It Could Have Killed Us

From Backwoods Bigfoot Stories by Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters

May 3, 2026 · 1h 5m

About this episode

Brian interviews Natalie Smearman about her journey into Bigfoot research and her experiences during a significant expedition.

Brian sits down at the mic after wrapping a long-form interview for Sasquatch Odyssey with researcher Natalie Smearman, and what she shared in that recording was too good to keep on one show. This episode brings her story over to Backwoods Bigfoot Stories in full. Natalie grew up in West Virginia thinking the Bigfoot stories were just something parents told kids to keep them out of the woods, and a local news report out of central Florida about a sighting in the Ocala National Forest cracked that assumption open. From there she spent years reading everything she could get her hands on, eventually buying herself a VIP ticket to the Great Florida Bigfoot Conference as a birthday gift to herself in the middle of a divorce. That weekend put her in front of Adam Davis, R.P.G., and Ken Gerhard, and from that point forward she stopped being a hobbyist and started becoming a field researcher.The bulk of this episode covers the November twenty twenty-five expedition Natalie took with Relic Films into Land Between the Lakes, the one hundred and seventy thousand acre stretch of Kentucky and Tennessee forest that has a documented reputation for high strangeness. Brian walks listeners through…

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Guest: Natalie Smearman

Topics covered

Bigfoot research
personal experiences
field expeditions
sightings
strange encounters

Keywords

Bigfoot
research
expedition
sightings
West Virginia
Florida
Land Between the Lakes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sasquatch Odyssey

Products: Obsession for Men, dollar store dog toys

Places: West Virginia, Ocala National Forest, Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky, Tennessee