Bigfoot and sea serpents, held to the evidence.
Sasquatch Tracks treats Bigfoot and other unconfirmed animals as questions of evidence, setting a sighting database and footprint forensics beside folklore and natural history. It will read a sea serpent's humps as the wake of a leatherback turtle, and it will log hair color and shoulder width across a large file of Sasquatch reports.
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Sasquatch Tracks belongs to cryptozoology, but its real subject is evidence: what it looks like, who gathered it and how much weight it can bear. Recent episodes carry a montage of Bigfoot soundbites that plays out the central standoff in miniature. One voice says film would be proof, then concedes that scientists want a piece of the body and will accept nothing else. Another answers that there are ways to prove something exists without killing it. That tension hangs over much of what follows. Some of it is frankly numerical. 'The Sasquatch Data Project' features someone who has worked through more than 1,600 reports and logs over 150 physical, environmental and behavioral traits, down to nose structure, chest depth and whether anything was thrown. Witness traits such as fear level go into the record too, along with categories like a sighting at more than 300 feet or a road crossing. Most reports, the speaker admits, come down to someone who simply saw the animal. Physical traces get the same scrutiny. In 'David Zigan: Bigfoot Forensics', the speaker describes prints believed to be bear tracks manipulated to look like footprints. That finding grew into a separate study of bear paw pads, documented with help from seven zoos and several sanctuaries, by someone who admits to an unnatural fear of bears. Together with 'Scott Tompkins: The Bigfoot Mapping Project', these titles sketch a show that treats Bigfoot as a records problem as much as a legend. The show also looks beyond Sasquatch. In 'Adrian Shine: A Natural History of Sea Serpents', the leatherback turtle is put forward as a candidate for the beginnings of the New England sea serpent. The wake does the rest: a displacement wake spreads at an angle of almost 39 degrees, and seen from the side at low angles its wavelets form a row of inky black humps, exactly what an observer would take for a body. 'Historical Hominoids: Relicts From the Past' turns to the Tornit, figures from legends collected by Franz Boas and other anthropologists, said to dress in skins and to warm food by laying it on their legs. Rather than retrofit them into Sasquatch, the speaker finds the descriptions closer to archaic humans like Neanderthals. The same habit of drawing lines runs through 'Remembering Jeff Meldrum and Jane Goodall'. There, Meldrum's book is recalled as genuinely academic and his conjectures as scientifically based rather than wild, backed by evidence he collected himself and gathered from others. The talk is conversational and leaves room for personal asides, but it keeps coming back to what a claim can carry. Closings name Micah Hanks, Jeff Smith and Dakota Waddell, mention researchers at the Appalachian Institute for Hominology Studies and end on the same promise that Sasquatch Tracks will return. A newcomer curious about the method could begin with 'The Sasquatch Data Project', where it is laid out most plainly.
Made for: Suits a listener who is drawn to Bigfoot and sea serpent lore but wants the claims weighed against sighting data, track analysis and anthropology rather than taken on faith.
What sets it apart: Sasquatch Tracks is as ready to explain a mystery away, reading sea serpent humps as a turtle's wake or odd tracks as altered bear prints, as it is to build a trait-by-trait database of Sasquatch sightings.
Sasquatch Tracks takes a scientific look at whether there are large animal species that remain undiscovered. With special emphasis on the Sasquatch in North America, the show looks at claims of apelike "relict hominoids" and other animals purported to exist in various parts of the world.
Bear paw pads can resemble fingerprint ridges; your Bigfoot hunch just acquired homework.
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A sea-serpent mystery turns into a careful look at how wakes, low angles, and a steamship may have helped shape a monster sighting.
Sea serpents are given a practical reading through wakes, sightlines, and the Gloucester Harbour reports of August 1817. The episode follows the idea that displacement wakes, seen from the side and close to the water, can break into dark humps that resemble a long body.
A measured remembrance of Meldrum's evidence-minded case for studying Sasquatch.
Sasquatch Tracks turns its remembrance of Dr. Meldrum into a focused look at what happens when an unlikely subject is treated with scientific restraint.
A careful forensic look at how bear paw biology can complicate alleged Bigfoot footprints.
David Ziegen keeps the conversation grounded in a tricky forensic problem: a bear paw can lose its pads and leave surface patterns that look uncomfortably close to human friction ridges.
A measured look at how Sasquatch reports are sorted into data while uncertainty remains intact.
Sasquatch Tracks treats the question of unknown animals less as campfire material than as a problem of sorting. A participant describes moving through more than 1,600 reports and tracking over 150 traits, including height, hair color, footprint length, shoulder width, setting,…
A thoughtful look at Bigfoot, older human-like beings, and the uneasy price of proof.
Bigfoot is treated as a scientific question with an ethical snare built in: believers want proof, while others worry that proof could require killing the being they hope to confirm.
Steven Novella and a rotating panel dissect weekly science news and debunk pseudoscience claims.
["Adrian Shine joins Sasquatch Tracks to connect sea-serpent reports, Loch Ness history, and A Natural History of Sea Serpents.", "He says his interest began at Munsley on the east coast of England when he was almost eight, and a November 1957 Reader's Digest article on the Loch Ness Monster kept the subject alive for him.", "Shine argues that many multi-humped reports match displacement wakes from steamships, leatherback turtles, and Caledonian Canal traffic, including the 1817 Gloucester Harbour cases.", "He applies the same method to Tim Dinsdale's Loch Ness film and Captain McQuay's 1848 report by comparing original witness accounts, diary sketches, and water physics."]
Sasquatch Tracks opens with Bigfoot, Gigantopithecus, and the claim that scientists want "a piece of the body" before turning to memorials for Dr.
David Zigan argues that Bigfoot evidence should be handled like a forensic scene, with photographs, measurements, and environmental notes instead of a single cast.
["The sharpest claim in Sasquatch Tracks is that class A sightings peak at 75% to 100% lunar illumination after a cycle correction.", "Micah Hanks frames that finding inside a long conversation with Terrestrial, the Sasquatch Data Project researcher who has logged more than 1,600 reports and over 150 coded traits.", "The same interview turns to the Ohio Bigfoot Conference 2025 at Salt Fork State Park, where Hanks meets Jeff Meldrum, Cliff Barrackman, Renee Holland, Shelly Covington Montana, and Esteban Sarmiento.", "Hanks also describes John Hickenbottom's mud bat explanation at Salt Fork's new eco-discovery center and the report patterns that point to more human-like noses overall and more ape-like noses in the western United States."]
Sasquatch Tracks argues that relict hominoids may have a deeper historical record than modern skeptics allow, beginning with the claim that scientists still want "a piece of the body." Micah, Jeff, and Dakota Waddell bring in Caleb Hanks from Ghosts in the Mountains, linking Asheville, Brown Mountain Lights, and other Western North Carolina folklore to the Bigfoot question.
On Sasquatch Tracks, host Micah and guest Jeff Carpenter discuss Bigfoot reports in western North Carolina.
Sasquatch Tracks examines Albert Osman's account of an alleged 1924 kidnapping near Toba Inlet, British Columbia.
Tim Halloran joins Sasquatch Tracks to discuss his book The Bigfoot Influencers and its focus on people who shaped the Bigfoot subject.
A scientific exploration of claims about undiscovered large animals, with a focus on Sasquatch and other relict hominoids.
This episode explores the scientific evidence and cultural fascination surrounding Sasquatch and other undiscovered animals.
A scientific exploration of cryptozoology, focusing on the existence of Sasquatch and other undiscovered animals.
This episode explores the scientific investigation of Sasquatch and other relict hominoids, discussing evidence and perspectives on their existence.