Retired Wildlife Officer Says She Filmed a 7-Foot Bigfoot Circling Her Washington Cabin

Timeline: the source places the alleged encounter in September but does not establish its year or day. The account traces earlier events to spring 2022. Squatchable published its summary on September 5, 2026, citing a narrated YouTube upload. This is a summary of those claims, not on-scene reporting.

A 75-year-old retired Washington wildlife officer says she captured about 11 minutes of phone video of a roughly seven-foot bipedal figure circling her remote Chelan County cabin in the middle of the night — and she thinks her own earlier "mistakes" on the property brought it to her door.

That account was summarized on September 5, 2026 by Squatchable.com, which attributes the fuller telling to a video posted on the YouTube channel BigLip. Monstrum Athenaeum has not independently verified the footage, the witness's identity, or the alleged property damage. What follows is a curated report of claims made in those sources.

Who is making the claim?

According to Squatchable's staff write-up, the witness is Edna Marsh, described as a retired officer with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife who spent 31 years doing large-mammal tracking and habitat assessment in the Cascades corridor.

Squatchable reports that Marsh and her late husband Gerald kept a cabin in Chelan County, Washington, at about 2,800 feet, backed by Douglas fir and Engelmann spruce near the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. After Gerald's death, Marsh allegedly continued visiting alone each September.

If accurate, her professional background is the hook: someone trained to read bear sign, cougar kills, and den disturbance is harder for the community to dismiss as a casual camper with night nerves.

The three "mistakes" she says came first

As retold by Squatchable (citing the BigLip video), Marsh frames the September encounter as the end of a chain:

1. A spring 2022 "arranged" pile: Marsh says she found deer-like bones with marrow cleaned from both ends, Douglas fir bark stacked in an overlapping shingle pattern, and spruce boughs woven into a platform against a fence post. She reportedly burned it as packrat or bear debris.
2. A woodshed sealed shut: Later that summer, she believed groundhogs were under a detached woodshed and paid a contractor about $340 to foam-seal every gap. She now claims the soil disturbance and crawl-space compaction "were all wrong" for a groundhog — and that whatever used the space lost its shelter.
3. A late-August juvenile find: Near the tree line, she says she followed a wheezing sound to a small, dark-haired biped that did not match any juvenile primate she had documented in decades of fieldwork — and that it did not flee.

Readers should treat each of those details as unverified personal narrative unless raw photos, GPS notes, or third-party confirmation appear.

What she says happened at 2:00 a.m.

Squatchable's summary states that in September, around 2:00 a.m., something allegedly pulled fence posts from the ground, ripped a woodshed door off its hinges, and snapped a full-grown tree across her path.

Marsh then reportedly filmed for about 11 minutes as a seven-foot Sasquatch circled the cabin and stopped at a window, looking into the camera. She claims she understood why the animal was angry.

Again: those are allegations reported by secondary coverage, not findings confirmed by Monstrum Athenaeum.

Why the claimed background matters — and what remains unverified

The claimed professional background is part of this account’s appeal, but it is not independently authenticated. Accidental phone video also sounds harder to stage than a planned trail-cam drop.

That said, protective habits still apply:

• Night phone video can mislead on size, gait, and distance.
• A compelling résumé does not authenticate a clip.
• Secondary blogs often compress or dramatize first-person YouTube storytelling.
• No public chain-of-custody, third-party forensic review, or official WDFW statement is cited in the Squatchable piece we reviewed.

Until primary files, timestamps, and independent analysis are available, the responsible headline is not "Bigfoot proven in Chelan County." It is: a named retired officer claims she filmed one — here is where that claim came from.

Bottom line

If Marsh's account holds up even partly, it is a rare mix of professional field experience plus extended nighttime footage at a private Cascades cabin. If it does not, it is another reminder that the internet's Bigfoot beat moves faster than verification.

Watch the original source material, compare it to known bear and human gait references, and decide for yourself. Monstrum Athenaeum will update this page if stronger primary evidence, a public WDFW comment or a public correction becomes available.

Sources

• Full staff summary of the Marsh account — Squatchable.com, Sept. 5, 2026, Retired Wildlife Officer Films 7-Foot Bigfoot Circling Washington Cabin. The source embeds BigLip’s I Filmed Sasquatch Circling My Cabin — Then I Realized What It Wanted. This is the source-linked narrated upload, not independently authenticated encounter footage; no video is rehosted.
• Agency context (not an endorsement of the sighting) — Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, wdfw.wa.gov
• Region context — Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, fs.usda.gov/okawen

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