SO EP:693 Bigfoot, Kudzu, and Sweet Tea

Welcome to this special collection episode of Sasquatch Odyssey, featuring six of the most compelling Bigfoot encounters I’ve documented across the Southeastern United States over the past five years. These stories span sixty years of fear, awe, and unanswered questions, carrying us from Alabama’s river bottoms to South Carolina’s swamps, and showing why the South may be one of the last true sanctuaries for something we still don’t understand.

We open in the suffocating heat of Alabama in 1967, where a power company lineman working near the Cahaba River noticed something impossible: massive handprints sunk deep into a utility pole. Moments later, he found himself face to face with a towering presence that moved with purpose and intelligence. That encounter sets the tone for everything that follows—brief, terrifying interactions where the creature controls the moment, revealing itself only on its own terms.From there, we climb into the mountains of North Georgia in 1973, where four seasoned hunters discovered the woods had a hierarchy they didn’t sit atop.

Near Blue Ridge, their camp became the target of relentless intimidation—rocks crashing through darkness, trees shaking violently, and a chilling discovery at dawn: dozens of stick figures arranged in a perfect warning circle around them. The night didn’t just scare them; it shattered friendships and ended their lives in the forest forever.

The third account takes us into Tennessee’s Great Smoky Mountains in 1985, where a park ranger and wildlife biologist experienced something that demolished her scientific certainty.

While stationed in a fire tower, she watched a massive creature climb the structure and examine her equipment with unsettling curiosity, as if it understood what it was seeing. Even more disturbing was what she learned afterward—that similar encounters had been quietly documented for decades, tucked away and never meant for public eyes.The most heartbreaking story comes from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas in 1991.

A family camping trip turned into a nightmare when towering beings approached their site and demonstrated strength beyond anything human—crushing rocks in their hands while the family huddled in terror. A young girl watched it unfold, and the trauma that followed tore the family apart, leaving permanent scars long after the woods fell silent again. In 2002, deep in North Carolina’s Pisgah National Forest, an experienced hiker found himself living through an encounter unlike any other in my files.

He described three days in captivity with what appeared to be a family group of these beings, observing tool use, complex social behavior, and a kind of focused curiosity toward human objects. His story challenges the idea of Sasquatch as a solitary wilderness phantom and suggests something closer to culture—structured intelligence living beyond our reach.Our final encounter lands in South Carolina in 2014, when college biology students captured forty-three minutes of high-definition footage of a creature inspecting their research equipment with clear understanding of its purpose.

What happened next was just as chilling as what they filmed: a rapid government response, confiscated evidence, and enforced silence that raises the question of how long this phenomenon has truly been known—and how actively it’s been buried.

Across six stories and six decades, the same threads surface again and again: the heavy, musky odor that announces their presence, the massive handprints left behind like signatures, and the unnerving sense of being watched by something that doesn’t panic or flee—but evaluates.

Most unsettling of all is the repeated realization that these creatures could harm us effortlessly, yet choose restraint instead. Witnesses don’t describe a mere animal. They describe something hovering in a blurred space between human and beast, perfectly adapted to remain hidden while living alongside us. What emerges from these accounts is a portrait of the American South as a vast refuge for an undiscovered species—or perhaps a parallel branch of human evolution that chose isolation over contact.

From Alabama’s rivers to Tennessee’s peaks and the deep wild of the Ozarks and Carolinas, these beings have claimed territories in the spaces we’ve ignored or forgotten. They watch from cover, occasionally stepping into view when a boundary is crossed, always vanishing before the mystery can be pinned down.

They want you to know the woods are not empty, that something ancient and intelligent still moves through them, and that the old instinct to tread carefully in the dark may be rooted in more than superstition.

As you listen, notice how the behavior of these creatures shifts over time, especially around human technology. Consider what it means that responses to evidence sometimes seem immediate and organized. And ask yourself what else might be sitting in classified files, protected by silence and dismissal.

These aren’t campfire tales or urban legends. They are documented encounters from credible witnesses whose lives were never the same afterward. The South keeps its secrets well, but every now and then—between darkness and dawn, between wilderness and civilization—those secrets step out just long enough to remind us how much we still don’t know.

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SO EP:180 The Appalachian Bigfoot With Dr. Russ Jones!

My guest tonight is not only a practicing physician, but he is also an author and avid Bigfoot researcher. Dr. Jones has been in private practice for over 30 years and consumed with the Bigfoot mystery for longer than that. “The Appalachian Bigfoot”, is his second book, the first being the award winning “Tracking the Stone Man.”After attending Huntington College on a baseball scholarship, he graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic. He has a Bachelors and Doctorate degree.Dr. Jones is also a Certified Master Naturalist. He attempts to mix a science background with a lifetime of hunting and trapping knowledge to gather possible evidence of an undiscovered North American primate. He enters the woods with his faithful black lab “Shade” to tend his dozens of professional game cameras and look for tracks year round in Appalachia. He is here tonight to share his personal encounter stories, talk about his research in the field, and much more! For more on Dr. Jones and to purchase his books, head over to his website using the link below. Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/The Bigfoot Dochttps://thebigfootdoc.comBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

15 Heinä 20221h 12min

SO EP:179 Bigfoot In The Great Smoky Mountains!

