Backwoods Bigfoot Stories

Part Seven brings Born Wild: Koda’s Odyssey, Volume Two to a close while quietly opening the door to everything that comes next.

The story returns to the clearing where so much of Koda and Eli’s journey began, the same place where a frightened human boy once left gifts for a curious young sasquatch.

One year later, the two sit together and look back on everything they have built: the alliance, the sacrifices, the dangers, and a friendship that should never have been possible in the first place. 

As Eli faces a choice between the life he has known and the one he is beginning to understand, the final chapter settles into a quieter, more reflective moment. It is an ending built around trust, connection, and the possibility that fear does not have to decide what happens when two very different worlds finally meet.

But Volume Two does not end there.

Once the main story closes, Part Seven shifts into an extended preview of Volume Three and reveals that someone believed to be dead is still alive. Far to the west, beneath the desert at a secret installation known as Site Seven, Adanowa has spent the last year imprisoned, cataloged, cut open, tested, and studied as if he were nothing more than a specimen.

Then, in the darkness beneath the facility, he finds something he never expected: an ally. Skull is a Dogman born in captivity, hardened by the only world he has ever known. Somehow, two creatures who should have every reason to distrust one another become the unlikeliest of friends.

Together, they find a way out.Their escape changes everything. Adanowa is now heading east, back toward the clans that once believed him lost, with Skull walking beside him. And that means he is returning home alongside the very kind of creature his people are already at war with.

The friendship forged beneath Site Seven is about to collide with old loyalties, old hatred, and a conflict that is far from over.

This is the end of Volume Two.It is also the beginning of the next chapter.

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Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.

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The Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip heads to the northern edge of New England for a stop in Coös County, New Hampshire, where the forests stretch toward the Canadian border and generations of loggers, hunters, and woodsmen have carried strange stories out of the timber.

This has been logging country for more than 150 years, from the era of massive log drives down the Connecticut River to the paper mills of Berlin and Groveton. Every spring, men returned from isolated camps with stories about things they claimed to have seen deep in the North Country. One of the strangest was the Wood Devil.

Usually described as tall, unnaturally thin, and gray, the Wood Devil was said to stand edgewise against tree trunks, blending so completely into the forest that it could be mistaken for part of the tree itself. According to the old stories, if someone approached, the creature would quietly shift around to the opposite side of the trunk, staying just out of sight. When caught in the open, it was said to simply stand motionless and disappear into the landscape.

In this episode, Brian digs into the written history behind the Wood Devil legend and discovers that the documented record is far thinner than many modern retellings would have you believe. From there, the episode follows eight unsettling accounts from the forests and back roads of northern New Hampshire. There is a deer hunter near Nash Stream who watched what appeared to be a gray, broken tree trunk suddenly turn its head. 

A teenager on a burned-over hillside above Colebrook realizes there is one tamarack standing where no tree should be. A pulpwood scaler working along the Dead Diamond tries to circle a suspicious tree and learns why old logging camp bosses supposedly warned men never to do exactly that.

There is also a trucker traveling Route 3 around 4:00 a.m., a woodcutter salvaging spruce budworm-killed timber near Stewartstown, a woman and her dog on a snowmobile trail outside Errol, a hiker deep on the Cohos Trail, and two men camped above Perry Stream who hear heavy footsteps circling their tent before finally seeing an eye looking back at them through the darkness.

Deep in the forests of New Hampshire’s North Country, the Wood Devil may have left behind very little written history. But the stories from the people who claim to have encountered something tall, gray, and almost perfectly camouflaged among the trees are much harder to dismiss.

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Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.

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Part Six of Born Wild: Koda's Odyssey, Volume Two settles into the hardest work in the whole story, and there isn't a single punch thrown in it.

The emergency council runs deep past midnight, and for the first time sasquatch, Dog men, and humans are all in the same clearing trying to build something instead of tearing it down.

The immediate crisis has passed. Dask's offer of cooperation has been met, cautiously, and now comes the part nobody's good at.

