Bigfoot Society

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 30 yards away.


The longer Mike looked, the harder it became to explain what he was seeing. A hand. A face. An...

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 happened during an investigation that took her deep into some of the most active and mysterious locations in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Oregon.


Near Oakridge, Patti 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, a water taxi left Mike alone beside an abandoned cabin surrounded by old-growth rainforest. As darkness settled over the cove, the atmosphere changed. Hours later, something enormous moved over the treetops.
Mike also reveals th...

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 first.


That approach has taken him into some remarkable situations.


In Middle Tennessee, a massive scream wakes him in the middle of the night and is followed by slow footsteps moving...

Russell Wiitala went looking for Bigfoot nearly 20 years ago. Eventually, something started answering back.


In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Russell takes us deep into his experiences across Washington and the Pacific Northwest, beginning with strange tracks, powerful odors, unexplained knocks, and vocalizations in the Willapa Hills.


Then the encounters get closer.


Russell describes a January 2025 trip to Ocean Shores, Washington, where he spotted a figure standing beside the road before daylight. When he and his friend returned to investigate, his friend saw a gray-haired figure attempting to hide among the...

Ronnie Roseman returns to Bigfoot Society with new details from one of Oregon’s most intense Sasquatch research areas near Oakridge.


Ronnie shares reports of strange structures hidden along remote trails, unsettling vocalizations from the bottoms, a meadow covered in Bigfoot tracks measuring up to 23 inches, and encounters where multiple unseen creatures appeared to position themselves around researchers.


He also reveals one of the strangest experiences he has ever kept private: a possible Bigfoot standing on a distant dirt road that Ronnie and Duane watched for roughly 15 minutes. When they returned weeks later, the ro...

In 1977, Hal drove six hours north to the Standing Rock Reservation after reports of Bigfoot activity around Little Eagle, South Dakota began appearing on television and in newspapers.


Late one night, alone at his campsite near the river, Hal heard something approximately 600 feet away.


Three shorter sounds. Then an incredibly loud, prolonged wail.


Within moments, dogs in the nearby village erupted. Coyotes on a ridge joined them. Nearly 50 years later, Hal still remembers exactly what that sound did to him.


His story continues on his rural Mississippi property...

A hunter near Lake Crescent, Washington thought he was looking at an old cedar stump—until it stood up, doubled in height, and walked into the trees.


In this episode of Bigfoot Society, multiple witnesses share extraordinary encounters from the Olympic Peninsula and beyond.


Near Mount Snyder and Mount Bigler, an experienced hunter watches a massive reddish figure through his scope and later uses nearby stumps to estimate its size at more than 10 feet tall. Elsewhere in Olympic National Park, a family finds themselves being followed out of the forest after rocks begin flying, br...

At six years old, Lynn Gaspaire says he came face-to-face with a Sasquatch while picking blackberries at Ocean Shores, Washington—and even held its hand.


That 1959 encounter began a lifetime of extraordinary experiences.


Lynn shares his memories of a pregnant female near Mt. Adams, a massive 9-foot male throwing rocks near Killen Creek, and an incredible 1972 encounter at Lake Cushman where he found himself just feet away from a family of Sasquatches.


He describes their faces, hands, teeth, vocalizations, movements, feeding behavior, family dynamics, and the moments of apparent communication that st...

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 st...

A lifelong local from Oregon’s Lolo Pass and Mt. Hood region shares what people in the area have been seeing, hearing, and quietly talking about for decades.


In this episode of Bigfoot Society, she takes us deep into the back roads around Lolo Pass, Lost Lake, Brightwood, Ramona Falls, and the surrounding Mt. Hood forests. She describes a childhood sighting in the late 1990s, strange activity along remote forest roads, massive human-like prints reported on vehicles, unexplained whoops, rocks being thrown, trees and branches being manipulated, and encounters with mysterious lights locals call “wisps.”


T...

Bigfoot sightings stretch across North America in this episode of Bigfoot Society, with firsthand witnesses sharing encounters from Alberta, British Columbia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and beyond.


