Bigfoot Lifts Camper's Organizer Onto Awning Near Mount Baker

If you've ever wondered what it would feel like to wake up to something massive circling your vehicle in the middle of the night, Jimmy Tungate has a story that might just give you chills. In a recent interview on the Linda Eastburn YouTube channel, Tungate shared a jaw-dropping encounter from June 2023 that took place near Mount Baker in Washington State, and the details are hard to dismiss. Tungate, an overlanding enthusiast, was camping with about eight friends in a remote area near Mount Baker. They had set up in an overflow lot for a snow park, enjoying clear skies and beautiful weather. Tungate had just purchased a new Toyota and outfitted it with a rooftop tent and annex, and he was excited to use the setup for the first time. Everything seemed normal until about 12:30 in the morning. "I hear this crunching sound," Tungate explained. "If you've ever been parked on gravel and turned your wheel, that's kind of exactly what I was hearing was this crunch, and it was walking around my vehicle." The sound made a complete circuit around his rig, moving from the driver's side to the passenger side where the rooftop tent entrance was located. The darkness was so thick he couldn't see his hand in front of his face, and the blackout lining on his tent made it even worse. At one point, he heard whatever it was reach up and grab the fabric of the tent, stretching it. That's when he gasped, and the thing went away. "I wasn't even thinking Bigfoot," Tungate said. "I just knew something big was walking around my rig." The next morning, Tungate searched for footprints but found nothing in the hard-packed gravel. He asked his camping companions if anyone had come by his vehicle during the night, and everyone denied it. But then he noticed something strange. His camp organizer, a 4-foot-wide canvas piece with tent stakes along the bottom to keep it from blowing in the wind, was missing from where it had been hanging on his 8x8 awning. When he finally spotted it, his jaw must have dropped. The organizer was laying stretched out completely flat on top of the awning, about 8 feet off the ground. Tungate, who stands 5'6", had to grab a step stool just to retrieve it. He tried to recreate the scenario, attempting to throw the awning up to see if wind could have placed it there. It couldn't. The weather records for that night confirmed there was no wind to speak of. "It was just like carefully laid on top," Tungate said. "You'd have to be at least probably 7 feet tall to be able to lay it and stretch it out flat because of the height that it was at." What makes this account particularly compelling is Tungate's Ring automobile dash cam, which was triggered by motion during the incident. Unfortunately, the darkness was too thick for the camera to capture anything identifiable, but the motion activation confirms something was moving around his vehicle. Tungate has since revisited the area and documented the location in a video on his own YouTube channel called "Boogeyman of Baker Lake," where he shows exactly where the encounter took place. He couldn't find any additional evidence on his return trip, but his conclusion is firm. "With everything that I know now, I believe that was a Bigfoot that came into camp," he said. "Maybe it never seen a rooftop tent with an annex before and it was just curious." Tungate's perspective on Sasquatch is refreshingly open-minded. He refers to them as "the five finger people," emphasizing that they share our five-fingered anatomy and are likely a parallel species. He believes they are highly intelligent and, like us, enjoy having fun. "I think they like to have fun too," Tungate said. "I can just see a couple Bigfoot in the tree line going, 'Hey, go over there and run through that camp and scare those people.'" This kind of playful curiosity has been reported by numerous witnesses over the years. Researchers and enthusiasts have long noted that Sasquatch encounters often involve what appears to be deliberate investigation of human camps, with subjects reportedly peering into tents, examining equipment, and sometimes moving objects. The theory that juveniles in particular engage in this kind of exploratory behavior aligns with what many in the field have observed. The Mount Baker area of Washington State has a rich history of Sasquatch sightings. The dense forests, rugged terrain, and relative remoteness of the Cascade Range provide ideal habitat, and the region has produced numerous reports over the decades. Tungate's experience fits a pattern that researchers familiar with the area would likely recognize. For anyone interested in hearing the full story straight from Tungate, the interview is well worth watching. His calm, matter-of-fact delivery and the specific details he provides, from the weather conditions to the exact dimensions of the camp organizer, give the account a credibility that's hard to shake. The fact that he had no preconceived notion of what was happening when it occurred, and only came to the Bigfoot conclusion after researching and reflecting, adds another layer of authenticity. Whether you call them Sasquatch, Bigfoot, or the five finger people, encounters like this one remind us that there's still so much we don't understand about the forests of the Pacific Northwest. And sometimes, the evidence isn't in footprints or blurry photos, but in a carefully placed camp organizer sitting 8 feet off the ground on a calm night with no wind.