If you live in the Pacific Northwest, autumn is not “pumpkin spice season.” It’s “everything in the woods is loud and cranky, the light dies at 4 PM, and somebody swears a tall, dark, shaggy thing just crossed the road” season.

For this post, I pulled together Bigfoot / Sasquatch reports with incident dates between Oct. 2, 2025 and Dec. 31, 2025, using a blend of BFRO database entries and news coverage that amplified those entries (so we’re not living on BFRO alone). (BFRO)

Also, a quick decoder ring. The BFRO uses a classification system (A, B, C). In plain terms, Class A tends to mean clearer, closer, harder-to-misread encounters. Class B tends to be “credible but limited” due to distance, lighting, or brief duration. (BFRO)

Alright. Four case files, four very different settings, one shared theme: Sasquatch shows up where humans move through the woods.

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Case File 1: The I-80 Runner (Centre County, Pennsylvania)

Date: Oct. 4, 2025 (late afternoon)
What’s reported: A motorist reported a tall, uniformly dark, human-like figure moving fast across Interstate 80, near mile marker 169, clearing a guardrail with no apparent struggle. Local coverage notes the witness first assumed it was a person, then revised that opinion as the body proportions and movement didn’t fit a human profile. (WHP)

PSMC take: Road crossings are the Sasquatch equivalent of getting caught in the kitchen at 2 a.m. You’re not supposed to see it, but you do, and now everyone’s pretending to be calm while their brain replays the moment in slow motion.

Why it matters: This one is a classic “brief, high-speed, high-contrast” encounter. Those are messy. They can be misread. They can also be the exact kind of moment that burns into a witness’s memory because it almost becomes a crash. (WHP)

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Case File 2: The Hyatt Lake Knocks (Jackson County, Oregon)

Date: Oct. 20, 2025 (reported Oct. 24, 2025)
What’s reported: A deer hunter walking through timber behind Hyatt Lake reported a large crash through the woods, then heavy wood knocks roughly 15 seconds later from the same direction. Later, while walking back toward the truck at dark, the hunter reported more knocks from less than 100 yards behind, close enough to raise the rifle and scan through a scope, but nothing was seen. (BFRO)

The follow-up notes that the witness is an experienced hunter and birder and is familiar with woodpecker sounds, but described these as loud, heavy knocks. The BFRO investigator also points out how many reports cluster near the Pacific Crest Trail, and even floats the idea that hunter orange might make a person easier to track in timber for whatever was making the sounds. (BFRO)

PSMC take: This is the kind of report that feels like a scene from a pulp paperback. Not because it’s flashy, but because it’s pure tension. The unseen thing stays out of sight. The forest stays quiet … and the witness knows a predator stalks them.

Why it matters: Sound reports are common, but this one has a clean progression: crash → pause → knocks → tracking knocks during exit. That “following behind” detail is what flips it from weird woods noise into a story you’ll tell forever. (BFRO)

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Case File 3: The Garden Valley Roadside Walker (Smith County, Texas)

Date: Nov. 18, 2025
What’s reported: A truck driver reported seeing an upright figure about 200 feet off the roadway, moving toward a wooded area near Garden Valley. The witness described a dark brown figure, roughly 6–7 feet tall, with long arms hanging to about the knees, and said it did not appear spooked by road noise. The driver didn’t stop due to speed and lack of a safe pull-off. (MySA)

News coverage adds a key practical detail: investigators could not access the private property where the sighting occurred, limiting any follow-up checks on the ground. (MySA)

PSMC take: I love a “daylight, broad view” report because it removes one big excuse (darkness) and replaces it with a different one (distance). In comic book terms, this is the glimpse of the monster between two panels. You get posture, stride, proportions, then it’s gone into trees.

Why it matters: The witness doesn’t claim anything cinematic. No glowing eyes. No roar. Just a moving figure and the sick realization that it looked wrong in a way that stuck. (MySA)

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Case File 4: The Manker Flat Rock-Throwers (San Bernardino County, California)

Date: November 2025 (early morning hours)
What’s reported: A BFRO “recent additions” summary describes campers at Manker Flat (base of Mt. Baldy) reporting possible Sasquatch activity, including rock throwing in a nearly empty campground around 3:30 a.m. (BFRO)

PSMC take: Campgrounds are basically human bait stations. We show up. We make smells. We make light. We make noise. Then we act shocked when a creature (or cryptid) notices us.

