An Idaho deer hunter has filed a report with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization after an unsettling evening in the mountains about 10 miles southeast of St. Maries.
According to the report, the hunter was walking through thick forest near a creek bottom around 5 p.m. on October 20 when he heard loud knocking on a tree from roughly 200 to 300 yards away. It went on for five to ten minutes, and it was followed by an overpowering smell of decay. He searched for a carcass and found nothing. He also heard what he described as a deep voice saying something he couldn’t make out, and he saw no sign of other people on the trail or the road in.
He never saw what made the sounds. BFRO classified the account as Class B, its category for possible encounters without a clear view, and no physical evidence has been offered. The hunter said he had spent years in the woods without anything like it happening before.
Sources: BFRO report; OutKick (Fox News), November 3, 2026; Cowboy State Daily, November 6, 2026.