{"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":"Nevada: Tahoe Tessie & Bigfoot","slug":"nevada-tahoe-tessie-bigfoot","published_at":"2026-08-28T04:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/nevada-tahoe-tessie-bigfoot","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/nevada-tahoe-tessie-bigfoot--74725226","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/74725226/bwbs_nevada_final.mp3","summary":"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 tal…","meta_description":"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…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3346,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/episodes/nevada-tahoe-tessie-bigfoot/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/nevada-tahoe-tessie-bigfoot.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}