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In this episode of The Bigfoot Inquiry, Brian and Dr. Hogan Sherrow sit down with anthropologist and DNA expert Dr. Todd Disotell for a blunt, science-driven conversation about the search for genetic evidence of Bigfoot.Dr. Disotell has examined hundreds of alleged Sasquatch samples over the years, yet says he has never encountered DNA that supports the existence of an unknown North American primate.He discusses a recent UK eDNA case reportedly containing traces of Old World monkey and great ape DNA, explaining why the claim is unusual, why the raw sequencing data matters, and why extraordinary results must be verified by credible independent laboratories.The conversation also takes a hard look at the Melba Ketchum DNA study, including the problems with its methods, interpretation, and publication. Dr. Disotell explains what laboratories actually mean when a sample is labeled “failed,” “unknown,” or “inconclusive,” and why none of those terms should be presented as proof of an unidentified creature.They also explore the real promise and limitations of environmental DNA, the constant risks of contamination and weak chain of custody, and the collection standards required for a sample to survive scientific scrutiny. The discussion closes with a broader examination of why many scientists avoid the Bigfoot subject, how sensational claims damage legitimate research, and why eyewitness testimony can be shaped by misidentification, expectation, and the fallibility of memory. Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

In this episode, Brian welcomes Steve from the UK to share the unsettling roadside encounter he experienced near Hibaldstow, North Lincolnshire, in July 1994.While driving home after a night of DJ work, Steve watched a heavily built, hair-covered creature—standing roughly six and a half feet tall—cross directly in front of his car before disappearing into the roadside brush.The creature moved with remarkable speed and an unusually smooth, fluid gait. As it passed through the headlights, Steve noticed straw or dried grass tangled in its matted hair and caught a brief profile of a pale gray or white face with an almost glossy appearance. Moments later, he heard three strange sounds from the darkness that reminded him of a dog making a reverse-sneezing noise.Fearing ridicule, Steve kept the encounter private for 28 years.He eventually began speaking about it after discovering similar reports from the surrounding area, along with stories of missing livestock and old mining tunnels beneath the local countryside.Steve also discusses several other unexplained experiences from his life, including an apparent childhood premonition of his grandmother’s death, a cigar-shaped UFO he witnessed from an airplane in 1999, and disturbing activity inside a former home.Although he remains open-minded about the paranormal, Steve believes the creature he encountered was a living, flesh-and-blood animal.Steve also shares details about Haunted Waves, the paranormal radio show he co-hosts with Claire on Humber Wave Radio.Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Fred from The Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube channel is back, and you can see more of Fred’s stuff by clicking the link below. In this episode, Fred shares two unsettling accounts of suspected “hairy man” encounters from the remote Alaskan wilderness.The first involves Don and Tina, a couple hired to operate a gold mine along the Koyukuk River. During a stretch of heavy rain, large rocks began slamming into their loud mining equipment from somewhere beyond the tree line. Don briefly chased a dark figure into the woods, while Tina later witnessed an enormous humanoid silhouette moving nearby.The situation escalated the following morning when the figure appeared dangerously close to their camp. Tina fired a shotgun into the air, and the couple retreated to their cabin before seeking help from a neighboring miner. He revealed that he had experienced similar harassment in the area. Despite the mine producing good gold, Don and Tina decided the money was not worth the risk and quit. Fortunately, the owner treated them fairly and paid them for their work.Fred then rshares Daniel’s experience while trout fishing along the Tickchik River roughly twenty-five years ago. While waiting near a thick stand of willows, Daniel became overwhelmed by the feeling that something was watching him. After firing warning shots, he spotted a tall, black humanoid silhouette standing near the brush. Moments later, the figure crashed through the vegetation and disappeared. Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Part Three of the Sasquatch Unleashed is the one where I stop weighing other people's evidence and put my own convictions to the test. I take you deep into the British Columbia backcountry, seventeen miles down a logging road with no cell signal, on a week-long expedition with the controversial researcher Todd Standing.This is the same man I had called a hoaxer, out loud, on my own show, and I went out there to find out whether I had him wrong the whole time. I walk you through the whole trip, from the ice baths in the glacial river and the tree breaks along the road, to the trackway I found pressed into the moss, the tree knocks that rolled in out of the dark, and the night the sky over our camp did something I still can't explain. I share the interviews that got me there too, my long conversations with survival expert Les Stroud and with Todd himself, and the wave of backlash I came home to, gorilla gloves and all.From the field, I turn the lens around onto us. I dig into the two forces that quietly wreck this whole subject, pareidolia and misidentification.Why good, honest people see figures in the shadows that were never there and hear words and howls in nothing but random noise. Drawing on my sixteen years in law enforcement, I lay out how fragile eyewitness memory really is, how a leading question can plant a detail that was never seen, and what it actually takes to separate a genuine encounter from a trick of the mind.Then I close the part on the tool this entire field lives or dies on.The scientific method. I trace it from Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton to Karl Popper and the idea of falsifiability, make the case for citizen scientists getting out in the woods the right way, and take on the single biggest enemy of honest research, confirmation bias. Because it would have been easy to come home from Radium a believer, and just as easy to come home a cynic.The harder thing, the honest thing, is to sit in the middle with the evidence and refuse to lie to yourself in either direction.Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Brian welcomes Mary Ann and Levi back to the show, and Mary Ann’s husband, Robert, joins us for his first ever appearance on any podcast.In this episode, Brian sits down with BFRO expedition leader Mary Ann, her husband Robert, and investigator Levi to talk about a spring expedition on private property in northern Missouri.Mary Ann shares more about her work leading BFRO expeditions across Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and soon Illinois, while the group walks through a weekend that began with knocks, shadow reports, and possible footsteps before escalating into something far more intense.One participant using thermal equipment believed she saw tall heat signatures near a pond and ravine area, later estimated to be between six and a half and seven feet tall.As the weekend continued, strange activity seemed to build around camp. Then, during a severe storm on Saturday night, Mary Ann and Robert experienced repeated impacts against their tent, including something pushing against the phone pocket and swiping across the front of the tent. At the same time, Levi was watching from his rooftop tent and saw a large outline near the barn blocking reflected light. Moments later, he spotted eye shine before the figure ran into a nearby field.Although the group did not find clear tracks afterward, they did notice soil compaction in the area.Brian, Mary Ann, Robert, and Levi also discuss the possibility of bad weather being used as cover, recurring equipment problems, additional high-strangeness observations from the property, and what these kinds of field experiences can teach investigators.Check Out The Ozark Mountain Bigfoot ConferenceJoin A BFRO Expedition Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Part Two of the Sasquatch Unleashed picks the historical trail right back up, and the encounters only get stranger. I take you to a cabin near Mount St. Helens in nineteen twenty-four, where five miners spent a night under a hail of stones from what they swore were apemen, the story that gave Ape Canyon its name.I walk through Albert Ostman's claim that a family of these creatures carried him off in the British Columbia backcountry and held him for six days. I read you William Roe's sworn affidavit, word for word, about the day he watched a creature strip leaves from a branch with its teeth and couldn't bring himself to pull the trigger.And I share the Ruby Creek incident, where a family came home to a fifty-five-gallon barrel of salted fish torn open and flung across the yard, told through Ivan Sanderson's own account of sitting down with them years later. From there I turn the lens away from the deep woods and onto our living rooms. I trace how Bigfoot went from a figure of dread to a household name, from Leonard Nimoy and In Search Of, to the robot Bigfoot on The Six Million Dollar Man, to the gentle giant of Harry and the Hendersons, and on to Finding Bigfoot and a parade of beer commercials and mattress ads. Then I ask a harder question that I've wrestled with for years. Has all that pop-culture saturation actually driven the number of reported sightings up?I get honest about the power of suggestion, the way memory bends, and how the very shows that spread the word can also shape what people think they saw.And then we get into the ugly side of this whole thing. The hoaxes. I lay out the Ray Wallace wooden-stomper story and why it doesn't hold