Backwoods Bigfoot Stories

Backwoods Bigfoot Stories

Welcome to "Backwoods Bigfoot Stories," the ultimate destination for thrilling tales of encounters with cryptids like Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Dogman, and other mysterious creatures lurking within the depths of the woods. Join us as we venture into the uncharted territories of the unknown, sharing spine-chilling stories of the strange and terrifying things that happen to people who dare to venture into the backwoods. From hair-raising encounters with Bigfoot to unexplainable encounters with UFO's, strange lights, and other elusive cryptid creatures, our channel is dedicated to sharing the secrets hidden within the dark forest's. Prepare to be captivated by firsthand accounts, and storytelling that will leave you questioning what lies beyond the veil of the natural world. Subscribe now and embark on a journey into the heart of the unknown, where the woods hold secrets that are waiting to be revealed. But beware, you may need to sleep with the light on!

Episodes

BWBS Ep:139 The Scape Ore Swamp Monster

October 15, 2025 • 70 mins
In this episode, we head down to the humid backroads of Bishopville, South Carolina — a small town that, in the summer of 1988, became the epicenter of one of America’s strangest and most terrifying cryptid encounters.It all began just after midnight on June 29, 1988. Seventeen-year-old Christopher Davis was driving home from work when a flat tire on a lonely stretch of road near Scape Ore Swamp changed his life forever.

What he saw...
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BWBS Ep:138 The Thing in the Mountains

October 12, 2025 • 40 mins
What happens when two seasoned hunters head deep into the north Georgia mountains looking for a problem bear—and stumble onto something they can’t explain? This story has been buried for more than forty years. Now, for the first time, one of the only two men who lived through it is ready to talk about what really happened in the fall of 1983.It all started in a quiet corner of north Georgia where dogs began disappearing, cattle wer...
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BWBS Ep:137 The Traverspine Gorilla

October 3, 2025 • 67 mins
In the winter of 1913, the remote settlement of Traverspine in Labrador’s Mealy Mountains became the stage for one of Canada’s most enduring mysteries. Families living on the edge of survival reported nightly visits from a towering, white-maned creature that left enormous footprints, rattled cabins, and fought sled dogs with terrifying strength.

Known as the Traverspine Gorilla, it would haunt the region’s history for over a century...
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BWBS Ep:136 Bigfoot Vs. Jason

October 1, 2025 • 78 mins
Camp Crystal Lake has long stood abandoned, its bloody history etched into the memories of all who grew up hearing the stories: the boy who drowned, the grieving mother who lost her mind, and the masked killer who rose from the depths to exact vengeance on anyone foolish enough to trespass.

When seven teenagers venture into the ruins of the infamous camp at the start of summer vacation, they expect to find nothing more than decaying...
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BWBS Ep:135 The Huntsman

September 28, 2025 • 77 mins
Blackwood Gorge looks like paradise on a postcard—towering firs, crystal streams, and endless trails. But beneath the beauty lies something older than legend, something that’s been watching the woods for longer than humans have walked them. For years, hikers have vanished here, leaving behind only impossible clues: backpacks hanging twenty feet up in the trees, footprints far too large to belong to any man, and wood knocks that ech...
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BWBS Ep:134 The Ginseng Hunters Confession

September 24, 2025 • 42 mins
This episode is all about the chilling deathbed confession of Clyde, an 82-year-old West Virginia mountain man who, after forty years of silence, reveals the night he crossed paths with something ancient—and deadly. In 1983, deep on Beartown Ridge, Clyde’s life became entangled with a wounded Sasquatch whose rage and desperation had turned it from a hidden legend into a relentless predator.

Told through the lens of a lengthy, almost...
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BWBS Ep:133 The Bennington Triangle

September 21, 2025 • 71 mins
In the shadow of Vermont's Glastenbury Mountain lies one of New England's most enduring mysteries, a dark chapter in American history that begins with a simple walk in the woods that ended in oblivion. On November 12, 1945, Middie Rivers, a 74-year-old hunting guide who knew the wilderness like the back of his weathered hands, told his companions he'd walk ahead to their camp. He never arrived. His disappearance would mark the begi...
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BWBS Ep:132 Skinwalker Ranch

September 17, 2025 • 93 mins
Tonight journey into the heart of northeastern Utah's most enigmatic location, where for centuries the impossible has been commonplace. This comprehensive exploration of Skinwalker Ranch traces its mysterious history from ancient Native American warnings about cursed ground through to today's cutting-edge scientific investigations.

