Episode Details

What if the Adirondacks’ most famous mystery isn’t hiding in the history books, but somewhere just off the trail?

We’re heading back into Bigfoot country with John Sheridan, creator of Adirondack Bigfoot, who investigates eyewitness reports across the Adirondack Park. John talks with the people behind the encounters, visits the locations where they happened, and documents what he finds through video, audio, trail cameras, footprint casts and plenty of time in the woods.

From Whitehall and Lake George to Wells, Ticonderoga, Keeseville and the Lake Champlain corridor, John has collected stories that range from strange wood knocks and unexplained tracks to alleged roadside encounters and something throwing rocks at Adirondack campers.

And he has a theory about why so much of the activity seems to cluster along the eastern edge of the Adirondack Park.

What you’ll hear in this episode

• Why eyewitnesses sometimes wait decades to share their Bigfoot encounters.
• The Adirondack evidence John looks for, from footprints and wood knocks to trail-camera images.
• John’s theory about a Bigfoot migration route through the Lake Champlain corridor.
• Strange encounters from Whitehall, Wells, Lake George and beyond.
• Why caves, old mines and remote Adirondack terrain keep coming up in his investigations.
• What believers, skeptics and the Bigfoot-curious can discover by slowing down in the woods.

Resources:

• Adirondack Bigfoot
• Whitehall Sasquatch Festival & Calling Contest
• Tracking Legends: Sasquatch in the Adirondacks
• Sasquatch in the Adirondacks

Produced by NOVA