🐾 Bigfoot’s Brown Cousin: Utah Hikers Spot Forest Walker

Utah’s alpine woods may have a new legend walking among the trees.

On the afternoon of July 30, two seasoned hikers veered off a well-worn trail east of Heber City and found themselves staring across a clearing at something… wrong. Towering, silent, and covered in rusty-brown fur, the figure stood upright just beyond the brush line, partially obscured but unmistakably watching them. 👁️

“It wasn’t a bear. I know bears,” said one of the witnesses in a written report submitted to the Utah Cryptid Tracking Project. “This thing had shoulders. It wasn’t on all fours. It was just standing there, still as death.”

The hikers, both experienced in the backcountry and unfazed by most wildlife, admitted they froze. Before they could raise a phone, the figure turned with fluid movement and stepped out of sight into the trees.

The encounter lasted fewer than 10 seconds. But both described the same details: reddish-brown fur, massive frame, and a strange sense of being observed before they even noticed it was there. One said they felt “heavy all of a sudden, like the forest itself shifted.”