We examine the terrifying experiences of the Sherman family whose encounters with bulletproof wolves a...
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BWBS Ep:131 The Weight of Silence

September 12, 2025 • 54 mins
In this haunting episode, we present a forty-year-old confession from an anonymous Marine who encountered something in the Northern California wilderness that changed his life forever. During a routine training exercise in the Marble Mountain Wilderness in 1983, six Marines came face to face with creatures that shouldn't exist, leading to a violent confrontation that would haunt the sole narrator for the rest of his days.

 His accou...
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BWBS Ep:130 The Boojum: North Carolina's Bigfoot

September 7, 2025 • 63 mins
In the ancient mountains of Western North Carolina, where emeralds hide in weathered stone and mist cloaks valleys older than memory, something watches from the shadows. This episode explores the legend of the Boojum, a massive, hair-covered recluse that has haunted these hills since before the Cherokee walked the ridges.

Part Bigfoot, part treasure guardian, and wholly mysterious, the Boojum collects gems with the eye of a connoiss...
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BWBS Ep:129 The Dover Demon

September 5, 2025 • 54 mins
In April 1977, four teenagers in the quiet town of Dover, Massachusetts encountered something that would haunt them for the rest of their lives. Over the course of just 26 hours, multiple witnesses independently reported seeing a bizarre creature with glowing eyes, a massive watermelon-shaped head, and long, tendril-like fingers crawling along the town's ancient stone walls.

This isn't a legend from centuries past or a story passed ...
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BWBS Ep:128 The Ancient Watchers of Appalachia

September 1, 2025 • 65 mins
In the shadow of the ancient Appalachian Mountains, where morning mist clings to valleys older than memory, something walks on two legs that shouldn't exist. Tonight's bone-chilling episode takes you deep into the heart of America's most enduring mystery, beginning with a terrifying encounter from 1879 when the Henderson family of Craig County, Virginia came face to face with an eight-foot-tall nightmare peering through their kitch...
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BWBS Ep:127 The Pope Lick Monster

August 31, 2025 • 61 mins
Journey into the heart of Kentucky's most terrifying legend with this comprehensive exploration of the Pope Lick Monster, a cryptid that has haunted Louisville for over eight decades.

This ten-thousand-word narrative traces the evolution of a local legend that refuses to remain merely legendary, examining documented encounters, mysterious deaths, and the increasingly disturbing pattern of events surrounding the Norfolk Southern Rail...
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BWBS Ep:126 The Whispering Fields

August 24, 2025 • 62 mins
Welcome to a story that will make you question every creak, every shadow, and every whisper you hear in your own home after dark. Today we present "The Whispering Fields," a deeply personal account of supernatural terror that unfolds not in some distant, fictional realm, but in the familiar setting of a family trying to start fresh in a new home.

This is Marcus Hartwell's story, told in his own words as an adult reflecting back on t...
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BWBS Ep:125 The Arkansas Dogmen

August 22, 2025 • 57 mins
In the summer of 2007, two sixteen-year-old boys from Mountain View, Arkansas set out for what was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime—three carefree weeks at a remote hunting cabin deep in the Ozark National Forest. Days of fishing, video games, and freedom quickly gave way to something far darker.What began as innocent summer fun spiraled into a nightmare that would shatter their lives forever. The boys came face to face w...
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BWBS Ep:124 Coon Hunters Kill Bigfoot

August 13, 2025 • 43 mins
This episode contains one of the most haunting encounter stories we've ever featured on the show. Fair warning: this isn't your typical campfire tale about mysterious footprints or distant howls in the night. This is a confession, carried in silence for thirty-seven years by a man named Frank, about what really happened on a hunting trip in October 1988 that destroyed four lives and left a trail of tragedy that echoes to this day.F...
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BWBS Ep: 123 The Bushman Is Watching

August 3, 2025 • 41 mins
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, leathery face circles their tent, s...
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BWBS Ep:122 Ranger Confessions Part Two

July 28, 2025 • 86 mins
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 personal archive of six unforgettable enc...
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BWBS Ep:121 Confessions Of A Ranger

July 25, 2025 • 32 mins
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 obsession. He  eventually left the...
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BWBS Ep:120 We Should Turn Back!

July 18, 2025 • 70 mins
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.What begins as a minor navigation ...
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