{"podcast":{"title":"Backwoods Bigfoot Stories","slug":"backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689","podcast_index_feed_id":6739689,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6049961/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories--6049961","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ac96caaa67a677213f681ad5becbc7db.jpg","author":"Paranormal World Productions","episode_count":279,"summary":"Backwoods Bigfoot Stories is a paranormal storytelling podcast featuring real Bigfoot encounters, Sasquatch sightings, Dogman experiences, and terrifying cryptid stories from deep in the wilderness.If you love true scary stories, campfire tales, and firsthand accounts of unexplained encounters in the woods, you’re in the right place. Each episode dives into chilling eyewitness reports of: Bigfoot and Sasquatch encounters Dogman sightings Cryptid attacks and mysterious creatures UFO encounters and strange lights in the forest Paranormal experiences in remote backwoods locations These are immersive, atmospheric stories pulled from people who claim to have come face-to-face with something they can’t explain. From eerie sounds in the treeline to shadowy figures moving just beyond the campfire glow, Backwoods Bigfoot Stories explores what happens when ordinary people venture too far into the unknown. Whether you’re a believer, a skeptic, or simply fascinated by the unexplained, this podcast delivers gripping storytelling that blurs the line between folklore and reality. Turn down the lights, step into the forest, and listen closely…Because something might be watching. Follow and subscr…","last_synced_at":"2026-09-19T08:23:55.325359+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689"},"episode":{"title":"Montana: The Shunka Warak'in","slug":"montana-the-shunka-warak-in","published_at":"2026-08-19T15:35:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/montana-the-shunka-warak-in","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/montana-the-shunka-warak-in--74320289","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74320289/bwbs_mon_final.mp3","summary":"Montana is the only stop on this road trip where the animal is sitting in a display case. In 1886, in the Madison River Valley, a settler named Israel Ammon Hutchins killed something that had been coming into ranch yards after geese and dogs across fifteen miles of valley. He gave the carcass to a grocer named Joseph Sherwood over at Henry Lake, Idaho, who mounted it, called it the Ringdocus for reasons nobody has ever explained, and put it in his store. It sat there into the 1980s and then it vanished. For two decades the only proof it had ever existed was a black-and-white photograph in a naturalist's 1977 autobiography. In 2007 a descendant named Jack Kirby tracked it to a storage room at the Idaho Museum of Natural History in Pocatello and brought it home to Ennis, and before it went on display he drove it to the cemetery and parked it next to the old man's grave. It's still there, four feet long, dark, high in the shoulder and low in the hip, with the ghost of stripes on its sides. Nobody has ever run its DNA. This episode covers where the name Shunka Warak'in actually comes from and why it doesn't belong to Montana at all, what Lance Foster told Loren Coleman in 1995, and what an earlier anthropologist recorded about the same word. It covers what a dog was worth on the northern plains and on a homestead, and why an animal that carries off dogs earns its own name. It covers the forty-year campaign that emptied Montana of wolves, including the 1905 state law that required the veterinarian to infect wolves and coyotes with mange and turn them loose, and what it does to a landscape when the main predator is removed and then put back. And it covers the two modern cases everybody brings up, the Creature of McCone County that killed roughly 120 head of livestock in 2005…","meta_description":"Montana is the only stop on this road trip where the animal is sitting in a display case. In 1886, in the Madison River Valley, a settler named Israel Amm…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3658,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/episodes/montana-the-shunka-warak-in/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/montana-the-shunka-warak-in.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}