A coal miner describes driving near McLennan, Alberta, when an enormous dark figure appeared beside the railroad tracks. He watched it take four full steps, estimated it at 7½ to 8 feet tall, and backed his car up for another look. What happened in the woods afterward—and the reaction of a nearby dog—has stayed with him ever since.


In British Columbia, we hear about generations of Indigenous Bukwus stori...

In 1993, Beth was completing Greenfield Community College’s Outdoor Leadership Program (OLP) when a required multi-day solo brought her deep into DAR State Forest in Goshen, Massachusetts.


On her final night, footsteps approached her tent. Then came bright lights, deep voices, paralysis, and two massive roars she says vibrated through her teeth, jaw, and entire body. She never saw what was outside. More than 30 years later, she still wants to know what happened.


Then we head into Northern Ontario with an experienced outdoorsman whose encounters include an enormous five-toed footprint, strange tracks crossing deep wi...

Sam Chandler’s journey with the Sasquatch phenomenon stretches from a remote 5,000-acre property in Ontario, Canada, to the forests of Georgia and deep into the mountains of Oregon.


In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Sam shares decades of experiences that began when he was a child and continued into adulthood. He recalls unexplained footsteps around an isolated Canadian lake, violent impacts against a cabin, strange lights moving through the forest, unusual recordings captured at night, and a terrifying solo camping experience that changed his understanding of what might be happening around him.
Years later in we...

An 11-foot Bigfoot watching from the trees. Two massive figures outside a window. A white Bigfoot lying in the snow. And an apparent infant observed for nearly 90 minutes.


Robin Long Soldier shares decades of extraordinary encounters across Nebraska and South Dakota, including activity near Pine Ridge and White Clay, repeated experiences at Pioneers Park in Lincoln, photographs of suspected juveniles, quiet whoops, unexplained physical contact, and video footage she believes captured one watching her and her husband.


Then more witnesses come forward.


In Pend Oreille County, Washington, Gabe describes game-camera images...

Originally released as Episode 547 of Bigfoot Society on 10/4/24.


A quiet drive through Oregon farmland turns into a moment that stays with a witness for years.

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Jeremiah Byron talks with Colleen, an Oregon outdoorswoman who spent her life hunting, fishing, hiking, and camping across the Pacific Northwest. During the fall of 2020 on Sauvie Island, she and her partner encountered a large black, humanlike figure crossing a remote access road in broad daylight. The figure looked directly at them, continued calmly across the road, then appeared to stop and watch them...

Some places leave a lasting impression on everyone who experiences them, and the forests surrounding Rainier, Oregon continue to earn that reputation.


In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Ellie shares two unforgettable experiences from her childhood near Camp Wilkerson, and the Nehalem River. One night, an unseen presence surrounded a family trampoline, throwing rocks and heavy sticks from the darkness. Another evening, while returning from a chanterelle mushroom hunt, she found herself running through the woods with enormous footsteps keeping pace just behind her.


Later in the episode, Monte recounts a remarkable series of...

Michelle Heaton returns to Bigfoot Society with an incredible update from the forests surrounding Sweet Home, Oregon. She shares new discoveries from Green Peter Reservoir, including massive tree structures, large footprints, mysterious nighttime encounters, and a chilling experience involving heavy bipedal footsteps approaching her in the darkness. Michelle also recounts her recent research trip into Tennessee's Cherokee National Forest before taking listeners to Oakridge, Oregon, where Sasquatch Summer Fest brought multiple witnesses together for extraordinary nighttime experiences. She describes a large translucent orb crossing a forest trail in full view of an entire group, strange owl vocalizations, ongoing reports of...

Some encounters stay with you for life.


Greg shares two firsthand experiences that changed everything he believed about the wilderness. The first takes place on Independence Day in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, where a massive upright creature silently watches him from the trees near Lake Alpine. Years later, while fishing in Chaplin, Connecticut, an explosive crash from dense shoreline brush reveals another enormous, ape-like animal racing uphill in full view of multiple witnesses.


