Backwoods Bigfoot Stories

Tonight on Backwoods Bigfoot Stories, we venture deep into Alaska with seven chilling encounters that reveal an alarming rise in Sasquatch aggression. These aren't distant wood knocks—they're face-to-face confrontations forcing hunters to tears and driving families from their cabins. We open with Donnie and Becca’s harrowing winter camping trip near their Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta village. An ancient,...

After 25 years of silence, retired forest ranger Carl is finally ready to speak. Not about what he saw—but about what others brought to him. Hikers, fellow rangers, and search-and-rescue volunteers found their way to Carl, each one pale, shaken, and desperate to tell someone who wouldn’t laugh. Someone who knew the woods. Someone who might understand. In this chilling episode, Carl opens his perso...

In this episode, Bill—a retired forest ranger—shares his full, unedited account of six encounters that changed the course of his 25-year career with the U.S. Forest Service. From 1994 to 2019, Bill worked in wildlife tracking and wilderness patrol, but early on, a senior ranger showed him a footprint and warned him about things they don’t put in reports. That moment marked the beginning of a quiet...

Tonight we venture into the deep wilderness of Northern California, where a family's simple vacation becomes a nightmare that challenges everything they thought they knew about the world. Tom and Sarah, along with their teenage sons Matt and Jake, were just trying to take a shortcut to their campground when they made a fateful turn onto an unmarked forest road that would change their lives forever...

In this  episode, we dive into one of the most harrowing Sasquatch encounters I've ever had the privilege to share. Our witness, David, reached out to me after years of listening to the podcast, drawn by my law enforcement background and approach to witness testimony. What he shared will stay with you long after the episode ends. The summer of 1976 was supposed to be a rite of passage for four thi...

In this chilling episode, we share an anonymous account from Mike, a veteran search and rescue team leader with seventeen years of experience in the Colorado Rockies. What started as a routine missing hiker call three years ago became one of the most extraordinary and terrifying encounters ever documented by a SAR team. When twenty-eight-year-old Amy disappeared while attempting a solo hike in the...

In this episode of Backwoods Bigfoot Stories, we take a detour from the deep woods and follow a trail of glowing red eyes straight into the heart of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Between 1966 and 1967, something strange haunted the skies and backroads of this small town—something that defied logic and terrified everyone who laid eyes on it. They called it the Mothman. Described as a towering figu...

In the early 1980s, a Florida family of four set out on a camping trip to the Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area—and never returned. According to legend, they were attacked by a large, wolf-like creature. The father was found dead outside the RV, the mother mutilated nearby, one child torn apart inside the camper, and the other discovered high in a tree. No official reports confirm th...

On September 12, 1952, a group of children in Braxton County, West Virginia, witnessed something that would shatter the quiet of their mountain town—a 10-foot-tall creature with glowing red eyes and a helmet-shaped head. What followed wasn’t folklore. It was one of the most thoroughly documented and chilling cryptid encounters in American history. In this episode, we unravel the full story of the...

What begins as a quiet weekend camping trip for two off-duty Air Force servicemen spirals into one of the most disturbing and credible alien abduction accounts in modern history. In this episode, we explore the chilling true story of Terry Lovelace—an attorney, veteran, and former Assistant Attorney General—who has spent decades coming to terms with what happened to him in the summer of 1977 at De...

A Vietnam War helicopter mechanic named Frank vanishes in 2024. Left behind: a handwritten account spanning 50 years. It starts with “foo fighters”—strange lights pacing U.S. aircraft in Vietnam—and ends in the Oregon wilderness, where similar lights appear at a remote fishing spot called Devil’s Elbow. Frank returns decades later with a drone enthusiast named Chris. They pick up disturbing electr...

In this episode, we explore one of the most disturbing and unforgettable stories ever told on Coast to Coast AM. A man calling himself “Bugs” phoned in with a confession that sounded more like a campfire ghost story—except he claimed it really happened. Back in the early 1970s, Bugs and a fellow hunter were out spotlighting illegally in the dense woods of Texas when they spotted what they first th...

