The Surveyor's Confession

From Backwoods Bigfoot Stories by Backwoods Bigfoot Stories-Bigfoot Encounters

May 1, 2026 · 1h 3m

About this episode

The episode features a retired land surveyor, Gene, who connects his past experiences with Bigfoot encounters documented in previous episodes.

Part Five of The Corridor series. The finale. If you haven't listened to Parts One through Four, stop here and go back. This one doesn't land the way it's supposed to without the stories that came before it.A retired land surveyor named Gene heard the first four episodes of this series and realized he'd walked the exact ground every witness was describing. In the spring of nineteen eighty-seven, Gene and his partner Bill spent three and a half weeks surveying an eight-thousand-acre tract spanning the Georgia-Tennessee line for a timber company. That tract contains every encounter location from the previous four episodes. Every single one. Gene's field notes document tree breaks along the ridgeline with spiral fractures at six to nine feet, barefoot impressions measuring sixteen to seventeen inches in creek mud, an unusual sound-dampening effect on the valley floor that both surveyors noticed independently, and three limestone cave openings along the western face of the ridge producing airflow consistent with a significant underground passage system. The timber company ordered those caves excluded from the survey without legal explanation. Gene also recorded an unidentified…

People in this episode

Guest: Gene

Topics covered

Bigfoot encounters
land surveying
unexplained phenomena
personal stories
documentary

Keywords

Bigfoot
land surveyor
Georgia-Tennessee
unidentified vocalization
tree breaks
cave openings
encounter locations

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: The Corridor series, microcassette tape

Places: Georgia-Tennessee line, valley floor, western face of the ridge