Veteran Forester Shares Decades of Bigfoot Encounters in Washington

# A Timber Cruiser's Lifelong Journey With Sasquatch: Doug's Latest Sighting on Creek Devil There's something about a witness who spends their career deep in the woods that makes their testimony hit differently. When someone like that comes forward with a fresh encounter, it's worth paying attention. That's exactly what happened recently on the Creek Devil YouTube channel, where host William Jevning — a two-time witness and field researcher with over four decades of experience — sat down with Doug, a forester from northern Washington, just two hours after Doug had a brand-new sighting. Doug's story is one that will resonate with anyone who's spent serious time in the Pacific Northwest forests. He's been a forester since 2008, but his journey with the subject started even earlier, back when he was a college intern at the University of Idaho's forestry program. He was working an internship in the Ahtanum State Forest near Yakima, doing forest inventory work — coring trees, measuring diameters, cataloging terrain aspects, the whole nine yards. And that's when he started finding footprints that didn't belong to any human. What makes Doug's account so compelling is the sheer variety of encounters he's had over the years. He's not just talking about distant howls or ambiguous tracks. He's had visual sightings, audio encounters, and even a situation where a group of these creatures essentially ran him off a mountain. That particular incident involved vocalizations and what Doug described as a creature banging a rock against another rock — not the classic wood knock, but something more primal and unsettling. There was another one up on a ridge making strange sounds. It was enough to scare him into diving deep into podcasts and research, trying to understand what was out there with him. One of the most fascinating parts of his interview is when he talks about the gait. He had a clear view of one crossing a rural road in the early morning — not deep wilderness, but an area with farmhouses scattered around. The speed and the bizarre movement pattern stuck with him. For anyone familiar with Sasquatch reports, unusual gaits come up again and again. Witnesses often describe a loping, almost fluid motion that doesn't match any known bipedal animal. Doug's description fits right into that body of testimony. What's really interesting is Doug's take on the unpredictability of these encounters. As a timber cruiser, he's all over the map — high elevation, low elevation, remote drainages like the Suiattle River, areas near Mount Baker, places close to civilization. And yet, he says he can't find a pattern. He might go months without seeing a track, and then suddenly have an encounter that stops him in his tracks. He's learned that trying to predict where or when a sighting will happen is basically impossible. That's a sentiment echoed by many longtime researchers — Sasquatch don't operate on schedules, and they don't stay in one territory. Doug also makes a point that more people in the research community should hear: these encounters aren't just happening in the deep, untouched wilderness. Some of his sightings — including one visual and two audio encounters — were in areas with houses nearby. The creatures he encountered on that small mountain that chased him off? There were homes ringing the entire base of that hill. Somehow, they moved through populated areas completely undetected to reach him. That tracks with what many witnesses have reported over the years — Sasquatch are remarkably adept at staying hidden, even when civilization is right next door. The recent sighting that prompted the call is only partially covered in the discussion that made the rounds, but the setup alone is enough to make anyone want to hear the full conversation. A working forester, someone who's been documenting tracks and encounters for the better part of two decades, calling in a fresh sighting just hours after it happened? That's the kind of real-time testimony that's hard to come by. For those interested in the full story, including the details of this latest encounter and Doug's reflections on his years in the field, the Creek Devil episode is well worth the watch. Jevning knows how to draw out a witness, and Doug is clearly someone who's processed his experiences with a level head — no hyperbole, no grand claims, just a working professional sharing what's happened to him over a long career in some of the most rugged terrain in the lower 48. It's a reminder that the people with the most consistent encounters aren't the ones with the fancy gear or the big platforms. They're often the ones doing the quiet, unglamorous work — cruising timber, running inventory plots, spending day after day in places most people only visit once. Doug's story is a perfect example of that, and it's one every researcher should hear.