multi-encounter testimony that researchers dream about. Three separate incidents, all within a few miles of each other, all on or near two mountains in his area. The first happened back in 2018. Steel and his wife were sleeping in a hammock rigged up about 10 to 12 feet off the ground on one side and around 20 feet on the other, tied to a stump on a ridge behind his mom's trailer. The property sits right on the edge of a mountain, and there's apparently a massive cave on the land — big enough to drive a double-wide trailer through. Steel mentioned you can actually see the mouth of it on Google Maps when the leaves are off the trees. That detail alone is worth thinking about, because caves like that in remote mountain areas are exactly the kind of terrain that gets discussed when researchers talk about potential Sasquatch habitat. That night, coyotes started going crazy right beneath them. Steel fired his .38 into the valley to scare them off, and within thirty seconds, something let out a howl he couldn't identify. Then a tree came crashing down about a hundred yards away — loud enough that he could feel it. At the time, he had no knowledge of Bigfoot and chalked it up to a loose cow or a brown bear. The second encounter came around 2023. His wife was hanging out the door smoking a cigarette when she asked, "What is that sound?" Steel followed it into the woods and heard something he described as a huffing or blowing sound — the kind of vocalization that you feel in your chest. It got closer, only about twenty feet from him, without making any approach noise. He later heard a similar sound on another podcast where someone was recording a Sasquatch circling them, and it matched. Then there's the 2025 encounter, and this is the one that really stands out. Steel and his son were on an emergency HVAC call at an apartment complex. The property sits near another mountain, only about five miles from the first location as the crow flies. After pulling a disconnect on a locked-up fan motor, Steel heard growling directly behind them in the woods. He turned with his hat-mounted flashlight and caught eye shine — and a brief silhouette. The eyes were massive. Steel said he could have fit two hands between them, and he's a tall guy, somewhere in the six-foot range. The creature closed its eyes the moment the light hit it. When Steel grabbed his brighter flashlight and looked again, nothing was there. He went back the next day and found what looked like a bipedal track in the undergrowth — a step he couldn't replicate himself. It led up to a briar thicket. What makes this testimony especially interesting is how Steel got into the subject in the first place. His mother had been experiencing things around her property — things the family initially dismissed. He started researching, found the cryptid podcast community, and realized her experiences lined up with what other witnesses were describing. That's a common thread in this field — family members who experienced things first, and skeptics who came around only after doing their own homework. The full conversation is worth checking out. Steel also offered to talk about what his mom experienced on the property, which Dano said they'd get into after the encounter stories. For anyone interested in multi-encounter witnesses, especially ones involving close-proximity eye shine and vocalizations that match other recorded incidents, this one is a must-listen.