The American frontier was full of things that settlers and soldiers couldn't explain, and among the strangest were the Wild Man accounts that began appearing in newspapers decades before anyone coined the term Bigfoot. In this episode, we dig deep into the historical record and examine encounter reports from the eighteen forties through the eighteen sixties, beginning with the eighteen sixty-five Paraclifta, Arkansas account published in the Weekly Standard of Raleigh, North Carolina, and workin...
Apr 12, 2026•1 hr 5 min
Brian welcomes Seth from Connecticut for a fascinating conversation that weaves together classic Bigfoot lore, unsettling personal accounts, and the ongoing debate over what people are really encountering in the woods. Seth shares how his fascination with Sasquatch began at just 10 or 11 years old after reading about Albert Ostman’s alleged 1924 kidnapping. He explains why that story has always stood out to him, pointing to the consistency of Ostman’s retelling and the vivid level of detail that...
Apr 10, 2026•43 min
Jerry from Rebel’s Dark Tales of Appalachia YouTube channel, as well as Chris from Sasquatch Recon, are here to share some amazing stories from not only the South Mountains here in North Carolina, but also from South Carolina.In this episode, we dive into a series of strange and unexplained encounters that stretch across generations and landscapes, from the rugged woods of the South Mountains to the dark swamps of South Carolina. Jerry opens the conversation with chilling accounts rooted in loca...
Apr 08, 2026•41 min
The documentary aired on a Tuesday night in October, and nothing was ever the same. Within hours it was trending worldwide. Scientists came forward. Former government employees reached out. And across the country, people started paying closer attention to the forests around them.This episode brings the first volume of Born Wild to a close — but not before we hear from some of the most compelling voices in the archives. Russell Crawford, a Tennessee hunter with over fifty years in the Cherokee Na...
Apr 05, 2026•58 min
In this explosive episode, Brian sits down with Eric Palacios of the Hairy Man Road YouTube channel to talk about his Bigfoot research, his documentary work, and the firestorm surrounding the new SXSW documentary Capturing Bigfoot. Eric shares the story behind his Texas Hairy Man Road investigations, his independent documentaries, and the FOIA requests that uncovered 911 calls, photos, and even wildlife-agency records referencing cryptids in places like Louisiana and Arizona. He also breaks down...
Apr 03, 2026•53 min
Fred from the Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube channel is back with two more stories from deep in the Alaskan bush. Be sure to click the link in the show notes and head over to Fred’s channel to subscribe.In this episode, Fred shares two unsettling accounts of “Hairy Man” encounters reported from remote parts of Alaska. First, we hear from Nathaniel and Theresa, a married couple in their seventies who spent years homesteading in the Alaskan wilderness. What began as strange disturbances around...
Apr 01, 2026•37 min
What if the biggest hoax in the Bigfoot world isn’t the Patterson-Gimlin Film… but the tribalism surrounding it? In this episode, Brian takes a hard look at the fallout surrounding Capturing Bigfoot, the claims of new footage connected to the Patterson-Gimlin Film, and the deeper problem tearing the Sasquatch community apart: blind loyalty, faction-driven thinking, and the growing inability to examine evidence without picking a side. This is not just a conversation about Roger Patterson, Bob Gim...
Mar 29, 2026•1 hr 3 min
In this episode, Brian shares an email from a military veteran who served multiple combat tours in Afghanistan and wants the world to hear a story that's been buried for three decades. Matt, as he asks to be called, writes in about a confession made to him by a fellow soldier he calls Joe during a night of drinking while the two were stateside between deployments. Joe revealed that in the mid nineteen nineties, long before the war on terror, he was part of a small specialized team dispatched int...
Mar 29, 2026•1 hr 14 min
In this episode, Brian welcomes Melissa from Georgia to the show for a conversation that blends travel memories, Bigfoot research, and some of the strangest encounters she has ever experienced. They kick things off by reflecting on their recent trip to England for the red carpet premiere of My Bigfoot Life, sharing thoughts on the beauty of the UK countryside, the enchanting forests of Somerset, and how surprisingly similar the landscape felt to both Appalachia and the Pacific Northwest. Melissa...
Mar 27, 2026•56 min
In this episode, Brian sits down with makeup and special-effects artist, filmmaker, and longtime Patterson–Gimlin film researcher Bill Munns for a deep discussion about the enduring controversy surrounding the PGF. Drawing on decades of study and an archive of numerous scanned film copies, Munns explains how he works to separate authentic image details from artifacts introduced through duplication and degradation over time. Munns shares that one of the key details that first compelled him to tak...
