Connecticut Man Reports High-Credibility Bigfoot Sighting in Voluntown
Posted Tuesday, August 11, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
A late-night drive through the Connecticut woods turned into something straight out of a cryptid hunter's dream, and the details are as wild as they come. A recently surfaced YouTube breakdown from the channel Rahasya Decoded dives deep into a fresh encounter that has the Sasquatch community buzzing, and honestly, it's one of those reports that's hard to shake.
So here's the story. On July 5th, 2026, around 1:45 in the morning, a guy named Kevin Climus from Westerly, Rhode Island, was making his way home after leaving a friend's rented cabin near Beach Pond. He was driving through Voluntown, Connecticut, along Wigh School Road near the Pachchog River, when he pulled up Google Maps to check his route. That's when something stepped right out in front of his vehicle.
Climus described the figure as an enormous, human-like creature standing somewhere between 8 and 8.5 feet tall, covered in long, coarse brown hair. Broad shoulders, long arms, thick legs, and a build that sounded seriously powerful. The kicker? He said the creature crossed the entire road in just two steps before vanishing into the dark forest. The whole thing lasted only seconds, but Climus didn't just shrug it off and head home.
He actually filed a detailed report with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, better known as BFRO. And here's where it gets interesting for anyone who follows these investigations closely. The BFRO classified it as a Class A sighting, which is their top tier, reserved for encounters where investigators feel a simple misidentification is unlikely. That's not something they hand out casually.
The exact location was near the Pachchog River, not far from where Wigh School Road meets Forge Hill Road. Investigators did follow up and interview Climus about what he saw. But there's a big catch, and the video doesn't shy away from pointing it out. There's no photo, no video, no confirmed footprint. Plus, recent rain had messed with the ground, making any potential tracks nearly impossible to verify. Local authorities didn't get any other reports of a giant hairy figure wandering around either.
Now, Connecticut isn't exactly new to this kind of thing. The state has a Sasquatch history stretching back well over a century. One of the oldest tales is the legend of the Winstead Wildman, dating back to 1895, when newspapers reported a large, hairy, human-looking figure spotted near Winstead. Then in 1972, two young men near Crystal Lake Reservoir claimed they saw an upright, hairy creature roughly 8 feet tall before it disappeared into the woods. And those are just the highlights. Connecticut's heavily forested regions have produced a steady stream of sightings over the years.
But here's the uncomfortable truth the video lays out. After more than a hundred years of stories, there's still no definitive physical evidence. No confirmed body, no scientifically verified DNA, no universally accepted photograph proving an unknown giant primate is roaming North America's forests. That gap between the eyewitness accounts and the hard proof is exactly what keeps this debate alive.
Still, the July 5th encounter raises a question worth sitting with. If it wasn't Sasquatch, what did Kevin Climus actually see crossing that road in two strides? A person in some kind of costume? A bear caught under weird lighting? Or something that simply couldn't be identified in the few seconds it was visible?
The video does a solid job walking through all of this, and for anyone who loves digging into fresh sighting reports, it's absolutely worth checking out. The Rahasya Decoded channel lays out the timeline, the BFRO classification, and the historical Connecticut context in a way that's easy to follow, even if you're hearing about this encounter for the first time.
One thing's for sure, whether you're a longtime believer or just curious, a Class A report from a witness who actually took the step of contacting investigators is the kind of story that keeps the conversation going. And in a state with over a century of Sasquatch lore, another late-night sighting in those dark Connecticut woods is bound to get people talking.