Why it matters: “Rock throwing” is one of those recurring Bigfoot motifs that shows up across regions and decades. Whether it’s Sasquatch, bored humans, or misidentified natural impacts, the effect is the same in the moment: you’re suddenly wide awake, trying to decide if the next sound is a branch, a prank, or a warning shot. (BFRO)

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What these four reports have in common

Even with wildly different locations, these reports have patterns:

1. Edges of human travel corridors: interstate shoulders, trail-adjacent timber, highway edges, campgrounds. Sasquatch isn’t popping up in the center of nowhere. It’s popping up where people pass through. (WHP)
2. Short exposure, strong impression: a few seconds on I-80, unseen knocks at dark, a roadside glance at speed, rocks in the night. Brief events create the loudest stories. (WHP)
3. Why “Class B” matters: Two of the reports are logged as Class B, which is basically the BFRO saying, “credible enough to post, but not clean enough to pretend it’s solved.” (BFRO)

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If you want to investigate these reports …

If you ever catch a moment like this, do three things:

• Lock the basics: date, exact time, nearest road/trail, weather, and direction of movement.
• Capture scale: take quick photos of the area with something standard for size (your boot, trekking pole, car door height, guardrail).
• Record sound immediately: if knocks, whoops, crashes start, hit record first, narrate second.

And if it’s on a road: don’t stop in a active lane. Pull over to the shoulder. I should not have to say this, but I’m saying it.

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Sources you can use to verify cases

• BFRO “Sighting Reports Recently Added” (includes the PA Oct 2025 I-80 report, OR Oct 2025 Hyatt Lake knocks, TX Nov 2025 Garden Valley sighting, and CA Nov 2025 Manker Flat rock-throwing summary). (BFRO)
• BFRO Report #79359 (Hyatt Lake, Oregon) with investigator follow-up notes. (BFRO)
• BFRO database history and classification system explanation. (BFRO)
• Local21 News (WHP) coverage summarizing the I-80 Centre County report. (WHP)
• Yahoo News write-up referencing the I-80 report timing and location. (Yahoo)
• Sharon A. Hill commentary noting the Oct. 4 timing and local-media context (useful as skeptical take). (Sharon A. Hill)
• MySA (Hearst) coverage of the Nov. 18 Garden Valley, Texas truck driver report and follow-up limitations. (MySA)

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Sidebar: Reasonable Explanations

If it’s a roadside or highway crossing (like I-80)

• Bear doing bear things: A bear at a glance can read “upright” for a second depending on posture and angle.
• A human in dark clothing: People do stupid stuff near highways. The guardrail detail is what makes this one interesting, but distance and speed can warp “how clean” a movement looked.
• Optical compression: On a fast road, your brain guesses scale using bad reference points. That’s how “tall” becomes “impossibly tall.”

If it’s knocks in timber (like Hyatt Lake)

• Woodpecker and bird percussion: Some species can sound surprisingly punchy, especially in echoing woods.
• Branches shifting and snapping: Wind plus deadfall can make impacts that feel like an animal follows you.
• Other humans: Hunters, hikers, or somebody trying to spook somebody. It happens.
• Your own nerves: After the first “crash,” everything after that can start sounding like a pattern. That doesn’t make it fake, it just means your threat radar is turned up to 11.

If it’s a daylight figure at distance (like Garden Valley)

• A person: The most boring answer is often the most likely, especially at 200 feet.
• A bear with mange or weird coat: Body outline and color can get strange at range.
• Livestock or wildlife moving through brush: At speed, brains can stitch shapes into “upright” when the background is broken up. This is called pareidolia.

If it’s rocks near a tent (like Manker Flat)

• Other campers: The obvious one. People throw things. People also lie.
• Slope or natural fall: Depending on terrain, rocks can shift from above and “arrive” like they were tossed.
• Animals messing around: Not a great explanation for “substantial rocks,” but small impacts can escalate in a frightened memory.
• Tree debris: Branches and cones can fall on fabric and sound heavier than they are, especially at 3:30 a.m. when your brain is already response ready in the dark forest.

The goal of this sidebar is simple: if Sasquatch is the best explanation, it should survive contact with the other explanations. Always try to find reasonable explanations based on clues and evidence. It makes you a better monster hunter.

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Thanks for reading the fall edition of Squatch Watch from Puget Sound Monster Club. If you’ve had a Bigfoot, Sasquatch or large primate encounter, let us know about it in the comments below. Take care!