Bigfoot Researcher Plans Hypnotherapy to Explore Witness's Sasquatch Dreams

Posted Thursday, July 23, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

So there's this video floating around YouTube that caught my attention, and honestly, it's been sitting with me since I watched it. The host — who goes by Slender — was out fishing with a group of guys from Campbell River on Vancouver Island, and every single one of them had a Sasquatch story. Not just one story each, either. Multiple stories from relatives, friends, people they know. When you've got that many people from one area all carrying their own encounters, you start paying attention. What really got me fired up, though, was the segment about a guest named Franklin Dancer. If you haven't heard his testimony yet, you're missing out. Franklin described an encounter where he came across a massive being squatted down at a freshwater spring, just sipping water. And the way this individual launched itself up — Franklin said the speed was absolutely incredible. Freaky, even. The host made a great comparison to how deer and moose have to buckle down before they launch when startled, but this being apparently just sprang up instantly. No wind-up. Just gone. Now here's where things get really interesting, and honestly a little heavy. Franklin started having these vivid, terrifying dreams. Not your average nightmares — these were so realistic they were affecting his marriage and his hunting trips with friends. In the dreams, he sensed a female Sasquatch in absolute terror. Something was trying to murder her. Someone was trying to kill her. And then, just as suddenly as the dreams started, they stopped. When Franklin returned to that same area, he heard the purring and cooing sounds again, but this time he sensed it was just the male. The female was gone. The host's reaction to this was exactly mine. He said it instantly — they killed her. And Franklin agreed. The dread, the terror, those dreams — they just abruptly ended. That's not something you can easily explain away. What makes this whole thing even more compelling is the idea of regressive hypnotherapy. The host asked Franklin if he'd be willing to go back into those dreams under hypnosis, to play them out clearly, and Franklin said yes. Think about that for a second. If someone experienced what Franklin experienced, and a qualified hypnotherapist could walk them back through those dreams, we might actually get a description of what's hunting these beings. A culprit. Something responsible for making them live in hiding. That would fill in some massive holes in what we know. The host made a point that really resonated with me — he said Franklin Dansen is as legitimate as legitimate can be. No hesitation, no doubt. When someone carries themselves with that kind of quiet certainty about what they saw and experienced, you listen. There's also a thread running through the whole video about the power of denial and manipulation, and how people wait for some official acknowledgment before they'll accept something as real. The host's take on that is worth hearing. Something about how the government only cares about control of labor to appease the entity — whoever or whatever that entity is. It's a perspective that challenges you to stop waiting for permission to know what you already know. One of the fishermen mentioned he has a photograph or video a friend sent him of a Sasquatch squatted down on a beach somewhere on Vancouver Island, plus a line of huge footprints. He's supposedly going to dig those up and share them. If that surfaces, it's going to be significant. This is one of those videos that sticks with you. The combination of multiple witnesses from one region, a detailed encounter with an eyewitness, and the possibility of using hypnotherapy to unlock more of the story — that's the kind of thing that moves the conversation forward. Definitely worth carving out some time to watch the whole thing.