April 11, 2026

When the Woods Go Silent

When the Woods Go Silent
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When the Woods Go Silent
When the Woods Go Silent
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The next time you hear a sasquatch story, do not

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just listen for the creature. Listen for what happened right

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before it. Did the woods go silent, did the air change?

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Did the witness feel it before they saw it? Because

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sometimes the most important part of the encounter is not

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the figure in the trees, It is the moment the

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whole forest seems to hold its.

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Breath truth in the minds of the people.

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Welcome back to broadcasting Seeds. I'm your host, Benettanta and

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this is Sasquatch Saturday, short episode today of those folks.

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So today I want to talk about one of the

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strangest details that keep showing up in sasquatch encounters. Obviously

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not all of them, but a buddy of mine and

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I had a think this happened to us about a

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year ago, and it was super eerie. But we did

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not encounter as sasquatch per se at all. But anyway,

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but this keeps showing up in the encounters. And it's

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not footprints, it's not tree knocks, and it's not even

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the sighting itself. It's it's the silence. And over and

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over again, people who have had encounters describe the same thing,

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and they they're in the woods, maybe they're hiking, maybe hunting,

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maybe just out on a back road somewhere, and then

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all of a sudden, everything changes. The birds stop, the

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insects stop, even like wind, the normal background noise of

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the forest just it just cuts out, not gradually and

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not naturally. It is it's like somebody just reached over

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and hit the mute button on the entire environment. If

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you've never experienced that, it it's really hard to explain.

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Literally everything seems to me. The last incident I had

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was everything was very muffled, almost, But if you've had it,

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you know exactly what I'm talking about. And today I

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want to dig into that moment because sometimes the encounter

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starts long before you ever see anything. Yeah, so section

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one the warning before the encounter. And one of the

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reasons sasquatch reports continue to stick around decade after decade

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is because so many witnesses described the same sequence of events.

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And it usually starts with a feeling, that feeling that

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something I guess you could say is wrong or just off.

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And then not every incident, but a lot of them,

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the wood just goes, The woods just go silent, and

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for me, then comes the smell. For a lot of

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people that happens. People describe it as like a musky

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rotting wet dog, or sewage or like that, bacteria from

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the swamp, or something ancient and foul that does not

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belong in freaking clean air. It gets then maybe a knock,

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maybe a heavy footstep, maybe movement and brush that is

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just too deliberate to be a deer and too heavy

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to be a man. And then if you are unlucky

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or or lucky, depending on how you look at it,

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you see something whether it's a massive upright figure with

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dark hair, broad shoulders, a smooth stride that's not clumsy,

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I'd like the term, not cartoonish, not some goofy campfire monster, right,

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something that moves like it knows exactly where it isn't

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exactly where you are. And that that to me, is

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the terrifying situation right there, like it just owns the

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space that it's in. That sequence is what gets me,

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because people from different states, different backgrounds, decades, different decades

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keep describing the same pattern, all right, I mean we're

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not not even decades centuries, all right. Fear, silence, smell,

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presence that does not mean every report is real, folks.

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It does not. It does mean, though, that something about

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these encounters has a consistency to it that should be

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not be brushed off so easily. Something that the gentleman

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that runs the Bigfoot Apping project said to me once,

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and it hit me because he's got something like fifteen

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thousand sightings cataloged in his website and I urge you

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to go to it Bigfootmappingproject dot com. And he made

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the statement, fifteen thousand reports in this database, only one

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has to be real. Only one has to be a

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true accounting for this creature to exist, right, I should

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not be brushed off so easily. Section two. Why the

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silence matters now. Skeptics will say that the silence is simple.

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Animals get quiet for all kinds of reasons, and a

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predator that moves into an area, whether shifts, pressure changes,

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human movement, disturbs the area. And that is true, that

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is a fair point. But witnesses are not just describing

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an ordinary quiet. They're describing a hard atmospheric shift, that

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feeling when the whole place really just seems to tighten up, right,

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And maybe there's a biological explanation for that. Absolutely maybe

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a large predator or unknown animal creates that reaction in

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the ecosystem. If that is the case, then the silence

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is not supernatural. It is environmental. It is a warning sign.

