Farmer's Trail Camera Captures Bigfoot Carrying His Son
Posted Friday, July 31, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
A trail camera video posted to the Bigfoot Evidence Files YouTube channel is making waves, and honestly, it's one of the most unsettling pieces of footage I've come across in a while. A farmer named Daniel, who has worked the same land for over two decades, captured something on his property that he says changed everything he thought he knew about the woods behind his house.
The story begins about six weeks before the footage was recorded. Daniel started noticing strange gaps in his trail camera recordings, not malfunctions, but hours of black where the camera was clearly working but had nothing to show. Nine hours of nothing, night after night. For anyone who's run trail cams for years, you know that's not normal. Wildlife doesn't just vanish for nine-hour stretches. Something was avoiding the cameras, and it knew exactly when they were watching.
Then came the behavioral changes in his cattle dogs, Blue and Remy. These are animals that had chased off coyotes, faced down a bobcat, and even held their ground against a 300-pound black bear. But suddenly, they refused to go near the back of the property. They'd freeze at the same spot, about 40 yards from the treeline, ears flat, tails tucked, and bolt back toward the house. Daniel couldn't hear or smell anything, but the dogs knew.
The smell came next. Daniel's wife mentioned it first, a heavy, musky odor drifting off the treeline after dark. Not a dead animal. Something thicker, with weight to it. This kind of scent report is incredibly consistent with Sasquatch encounters across North America. Witnesses have described it for decades, a pungent, almost overwhelming odor that doesn't match any known animal.
But the most chilling part is what his 9-year-old son Jacob told him. The boy described a man standing at the edge of the yard, watching through his bedroom window. He said the figure was very tall and very still, and never moved. When Daniel asked how tall, Jacob measured against the lowest branches of the oak tree at the yard's edge. That branch sits 11 feet off the ground. Eleven feet.
Then Daniel found the footprint. Seventeen inches long, pressed nearly three inches deep into the mud along the creek bank. Five toes, a full arch, a heel that curled the mud upward from the pressure. His size-12 boot fit inside it with room to spare on every side. The stride to the next print was over four feet, and the tracks moved in a perfectly straight line from the deep woods directly toward his house, stopping right at the edge of the yard before turning back. And next to one of those prints, pressed deliberately into the mud with what looked like a single finger, was a symbol. A circle with four lines extending outward, like a child's drawing of the sun. Intentional. Not natural. Not erosion. Someone, or something, had marked that spot on purpose.
The footage itself was captured at 5:47 a.m. on a Thursday morning. Camera 4, mounted on a big cedar at the back corner of the property, recorded 47 continuous minutes starting at 11:23 the night before. For the first eleven minutes, nothing. Empty yard, porch light on, Jacob's swing set, his bike leaning against the fence. Then, at minute eleven and thirty-four seconds, something stepped into the clearing.
Daniel describes it as shaped like a man but wrong in every proportion. Eight to nine feet tall, shoulders wider than any doorframe in his house, arms hanging so low the hands brushed near the knees. Covered head to foot in dark, coarse hair that caught the porch light in a way that made it look almost wet. It stood at the yard's edge for exactly four minutes and twenty seconds, looking directly at the house, head turned toward the second floor, toward Jacob's bedroom window. Then it turned and walked back toward the treeline.
And that's when Daniel saw the second one. Smaller, maybe six and a half to seven feet, moving more cautiously, staying in the shadow of the trees. It had been waiting there the whole time. And walking between them, cradled against the smaller one's chest with both enormous arms, was Jacob. Blue pajamas with rocket ships. Eyes open. Head resting against the creature's chest. Not struggling. Not crying. His arms wrapped around it, like he trusted it completely.
Daniel says he was out of his chair before the footage finished.
This is the kind of report that stops you in your tracks. The behavior of the child is what gets me. Across the Sasquatch research community, there are countless accounts of children being drawn to these beings, or vice versa, with no fear, no struggle, just an inexplicable trust. Some researchers have suggested for years that Sasquatch may have a particular affinity for children, though no one really knows why. The fact that Jacob's arms were wrapped around the creature, that he was calm, that he looked like he belonged there, that's the detail that lingers.
The footprint measurements also line up with what researchers have documented in other parts of the country. Seventeen-inch prints with a five-toe structure and a mid-tarsal break are consistent with reports from the Pacific Northwest, the Ohio Valley, and the Southeast. The wide big toe Daniel describes, wider than his entire foot at its widest point, matches descriptions from other track finds.
And that symbol in the mud. Researchers have noted over the years that Sasquatch may leave intentional markings, stick structures, tree bends, and yes, pressed symbols in soft ground. Whether it's communication, territorial marking, or something else entirely, nobody can say for certain. But the deliberate nature of it, pressed with what looked like a single finger, is hard to dismiss as random.
The full video is worth watching. Daniel walks through the entire timeline, the buildup, the footage itself, and what happened after. It's raw, it's detailed, and it's the kind of firsthand account that researchers will be talking about for a long time.