Oregon Retiree Captures 8-Second Sasquatch Footage, Receives Gifts in Return

A retired millwright from Riddle, Oregon may have captured some of the most haunting Sasquatch footage ever recorded—and then watched it disappear from the internet almost as fast as it appeared. The story comes from a video posted by Midnight Terror Tales on YouTube, and it's one of those accounts that sticks with you long after the video ends. It centers on a man named Harlon Teague, a 61-year-old widower who spent 31 years keeping the machines running at the plywood mill in Dillard before retiring after his wife Lois passed away from cancer in 2013. What happened next reads like something out of folklore, but according to the video, every detail is documented. After scattering his wife's ashes at an overlook in the South Umpqua High Country above Martin Creek, Harlon began making regular trips up the old logging grade to leave apples on a flat-topped cedar stump—the way another man might leave flowers at a grave. He thought he was feeding the deer. The deer weren't the ones taking the apples. In October of 2014, the apples were gone and in their place sat a fist-sized piece of rose quartz, clean and unworn, set dead center on the stump. Over the next two years, the exchanges continued—a hubcap scoured so clean it looked dipped in acid, a deer skull stripped to museum white and positioned to face the exact spot where Harlon had scattered Lois's ashes, a bone-handled folding knife honed to a razor, a fan of golden eagle feathers arranged largest to smallest, and finally, a worn leather work glove that Harlon had lost four miles and two ridges away, folded neatly and placed in the center of the stump. Whatever was leaving these gifts knew Harlon. It tracked him across a territory the size of a county. It had decided, for reasons no one could explain, that the two of them had an arrangement. Harlon told exactly one person—a retired timber cruiser named Otis Yandel—who warned him never to touch the stump. "Because you did not choose that stump," Otis told him. "It did. And you want to be very careful about the difference." On September 24, 2016, Harlon finally saw what had been leaving the gifts. Standing upslope in the shadow of a stand of red alder, perfectly still, watching him, was a figure over seven feet tall. Then, on the morning of October