New Hampshire: The Wood Devils

From Backwoods Bigfoot Stories by Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters

September 2, 2026 · 58 min

About this episode

This episode explores the legend of the Wood Devil in New Hampshire and shares unsettling accounts from the region's forests.

The Backwoods Cryptid Road Trip heads to the northern edge of New England for a stop in Coös County, New Hampshire, where the forests stretch toward the Canadian border and generations of loggers, hunters, and woodsmen have carried strange stories out of the timber. This has been logging country for more than 150 years, from the era of massive log drives down the Connecticut River to the paper mills of Berlin and Groveton. Every spring, men returned from isolated camps with stories about things they claimed to have seen deep in the North Country. One of the strangest was the Wood Devil. Usually described as tall, unnaturally thin, and gray, the Wood Devil was said to stand edgewise against tree trunks, blending so completely into the forest that it could be mistaken for part of the tree itself. According to the old stories, if someone approached, the creature would quietly shift around to the opposite side of the trunk, staying just out of sight. When caught in the open, it was said to simply stand motionless and disappear into the landscape. In this episode, Brian digs into the written history behind the Wood Devil legend and discovers that the documented record is far thinner…

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Topics covered

cryptids
Wood Devil
New England folklore
logging history
unexplained sightings

Keywords

Wood Devil
New Hampshire
cryptids
logging
unexplained sightings
folklore
Coös County

Mentioned in this episode

Places: New Hampshire, Coös County, Connecticut River, Berlin, Groveton