We Tracked Bigfoot Deep Into the Forest in Wyoming Before Everything Went Wrong – Bigfoot Story

Wyoming Hunting Trip Ends in Tragedy, Leaves Survivor Questioning Official Story

PINE RIDGE WILDERNESS, Wyo. — In late October, three seasoned hunters entered one of Wyoming’s most remote wilderness areas expecting a difficult but familiar challenge: steep terrain, early snow, and the ever-present risks of the backcountry. Only one of them came out alive.

State and federal officials later classified the incident as a fatal wildlife attack, likely involving a mountain lion or bear. But the sole survivor, a man who asked to be identified only as Jake, says the official explanation ignores crucial details — details that continue to haunt him months later.

“What happened to us wasn’t random,” Jake said in an interview. “It wasn’t an animal acting on instinct. Whatever hunted us knew exactly what it was doing.”

A Routine Trip Into Remote Country

Jake, along with longtime friends Ryan and Luke, set out on a late-season elk hunt in the Pine Ridge Wilderness of northern Wyoming, an isolated stretch of rugged ridgelines, abandoned fire roads, and dense forest rarely visited outside of hunting season.

All three men were experienced outdoorsmen. Luke had guided hunts professionally for over a decade, while Jake and Ryan had spent years navigating Wyoming’s backcountry. None of them expected an easy trip — but none expected it to turn deadly.

According to Jake, the first sign that something was wrong came on the second morning, when Ryan discovered a line of massive footprints near a muddy creek bed.

“They looked human, but impossibly large,” Jake said. “Seventeen, maybe eighteen inches long. Deep impressions, like whatever made them was incredibly heavy.”

The tracks continued for dozens of yards, walking upright in a straight, deliberate line before circling back on themselves. Luke, who had seen nearly every type of animal sign in the region, was visibly shaken.

“He didn’t say much,” Jake recalled. “But I could tell he’d never seen anything like it.”

Sounds in the Night

That night, the men heard unexplained noises around their camp — sharp, rhythmic clicking sounds followed by a deep, vibrating hum that seemed to move through the forest.

“It wasn’t wind. It wasn’t animals,” Jake said. “It felt like something was testing us.”

By morning, fresh tracks surrounded their campsite in wide circles, just beyond the firelight. The group quickly packed up and attempted to leave the area.

What followed, Jake claims, was a coordinated pursuit.

“They Were Herding Us”

As the men moved into more open terrain, Jake says they spotted tall, upright figures watching them from a ridgeline roughly 300 yards away. Soon, more appeared — positioning themselves to the sides, forcing the hunters toward narrow, dangerous terrain.

“They weren’t chasing us blindly,” Jake said. “They were flanking us. Driving us where they wanted us to go.”

In a narrow ravine, the situation turned violent. Jake says one of the creatures attacked Ryan, killing him by slamming him repeatedly against a rock wall. Despite multiple rifle shots, the creature did not go down.

Luke and Jake fled, but moments later Luke was struck by a massive tree trunk wielded like a weapon.

“He didn’t get up,” Jake said quietly.

Trapped Underground

Jake escaped alone, injured and exhausted, eventually crawling into a narrow rock crevice to hide. That is where he believes the creatures found him — and instead of killing him, sealed him inside.

“I heard them stacking stones,” he said. “Carefully. One by one. They weren’t collapsing the entrance. They were building it.”

Jake says he was trapped in total darkness for what felt like days, without water, drifting in and out of consciousness. He became delirious, hallucinating voices and movement.

Then, just as inexplicably, the stones were partially removed.

“They opened it just enough for me to squeeze out,” he said. “No more than that.”

An Unanswered Mystery

Jake eventually stumbled into an abandoned ranger station, where he found a sealed bottle of water and a handwritten note that read: “Keep moving. Dawn.”

Authorities have not confirmed the origin of either item.

Search-and-rescue teams later recovered the bodies of Ryan and Luke. Official reports cited massive trauma consistent with a large predator attack. No evidence supporting Jake’s account of multiple attackers or coordinated behavior was documented.

Medical professionals treated Jake for dehydration, exposure, and psychological trauma. He was evaluated by a psychiatrist, who attributed much of his experience to stress-induced hallucinations.

Jake disagrees.

“I know what trauma feels like,” he said. “This wasn’t my mind making things up.”

Experts Urge Caution

Wildlife experts contacted for this story say the behavior described does not align with known patterns of mountain lions or bears, particularly the use of tools, coordinated movement, or prolonged stalking.

However, none were willing to speculate beyond established science.

“There is no verified evidence of an unknown large primate species in Wyoming,” one biologist said. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”

Living With What He Saw

Jake has not returned to Wyoming’s backcountry since the incident. He no longer hunts and avoids wilderness areas entirely.

“I don’t want attention. I don’t want a book deal,” he said. “I just want people to understand that the official story isn’t the whole truth.”

He pauses before adding, “There are places on the map that look empty. They’re not.”

The Pine Ridge case remains closed. But for the man who walked out alone, the questions remain unanswered — and the sense of being watched never fully goes away.

“I don’t know why they let me live,” Jake said. “That’s the part that scares me the most.”