Mar 25, 2026•56 min
It's been a while since I've written a newsletter entry, but something happened on March 12, 2026 that demanded a response. A new documentary called Capturing Bigfoot, directed by Marq Evans, premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, and the shockwaves have been reverberating through the Bigfoot community ever since. The film presents newly discovered sixteen-millimeter Kodachrome footage allegedly shot in 1966, a full year before the famous Patterson-Gimlin Film was re...
Mar 23, 2026•1 hr 5 min
Fred from the Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube channel is back, and this episode is packed with eerie wilderness encounters and hard-earned perspective. Be sure to check the show notes for a link to Fred’s channel and head over to subscribe for more of his incredible content.Fred opens with a heartfelt reminder about the importance of valuing the people we love, then dives into two chilling stories from the Alaskan backcountry. The first goes back about twenty years, when longtime partners Bri...
Mar 22, 2026•43 min
Brian welcomes Joey from Maryland, whose connection to the episode begins with a heartfelt voicemail about Bigfoot Country. Joey shares how deeply he related to the book’s themes of childhood, solitude, and finding refuge in the woods, explaining that his own upbringing followed a similar path. That conversation opens the door to one of Joey’s earliest and most unforgettable encounters. As a child in the mid-to-late 1980s, he was near a local creek when he spotted something extraordinary: a tiny...
Mar 20, 2026•52 min
Part Nine brings Bigfoot Country to its climax, and it does so by circling back to where every great investigation begins — with the people who lived it.After years of building this platform, the floodgates finally opened. Witnesses who had been listening from the shadows for months, sometimes years, started stepping forward. People like Patricia Ann Holloway, a seventy-one-year-old retired librarian from Pennsylvania who had carried a secret since 1973 — the summer she was nineteen years old an...
Mar 18, 2026•45 min
Jerry AKA Caser Rebel is back with a chilling look at the 1978–1979 encounters around Kaser, North Carolina, near the South Mountains and Carpenter’s Knob. Witnesses including Minnie Cook, Sally White, the Price family, and Gay Smith reported a large black, hairy, humanlike figure prowling properties, killing animals, leaving tracks, and unleashing terrifying howls, screams, and strange yodeling wails. Drawing from reports documented by Robert Williams, who helped popularize the name “Knobby,” J...
Mar 15, 2026•50 min
Jason joins Sasquatch Odyssey for a wild ride through the unexplained, beginning with his lifelong fascination with Sasquatch and family stories of possible Bigfoot activity in Pennsylvania and Missouri. From eerie howls, possible mimicry, and strange sounds in the woods to a deeper conversation about Bigfoot behavior, credibility, and encounter patterns, this episode dives into the kind of firsthand testimony that keeps the Sasquatch mystery alive.But this conversation does not stop there. Jaso...
Mar 13, 2026•59 min
The odyssey reaches new heights as Brian Patterson shares some of the strangest and most profound encounters ever documented on the show. From a North Carolina camper who experienced unexplainable visions of an ancient forest to an Oregon mother whose lost daughter was safely returned by a gentle, hair-covered giant, these accounts push beyond simple sightings into territory that challenges everything we think we know about these creatures. The podcast also faces its greatest crisis when a retir...
Mar 11, 2026•56 min
In this episode, Fred from the Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube channel returns to share two chilling accounts of encounters with a massive, humanlike creature deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Both stories come from individuals who found themselves face-to-face with something they could neither explain nor forget. The first encounter comes from a man we’ll call Ben, a doctor flying a Piper Super Cub through the remote country near Hell Bent Creek above the Yukon River with his ten-year-old son....
Mar 08, 2026•39 min
In this episode, the journey takes a dramatic turn as Brian's podcasting career reaches new heights and dangerous new lows. What begins as a powerful collection of witness encounters from across the country — a conservation officer in Minnesota's Boundary Waters, a Mississippi fisherman on the Big Black River, a West Virginia coal miner who found something living deep underground, and a Cajun folk healer who speaks of the loup-garou with reverence rather than fear — quickly evolves into somethin...
Mar 07, 2026•1 hr 2 min
Brian welcomes Tim from Macon County, North Carolina, whose interest in Bigfoot began in an unexpected way. Years ago, he and a friend decided to prank the friend’s sons by creating fake tracks in the woods, a harmless hoax meant to stir up a little excitement. But not long after, the joke seemed to take on a life of its own. Beginning in 2008, Tim says unexplained activity started occurring on the property—events that made him question whether something real might be moving through those woods....
