Nightmare Hunters Podcast
DA Roberts hosts the Nightmare Hunter Podcast, where cryptids, horror, and mythic storytelling converge. Join DA as he interviews expert guests on these subjects. Explore more at www.daroberts.net. Join the X at unxnetwork.com to get our daily newsletter with show listings and more perks.
Episodes
Terror in the Ozarks Triangle - Dogman, Gugwe, and the Encounters Spread Across the Ozarks!
When you start digging into strange encounters in the Ozarks, you notice something right away. Tonight, we’re taking a hard look at that region. The creatures reported inside it. The encounters that keep surfacing. And the pattern that ties them all together. Before we get into Dogman, Gugwe, or the Ozark Ape, we start with the land itself—because the land shapes everything that survives on it.Wel
Gugwe - The Ice Age Survivor!
What if one of North America’s most terrifying cryptids isn’t a myth… but a survivor? In this episode, we trace the Gugwe — the infamous “faceeater” — back to the Ice Age. From a forgotten primate in the fossil record to a coldadapted predator that may have crossed Beringia, we break down the evolutionary path that could explain its size, its aggression, and its chilling intelligence. We examine t
The Dogman Surge - America's Most Terrifying Predator Encounters!
Across the United States, a disturbing pattern is emerging: upright canid predators shadowing hunters, pacing hikers from the timber, circling campsites, and appearing along ridgelines and backroads with chilling intelligence. Witnesses from the Midwest, Appalachia, the Southern Corridor, and the Northern Forest Belt are describing the same creature — and the same predatory behavior — across thous
The Anatomy of a Hoax - How Fake Cryptid Stories!
Episode 413 — The Anatomy of a Hoax: How Fake Cryptid Stories Spread and Why They Fool Good People Before you find the truth, you have to clear away the liesWelcome to The Nightmare Hunter Podcast!Thank you for joining us on this journey into the macabre, the strange, the bizarre, and the terrifying.Got a theory? A story? A close encounter?Send it to us. We’re listening.Please contact us at DARobe
The Hidden Corridors!
America’s Subterranean Superhighway Revealed For decades, the same pattern has echoed across North America: clustered disappearances in deep wilderness, sightings along ravines and ridgelines, strange pops and knocks in the hollows, and movement through regions where the land funnels life into narrow channels.Rangers have logged it. SAR teams have heard it. Witnesses describe the same thing — some
The Scream in the Timber!
True Accounts of an Unidentified Predator in the Ozarks! For decades, the Ozark Mountains have echoed with the same chilling pattern: long, rising howls that break into tearing screams, livestock kills with impossible bite force, and nighttime encounters where the woods go dead silent. Hunters have heard it. Rangers have documented it. Deputies, SAR teams, and even biologists have admitted the voc
Terror on the Tundra!
True Accounts of a Predator That Should Be Extinct! For more than a century, the deep North has carried the same chilling pattern: massive tracks in untouched snow, moose kills with crushing bite force, and longstride trails cutting straight across valleys. Bush pilots have seen it from the air. Trappers have followed its prints. Rangers have documented kills that don’t match any modern bear. Even
Shadows of the Sangre de Cristos!
For more than four centuries, the Sangre de Cristo Mountains have carried the same chilling pattern: tall, pale figures watching from the timberline. Spanish journals described them. Ute and Jicarilla elders warned about them. The Santa Fe Gazette printed quiet alerts in 1845. Even Kit Carson wrote in his private notes about a silent figure observing him near the Ponil. These aren’t legends. These
Pale Crawlers - The Night the Ground Let Go!
EPISODE 408 – Pale Crawlers: The Night the Ground Let Go Across North America, pale, long limbed subterranean entities have been surfacing in patterns most people never recognize—an emergence curve that begins with silent observation and ends with something pressing against the walls of your home. From California to Texas, Missouri to Washington, the Navajo Nation to Kentucky, these aren’t isolate
The Zone Theory! Triangles, Hotspots & the Missing 411 Map!
Across America, the wilderness follows patterns most people never see. Triangles, cryptid hotspots, disappearance clusters, and federal closures all overlap—forming a map the public was never meant to connect. Nightmare Hunters: Episode 405 breaks down the full Zone Theory, revealing how the Alaskan Triangle, the Ozarks, Bridgewater, Bennington, LBL, the Bitterroots, and dozens of hotspots fit int
Six Real Encounters with Something Hunting from the Trees!
