Oregon Electrician Tackled by Bigfoot During Remote Fishing Trip
Posted Tuesday, July 21, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
There's a new video making the rounds on YouTube that every Bigfoot researcher needs to see, and honestly, it gave me chills from start to finish. A channel called Bigfoot Sasquatch Stories recently posted a detailed account of what might be one of the most compelling fishing-trip encounters I've come across in a while, and the way it unfolds is genuinely unsettling.
The story centers on David Harper, a 43-year-old construction electrician from Oregon who's been chasing trout and salmon in the old growth forests for two decades. After a brutal work week, David packed up his four-wheel drive and headed four hours out of town to a secret creek he'd been visiting for years. The setup is classic Sasquatch country: moss-covered stones, crystal-clear water, salmon drifting through deep pools, and absolutely no cell signal. The kind of place where you can hear your own thoughts for the first time in months.
What happens next is where things get interesting.
On his first afternoon, David notices the forest going silent. Birds disappear, squirrels vanish, insects stop buzzing. Then he spots a massive black shape standing between the pine trunks on the opposite hillside, completely motionless. He tries to rationalize it as a burned stump or a hunter in camo, but the figure glides sideways with impossibly smooth steps and vanishes into the trees. That alone would be enough to send most people packing, but David decides to stay.
That night, the real encounter begins. Heavy footsteps circle his tent for hours, stopping, shifting direction, and moving in ways that don't match any known animal behavior. When dawn breaks, David finds no footprints anywhere near his campsite, but right in front of his tent entrance are four stones of nearly equal size arranged in a neat line. He had cleared that exact patch of ground the night before. The stones were still damp, as if freshly carried up from the creek, and each one required two hands to lift.
For anyone who's spent time researching Sasquatch behavior, stone arrangements are a recurring piece of evidence that shows up in witness reports across the Pacific Northwest. Researchers have documented similar findings in areas of the Siskiyou Mountains, the Umpqua National Forest, and throughout Oregon's coastal range. The idea is that these intelligent beings may be communicating through placement, much like how other researchers interpret tree structures, stacked logs, or bent branches as possible markers or territorial signals.
Day two gets even more intense. David follows the creek upstream and finds claw marks carved into ancient pine trunks at heights well above human reach. A few hundred yards later, another tree shows nearly identical grooves. A massive pine branch near the creek has been twisted apart with what looks like enormous force. Each sign could be explained away individually, but together they paint a picture that's hard to ignore.
The video cuts off at a cliffhanger moment, and I won't spoil what happens next, but trust me, you'll want to see it for yourself. The pacing, the buildup, and the way the encounter escalates make this one of those videos that sticks with you long after it's over.
Oregon has long been considered one of the strongest hotspots for Sasquatch activity in North America, with the Blue Mountains, the Cascade Range, and the dense old growth forests providing ideal habitat. The combination of thick canopy cover, abundant water sources, and minimal human disturbance makes these areas perfect for a large, reclusive primate to remain hidden. Stories like David's fit a pattern that researchers have been tracking for decades: the initial sighting at a distance, the nighttime investigation of the campsite, the physical evidence left behind, and the escalating encounters when the witness chooses to stay.
If you're into detailed encounter stories with strong environmental storytelling, this video is absolutely worth your time. The narrator does a great job building tension, and the way the evidence accumulates throughout David's trip feels authentic to how real witnesses describe their experiences. Check it out and let me know what you think, because this one has all the hallmarks of a story that's going to be talked about for a while.