The details. Where the boundaries fall, what counts as a violation, who answers for it when someone crosses a line. None of these peoples has ever trusted the others, and every one of them has a reason not to start now.

Into that standoff steps an unlikely figure. Eli, the boy with no rank and no claws and no official standing, turns out to be the one voice all three sides can hear, precisely because he threatens none of them. What he offers isn't strength. It's a different way of looking at a problem the older ones have been too angry, or too proud, to solve.

This is the quiet center of the book, where the story stops asking who can win a fight and starts asking whether old enemies can actually choose something better.

The answer doesn't come easy, and it doesn't come clean, and the forest beyond the firelight hasn't stopped being dangerous just because a few of them decided to talk.

What gets built here is fragile. Whether it holds is a question for the road still ahead.

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This week, the Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip crosses Spooner Summit and drops down to the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, the second-deepest lake in the United States, to investigate one of the West’s most enduring lake monster legends: Tahoe Tessie.For generations, people have reported seeing long, dark shapes moving through Tahoe’s famously cold, deep water.

We look at the geography of the lake, its extreme depth, and the conditions that have helped fuel stories of something large living below the surface.

Along the way, we examine recorded Washoe traditions connected to Cave Rock, the 1897 newspaper account attributed to I. C. Coggin, and the surge of reports during the 1980s involving Reno police officers, hikers, an optician, and a local television station owner. 

We also dig into the University of California, Davis seminar that considered whether an unusually large sturgeon could explain some of the sightings, and separate fact from one of Tahoe Tessie’s most repeated legends: the supposed Jacques Cousteau expedition that never actually happened.Then the stories move from the archives to the water itself.

Listeners describe seeing a long shape passing beneath the clear water near Sand Harbor, feeling something massive roll beneath them while diving along the wall at Cave Rock, watching three distinct humps move across the north end of the lake against the chop, and having something large surface alongside a boat during a nighttime mackinaw fishing trip off Crystal Bay.

From Lake Tahoe, the road climbs into the Carson Range and continues east toward the Ruby Mountains for five Nevada Bigfoot encounters. The reports take us to Marlette Lake, the Mount Rose Highway during a storm, the aspen groves near Spooner Summit, a roadside pullout on Kingsbury Grade, and a remote talus slope above Lamoille Canyon.

If you’ve had a cryptid encounter, strange sighting, or unexplained experience you’d like to share for a future episode, send it to brian@paranormalworldproductions.com.

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Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.

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This week we pull off the road for one episode. The Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip picks back up next time, but a stack of emails has been building from listeners who saw something they still can't explain, and five of them deserved a full hour.

A rancher in the Owyhee desert of Idaho comes over a rise in the middle of an August afternoon and finds something standing in his stock tank, drinking with both hands.

A nurse in the Ouachita National Forest of Arkansas, driving home from a night shift, watches something cross the road in two steps and climb a twelve-foot clay bank the way a person would, and she sees the bottoms of its feet.

 A snowmobiler in Michigan's Upper Peninsula stops in a cedar swamp at ten below and realizes the stump he's looking at has snow on its shoulders and is breathing. A daughter and her father, picking chanterelles in the Oregon Coast Range, come to the edge of a clearcut and find something sitting on a slash pile, looking out at the valley.

And a hog hunter on a dead-end channel off the Ocmulgee River in Georgia swings his spotlight onto a sow at the water's edge and sees the hand that's holding her there.Five states, five decades, five people who never met and never asked to be believed.

These are visual sightings only, told the way they were sent in, first names only, with what each person did afterward and what's still sitting in a drawer or on a laptop or on a tupelo trunk in a river bottom.

If you've had an encounter of your own, send it straight to Brian at brian@paranormalworldproductions.com. Use your first name or none at all.

And if this episode was worth your hour, pass it along to your family, a friend, or the guy at work who's always bringing this stuff up at lunch. That's how the show grows.

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Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman reports, cryptid experiences, and true scary stories from the backwoods.

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