People don’t just get watched in the woods—not like this. Nightmare Hunters: Episode 404 - Across North America, people have reported the same terrifying pattern: the forest goes silent, the canopy shifts, and something begins moving above them—pacing from the treetops, dropping without a sound, and watching from branches where no predator should be.In this episode of Nightmare Hunters, we dive in
Taken in the Wilderness - Real Missing Persons Cases That Point to Something Else!
Six Americans vanished without a trace.The patterns suggest they weren’t alone. Six real disappearances. No tracks. No scent trails. No bodies—until they appeared in places already searched.In this episode of Nightmare Hunters, we break down the cases investigators still can’t explain: a college student who vanished midtrail, a child taken from a tent without a sound, a runner who left no footprin
When the Woods Strike Back!
Real Encounters That Suggest Something Is Hunting Back! People don’t just get chased in the woods—not like this. Across North America, hikers, hunters, campers, and backroad travelers have reported the same impossible moment: something pacing them in the treeline, something running alongside their vehicle, something keeping perfect speed without ever showing itself. In this episode of Nightmare Hu
When The Woods Turn Hostile! True Cryptid Encounters!
“True stories of people who met what shouldn’t exist.” To celebrate our 400th episode, we’re diving into some of the most terrifying true cryptid encounters ever reported.Stories sent in by rangers, deputies, first responders, hikers, and members of the Nightmare Hunter Nation who helped make this milestone possible. When the Woods Turn Hostile exposes real incidents of stalking, flanking, structu
Real Cryptid Attacks Caught in the Wilderness!
Nightmare Hunters plunges deep into the frozen wilderness to investigate real Alaskan encounters, unexplained creatures, and terrifying wilderness phenomena that defy logic.From massive tracks in untouched snow to silent predators stalking cabins, each episode unravels chilling eyewitness accounts, forensic analysis, and the dark secrets hidden in the Alaskan Interior, remote forests, and Arctic w
True Cryptid Encounters! Bigfoot, Dogman, and the Creatures in the Dark!
“Seven real cases from rangers, loggers, and law enforcement.”Nightmare Hunters plunges into the darkest corners of North America to uncover true cryptid encounters witnessed by rangers, loggers, and law enforcement officers who came facetoface with creatures that shouldn’t exist. From real Bigfoot sightings in remote forests to Dogman encounters that stalked work crews, to unexplained predators p
Shadows on the Snow - The Alaskan Bush Stalker!
“In the frozen silence, something walks.” Nightmare Hunters plunges deep into the frozen wilderness to investigate real Alaskan encounters, unexplained creatures, and terrifying wilderness phenomena that defy logic. From massive tracks in untouched snow to silent predators stalking cabins, each episode unravels chilling eyewitness accounts, forensic analysis, and the dark secrets hidden in the Ala
Standing Shadows - The Bipedal Cats of the Ozarks!
A new theory for an old fear.In this chilling Nightmare Hunters deepdive, we uncover seven encounters with upright, catlike creatures, explore the biological roots of the Ozarks Howler, and reveal a hidden predator stalking the ridgelines, hollows, and backroads of Arkansas and Missouri. From bipedal cryptids to longtailed shadow beasts, this episode connects decades of sightings into one groundbr
Standing in the Dark - The Yakima Upright Predator!
“Five Decades. Nine Encounters. One Presence.”Something massive walks the Yakima night — a long-armed, upright predator that leaves no tracks on stone, watches from treelines, and screams through canyon walls with a voice no known animal can match. For over fifty years, hunters, police officers, and families have reported the same impossible figure: towering, silent, intelligent, and always just b
Drury Mincy - The 47Year Hunt
“The Case the Woods Wouldn’t Let Them Bury.” For nearly five decades, hikers, hunters, campers, and even park rangers have reported terrifying encounters in the Drury–Mincy Conservation Area—humanlike screams in the dark, glowing eyes in the treeline, creatures that move faster than any known animal, and a pattern of pursuit behavior that defies explanation. In our new episode, Drury–Mincy: The 47
Nightmare at Joe Bald - The Dogman in the Dark!
“The Dogman of Joe Bald isn’t a Legend anymore.”Step into the darkest corner of the Ozarks with Nightmare at Joe Bald: The Dogman in the Dark.The real cryptid encounter that sat hidden in plain sight for over a year. What started as a normal night of filming turned into one of the clearest Dogman sightings ever caught on camera: a ninefoot, snoutshaped creature silently watching from behind a tree
Surrounded! The Most Violent Cryptid Encounters Ever Told!
Step into the dark with Nightmare Hunters, where veteran investigators and medical professionals break down the most terrifying cryptid sieges, Dogman encounters, and Bigfoot attacks ever recorded. From Ape Canyon to Honobia, Lockett Ranch, Palmyra, Taylor, and the infamous Land Between the Lakes, we dissect real cases of families trapped, cabins surrounded, and creatures that don’t just lurk in t
Nightmare Hunters & The Haunted Frontier!
