Sep 28, 2026 · 41 min · 14 segments
Daniel shares an experience that happened in 2006 while working for the State of Idaho's Department of Environmental Quality. Daniel and two coworkers were sent deep into the Bitterroot Wilderness…
Chris FrickeHost
Daniel's experience took place in an area with a surprisingly long history of stories about a mysterious creature in the wilderness.
More than a century before Daniel entered the Bitterroot Wilderness, a similar Bigfoot encounter was documented by a name you may recognize.
In 1893, Theodore Roosevelt published The Wilderness Hunter, a book based largely on his experiences in the American West.
Within it, it included a story told to him by an old mountain man named Bowman.
According to Bowman's account, he and another trapper had traveled into a remote mountain pass in the Bitterroot Wilderness.
After setting up camp, They explored the area before returning to find that something had gone through their belongings and destroyed their shelter.
But when they examined the tracks more closely, they noticed something unusual.
That night, Bowman woke to a smell of a foul odor and saw a large figure outside their shelter.
The men heard branches breaking as something moved through the darkness, followed by strange, harsh, sinister moans.
Eventually, they decided to leave, but before they could, Bowman went to check his beaver traps.
The footprints of the unknown beast printed deep in the soft soil told the whole story.
Bowman believed that the creature was something almost half human and half animal.
Utterly terrified, Bowman abandoned everything but his rifle and fled the area on horseback.
And more than a hundred years later, Daniel and his co-workers would experience something remarkably similar in the same general area.
Thousands of people have reported seeing this creature, finding unusual tracks, or hearing strange sounds in the wilderness.
But without definitive physical evidence, scientists have never established that Sasquatch is a real animal.
According to Daniel, his supervisor seemed to recognize exactly what the three men were describing.
Daniel's experience took place in an area with a surprisingly long history of stories about a mysterious creature in the wilderness.
More than a century before Daniel entered the Bitterroot Wilderness, a similar Bigfoot encounter was documented by a name you may recognize.
In 1893, Theodore Roosevelt published The Wilderness Hunter, a book based largely on his experiences in the American West.
Within it, it included a story told to him by an old mountain man named Bowman.
According to Bowman's account, he and another trapper had traveled into a remote mountain pass in the Bitterroot Wilderness.
After setting up camp, They explored the area before returning to find that something had gone through their belongings and destroyed their shelter.
But when they examined the tracks more closely, they noticed something unusual.
That night, Bowman woke to a smell of a foul odor and saw a large figure outside their shelter.
The men heard branches breaking as something moved through the darkness, followed by strange, harsh, sinister moans.
Eventually, they decided to leave, but before they could, Bowman went to check his beaver traps.
The footprints of the unknown beast printed deep in the soft soil told the whole story.
Bowman believed that the creature was something almost half human and half animal.
Utterly terrified, Bowman abandoned everything but his rifle and fled the area on horseback.
And more than a hundred years later, Daniel and his co-workers would experience something remarkably similar in the same general area.
Thousands of people have reported seeing this creature, finding unusual tracks, or hearing strange sounds in the wilderness.
But without definitive physical evidence, scientists have never established that Sasquatch is a real animal.
According to Daniel, his supervisor seemed to recognize exactly what the three men were describing.
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