Firsthand Sasquatch stories from the field.
Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio centers on eyewitnesses recounting Sasquatch experiences. The episodes favor patient, detail-heavy stories: thermal sightings in North Georgia, strange moments on I-90, footprints near Sweet Home, and family ties to the Watchers.
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Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio is a cryptozoology interview show shaped around firsthand Sasquatch accounts. The center of gravity is the witness. Episodes often begin with the guest’s background, then move slowly into terrain, timing, equipment, and the moment that changed the night. The details matter here. A North Georgia outing becomes a dark Forest Service road, a half-mile hike, repeated thermal scans, and a figure picked up on a hill at an angle. A Washington account becomes a long-haul driving shift on I-90, an approaching fog bank, brake lights disappearing into haze, and a late-night road encounter. A Sweet Home, Oregon story becomes mossy logging roads, multiple footprint sizes, camping at the edge of a believed habitat area, grunting on a hill, and the emotional aftershock of feeling validated. The show is strongest when it lets witnesses speak at their own cadence. Some are researchers. Some are outdoorsmen. Some are people recalling teenage fear, family property, or a single event that never made sense afterward. Dean Gleason brings the language of investigation, with leads, tracks, property sightings, and a small family group he believes he has observed. Donna Kopas brings a different frame, describing the Watchers as protectors tied to Ashani legend and family history. Other episodes lean toward the paranormal, with David Reagan connecting Sasquatch to a lifelong interest in spirits, UFOs, and unexplained experiences. The range keeps the show from feeling like one kind of campfire story. It can be practical, eerie, reverent, and plainly frightened within the same run of episodes. The format is not hurried or heavily polished. It leaves in the pauses, the backtracking, and the ordinary setup that makes the uncanny moments land. Listeners get locations, roads, camps, family context, and the kind of small sensory fragments people hold onto after a frightening encounter. Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio suits people who want witness-led stories more than debate, field texture more than spectacle, and a patient record of what people say they saw.
Made for: For listeners drawn to cryptozoology, wilderness mysteries, paranormal testimony, and detailed encounter accounts told by the people who lived them. It especially suits those who prefer patient eyewitness narration over fast, jokey paranormal chatter.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its direct handoff to witnesses, who supply the roads, campsites, family histories, research habits, and emotional residue themselves. It also allows different frameworks to coexist, from thermal fieldwork and footprint tracking to Ashani Watcher traditions and paranormal interpretation.
They're known by many names; Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Yowie, Yeti, Almas and the list goes on. For centuries, eyewitnesses have reported seeing them in forests all over the world. You might wonder what's it like to have an encounter with a Sasquatch. Well, listen to the show and you'll hear eyewitnesses tell you what it was like for them when they encountered a Sasquatch.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A mossy logging road and a dark hillside anchor Michelle Heaton's vivid Sasquatch account.
A moss-covered logging road gives this Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio episode its clearest image. Michelle Heaton describes finding four sizes of Sasquatch prints along old asphalt, ranging from around 8 to 10 inches up to 18 inches, before the experiences moved into sightings.
Thermal glimpses, a hillside search, and one more close call keep this Bigfoot account grounded.
Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio follows Hayley Bishop's account of time with Squash Fishing Outfitters, and it is at its strongest in the North Georgia mountains.
A direct eyewitness account of a 1993 Upper Michigan encounter, shaped by shoreline detail and cabin unease.
Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio follows Ron Galliani as he describes a 1993 experience at an old lodge property in Upper Michigan, where a sound in the dark gave way to a shape diving into the water near the shoreline.
NHPR's Jason Moon investigates the Bear Brook barrel murders and a New Hampshire wrongful-conviction case.
Ron Galliani, a 63-year-old outdoorsman with a biology degree, recounts a 1993 Bigfoot encounter at a remote cabin in Michigan's Ottawa National Forest.
Haley Bishop shares multiple Sasquatch encounters from her time with Squatch Fishing Outfitters, including seeing a humanoid figure on thermal imaging and hearing it scratch her tent.
A family shares their personal Bigfoot encounter near Ponca City, Oklahoma, with the father and son describing a close sighting eight years ago.
David Belford shares his personal Bigfoot sightings and experiences as part of the W.V.
A man from Wisconsin recounts his personal Bigfoot sighting in his early 20s near Greene and Rock Counties, sharing his background and initial disbelief in such creatures.
James, a 51-year-old painter from Springfield, Missouri, recounts several alleged Sasquatch encounters involving hoots, wood knocks, unusual smells, and possible footprints.
Heidi and Eric describe reported Sasquatch encounters at wooded properties in southern New Hampshire and Maine, including an 18-inch footprint reported near their New Hampshire home in 1976.
Mallory recounts a July 2018 encounter in Arkansas’s Buffalo National River area after she and Michael heard sniffing and saw a brown, two-legged figure moving through foliage.
Michael Roser, founder of Dark Hour Paranormal, recounts three alleged Sasquatch-related experiences involving a nine-and-a-half-foot shadow in Long Island's Pine Barrens, stones thrown at Bolton Notch Pond, and a fleeting figure seen during a Connecticut hike.
Tim recalls watching three unclothed heat signatures, an adult, a roughly 600-pound female and a juvenile, through his vehicle's infrared at Fort Carson during a blizzard.
Mike Tornincasa recounts a recent live-streamed sighting in Cuyahoga Valley National Forest, where a light- and dark-furred Sasquatch leaned out from a tree about 50 feet away for one to two seconds.
Mike Noda of Spring Hill, Florida, a research member of Squatch NFL, recounts a September cemetery-cleaning trip where a loud grunt, a falling tree, and a two-legged figure crossing a trail started his Sasquatch research.
Todd Neese, founder of the American Primate Conservancy, returns to Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio (episode 539) two years after episode 410 to describe his move from Oregon to a ranch above Jasper, Arkansas.
Donna Kopas shares her lifelong experiences with Sasquatch-like beings called Watchers, tracing her family's interactions with them back to the 1700s as part of her Ashani heritage.
A member of Squash Fishing Outfitters recounts a personal Bigfoot sighting using thermal imaging during a nighttime expedition in the North Georgia mountains.
Dean Gleason, a Bigfoot researcher with 35 years of experience, shares his six personal sightings and investigations of a family group on his property in upstate New York.
A former long-haul truck driver shares a personal Bigfoot sighting story from a foggy night on I-90 in Washington, connecting it to his lifelong interest in the paranormal.
A man named Monty recounts his first Bigfoot encounter as a teenager in Giles County, Virginia, where he and others were chased off a mountain by a monster.
A retired Army infantry veteran and police detective from Vermont shares his lifelong interest in Sasquatch and teases a personal encounter from his teenage years in the Bennington Triangle area.
Michelle Heaton of Sweet Home, Oregon describes three Sasquatch sightings, including figures with red-glowing eyes beside a mountain road and a form that appeared from the feet upward.
This episode features a Q&A with the Sisters of the Moon about their Bigfoot encounters, starting with a discussion of Barbara's first experiences at a property in 2005.