From California's high country to the forests of New England, this episode explores two unforgettable encounters, regional Bigfoot reports...

For nearly 40 years, Gordon kept his experiences to himself.


A lifelong outdoorsman who spends more than 100 days each year exploring Michigan's Huron National Forest, Gordon shares firsthand encounters that began in 1988 and continued across decades. His experiences include a towering road crossing near Cook Dam, enormous tracks in the sand, mysterious tree structures, deep nighttime vocalizations, wood knocks, and an unseen presence pacing him through the forest after dark.


With encounters near Glennie, Oscoda Township, and the Au Sable River, this episode offers an extraordinary look into one of Michigan's most active Bigfoot regions...

Thousands of listeners heard Elyot's unforgettable account in Bigfoot Society Episode 1152.


Now, for the first time, his father, Jaden Kucharyski, shares what happened from his own perspective.


Standing beneath an ancient twisted oak, Jaden describes coming face-to-face with a towering figure whose body appeared blacker than the surrounding night, leaving only brilliant white eyes visible in the darkness. He also recounts mysterious aerial lights, unexplained howls, strange tracks, glowing eyes at the edge of the woods, rhythmic drumming, and years of recurring activity surrounding the same property near Belton, Texas.


If...

This episode of Bigfoot Society features two unforgettable firsthand accounts that span decades of reported activity.


Sarah returns to share the rest of her experiences in Webster and Choctaw Counties, Mississippi, including terrifying nighttime encounters involving massive objects striking her home, mysterious vocalizations echoing through the woods, and multiple Bigfoot sightings witnessed by members of her family over nearly twenty years.


Then, Squatch Topic P.A. joins the conversation to discuss his nineteen-year investigation in Amwell Township, Pennsylvania. He shares stories of repeated encounters, six-toed footprints, trail camera discoveries, long-term gifting experiments, and years...

A nighttime Bigfoot expedition in Oakridge, Oregon takes an unexpected turn when multiple participants report mysterious lights moving through the forest. Area 58 Museum founder Priscilla Roseman-Davidson shares new information from Sasquatch Summerfest 2026, recounts her own unforgettable midnight encounter involving multiple sets of glowing eyes, and reveals why the Oakridge area continues to generate some of the most compelling Bigfoot reports in the Pacific Northwest.


From Packard Creek Campground and Hills Creek Reservoir to the deep forests surrounding Oakridge, this episode explores firsthand experiences, historical reports, and the remarkable legacy of legendary Bigfoot researcher Peter Byrne. If you're...

A hunter's quiet evening near Tennessee's Natchez Trace Parkway turns unforgettable after an impossible roar erupts across the hills moments after a pack of coyotes falls silent.


Jeremy shares the encounter that changed the way he looks at the woods forever, along with the mystery of a wounded deer that vanished without explanation, strange voices heard deep in the Tennessee backcountry, and stories passed down by generations of hunters.


You'll also hear firsthand encounters from Kentucky, Wisconsin, British Columbia, and another corner of Tennessee featuring chest-shaking vocalizations, massive footprints, Indigenous Sasquatch traditions, mysterious lights...

One summer evening in 1977, three teenagers walked toward the edge of Florida's Loxahatchee Wildlife Refuge and came face-to-face with an eight-foot-tall Skunk Ape. Standing motionless just yards away, the creature's glowing red eyes, powerful build, and unmistakable odor created a moment none of them would ever forget.


Carol Stanhope joins Bigfoot Society to share her unforgettable encounter, along with the remarkable history of Skunk Ape reports throughout Palm Beach County during the 1970s—including accounts involving sheriff's deputies, farmers, and security guards.


Later in the episode, the conversation expands across North America with firsthand ex...

Step back into the Bigfoot Society archives with two unforgettable interviews that first aired on October 2 and October 3, 2024 as Episodes 545 and 546.


