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A 10-Foot Bigfoot Walked Past His SUV At Lolo Pass

September 1, 2026

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The first night of Gary Allen’s annual birthday campout near Lolo Pass, Oregon, a skeptic who had never seen a Bigfoot before watched a nine-to-ten-foot-tall figure walk right alongside his SUV, bump it hard enough to rock the vehicle, and then tear a piece off the roof rack before disappearing into the trees. He left camp at 3:30 AM and drove to Timberline Lodge to watch the sunrise.

Gary Allen has returned to the show multiple times because his campsite, located on a ridge near Mount Hood where the Sandy River forks into a hundred creeks, produces encounters every year. The key variable is horses. Gary and his girlfriend race endurance horses and bring them to the site to train. The Bigfoot in the area are intensely interested in horse activity—more than in hikers or campers. Gary believes the horses draw them in, and the creatures follow the horses back to camp after dark.

The Setup: Bait Tent, Lights, and a Spread-Out Camp

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What you'll learn

  • 1 (24:36) **Setting the Stage at Lolo Pass** - Gary Allen describes the annual birthday campout on Scookum Ridge near Mount Hood, Oregon, and explains why the group uses bright clothing, noise, and horses to attract Bigfoot activity.
  • 2 (26:57) **The Friday Night Bike Ride and "Toad" Calls** - Gary takes Rob's two teenage sons on a mountain bike ride up the ridge, making noise with game calls, and they hear strange single-croak sounds that follow them back to camp.
  • 3 (28:27) **First Sighting: Gary's Brother Sees Silhouettes** - Gary's skeptic brother, sleeping in his SUV near the bait tent, stays awake all night and witnesses multiple eight-foot-tall, jet-black figures walking around the tent and peering through its clear panel.
  • 4 (42:20) **The 10-Foot Bigfoot Walks Past His SUV** - The skeptic brother's SUV is violently bumped, and a nine-to-ten-foot-tall Bigfoot walks right alongside the driver's side window, less than three feet away, before disappearing into the trees.
  • 5 (45:09) **The Skeptic's Overload and Aftermath** - Gary's brother, overwhelmed by the close encounter, drives off at 3:30 AM to photograph sunrise at Timberline Lodge, then returns to tell the group he had to leave.
  • 6 (49:53) **The Mysterious Black SUV and the Extinguished Light** - At 3:30 AM, a black Suburban pulls into camp, shines an intensely bright white beam directly at the bait tent, and the tent's solar light instantly shuts off before the SUV drives away.
  • 7 (56:03) **Rob and His Sons' Nighttime Encounter** - Rob and his two teenage boys, camped on a hillside, wake to loud tree breaks and see an eight-foot-tall figure cross a meadow, followed later by a second creature with glowing yellow eyes.

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Show Notes

A 2026 trip into the Lolo Pass and Mt. Hood area of Oregon produced one of Gary Allen’s most intense weekends yet.


Gary returns to Bigfoot Society with firsthand details from a remote camp near what he calls Skookum Ridge, where several people reported activity over the same weekend. His skeptical brother watched multiple massive figures moving around camp before a reported 9-to-10-foot figure walked within feet of his SUV.


Elsewhere in camp, a father and son reported an 8-foot figure crossing a strobe-lit meadow. Later, another witness described a towering black figure standing near the trees with bright yellow eye shine.


The weekend also included strange vocalizations moving through the forest, powerful wood knocks, unusual horse reactions, possible trackways, missing camp equipment, food disappearing, and more.


Then Saturday brought another massive silhouette across the river and things kept escalating.


Multiple witnesses. Multiple encounters. One extraordinarily active weekend near Lolo Pass, Mt. Hood and the Sandy River in Oregon.


Hear Gary Allen walk through the entire 2026 experience in Bigfoot Society Episode 1188.

Resources:

https://www.youtube.com/@bigfootresearchproject8081

Previous episodes with Gary:

https://youtu.be/lAxlJaBuLPI
https://youtu.be/FghpZx6GqSo
https://youtu.be/NObu8QdQ31U


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