{"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":233,"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":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689"},"episode":{"title":"The Dogs Didn't Come Back","slug":"the-dogs-didn-t-come-back","published_at":"2026-04-03T04:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/the-dogs-didn-t-come-back","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-dogs-didn-t-come-back--71069196","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/71069196/bwbsgarr6final.mp3","summary":"This is part six of a ten-part series from Garrett, a residential contractor on a remote forty-seven-acre property in the southern Appalachians of western North Carolina. In the spring of 2017, Garrett adopted a young shepherd mix named Ruby from a gas station near Chimney Rock. She bonded with Bowie within weeks and joined him on nightly dusk patrols of the meadow, adopting his boundary rules around the property without being taught. On October 14, 2017, both dogs froze mid-patrol, then bolted into the eastern tree line in pursuit of something Garrett couldn't see. He followed with a flashlight as something paralleled him through the trees, matching his pace at a fixed distance. He found Bowie wedged under a fallen tree in a blowdown clearing, trembling and unresponsive. Ruby was forty yards further upslope, frozen in front of four stick structures built in a depression between two beech trees, including a conical teepee of stripped branches and a cluster of living saplings braided together and secured with bark-strip knots. While Garrett stood with Ruby, branch snaps began from three positions behind them, closing in a coordinated circle. He walked south through the formation, and the snapping stopped simultaneously. The circle opened. He retrieved Bowie and descended with both dogs pressed against his legs. During the walk out, Ruby stopped once, turned east, and delivered a single recognition bark into the darkness. The following sounds stopped. Both dogs recovered within days but permanently changed their patrol, stopping at the tree line every evening and refusing to enter the forest again. The series continues with Story Seven, in which a woman from across the creek arrives at the property with information connecting Earl, Reba, and the reason the creatures have…","meta_description":"This is part six of a ten-part series from Garrett, a residential contractor on a remote forty-seven-acre property in the southern Appalachians of western…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4521,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/backwoods-bigfoot-stories-6739689/episodes/the-dogs-didn-t-come-back/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/the-dogs-didn-t-come-back.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}