Mar 06, 2026•48 min
In this installment, Daniel finds something he never expected: normalcy. A job at a local pizza place, the simple rhythm of work and home, the blessed absence of danger. After everything they've survived, boring feels like a gift.Meanwhile, Brian's podcast has exploded beyond anything he imagined. Five million downloads. Tens of thousands of community members. Emails pouring in from witnesses who've carried their secrets for decades, finally finding a place where someone believes them. A seventy...
Mar 04, 2026•46 min
Fred from the Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube channel is back, and before we get started, make sure you click the link in the show notes and head over to subscribe to his channel. If you care about firsthand accounts coming straight out of Alaska and rooted in lived cultural experience, Fred’s work is essential listening. In this episode, Fred takes us beyond simple encounter stories and into the foundation of how knowledge is preserved in his culture. He explains the vital role oral traditio...
Mar 01, 2026•33 min
Tonight Brian welcomes Sean Forker from The Sasquatch Experience podcast for a candid and wide-ranging conversation about Bigfoot research, early podcasting, hoaxes, and a chilling encounter in the Pennsylvania woods. Sean shares how his fascination with Sasquatch began decades ago through books and television, eventually leading him to join the Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society and actively investigate reports in the field. What started as curiosity grew into boots-on-the-ground research—and later i...
Feb 27, 2026•1 hr 10 min
Jerry and the Sasquatch Recon crew return as Jerry shares how a childhood viewing of The Legend of Boggy Creek and a 1977 book fair purchase sparked his fascination with Bigfoot—an interest that intensified after moving near the South Mountains, where he began finding tree breaks pointing toward water. By 2015 he was hearing wood knocks and eerie vocalizations, and in 2017 he and his wife watched a large figure glide effortlessly through a cornfield beside their home. A 2019 sighting by family m...
Feb 25, 2026•43 min
Fred from the Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube Channel is back! Be sure to click the link in the show notes below and check out Fred’s amazing channel. Fred, a tribal council member from Dillingham, Alaska, returns to share chilling accounts of encounters with what he calls the “hairy man.” In his First Nations culture, these experiences are not sensationalized—they’re part of oral history and everyday life in remote Alaska. In the first story, two relatives—“Penelope” and “Jasmine”—were campi...
Feb 22, 2026•54 min
Brian sits down with Steve of Steve Searches to talk Bigfoot research, drone mapping, and going solo in the wild. Steve traces his fascination back to the Patterson–Gimlin film and The Legend of Boggy Creek, plus years of solo camping on a Montana farm. After military service, he built a career in drafting and mapmaking—eventually integrating drones into terrain mapping, a skill he now uses in Sasquatch research. Midway through the episode, Brian pauses to provide a detailed update on the disapp...
Feb 20, 2026•40 min
Sheriff Brian Patterson steps away from the badge and into the microphone full time as Sasquatch Odyssey explodes beyond anything he ever imagined. Part Five picks up with the podcast in full swing, and the witnesses are lining up from every corner of the South and beyond to finally tell the stories they have been carrying in silence for decades.It starts in the mountains of northeast Georgia with a seventy-three-year-old retired logger named Earl Hutchins, a man who kept his mouth shut for fort...
Feb 18, 2026•1 hr 9 min
In this episode, Brian continues reading from his upcoming book The Sheriff of Bigfoot Country, picking up with Part Four as the story reaches a turning point that changes everything. The classified Mount St. Helens documents reveal the full scope of Project Vulcan, a secret government operation to recover the bodies of creatures killed in the 1980 eruption. Military teams moved in under the cover of legitimate rescue operations, extracting remains before civilian responders could find them. Med...
Feb 15, 2026•51 min
In this episode, Brian welcomes friend of the show Ken Gerhard—renowned cryptozoologist, bestselling author, field researcher, television personality, public speaker, and now host of his own podcast.Ken shares how his childhood fascination with Bigfoot—sparked by firsthand experiences and a steady diet of classic monster movies—set him on a lifelong path into the world of cryptozoology. From Texas to Loch Ness and beyond, he reflects on decades of global expeditions, investigations, and firsthan...
Feb 13, 2026•48 min
The guys from Sasquatch Recon are back. And this time, they’re taking us deep into the shadowy lowlands of South Carolina and the mysterious foothills of North Carolina—where the line between wildlife and the unexplained gets very blurry.In this episode, the team recounts a tense and unsettling expedition through South Carolina’s swamp country, where a single discovery snowballed into something far more disturbing. A strange footprint. Eerie, unidentifiable vocalizations echoing through the dark...
Feb 11, 2026•47 min
