Bigfoot Society

A mother hiking with her two children near St. Louis spots a face watching them from the brush. Then the figure stands up. On this episode of Bigfoot Society, Lori recounts an encounter on Missouri’s Howell Island that left her focused on one thing: getting her children back to the truck. What she noticed about the figure’s face makes her account especially unsettling. More witnesses share unexpla...

An eight-foot figure ran into a Texas bowhunter’s clearing just as he prepared to draw on his target buck. The deer fled. The figure stopped, snorted, lifted its nose, and ran in the same direction. The hunter says he has never returned. In Bigfoot Society Episode 1217, Marlon shares his 2019 encounter near Kennard, Texas, close to Davy Crockett National Forest. His account begins with disappearin...

His Rottweiler started crying. Branches snapped on both sides of a Washington forest trail. As he hurried toward his car, something followed him and his dog for miles. In Bigfoot Society Episode 1216, a former forest firefighter recounts the morning walk that ended with two brown, hairy heads visible above the bushes. Local acquaintances had warned him about the “tall people” moving through those...

A father and son go fishing at an isolated Illinois quarry pond. A creature growls from the opposite bank, jumps into the water, and begins swimming toward them. In Bigfoot Society Episode 1215, author and longtime nurse John Reiners shares this reported 1983 encounter from Jackson County, Illinois—a place the previous owner had kept off limits to his own family. What happened there left the fishe...

Strange howls answered their calls in the Illinois woods. Moments later, they heard snapping—and a thunderous crash. Documentary filmmaker Joe Tury and investigator Jason Dickerson join Jeremiah Byron to share what happened near an overgrown cemetery in the Garden of the Gods Wilderness, deep inside Shawnee National Forest. Their investigation brought repeated vocalizations, a possible trackway, a...

A fur-covered hand rose from the swamp water. Long fingers gripped a cypress knee. Two field workers near Chipley, Florida, watched something pull itself forward—and fled through four-foot-tall grass. The recording artist known as Shadowyze joins Jeremiah Byron to share the unexplained encounters that inspired his cryptid music. His account of a 2022 Florida survey includes a tall, blurry figure b...

A family called police after something spent hours circling their home and shrieking. The responding officer reportedly watched a huge, two-legged figure clear a five-foot fence. The family said it returned after he left. Retired Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Chris Raabis comes forward to share the Bigfoot-related call he helped follow up on near Pemberton, British Columbia. He describes i...

Wild pigs came crashing through the Kentucky woods. Seconds later, a massive, hairy figure ran past a hunter less than 20 feet away. Jay recalls the morning near Cadiz when he watched a seven- to eight-foot creature chase a herd of wild pigs through his hunting spot. A shaft of sunlight revealed a detail he still remembers decades later: a human-looking ear. In Bigfoot Society Episode 1211, Jeremi...

Around 3 a.m., four workers on Vancouver Island’s West Coast Trail woke to something pounding against their remote cabin. They were too frightened to turn on a light. Their inspection the next morning left them with another mystery. In Bigfoot Society Episode 1210, Jeremiah Byron hears firsthand accounts from people describing unexplained encounters across North America. A West Virginia witness re...

A Navy veteran hears what sounds like a rescue beacon in the Idaho woods. He follows the beeping, thinking someone needs help. When he returns with a flashlight, he hears it behind him across the road. Camping near Sandpoint, Idaho, Jason encounters a sound that seems mechanical—with occasional notes that remind him of a bird. His search takes him toward an overgrown campsite where he previously h...

A hunter in the mountains of Northern California looked down from a ridge and saw a massive creature kneeling beside a river. He watched it cup water in its hand and drink. Then it carefully smoothed the sand to erase its tracks. Erica Canevari is a Northern California author, farrier, equestrian, and lifelong Humboldt County local. Her novel The Carrying draws on her knowledge of Bigfoot, horses,...

A truck driver pulls off a remote highway in the Utah high desert around 3:00 AM, more than 40 miles from the nearest town. While trying to sleep inside his semi, he hears three deliberate knocks against the truck. Then the knocking moves. Over the next hour, it comes from different sides of the cab as he repeatedly turns on his lights and searches the empty desert around him. Eventually, somethin...