Veteran researcher, actor, and investigator Jesus Payan shares decades of Bigfoot research spanning New Mexico, Oklahoma, and the American Southwest. From reports passed along by Forest Service employees and law enforcement to military sightings near White Sands Missile Range, strange encounters on Native lands, and firsthand experiences deep in the mountains, this conversation explores some of the most compelling stories from a lifetime spent pursuing the unknown.


Then, Oklahoma witness Mary takes us...

Some encounters leave you questioning what might be hiding just beyond the next ridgeline.


A Washington researcher describes a logging road where a tree suddenly appeared across the path, strange markers led toward a hidden meadow, and wood knocks echoed through the forest. A lifelong hunter from Alberta shares enormous tracks, overwhelming odors, and a silent midnight shadow that lingered over a Boy Scout camp. In California, a dog trainer comes face to face with an enormous human-faced creature carrying a full-grown deer over its shoulder. An Illinois homeowner watches a towering figure stand over a neighbor's...

Sandi Russo returns for Part 2 to share the moment that changed everything. After years of strange activity around her off-grid property in Davie County, North Carolina, she finally comes face-to-face with a towering female Bigfoot. What she describes is one of the most detailed visual encounters ever shared on Bigfoot Society, from the creature's expression and appearance to the unforgettable moment their eyes met across the field.


Sandi also shares new accounts of interactions between the Bigfoot family, her dogs, neighboring witnesses, unexplained gifts, and additional encounters that continue to unfold around her property. This conversation offers...

Sandi Russo joins Bigfoot Society to share the beginning of one of the most extraordinary long-term encounter accounts ever featured on the show. After moving off-grid in Davie County, North Carolina, strange events quickly became part of everyday life—powerful huff vocalizations, mysterious structures, disappearing tools, heavy footsteps around camp, towering figures hidden among the trees, and repeated close encounters with what she believes is an entire Bigfoot family.

Resources:

Sandi’s books: https://a.co/d/07FJ7gN7

https://a.co/d/0384092i

Sandi’s website: https://sandirusso.com

Sandi’...

Chris Reinhardt returns to Bigfoot Society with the complete story he's never told from beginning to end. After losing access to a longtime Connecticut habituation area, an unbelievable series of events unfolded around his own home in Winchester.


A local Bigfoot sighting is followed by mysterious activity at hummingbird feeders, apparent gifting behavior, missing objects, disappearing wildlife, strange vocalizations in the woods, and encounters witnessed by both Chris and his wife. Chris also shares two extraordinary audio recordings captured near his former research area that have been analyzed by experienced investigators and are unlike known wildlife.
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A quiet mushroom hunt on the Oregon Coast. A terrifying scream in the forests above Discovery Bay. Four thunderous whoops outside a tent in the middle of the night near Port Townsend. In this unforgettable conversation, Austin Aretakis shares a series of firsthand encounters that changed the way he views the wilderness forever.


Austin recounts his earliest unexplained experience near Floras Lake before taking us deep into one of the closest Sasquatch encounters ever featured on Bigfoot Society. While camping alone near Fort Townsend Historical State Park, something massive approached his hidden campsite, circled his tent, responded...

For over 52 years, Super Dave has experienced some of the most intense Sasquatch encounters imaginable. His journey began as a 12-year-old boy in the Saginaw Eddy Bottoms of Arkansas when he came face to face with an enormous hairy figure standing only a few feet away along the Ouachita River. That single encounter changed the course of his life.


In this episode, Super Dave shares his terrifying first sighting, repeated encounters across Arkansas, massive footprints, tree knocks, bluff charges, eye shine, thermal observations, gifting experiences, and years spent researching active Sasquatch habitat. He also discusses the family...

Originally released as Episode 544 of Bigfoot Society on 10/1/24

Robin Haynes has lived with Sasquatch encounters for nearly 60 years, and in this unforgettable conversation she shares the experiences that have shaped her entire life. From seeing Bigfoot outside her childhood home in Michigan to decades of close encounters across multiple states, Robin describes visual sightings, mysterious footprints, nighttime interactions, tree structures, Dogman encounters, and the relationships she says have continued into the present day.


