He's Spent Years Searching for Sasquatch. Here's What He's Actually Found.

Wildlife photojournalist turned Bigfoot documentarian Jason Kenion joins the show to share field evidence and firsthand encounters from over a decade chasing Sasquatch across North America. Jason recounts drone footage revealing hundreds of giant footprints crossing directly through a mountain lake, mysterious tree formations bent and rammed into the ground in the shape of an X near known activity sites, and the night something walked up to his hammock in the dark, grunted just feet from his face, and shook the ground with each step. The conversation covers the Minnesota Roars recording, a chilling audio capture a First Nations elder kept hidden for years out of fear, Jason's work alongside the She Squatchers research group, and a memorable EVP captured during one of his earlier paranormal documentaries at a haunted hospital. Jason has released over a dozen Bigfoot and paranormal documentaries and recently published a graphic novel, Searching for Squatch and the Reunion Hidden. In This Episode • Jason Kenion spent 25 years as an animal photojournalist traveling the world to meet people who kept exotic pets before the pandemic pushed him toward an entirely different kind of subject. A self-described skeptic, Jason only agreed to look into Sasquatch after a friend pointed him toward someone with a personal encounter, and one interview quickly led to another. • That early research eventually connected Jason with First Nations communities in British Columbia, who shared their own oral history of the Sasquatch people and directed him deep into the forest, where he discovered hundreds of massive footprints crossing directly through a mountain lake. Drone footage of the site later confirmed a footprint trail that First Nations contacts identified as part of a known migration path running from Alaska down to California. • In the same regions, Jason has repeatedly documented strange tree formations: trees ripped from the ground, flipped upside down, and rammed back into the earth, sometimes paired with a second tree pushed over to form a large X shape. Jason says he genuinely doesn't know the significance of the pattern, though he has his own theories. • One of Jason's most intense personal encounters happened during his very first field expedition, when he decided, somewhat overconfidently, to sleep alone in a hammock beneath a large tree structure in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan despite warnings from the rest of the team. In the middle of the night he heard something walking toward him, felt the vibration of each step through the hammock, and was grunted at from only ten or fifteen feet away before it turned and walked off. • Jason discusses one of the more remarkable pieces of audio evidence he's encountered: a recording known as the Minnesota Roars, captured by an older First Nations man on the Red Lake reservation after years of hearing screams from his own backyard forest. The man was so shaken by what he recorded that he stopped going into the woods entirely and kept the recording hidden for a long time before eventually passing it along through a relative to the She Squatchers research group, who brought it to Jason. • Before moving into Bigfoot research, Jason built a separate paranormal documentary series, and shares one of his most memorable EVP sessions from an investigation at a haunted hospital, where he and his team accessed a long-sealed section of the building and captured evidence tied to what locals call the Blue Lady. • Jason closes out the conversation introducing his newest project outside of documentary filmmaking: a graphic novel called Searching for Squatch and the Reunion Hidden, following a team of researchers who uncover an artifact that grants Bigfoot enhanced strength, speed, and invisibility, based loosely on people and researchers Jason has actually worked with in the field. Best Line of the Night "I could feel the vibration go through me when it grunted." Jason, describing the moment something walked up to his hammock in the dark. Jason can be found: Website: https://www.lifethroughmylens.ca/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4zCJL5hckGLHLNFll_DC-w? Music Credits: 78 PULSE: A Dark and Ominous Soundscape for Mysteries and Suspense - by Kjartan Abel. Visit https://kjartan-abel.com/library to find free music for your next project. This work is licensed under the following: CC BY-SA 4.0 Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. 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