{"podcast":{"title":"Sasquatch Chronicles","slug":"sasquatch-chronicles-850142","podcast_index_feed_id":850142,"rss_url":"https://sasquatchchronicles.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://sasquatchchronicles.libsyn.com/site","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/1/6/6/b/166b9e80560e7e6a/SC_Show_Art_-_2500-01.png","author":"Sasquatch Chronicles","episode_count":715,"summary":"People are seeing something in the woods and there are too many reports for this to be ignored. Join us every Sunday night as we discuss recent Sasquatch sightings, encounters and talk to Bigfoot eye witnesses. Listen as we speak with researchers, witnesses and investigators to unravel the mystery of Bigfoot. Every week we will also bring you the latest Bigfoot news and information. Additional episodes and exclusive content can be found on our website www.sasquatchchronicles.com. Become a Member today and receive access to additional exclusive shows posted weekly, our full back catalog of episodes, the ability to comment on Episodes and Blog entries, and access to our Forums. For the latest news, please visit our Blog. We can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sasquatch-chronicles-850142"},"episode":{"title":"SC EP:1236 The Black Cloaked Figures","slug":"sc-ep-1236-the-black-cloaked-figures","published_at":"2026-03-08T01:03:44+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sasquatch-chronicles-850142/sc-ep-1236-the-black-cloaked-figures","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sasquatch-chronicles-850142","url":"https://sasquatchchronicles.com/sc-ep1236-the-black-cloaked-figures/","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/sasquatchchronicles/scep1236_v2.mp3?dest-id=2049179","summary":"Tonight we will be speaking to Seth and Seth writes \"I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, and went to college there too. That's where this story took place. It's not a Bigfoot encounter at least I don't think it is. Honestly, I'm not sure what kind of encounter it was. All I know is that it happened to me. I've often wished someone could explain it, tell me what it was or what it meant. It happened on October 31, 2001, under a full blue moon, along one of the quietest stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway. At the time, I was driving a 1970 Chevy Bel Air an old steel boat of a car and I had pulled into the James River overlook near Goff Mountain Road. It was close to midnight. The moon was so bright it almost felt like daytime. I shut the engine off and decided to stretch my legs. There's a small trail there that leads down toward a bench maybe a hundred yards from the parking area. I'd spent a lot of time in the woods so being out in the forest at night didn't bother me. I knew what normal nighttime woods felt like. And I also knew when something felt off. As I walked down the trail, the stillness felt unnatural. No breeze. No insects. No rustling. Nothing. I sat on the bench and looked through the bare branches while the moonlight spilled across the slope below. It was beautiful, but something about it felt wrong. Like I was being watched. Then I heard a Snap . A single limb breaking somewhere downslope, maybe fifty to a hundred yards away toward the Bellamy Creek drainage. At first I didn't think much of it deer snap branches all the time. Then it happened again. And again. What caught my attention wasn't just the sound it was the pattern. The breaks started coming from different directions. Not like one animal moving through the woods. I counted five, maybe ten distinct…","meta_description":"Tonight we will be speaking to Seth and Seth writes \"I grew up in Lynchburg, Virginia, and went to college there too. That's where this story took place.…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3860,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/sasquatch-chronicles-850142/episodes/sc-ep-1236-the-black-cloaked-figures/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/sasquatch-chronicles-850142/sc-ep-1236-the-black-cloaked-figures.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}