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Jun 24, 2026 · 14 min · 7 segments
In September 2000, a team of researchers set up a bait station deep in Washington's Gifford Pinchot National Forest — and something enormous came to investigate. What they found in the mud the next…
Matt HarveyHost
The Bigfoot Field Research Organization, the BFRO, organized a large-scale expedition to Skookum Meadows.
This is in the Southern Cascades in the Guilford Pinch Knot National Forest in Washington State.
This was not a group of enthusiasts going into the woods with flashlights and hope.
But this team also included some of the most credentialed researchers working in the field.
Dr. Jeff Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University.
Dr. John Gingell, a Canadian wildlife biologist with decades of field experience.
Dr. Ron Brown, a skin and hair forensics expert, multiple other researchers with legitimate scientific credentials.
So you have independent witnesses, you have a scientific team, you have a video documentation.
There were reports of vocalizations at night, things moving through the train lines.
If we put apples and pears in a muddy area, somewhere that whatever is eating them would have to come into the clearing and leave trace evidence, maybe even get something.
The Bigfoot Field Research Organization, the BFRO, organized a large-scale expedition to Skookum Meadows.
This is in the Southern Cascades in the Guilford Pinch Knot National Forest in Washington State.
This was not a group of enthusiasts going into the woods with flashlights and hope.
But this team also included some of the most credentialed researchers working in the field.
Dr. Jeff Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University.
Dr. John Gingell, a Canadian wildlife biologist with decades of field experience.
Dr. Ron Brown, a skin and hair forensics expert, multiple other researchers with legitimate scientific credentials.
So you have independent witnesses, you have a scientific team, you have a video documentation.
There were reports of vocalizations at night, things moving through the train lines.
If we put apples and pears in a muddy area, somewhere that whatever is eating them would have to come into the clearing and leave trace evidence, maybe even get something.
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