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Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum was a father, friend, and respected academic. His passing in 2025 left a void in the Sasquatch research field which is all but impossible to describe, both due to the breadth of his research and the number of lives he impacted. Today, his legacy continues through the researchers he mentored and inspired…. Read more »

North American Bigfoot Center is a Sasquatch museum in Boring, Oregon, about 25–30 miles east of Portland on the way toward Mount Hood. It opened in 2019 and was founded by Cliff Barackman, a longtime Bigfoot researcher and former co-host/analyst on Finding Bigfoot. What you’ll see The museum is much more than a collection of… Read more »

Eric J. Hecker, a plumber who went to the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station in 2010 as a contractor for Raytheon Polar Services. This is a particularly interesting story because Hecker later became a controversial whistleblower, making extraordinary claims about what he saw and experienced at the station. The plumber who ended up at the South Pole… Read more »

There are quite a few reported Sasquatch encounters associated with Fort Lewis and what is now Joint Base Lewis-McChord (JBLM), including accounts from soldiers and other military personnel. What makes Fort Lewis interesting is the combination of multiple independent reports, military training environments, and reports involving night operations and thermal optics. 1997 — Marines encounter… Read more »

What was the $22 million actually for? The program was called AAWSAP (Advanced Aerospace Weapon System Applications Program) and was run through the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) beginning in 2008. It was contracted to Robert Bigelow’s company, Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies (BAASS). The $22 million figure is widely cited for the program, although the money was not simply a $22… Read more »

A listener writes “I’m a lifelong hunter and outdoorsman. I started solo deer hunting at age 15. I hunt with a bow, shotgun, black powder or rifle, whatever the season requires, and I have hunted in five states all on the east coast. Since a young age I have always had a minor interest in… Read more »

For the past four years, I’ve lived in the Yukon. About two years ago, my husband and I moved onto a property in Mendenhall, near Kusawa on the Alaska Highway. During our first week there, my husband heard banging coming from up the hill, near an empty cabin. It sounded like someone was knocking on… Read more »

A listener describes an encounter when he was young, he writes “We had just moved from Troy, Missouri, to rural Bollinger County. We went from living in a subdivision to a house on 28 acres, with a pond on the property. The encounter happened maybe two or three months after we moved in. I was… Read more »

Strange Familiars writes “Abby Bain stops by to discuss her recent Flannel Man sighting as well as encounters with ghosts, greys, and strange audio phenomena.”      

A listener writes “For most of my young life, I was out in the surrounding wilderness. I camped with my pops, hiked, played in the creek bottoms and surrounding hills, and later spent weekends and week-long adventures with the Boy Scouts until I earned my Eagle. I know the sounds of most animals in Arizona…. Read more »

Hi Wes, I need to tell you what happened to me in April of 2025. To give you a little background, I had always lived in the city until I had to move here in late 2021 to take care of my parents, who both had cancer. I inherited the house and continued to live… Read more »

A listener writes “Hey, this was recorded about 6–7 years ago at a reserve called Douglas Lake, located about 45 minutes from Merritt, British Columbia, Canada. The sound itself is really interesting. It almost sounds like a siren or possibly something with huge lungs. Toward the end of the recording, it even sounds almost like… Read more »

A listener writes “I realize right up front that my experiences aren’t Sasquatch encounters, so I completely understand if they don’t fit the type of content you typically cover on Sasquatch Chronicles. I still wanted to reach out because I appreciate the way you give people a chance to talk about strange experiences without immediately… Read more »

A listener writes “Hi Wes, I wanted to reach out and ask how you go about identifying footprints, specifically how you distinguish a human footprint from a possible Sasquatch print. A family member recently sent me several photos after they encountered what appeared to be barefoot prints while riding a trail loop at a state… Read more »

A listener writes “I’ve been listening to your podcast for a few years now, as I’ve been interested in this topic from a young age. When I was in high school, I was hiking at night with a friend and experienced a few strange things, although nothing I could definitively chalk up to a Bigfoot… Read more »

Mark spent his youth in the woods around Grants Pass, Oregon and one night in the mid-1980s, something walked out of the treeline that he’s never been able to shake. Decades later, working with wolf researcher Greg Roberts and armed with a thermal imager, he went looking for answers and got far closer than he… Read more »

The terrifying prospect of a killer robot hurtling toward you at superhuman speed may be one step closer to reality. When it comes to cutting-edge robotics, companies such as Tesla and Boston Dynamics tend to dominate the headlines, particularly in the West. But China’s Unitree Robotics may be the company worth watching most closely. In… Read more »

Join us for an upcoming show featuring Derek Condit, an author, researcher, psychic intuitive, inventor, U.S. Army veteran, and former Washington State correctional officer. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Derek explores the fascinating intersection of documented history, eyewitness testimony, unexplained phenomena, folklore, and personal experience. His work examines the stories and events that challenge our… Read more »

A listener writes “For six months, we were living on the top of a mountain that had recently been cut back and turned into subdivisions for tourist sales. Across the road, on these one-acre square lots, there was a crew sleeping in a small trailer while working on a house. We were the only fully… Read more »