# The Surveyor's Confession

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Podcast: [Backwoods Bigfoot Stories](https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689)
Published: 2026-05-01T04:00:03+00:00
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Part Five of The Corridor series. The finale. If you haven't listened to Parts One through Four, stop here and go back. This one doesn't land the way it's supposed to without the stories that came before it.A retired land surveyor named Gene heard the first four episodes of this series and realized he'd walked the exact ground every witness was describing. In the spring of nineteen eighty-seven, Gene and his partner Bill spent three and a half weeks surveying an eight-thousand-acre tract spanning the Georgia-Tennessee line for a timber company. That tract contains every encounter location from the previous four episodes. Every single one. Gene's field notes document tree breaks along the ridgeline with spiral fractures at six to nine feet, barefoot impressions measuring sixteen to seventeen inches in creek mud, an unusual sound-dampening effect on the valley floor that both surveyors noticed independently, and three limestone cave openings along the western face of the ridge producing airflow consistent with a significant underground passage system. The timber company ordered those caves excluded from the survey without legal explanation. Gene also recorded an unidentified nighttime vocalization on a microcassette tape that he dismissed as a coyote for thirty-seven years until he heard witnesses in this series describe nearly identical sounds. When Gene overlaid his nineteen eighty-seven plat maps with the encounter locations from all four previous episodes, everything fell inside his survey boundary, and the three cave exclusions sat along the ridge between them like stations on a line. Gene calls this his confession because he had the map, the data, and the physical evidence sitting in a cardboard box in his closet for nearly four decades and never showed it to anyon…

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