This weeks bonus Wednesday Wisdom show features an amazing encounter story from the Great Smoky Mountains, as well as some thought provoking theories on what Bigfoot/Sasquatch may or may not be. Please follow the show on Instagram and be sure to check out our new website for weekly blog posts and much more!Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/Lon Stricklers Phantoms and Monsters https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

13 Heinä 202232min

SO EP:178 Bigfoot In Haunted Happy Valley!

My guest tonight is Leila from North Carolina and she is here to share some Bigfoot experiences from right down the road from us here in my home state, as well as some of the haunted history and local ghost stories from historic Happy Valley. We start off the show talking with our Executive Producer and behind the scenes star of the show Dani, who has had his own experiences inside the Happy Valley Filling Station! Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

10 Heinä 202249min

SO EP:177 Phantoms And Monsters With Fortean Researcher Lon Strickler!

My guest tonight is author, experiencer, and Fortean Researcher Lon Strickler. He is here to share his personal encounters with not only Bigfoot, but a strange winged hominoid in the woods near the Conewago Creek area of Pennsylvania. He also shares some of the most compelling UFO and other cryptids cases that he has investigated. Be sure to check out the Sasquatch Odyssey Blog for show related photos and more!Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/Lon Stricklers Phantoms and Monsters https://www.phantomsandmonsters.com/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

8 Heinä 20221h 1min

The Georgia Guidestones Bombing!

I wanted to drop in and talk for a moment about the Georgia Guidestones Bombing. For more information and for the video of the actual bombing head over to our website and click the Sasquatch Odyssey Blog at the top of the page. Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

7 Heinä 20228min

SO EP:176 Monkey Fossils And Strange DNA Found!

On this weeks Wednesday Wisdom I wanted to share some interesting articles that I read recently, that on their surface may seem unrelated to Sasquatch. That said, I found them both very intriguing, and I believe that they are both relevant to the subject in their own unique way. I also share a brief story about a winged humanoid to prime your senses for Fridays show! Be sure to check out the Sasquatch Odyssey Blog on our website for related photos and source materials. Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/Episode Source Materialshttps://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138353&fbclid=IwAR1xGp3Rl262TZbOYxeR40-eq139P2UtIYWQEDOi00iH-J_9OUSSdQEqouo&fs=e&s=clhttps://ancient.express88.info/intact-dna-from-7200-year-old-woman-reveals-strange-human-lineage/https://www.facebook.com/100063604569253/posts/pfbid026Y3fwfsamJtSge7SiBYwKbYQfResFz8Lec9ot3cAcsRkGLqKpE6DpWe8afGMFMbl/?d=nBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

6 Heinä 202220min

SO EP:175 The Mystery Of Mel's Hole!

This weeks bonus episode is truly a trip down a bottomless rabbit hole! Greg and I cover the mystery of Mel's Hole that was born in 1997 on Coast To Coast Am with Art Bell. It's a never ending tale of a bottomless hole somewhere in central Washington. Trust me, when you think this story couldn't get any weirder...It does! Check out show related photos on the Sasquatch Odyssey blog on our website or our Instagram. Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/The American Landscape YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TheAmericanLandscapeEpisode Researchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5KIRChve0https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel%27s_HoleBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

3 Heinä 20221h 33min

SO EP:174 Tales Of The Bardin Booger Skunk Ape With Stacy Brown Jr.

My guest tonight is Stacy Brown Jr. You would know him from shows like Ten Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty and Finding Bigfoot, as well as his thermal images of what appears to be a Skunk Ape back in 2011. He is here to discuss how that footage was obtained, his other encounters with Skunk Apes, and his new short film on the Bardin Booger that was released today. So make sure you head over to the OutKast Paranormal YouTube channel using the link below and check it out!OutKast Paranormal YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCg-WS-fVEAaa7zqMTMGy5Mg/videosGet Your Show Merchandise Here! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/31942774-i-listen?ref_id=24500Support The Showhttps://www.patreon.com/paranormalworldproductionsShow Website And Bloghttps://paranormalworldproductions.comAll The Socials And Stuff/Contact Brianhttps://linktr.ee/ParanormalWorldProductionsbrian@paranormalworldproductions.com Send Brian A Voicemail Or Tell Your Storyhttps://www.speakpipe.com/SasquatchOdysseyPodcastFollow The Show On Instagram https://www.instagram.com/sasquatchodyssey/Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.

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