Bigfoot Roundup: The Snake Stuart DNA Claim, a Fresh Skamania County Sighting, and What Pattern-Watchers Are Seeing

Bigfoot season never really ends around here, but this stretch has been busier than most. From a DNA claim making the national rounds to a fresh sighting right in our own backyard, here is the roundup.

The Snake Stuart DNA Claim

Charles Stuart, better known as Snake the Bigfoot Hunter, says he found decomposing remains in New York's Adirondack Park back in 2024, an eight-foot, 300-pound specimen he nicknamed Dack. He put the body on display at last year's Great New York State Fair, and now says he has the lab results to back it up: DNA testing at Cornell's Veterinary DNA Lab allegedly came back 58.5 percent Neanderthal and 41.5 percent human. Snake has been making the media rounds ever since, from local Michigan news to national outlets, describing an unusual reproductive bone he claims explains why the species does not appear to form family units.

The skepticism has been just as loud as the claim. Longtime BFRO researcher Matthew Moneymaker called it out well before the DNA results surfaced, dismissing it as a low-effort fake. Cornell has not corroborated the lab work publicly, and no peer-reviewed data has been released. We are filing this one under 'entertaining but unproven' until something more substantial shows up.

Closer to Home: A Skamania County Sighting

While Snake was chasing headlines out east, Washington quietly logged its own report. A solo motorist driving through Skamania County, about six miles northwest of Carson, submitted a daylight sighting to the BFRO in May describing a large bipedal figure near roadside debris. It is Washington's first widely discussed sighting report in a while, and it lands in one of the state's most reliable hotspots. Washington leads the nation in cumulative BFRO sighting reports, and Skamania County passed a resolution decades ago protecting Sasquatch within its borders.

The Patterns Researchers Keep Finding

A regional roundup published by NorthWest Bigfoot earlier this year pulled together years of witness accounts and found some consistent threads: a musky or wet-dog smell, heavy bipedal footfalls, and witnesses using a nearby object, like a fencepost or road sign, to estimate height. Sightings cluster hard around the Cascade Range, the Coast Range, and forested river valleys, especially near logging roads and remote trailheads. None of it proves anything on its own, but the consistency across decades of independent reports is what keeps serious researchers paying attention.

Where to Go Looking Yourself

If this has you itching for a road trip, Washington does not make it hard. The Olympic Peninsula along Highway 101 is thick with reports, Forks has Sasquatch souvenirs to match its vampire fame, and the area around Mount Adams and Mount St. Helens, including Gifford Pinchot National Forest pictured above, has produced sightings for decades. The BFRO also runs organized expeditions in Washington most years for anyone who wants to search with people who know the terrain.

Send Us Your Encounter

Seen something out there, in Skamania County or anywhere else in the Pacific Northwest? Call the U.S. Phenomenon hotline at 775-990-5151. We read every report, and the good ones sometimes end up on air.