For years, mainstream researchers insisted Sasquatch existed—if at all—only in the Pacific Northwest. But the witnesses in this episode know better. From Georgia’s Blue Ridge to the Florida swamps, these firsthand encounters, spanning over fifty years, reveal a hidden population thriving in the American South. Tonight, you’ll hear stories of a hunter who faced down an eight-foot creature shaking h...

These aren't your typical Bigfoot stories. No grainy photos. No stomping footprints. No overpowering stench. These five encounters go deeper—into something far more unsettling: the intelligence behind the presence. Jake was driving home from the paper mill when his headlights caught a figure by the roadside. It didn’t flinch. Didn’t even look his way. It stood there, still and distant, like it bel...

What if the monsters from your worst nightmares were real? What if there was an entire hidden war being fought in America's wilderness areas that the government will never acknowledge? Tonight's episode features an extraordinary firsthand account from someone calling himself   "Marcus" - a soldier who claims to be part of an elite military unit that doesn't officially exist. According to Marcus, h...

Welcome to a spine-chilling collection of ten real paranormal encounters that will leave you questioning everything you thought you knew about reality. Tonight's episode features firsthand accounts from ordinary people who found themselves face-to-face with the extraordinary, from the dense forests of the Pacific Northwest to the historic streets of Salem, Massachusetts. Our journey begins in Wash...

On Christmas Day, 1985, bestselling author Whitley Strieber was staying with his family at a secluded cabin in upstate New York. What happened to him that night would change his life—and ignite one of the most controversial and chilling conversations in modern American history. He claimed he was taken. By beings he could not describe. To a place he could not understand. In this episode of Disturbi...

In 1924, Albert Ostman set out to find gold in British Columbia’s rugged backcountry. What he found instead was something far stranger—and far more terrifying. Ostman, a hardened outdoorsman, claimed he was abducted in the night by a towering creature and carried miles into the wilderness. When he came to, he was trapped in a hidden mountain valley—face to face with a family of sasquatch. Over six...

Welcome to another spine-chilling episode where we delve deep into one of America's most enduring supernatural legends. Tonight, we explore the terrifying tale of the Jersey Devil, a creature born from desperation, blasphemy, and a mother's curse that echoes through nearly three centuries of American folklore. Our story begins in the winter of 1735, deep within New Jersey's Pine Barrens, a vast wi...

In this gripping and unnerving episode, Brian shares a story from a 63-year-old. A lifelong resident of rural Louisiana, who recounts a chilling chapter from his childhood that has haunted him ever since. The summer of 1972, when he was just ten, brought an unimaginable horror to his small community outside Marksville—a season when an unknown predator seemed to rise from the swamps and target the...

Before there was Bigfoot, before the screams in the woods and things that go bump in the night… there was history. In this special episode, Brian shares a sneak peek into his brand-new podcast, Disturbing History—a show that explores the dark, strange, and forgotten corners of our past.  From government coverups to lost civilizations, haunted obsessions to unexplained crashes, Disturbing History i...

National Park Nightmares – Volume 11: “The Vanished”  In this episode, we examine two disappearances—separated by 78 years—that continue to confound families, search teams, and anyone who tries to make sense of what happened. It was a typical summer day in the Colorado wilderness when 4-year-old Alfred Beilhartz disappeared during a family outing. He was walking just behind his parents along a tra...

On October 20, 1967, two cowboys rode into a remote California creek bed and emerged with 59.5 seconds of film that would divide science, captivate the world, and spawn a mystery that endures to this day. Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin claimed they encountered and filmed a massive, hair-covered, bipedal creature that would become known as Bigfoot. Their brief, shaky footage—particularly the iconic...

In this special 100th episode, we delve into six first-hand accounts from individuals who experienced something extraordinary in the remote forests of the Pacific Northwest. Each story disturbing features encounters with an intelligence that seems to exist at the periphery of our understanding, observing us from the shadows between the trees. What makes these accounts uniquely compelling isn't jus...

Tonight we explore two mysterious disappearances in America's most challenging wilderness areas—two men who ventured into remote landscapes and vanished without a trace, leaving behind only questions and abandoned vehicles. Case 1: Walther H. Reinhard - Lost in YosemiteThe Basics: Walther H. Reinhard Disappeared: September 30, 2002 Location: Yosemite National Park, California No additional details...