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Looking For Bigfoot When Mystery Blood Appeared Five Years Ago

By Matthew D. Heines | Encounters USA

June 2021. Deep in the Northern Cascade Mountains of Washington State.

By Matthew D. Heines | Encounters USA

Matthew D. Heines standing at the Northern Cascades campsite where mysterious blood appeared inside the tent while he and Igor Burtsev were standing right next to it the entire time.
Base camp in the Northern Cascades. The blood appeared inside the tent while we were standing right next to it the whole time. The Cascade Bigfoot Blood Mystery begins.

June 2021. Deep in the Northern Cascade Mountains of Washington State.

Russian Bigfoot researcher Igor Burtsev and I were camped together, deep in Sasquatch country. We had spent the day in the field. When we returned to the tent after being away for just a few hours, something was waiting for us.

Blood Mystery

Not a trail. Not a smear from an injury. A large pool the size of your cell phone. Right there in the center of the tent floor. It wasn’t there when I got up and went out to cook breakfast.

After a quick check, I was thankful that pool wasn’t from an over itched mosquito bite.

Close-up photograph of multiple small reddish blood-like drops on green tent fabric, evidence from a sudden high strangeness occurrence.
Overview of the tent floor showing the scattered drops left after I wiped the floor.
Close-up view of multiple small reddish-brown blood-like drops and spots scattered on the dark green tent floor that mysteriously appeared in the center of the tent during a paranormal field investigation.
Close-up of the mysterious blood-like drops on the tent floor. They were not present when I left the tent a few hours earlier.

I cleaned it up with a paper towel. It looked like blood. Fresh enough to raise every hair on the back of my neck.

Matthew Heines in Encounters USA shirt holding up a paper towel with a large brownish blood-like stain collected from the center of his tent floor during a field investigation.
Initial sample collected from the center of the tent floor. It looked like blood when fresh

In that moment, a thought crossed my mind that I kept to myself for a long time: Did Igor put it there?

It seemed impossible. We were together. We were in the middle of nowhere. There was no obvious way anyone else could have entered the tent without us knowing. But the blood was real. And it had no explanation.

That single discovery didn’t just end the day. It started something much bigger.

Close-up photograph of multiple small reddish blood-like drops on green tent fabric, evidence from a sudden high strangeness occurrence.
Close-up detail of the mysterious drops on the tent floor.

Read the full story of what this led to:
Part 2 – What the Blood Led To: Remote Viewers, Lie Detector & the Cascade Bigfoot Blood Mystery Series

About Encounters USA

Matthew Heines is an author and veteran of the US 82nd Airborne Division with over twenty years of experience teaching in the USA, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman. Matthew Heines has six books currently in publication titled, My Year in Oman, Another Year in Oman, Killing Time in Saudi Arabia, Deceptions of the Ages, The Rainier Paradigm and Heinessights: Wisdom for the Ages. Currently living near Seattle, in Washington State, Matthew Heines is active in politics and has run, and is currently running for the US House of Representatives.