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Either way, it's still happening. There's another reason this detail matters.

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The silence hits people on a psychological level too. Even

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before a witness sees anything, their body often reacts first,

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like hair standing up, sudden, sudden dread, or with an

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adrenaline spike in the sense that they're being watched. That

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is another recurring detail in reports, and frankly, that part

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is hard to fake consistently across thousands of stories. Okay,

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you can lie about seeing a monster, it is harder

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to accidentally recreate the same emotional and physical sequence over

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and over again until I mean, I'm getting goosebumps just

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thinking about one of my encounters right now. It you

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can't fake that stuff unless there's something real underneath it.

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That does not prove Bigfoot, of course, Okay, I yes,

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you're right, but it does suggest the experience itself is

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more patterned than random imagination. In section three, the bigger question,

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so what do we do with that? Right? Because this

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is where the conversation usually just splits. One side says

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it's an undiscovered flesh and blood creature, a large primate, smart, elusive,

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and rare. The other says, the phenomenon seems too slippery

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for that. Too many near misses, too many strange disappearances,

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too many encounters where something should have left more evidence

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than it did, And I get why that divide exists.

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But a night like this, I think the better question

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is not what is bigfoot? The better question is what

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is happening to people in those moments? Because even if

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someone never gets a clear visual, right, even if there

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is no photo and no tracks and no hair sample,

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that moment in the woods is still happening. The silence happened,

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the dread happened, the sense of a presence that all happened,

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and something that is. Sometimes that is where the real

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mystery begins. Right, And maybe the sighting is only the

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last piece of the encounter. Maybe the forest tells you first, right,

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Maybe the environment reacts before your brain can even catch up.

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And maybe that is why so many people walk away changed,

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even when they can't prove a damn thing. So the

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next time you hear a sasquatch story, do not just

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listen for the creature. Listen for what happened right before it.

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Did the woods go silent, did the air change? Did

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the witness feel it before they saw it? Because sometimes

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the most important part of the encounter is not the

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figure in the trees, it is the moment the whole

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forest seems to hold its breath. Right. This has been

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a Sasquatch Saturday on Broadcasting Seeds. I'm Bennett Tanton. And

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if you've ever had that kind of experience in the

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woods where everything suddenly went quiet and you knew something

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was off, drop it in the comments. I'd love to

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hear it. And until next time, stay curious, stay grounded,

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keep your eyes on the tree line, have.

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A good day.

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I stepped off the trail with the old pines bend

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late daylight, thought of nowhere I'd been in the wind

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pulled back, and the birds went dead, like the whole

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dark rich just turned its head.

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No warning sign, no crashing.

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Leaves, just that weed in the edge. You can explain

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something in me. Before I could see.

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The forest was not the same, and I feltedn't.

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Before made a sound.

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Like the earth itself was watching from the ground. When

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the woods go sign. You feel in your chest like

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the world stops breathing, and nothing's like rest novel, but.

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It's no reason.

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Just the chilly came out.

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Run, nords go silent.

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You know something's come.

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No camerauflash, no proof to hope, just a line of

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field running through my bones and smells like rain and

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something gone.

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Bad, like the deep older woke up.

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Man.

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I looked through the trees and the shadows pulled.

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It's all shaped stand and where the creek runs black,

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and I swear the place.

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Knew why I was there, and I knew.

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Why I should not look back. And my skin turned

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cold like a storm rolled in. But the skistic clean.

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In the dark, gut thing.

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When the words go silent, you feeling your chest like

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the world stops breathing, and nohing's like the worst, No

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for no reason, just to chill your chin out.

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Run.

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When lords go silence, you know something's come.

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Maybe it's blood and bone, Maybe it's something else. Maybe

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the trees keep secrets they never tell to us.

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Maybe the feel is older than the any trail even are.

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Maybe the quiet meets.

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You are not alone.

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When the woods go silent, the night leaves in close

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every branch in shadow.

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Starts to feel like ghosts.

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No scream nor.

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Thunder stadled the navy home when lords go silence.

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No, something's come when the lords go silent. Don't say

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we're not warm. When lords go silent, something me.

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She moves on.