up as the explanation for everything, and the spectacular collapse of the Rick Dyer Georgia hoax, the freezer, the rubber suit, and the whole circus around it. I dig into why people fake this stuff in the first place, from attention and pranks to money, belonging, the thrill of the con, and the darker pull of narcissism.Because if we're ever going to find the truth out there, we have to be willing to name the fakes for what they areEmail BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Fred from The Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch YouTube channel is back with a disturbing collection of Alaska “Hairy Man” encounters and a message for anyone carrying a story they have been afraid to tell. He urges people to love their families, check on their people, and stop suffering in silence, especially when fear of ridicule keeps them from talking about something they cannot explain. Fred makes it clear that witnesses can reach out anonymously, without judgment, and that sometimes simply being heard is the first step toward making sense of what happened.The episode begins with Kathy’s unsettling account from the Kenai Peninsula in the 1990s.What started as a strange disturbance near a neighbor’s home turned into something far more disturbing when the neighbor found his rabbits headless and neatly lined up with no visible blood. His chickens were gone, firewood had been thrown impossible distances, and a nailed board had been ripped loose and dragged away with enough force to leave him convinced that something powerful had come through the property.The neighbor did not call it an animal. He called it a monster.Fred then shares a more recent report from Walter, Bernice, and their adult son Michael, who were traveling near the Taylor Highway close to Mosquito Fork when they encountered three enormous beings, each estimated around nine feet tall, with what appeared to be tails. As the family tried to document what they were seeing, their cameras and phones reportedly died without warning. Moments later, rocks began striking their toy hauler, and the situation escalated until Michael fired a shot so they could get away.The episode also includes another chilling encounter from the Matanuska River area, where a camping trip was interrupted by screams, a foul odor, strange guttural chatter, and the sight of a large upright figure moving near camp. The experience was so frightening that the witness stopped camping altogether afterward.Through each account, Fred returns to the same point: Alaska is full of stories people have kept quiet for too long, and those witnesses deserve a place to speak without being mocked, dismissed, or ignored.Subarctic Alaska Sasquatch Youtube ChannelEmail BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Every Fourth of July, the woods empty out before the first shell ever goes up. The deer vanish. The dogs hide. And somewhere back in the deep hollows, something older than the town itself moves its family over the ridge, same as it has for generations, because it knows our schedule better than we do.This year, the schedule changed.In this special holiday episode, I'm telling you a Fourth of July story unlike anything I've done on this show. When the little town of Turner Gap adds a preview night to its bicentennial fireworks show, two creatures end up alone in a black mountain gorge with the sky coming apart over their heads. One is an eight-year-old girl named June, who ran from the campground when the booms started because her ears don't have a volume knob.The other is something young and half-grown that has never heard fireworks in its life and believes the sky itself is breaking open.What happens between them over one long night, a washed-out ledge above a forty-foot drop, a counting trick a father taught his daughter about thunder, and a search party whose dogs refuse to go up the gorge, is the kind of story that starts as a missing child report and ends as something this county still doesn't have words for. It's told the way I got it, from tracks, from sign, from a deputy's report nobody made her write, and from a spiral notebook where a mother wrote down every strange, plain, devastating thing her daughter said at bedtime for months afterward.And yes, it comes back around to flags and freedom before it's done. Because a country that shoots off the sound of war one night a year to celebrate not being at war ought to be big enough to remember everybody that sound lands on. The old soldier in his basement. The dog in the bathtub. The girl with the orange ear muffs. And whatever stands on a burn scar two ridges out, watching our flag have its birthday.Grab a seat by the fire. Count the booms. And leave a little quiet out for whoever needs it.Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Filmmaker Darcy Weir joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation about fringe documentaries, Sasquatch evidence, UFO disclosure, hidden history, and the price that comes with challenging popular narratives. Darcy looks back on his early work covering Philip Schneider and the underground-base claims, then traces the path that led him into cryptids and Sasquatch through films like The Unwonted Sasquatch and Sasquatch Among Wild Men.The conversation explores Darcy’s habit of tackling strange subjects before they break into the mainstream, from UFO secrecy to global “wild man” traditions and the possibility of surviving relic hominids. He and the host discuss the evidence that keeps serious researchers in the conversation, including the work of Grover Krantz and Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, while also looking at why official acknowledgment of Sasquatch could create economic, legal, land-use, and public-safety problems for institutions that would rather leave the subject alone.They also get into the fractures inside the Bigfoot community itself, from hoaxers and sensational claims to the growing divide between researchers who focus on physical evidence and those who push paranormal, portal-based, or interdimensional explanations. The Patterson–Gimlin film comes up again as a flashpoint, along with renewed debate surrounding Capturing Bigfoot and the long shadow that famous footage still casts over the entire field.From there, the discussion widens into the overlap between Bigfoot culture and the UFO world, where serious questions are often buried under hype, ego, entertainment, and claims that outrun the evidence.Darcy shares his perspective on recent alien-related statements from lawmakers, the public’s hunger for disclosure, and the way fringe communities punish anyone who questions the story they want to believe. That backlash, Darcy argues, is part of the “truth tax” paid by people who are willing to follow the evidence even when it costs them support, access, or popularity.Watch SECRET SPACE UFOs: Fastwalkers & Rise of the TR3BWatch DARK ALLIANCE: The Next GenerationWatch PUERTO RICO’S UAPEmail BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.

Brian and Dr. Hogan Sherrow return to The Bigfoot Inquiry after some time away, opening the conversation with a more personal tone as Hogan reflects on the recent loss of his brother and Brian catches listeners up on travel, book signings, and community events. Brian shares stories from a successful two-day appearance at the Expedition Bigfoot Museum in Blue Ridge, Georgia, along with a free Bigfoot town hall in Lenoir, North Carolina that drew a crowd of fifty people and sparked bigger ideas for future gatherings, including the possibility of more public events and even a festival. Hogan also points listeners toward the Southern Oregon Bigfoot Experience in Cave Junction as another example of the community continuing to grow beyond the usual online debates.From there, the episode moves into stranger territory as Brian and Hogan revisit Brian’s recent interview with explorer Adam Davies, including Davies’s account of a portal and red-eyed entities. That discussion opens the door to a broader debate over habituation claims, extraordinary encounters, and how researchers should respond when stories include cloaking, telepathy, shapeshifting, and other claims that push far beyond ordinary Bigfoot reports.Brian reads through a message from “Kevin,” who invites him to a property in Morganton and describes a series of experiences that raise both curiosity and concern. Hogan urges caution, grounding the conversation in the idea that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, especially when an invitation involves unknown people, private property, and claims that cannot be easily tested.The most personal part of the episode comes when Hogan shares a story from his own family. His brother believed he had seen something Dogman-like in the woods on the family farm late at night, describing glowing eyes and a presence that left a lasting impression on him.Hogan approaches the account with care, balancing respect for his brother’s experience with the fact that no physical evidence was ever recovered. It becomes a conversation not just about Dogman, Bigfoot, and the unexplained, but about grief, memory, family stories, and the challenge of taking strange claims seriously without abandoning critical thinking.Brian also talks about Backwoods Bigfoot Stories, his audiobook-style narration work, and what listeners can expect from upcoming episodes, including a future discussion on cherry-picked facts, Missing 411, and the way selective storytelling can shape belief. Listen To Backwoods Bigfoot Stories Email BrianJoin Our FREE NewsletterGet Brian's Books Leave Us A VoicemailVisit Our WebsiteBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/sasquatch-odyssey--4839697/support.Have you had a Bigfoot encounter, Sasquatch sighting, Dogman experience, or other cryptid or paranormal encounter? We’d love to hear your story. Email brian@paranormalworldproductions.com to be featured on a future episode of Sasquatch Odyssey.Sasquatch Odyssey is a leading Bigfoot and cryptid podcast exploring real encounters, field research, and scientific analysis of the Sasquatch phenomenon.Follow the show and turn on automatic downloads so you never miss an episode.