{"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":"New Mexico: La Mala Hora & Bigfoot","slug":"new-mexico-la-mala-hora-bigfoot","published_at":"2026-09-09T04:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/new-mexico-la-mala-hora-bigfoot","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/new-mexico-la-mala-hora-bigfoot--75010422","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/75010422/bwbs_meixico_final.mp3","summary":"This stop on the Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip follows the High Road out of Chimayó and deep into the old Spanish villages of northern New Mexico, where generations have warned their children about what can happen when you linger at a crossroads after dark. Here, the thing on the road is known as La Mala Hora—the Bad Hour. It doesn’t chase you. It doesn’t attack. It simply appears. Sometimes it looks like a woman dressed in black. Sometimes it is nothing more than a shapeless mass of darkness standing where two roads meet. Witnesses say it can grow larger as you watch it, and according to the old stories, seeing it is not the danger. The danger is what comes afterward. By morning, someone close to you may be dead. This episode traces the legend from one of its earliest written accounts, folklorist Aurelio Espinosa’s story of a strange ball of wool that grew at a crossroads, through tales of owl-witches and mysterious fireballs in the Río Puerco Valley, and eventually into the Four Corners, where Highway 550 cuts across Diné country and outsiders have spent decades trying to put familiar names on things they may not fully understand. Along the way, we revisit a series of unsettling encounters: a woman driving to the airport in 1978, a produce hauler traveling the grade south of Cuba, a girl on a bridge in Mora County, and a man on Highway 54 who struck a cow just two miles after driving straight through something that seemed to be standing in the road—but wasn’t there. Then comes the story of an oil-field pumper who found herself being paced at 75 miles per hour by something running on four legs beside her vehicle. Something that eventually stood upright and looked directly through her window. From there, the road climbs higher into the mountains for five Bigfoot encounte…","meta_description":"This stop on the Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip follows the High Road out of Chimayó and deep into the old Spanish villages of northern New Mexico, where gen…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3724,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/episodes/new-mexico-la-mala-hora-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/new-mexico-la-mala-hora-bigfoot.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}