Whether you're a longtime Bigfoot researcher or simply fascinated by authentic eyewitness accounts, this episode is packed with stories and perspectives that...

Originally released as Episode 538 of Bigfoot Society on 9/25/24.


For years, Darrell Adams lived beside one of Oregon's most mysterious wilderness areas, where nearly every night brought another unexplained event. Towering vocalizations echoed across the valley. Massive knee impressions appeared in fresh clay. Strange gifts arrived without explanation. Cameras captured unsettling evidence, and one encounter left behind an enormous face print pressed against a bedroom window.


In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Darrell takes us deep into the Owl Moon Wilderness near Cottage Grove, Oregon, sharing the experiences that inspired The Owl Moon Lab. From...

This episode brings together an incredible collection of firsthand Bigfoot encounters from across North America. You'll hear reports from the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, the Navajo Reservation, the forests of Alabama, the mountains of Western North Carolina, the hills of Ohio, and the Pacific Northwest near Monroe, Washington.


Witnesses describe terrifying screams in the woods, massive footprints, mysterious tree knocks, rocks and pine cones thrown from unseen sources, overwhelming odors, nighttime campsite disturbances, and close visual encounters with towering hairy figures. One guest shares a childhood experience that stayed with them for decades. Another recounts a...

Four eyewitnesses. Four states. Four encounters that still defy explanation.


Travel from the rugged hills of Red River Gorge in Kentucky to the forests surrounding Ocala National Forest in Florida, a longtime Bigfoot hotspot in rural Texas, and a chilling daylight highway crossing in north-central Mississippi. You'll hear firsthand reports of massive footprints, unexplained vocalizations, repeated property activity, mysterious food thefts, and an unforgettable face-to-face encounter with a towering figure that stopped in the middle of the road to watch a witness.


Every story is shared directly by the people who experienced it, preserving...

Derek has spent years exploring the forests surrounding Estacada, Harriet Lake, Horse Creek, and the Mount Hood region of Oregon. In this episode, he shares the encounters that convinced him something extraordinary lives deep in the Pacific Northwest.


From an earth-shaking scream that sent him racing down a logging road to massive footprints, a huge hand impression, a mysterious figure moving along a burned ridgeline, and a tree crashing moments after making calls into the forest, Derek walks through each experience in remarkable detail. Along the way, he discusses local Bigfoot hotspots, stories passed down by fellow...

A childhood story told around the family turns into a lifelong mystery as one listener shares an incredible account from Oklahoma's Arbuckle Mountains. Long before Bigfoot became part of popular culture, two experienced hunters found themselves being followed through dense briar patches by a towering unknown figure after their hounds suddenly fled in fear.


This episode also features chilling encounters from Beckley, West Virginia, where powerful vocalizations, overwhelming odors, and unexplained activity left one witness convinced multiple Sasquatch were surrounding her group. A Missouri caller describes tree knocks, mysterious grunts, and the now-famous greenhouse property, while another...

Three separate eyewitnesses bring unforgettable encounters to this episode of Bigfoot Society.


A camper describes mysterious nighttime activity at Opal Creek in Oregon after deep growls and repeated impacts struck a tent in one of the Pacific Northwest's most active Sasquatch regions. A father and son recall watching what appeared to be an entire Bigfoot family—including a juvenile carrying a fish—along the spillway at Johnson Shut-Ins State Park in Missouri. A returning witness from Washington State shares years of encounters involving both a white Bigfoot and a rare golden-colored individual, along with unexplained screams, property dest...

A hunter watches his hounds refuse to pursue something hiding in the timber. Moments later, an eight-foot figure glides across a Utah mountainside in full view. Years of strange activity follow, including disappearing livestock, mysterious X structures, unexplained lights, rocks striking buildings, and encounters that leave an entire family searching for answers.


You'll also hear a North Alabama witness describe a terrifying rock-throwing encounter, unusual vocalizations, and generations of family experiences near Bankhead National Forest. Then we travel to the Loess Hills of western Iowa, where a veteran trapper shares a chilling encounter from the 1970s that...