Bigfoot Family Discovered at Rancher's Water Source During Severe Drought

A rancher in the remote high country of western New Mexico has come forward with what might be one of the most compelling Bigfoot encounter stories to surface in a while, and it all started with a horse who refused to do her job. The story comes courtesy of The Forest Sentinel and The Deep Forest Tales on YouTube, and it details the experiences of Wes Duran, a third-generation rancher running cattle in Catron County, New Mexico. If you've never heard of Catron County, that's kind of the point. It's bigger than the state of Connecticut and home to roughly 3,000 people. There's one blinking stoplight in the entire county, and it's in Reserve. Wes took over the family ranch in 2009 at age 32, after his grandfather originally put the deed together in 1946 with money he brought home from the Pacific, and his father ran it from 1972 until his hips gave out. The ranch sits in the country below the Mogollon Rim, where the ground steps up from cholla and juniper into big open ponderosa pine and eventually into wilderness that sees almost no human traffic. A person could walk north from his north fence and not cross a road for two days. For seven years, Wes lived alone on that ranch after his wife Marisol took their son Danny and moved to Silver City in 2014. She couldn't do another winter out there, three hours from her mother, an hour and a half from the nearest grocery store on a washboard road, married to a man who came home with nothing to say because he'd spent the whole day not talking. Then came 2021, and the worst drought the Southwest had seen in well over a century. The monsoon that should have come in 2020 simply didn't show up. By January 2021, over half of New Mexico was classified in "exceptional" drought, the worst category there is. It was the driest 20-month period on record going back to the 1890s. On Wes's particular piece of ground, this meant his dirt tanks cracked to mud