Geographical Index > United States > Washington > Lewis County > Report # 78558
(Class B)
Submitted by witness on Sunday, April 27, 2025.
Man and his son hunting elk have an encounter with a possible sasquatch near Packwood
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YEAR: 2014
SEASON: Fall DATE: Nov 8 STATE: Washington COUNTY: Lewis County LOCATION DETAILS: Just west of Snyder Mountain on FS road 4830 NEAREST TOWN: Packwood NEAREST ROAD: Hwy 12 OBSERVED: This report was generated by Investigator Scott Taylor for the witness. The witness told the account on a recorded line. The narrative was transcribed and submitted to the witness for accuracy. These are his own words.
My son and I were hunting on the 4830 road, which goes from Art Lake to Hagar Lake. The road follows the ridge line from Art Lake, until it drops down to Hagar Lake. About a mile South of Art Lake, headed toward Hagar Lake, there are some old-growth Douglas Fir. In that area there’s a small landing, where they probably parked equipment when there was logging in the area. It’s a good place to park and get off the road. We were elk hunting there in November, 2014. We pulled the pickup into that spot, got out and walked maybe 50 or 100 yards. The weather was very mild, no rain, no snow and no wind. Suddenly about a hundred yards or so above us, something either broke a large tree limb or snapped a small tree in half. It was very startling and was a sharp sound, almost like a rifle report. We were trying to figure out what it was, and we scanned the hillside above us, looking for a large animal and expecting to hear something else if a bear or elk were in the area. It was dead calm, but we heard nothing. It was late afternoon, maybe an hour before sunset. Suddenly we got hit with a nauseating, putrid smell. It smelled like a cross between a wet dog and rotten meat. The hair on the back our necks went up. We asked each other, “What do you think that is?” Then we got an ominous feeling, like something was wrong and that we should leave. We left and haven’t been up there since. The weather had been very calm that week, no rain, no snow, no wind, nothing that you could attribute to tree limbs falling from heavy, wet snow or wind and it didn’t sound like a tree limb falling and hitting the ground. It was the sound of something being snapped in half.
OTHER WITNESSES: Two, myself and my son. He was hunting with me. TIME AND CONDITIONS: 3:30PM ENVIRONMENT: Pacific NW fir forest.
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Scott Taylor:
This witness came via an e-mail to the BFRO website. The e-mail was forwarded to me by Matt Moneymaker. This witness was unable to submit a written report to our database. I interviewed him over the phone while recording the conversation with his permission. I then transcribed his narrative and submitted it to him for verification and edits. I consider the report narrative to be his own words. The witness had multiple accounts that he has experienced over the years. Two of them are suitable for publication. This one is the first encounter near Packwood Lake.
There are four important components to his encounter:
1. Location:
This report is near a cluster of four other reports, and this entire region is well known in Washington State to be an area with frequent sasquatch sightings.
This picture shows the general location of the encounter
This picture shows the cluster of sightings in the area.
2. Tree limb break:
I have also experienced on multiple other occasions; the same tree limb break sounds when in close proximity to a sasquatch that does not want us there. Also, this has been reported in other reports, one of which on Joint Base Lewis McChord which was observed by two MPs where a sasquatch broke off a tree limb and threw it at them.
3. The very rank odor:
It is well known that when in the close proximity to a sasquatch a witness often reports the pungent and unmistakable smell of a male sasquatch.
4. An ominous feeling of “I shouldn’t be here”:
We call this “The vibe” or “Infrasound, although we are not sure how they do this. Sasquatches have some ability in this regard, according to hundreds of witnesses and bigfoot researchers. They use this "vibe" projecting ability to make intruders leave the area, and they surely use it for other purposes as well with respect to other wildlife large and small.
Based on the above four factors, I am convinced that the witness had an encounter with one of the sasquatches in the area.
About BFRO Investigator Scott Taylor:
Scott Taylor is a retired aerospace manager. He lives in Mason County, Washington. He had his first bigfoot encounter in October 2005 where he was stalked and later heard vocalizations.
Scott has attended official BFRO Expeditions in the Washington Cascades in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. He also attended 2007 Central Oregon Cascades and 2007 Utah. He now organizes BFRO expeditions in Washington and has participated in bigfoot conferences over the past 17 years.
Scott will be leading a Washington BFRO expedition in 2025 (July 17-20) which is open to non-members. For more details and registration information for that trip click here.
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