# Bigfoot Around The Globe

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Podcast: [Backwoods Bigfoot Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689)
Published: 2026-08-16T04:00:02+00:00
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We're pulling off the road again. The Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip is still running state by state, but the mailbag keeps filling up with letters that don't have a state on them at all, so this week we're taking the detour overseas. Five encounters, five countries, all of them sent in by listeners, all of them set in places you can pull up on a map before you go to bed tonight.In England, a night shift warehouse worker named Neil walks his lurcher across Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, 26 square miles of pine plantation and heathland sitting in the middle of the country, laid over the buried remains of two First World War training camps. He has a two-note whistle he uses for the dog. In October something on the Chase starts using it back, right down to the crack in the middle of it. What follows includes a valley walk he now calls the stupidest decision of his life, a fallow deer wedged in the fork of a Scots pine at head height, and a single toed impression in the mud that he never cast and never photographed.In central China, a 26-year-old field assistant named Lin is running primate transects in the Shennongjia Forestry District in Hubei Province, the same mountains the Chinese Academy of Sciences flooded with more than 100 people in 1977 after a carload of officials reported a large reddish creature in their headlights in 1976. Lin gets a rock thrown at her, a smell she compares to vinegar and wet fur, and a look at something standing in arrow bamboo 20 meters off the trail. Then something spends a good part of the night pushing on the shutters of her field station, and a camera trap 400 meters down the mountain fires 11 times between one and two in the morning with every single frame coming back black.In Queensland, Australia, a fencing contractor named Wade is cam…

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