Bigfoot Let Them Walk Away

From Backwoods Bigfoot Stories by Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters

May 6, 2026 · 1h 21m

About this episode

This episode features five listener accounts of slow, deliberate Bigfoot encounters across different decades and locations.

Five listener accounts. Five different parts of the country. Five different decades. And in every one of them, something out there showed an ordinary person, in no uncertain terms, that they were not at the top of the food chain. This episode isn't about quick glimpses through the trees. It's about the slow encounters. The ones where something took its time, where it watched, where it made a deliberate decision about whether or not to let the witness walk away. The first account comes from Dale, a lifelong hunter from Sequim, Washington, who was twenty-three years old in October of 1978 when he climbed into a drainage off the Dosewallips before first light and saw something standing in the fog at the base of the slope. Sixty yards away. Gray-skinned, slope-browed, motionless in a way that no living thing should be able to manage. Dale walked out of those woods that morning and didn't return to any forest for twenty-six years. From there we move to Karen, a young woman from Elkins, West Virginia, who was twenty-four years old in September of 1993 and out for a solo overnight on a loop she'd hiked many times before. At two in the morning, every insect in the Monongahela went…

People in this episode

Guests: Dale, Karen, Brent

Topics covered

Bigfoot encounters
listener accounts
personal stories
supernatural experiences
hunting
nature

Keywords

Bigfoot
encounters
listener stories
supernatural
hunting
nature
personal experiences

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Sequim, Washington, Elkins, West Virginia, Athens, Ohio