For 45 minutes, something tapped against a window approximately nine feet above the ground while John Bertoli lay alone inside a remote yurt near Mount Adams. John’s experiences began decades earlier in the forests surrounding Williamstown, Massachusetts. As a child, he repeatedly felt watched along the Taconic Crest Trail and heard what sounded like groups of voices near an abandoned homestead in...

Joel Sturgis was alone at Whiteface Reservoir in northern Minnesota when a powerful odor began moving around his campsite. Then he noticed red eyes beyond the firelight. When he looked again, a massive blond Bigfoot was standing approximately 20 feet away, silently watching him. Joel shares the close-range encounter that kept him out of the woods for three years, the reports he later collected fro...

During a rainy family drive near Mount Rainier, Donnie and his daughter witnessed an enormous upright figure moving beside a roadside elk. Donnie estimates that it stood at least 10 feet tall, with a massive build, unusually thick hair, and a smooth, confident stride. The figure remained visible for approximately five seconds before returning to the forest. Years later, Donnie can still picture it...

Two firsthand accounts from the forests surrounding Forks, Washington—separated by more than three decades. In August 2026, Joel and his family heard piercing screams behind their rental home. Nearby dogs erupted, movement appeared along the fence, and stones struck the house after everyone went inside. Morning revealed disturbing physical signs around an unsecured window. Kuyler takes us back to...

At 11 years old, Antonio and his best friend were walking home through familiar woods along the Southwick–Westfield border in Western Massachusetts when massive bipedal footsteps began closing in through dense brush. The movement stopped within 10–15 feet. A deep guttural growl followed, and both boys suddenly found themselves unable to move. As they escaped toward a nearby house, Antonio looked b...

Deep along Oregon’s Siletz River, Nick from Backwoodz Bigfoot carried a speaker into the mountains and played an unfamiliar song across a remote forest valley. Whoops, tree knocks and movement began rising from the timber—and the responses appeared to come from multiple directions. Nick returns to Bigfoot Society with recent reports from the Oregon Coast, including a figure seen beside a creek, a...

A late-night drive into Oregon’s remote Silver Falls Wilderness became a fight to stay on the road. Gloria was traveling with her children when multiple upright shadows began crossing through her headlights. The figures moved closer as she climbed higher into the mountains. After she turned the Jeep around, a massive figure charged down the hillside and struck the vehicle, pushing one tire over th...

During a solo elk hunt in the mountains of Eastern Oregon, Mark Parker began hearing the same unfamiliar grunting sound at approximately 9:30 every morning. Days later, a brown face appeared from behind a tree and watched him from only 35 to 40 yards away. That encounter led Mark into years of investigation with Darrell Adams near Cottage Grove and the mysterious Owl Moon Lab. He describes enormou...

“We’re gonna have to stay up all night and sleep in the day ’cause I can’t do this again.” Tobe Johnson and Alicia Phifer set up camp near the Patterson–Gimlin trailhead at Bluff Creek, California. During their stay, they heard unexplained metallic snapping outside their tent and experienced unsettling nights that left Tobe questioning whether he could stay. The researchers behind Olympic Strange...

Mike thought he was watching a bear outside a remote cabin in the mountains of North Georgia. Then he noticed the hand. About ten years ago, Mike was staying alone near Elijay, Georgia, where his stepfather had been dealing with an animal getting into a deer feeder. One morning around 9:15, Mike finally saw something feeding outside. He watched from the cabin window as the encounter unfolded only...

Note: This is the original version of the interview with 8 minutes that were cut for the public. If you like me chit chatting at the beginning then you'll like this.  A former MUFON investigator went to Oakridge, Oregon searching for answers. One night outside her cabin, something came out of the darkness and headed straight toward her. In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Patti Valvo shares what h...

Mike Wanders has spent years traveling alone into some of North America’s most remote wilderness, searching the places where Sasquatch reports refuse to disappear. In this episode, Mike joins Bigfoot Society to share what happened during his expeditions into Vancouver Island, Bluff Creek, Mt. Hood, Prince of Wales Island, the Hockomock Swamp, and other legendary locations. Deep in Clayoquot Sound,...

What happens when a skeptical BFRO investigator travels deep into British Columbia with one of the most controversial figures in the Bigfoot world? Frank Middleton joins Bigfoot Society to share years of field investigations across Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, and British Columbia. Frank approaches the subject with a track-and-sign background and a simple rule: eliminate the ordinary explanations...