The Nightmare Hunter Podcast returns with Episode 386Nightmare Hunters: Haunted Frontier takes you deep into the ghost stories of the Old West. From the O.K. Corral in Tombstone to the cursed streets of Bodie Ghost Town and the haunted halls of the Copper Queen Hotel, each episode blends history, folklore, and paranormal encounters into chilling storytelling. Perfect for fans of ghost towns, haunt
Zone Echo! Roosevelts Secret Cryptid Legacy!
The Nightmare Hunter Podcast returns with Episode 389— Zone Echo: Roosevelt’s Secret Cryptid Legacy. In the Bitterroot Mountains, a valley erased from maps hides a century of disappearances. From Roosevelt’s cryptid encounter to drone footage lost in federal archives, Zone Echo reveals the president’s secret legacy—and the wilderness that watches back. Got a theory? A story? A close encounter? Sen
Old Green Eyes - The Beast of Chickamauga!
“A battlefield soaked in blood, a creature born of legend…”The Nightmare Hunter Podcast returns with Episode 388 — Old Green Eyes: The Beast of Chickamauga. On the blood-soaked fields of Chickamauga, legends whisper of a beast with glowing green eyes. From Civil War soldiers to modern rangers and motorists, witnesses describe a towering, shaggy figure prowling the mist — not a ghost, but something
Phantoms of the Mother Road! The Haunted Highway Route 66!
“From neon lights to ghostly nights, the Mother Road hides more than memories. It hides mysteries.” The Nightmare Hunter Podcast returns with Episode 387.Phantoms of the Mother Road: Haunted Highways of Route 66. From the cracked neon glow of forgotten motels to the phantom headlights that blaze across desert highways, this episode of Nightmare Hunters dives deep into the haunted spine of Route 66
Frontier Cryptids - Bigfoot Across the Old West!
The Nightmare Hunter Podcast returns with Episode 385 —Before Bigfoot became a modern legend, the frontier whispered of hairy giants, wild men, and shadowy watchers in the timber. From Roosevelt’s chilling Bauman Incident to cowboy standoffs in the Rockies, miners chased from claims, and jungle ambushes in Mexico — this episode uncovers the cryptids that haunted the Old West. Campfire tales, newsp
Vanished in the Wild! Missing People and the Cryptid Connection!
The Nightmare Hunter Podcast returns with Episode 384 —Deep in America’s national parks, hikers vanish without a trace, hunters never return from the woods, and campers are swallowed by silence. Search teams find abandoned gear, broken trails, and footprints that lead nowhere. Some blame treacherous terrain or sudden storms — but others whisper of something darker. From Yosemite’s unsolved mysteri
The Watcher in the Woodline, on the Nightmare Hunters!
This week on The Nightmare Hunter Podcast: a mother and daughter flee through the woods, pursued by something fast, silent, and watching. With eyeshine caught on camera and strange evidence left behind, we dive into a chilling encounter that blurs the line between legend and reality. Eyeshine in the dark. Evidence in the dirt. The hunt begins.Welcome to The Nightmare Hunter Podcast!Thank you for j
A 10K Celebration Special for the Nightmare Hunters!
The Nightmare Hunter Podcast returns with Episode 383 — a landmark celebration of 10,000 subscribers. Throughout the show, live giveaways will reward those present in the YouTube chat, while chilling Bigfoot encounters blur the line between folklore and reality. Join us around the firelight as we honor the hunters who keep the shadows alive, and step deeper into the frontier where legends breathe
The Devil in the Pines - The Jersey Devil and the Fear of the Unseen!
In the heart of New Jersey’s Pine Barrens, something ancient stirs—born of rage, shaped by legend, and feared for centuries. This episode of the Nightmare Hunter Podcast dives deep into the chilling lore of the Jersey Devil: a winged cryptid born of a cursed 13th child and whispered through generations. From colonial curses to modern sightings, we unravel the mythic roots, ceremonial echoes, and p
The Beast Within - Werewolves, Skinwalkers & the Fear of Becoming!
The Un~X World Premier of DA Roberts' Nightmare Hunter Podcast!On this Un~X Premier Edition of Nightmare Hunter, we peel back the skin of folklore to confront the terror beneath!From cursed werewolves to ritual-born skinwalkers, “The Beast Within” explores the ancient fear of transformation—and the monstrous truths we hide behind human eyes.Join us as we hunt legends, dissect the psychology of bec
