MonsterQuest Team Hunts Aggressive Sasquatch at Attacked Ontario Cabin
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So I just stumbled across this incredible deep dive from The UnXplained Zone, and honestly, this one had me glued to the screen. It's a full MonsterQuest marathon episode centered on one of the most compelling Sasquatch investigations in recent memory, and the evidence they're presenting is the kind of stuff that keeps researchers up at night.
The whole thing centers on a remote fishing cabin near Snellgrove Lake in Ontario, Canada, about 250 miles north of Winnipeg. This isolated spot has become ground zero for some seriously unexplainable activity. We're talking about a cabin that got completely ransacked back in 2002, with the refrigerator literally ripped from the walls, the bathroom sink torn out, and everything thrown on the floor. The owner, Chuck Mosbach, was adamant that no human could have done this. The only access is by flying in, and the damage happened between October and mid-winter, when bears should have been hibernating.
But here's where it gets really interesting. In August 2006, researchers investigating the reports became targets themselves. Rocks started raining down on the cabin in the middle of the night. The team described the experience as terrifying, with one researcher admitting, "I think we were food." The rocks were substantial, not pebbles, and the throwing pattern suggested intelligence. One researcher even lobbed a rock back into the woods, and shortly after, a much larger rock bounced across the roof of the cabin.
The following day, they found a rock the size of a tennis ball on the roof, and nearby, a 17-inch bloody footprint with tissue attached. This is where the science starts to get wild. The cabin owner had laid out a bed of screws as a deterrent, and whatever walked across it left behind biological material. DNA analysis revealed something extraordinary: the sample was identical to human DNA except for one nucleotide polymorphism, a difference shared with chimpanzees. According to scientists, there's only a 1 in 5,000 chance this is human DNA.
Dr. Jeff Meldrum from Idaho State University, one of the most respected names in Sasquatch research, returned to the site with a new team, including primatologist Esteban Sarmiento, who has over 30 years of experience studying great apes in the field. The goal was clear: get photographic evidence, collect more DNA, and finally bring the scientific community something it couldn't ignore.
The team brought serious tech this time: infrared cameras, motion-triggered camera traps hidden around the perimeter, and audio/video recorders running continuously inside a custom-made blind designed to conceal their electronic glow at night. They even had biopsy dart guns and transmitter darts ready, because as wildlife expert Dr. Greg Bambick put it, "Zoology wants a type specimen. They want some bone, some DNA, some skin, or a body."
What makes this case stand out is the combination of physical evidence, eyewitness testimony, and ongoing scientific analysis. The footprint size, the DNA results, the rock-throwing behavior, and the cabin damage all point to something that doesn't fit neatly into the known animal kingdom. And the fact that credentialed researchers from multiple disciplines are taking this seriously enough to spend 12 days in the wilderness with high-tech surveillance gear speaks volumes.
If you haven't seen this one yet, do yourself a favor and check it out. The UnXplained Zone has the full episode up, and it's a must-watch for anyone following the Sasquatch research trail.