Bigfoot Heroes: Why Do We Believe?

Bigfoot Heroes: Why Do We Believe?

From Sasquatch Odyssey by Sasquatch Odyssey-Bigfoot Encounters

May 6, 2026 · 57 min

About this episode

Brian explores the beliefs surrounding Sasquatch through personal stories and psychological insights.

Brian came home from the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival with something sitting on his chest, and this letter is what came out of it. It is an honest, sometimes uncomfortable piece of thinking about what is happening in the Sasquatch field right now, and where it could end up if we do not pay attention. The piece opens with the people. The young woman from Ohio who waited until the end of the day to tell him about something she heard on her grandparents' farm when she was thirteen. The man from southeastern Ohio with an audio file on his phone, hoping somebody would tell him it was real. The woman from eastern Kentucky with her folder of photographs and her arrangement of stones. The man who explained, with complete sincerity, that Sasquatch can open interdimensional portals. The woman who believes they live inside trees. The young man with the dogman map in his head. These are not strange people. They are kind, ordinary, often quite intelligent. And what they believe has been shaped, in ways most of them do not see, by an environment that rewards the spectacular and punishes the careful. From there, Brian works through why we believe what we believe. He talks about the…

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Topics covered

  • belief in Sasquatch
  • human psychology
  • Sasquatch encounters
  • cultural perceptions
  • meaning-making

Keywords

  • Sasquatch
  • Bigfoot
  • belief
  • psychology
  • encounters
  • cultural perceptions
  • meaning

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Smoky Mountain, Ohio, eastern Kentucky, southeastern Ohio

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