Bigfoot Hunters Report Chilling Sightings During Nighttime Stakeout
Posted Tuesday, June 23, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's something about a well-coordinated night hunt that gets the heart pumping, and this recent clip making the rounds on YouTube delivers exactly that kind of energy. A group of roughly ten to twelve people headed deep into the woods with one mission in mind: set up bait near a hog pen, spread out in pairs and trios, and wait in the dark with night vision, infrared equipment, and radios to see what might show up.
The setup was smart. They mounted a glow stick on the cage holding the bait so that if anything walked past, the light would visibly blink in and out. Everyone fanned out in a semi-circle about 60 to 80 yards from the cage, creating a perimeter that would make it nearly impossible for anything to slip by unnoticed. Then they killed the lights and waited.
It didn't take long.
The glow stick started getting blocked. Something large was moving in front of it, and every single person in that semi-circle could see it happening. Radios started crackling with excited voices asking, "Are you guys seeing this?" The tension was building fast.
Then Harley, who had the infrared goggles, broke the silence. He spotted one, then immediately corrected himself: there were two. He started describing what he was seeing and handed the goggles off to Riley, who was on his very first Sasquatch hunt. Riley confirmed it. He could see them too. The excitement was contagious, and the rest of the group was trying to keep everyone quiet so they wouldn't spook whatever was out there.
By the time the goggles made it to the third person, it was over. A loud crash of leaves and twigs snapping echoed through the darkness, and whatever had been there vanished into the night. The group rushed in with lights blazing, searching for footprints, missing bait, any trace at all, but found nothing.
If that had been the end of the night, it would still be a remarkable story. But it wasn't over.
They reset, spread back out, and went dark again. This time, something even stranger happened with a group stationed closest to the creek. These weren't casual weekend warriors either. Several of them were ex-military and former SWAT, guys who had been in genuinely dangerous situations and knew how to keep their composure. Yet they kept turning their lights on and off, on and off, clearly rattled.
When Drew finally called them out on the radio for breaking the lights-out protocol, one of the men came back with a chilling response. He said they were all freaking out. They were hearing things moving all around them, and without prompting each other, every single person in that group had independently described feeling a heaviness, a kind of fear that seemed to grip them out of nowhere. Five or six trained, hardened individuals got up and walked out of the woods.
Shortly after they left, the glow stick started getting blocked again. Drew yelled for everyone to rush the cage, and the group charged in with lights on. Of course, by the time anyone had a camera ready, there was nothing there.
Stories like this are exactly why night investigations continue to fascinate researchers and witnesses alike. The combination of multiple independent observers, trained personnel reacting with genuine fear, and physical sensations described in nearly identical terms by people who hadn't spoken to each other about it beforehand, that's the kind of detail that makes a report worth paying attention to. Whether it's infrasound, electromagnetic fields, or something else entirely, the human body responding to an unseen presence in the woods is a phenomenon that keeps showing up in these accounts.
The full story is worth checking out for yourself. The way the group dynamic shifted throughout the night, from excitement to disciplined silence to outright retreat, paints a picture that no single sentence can really capture.