Dark Outdoors
Hosted by Chester Moore · darkoutdoors
4.7from 124 ratings
- 93
- Episodes
- 34
- Transcribed
- 124
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2022
- First episode
About Dark Outdoors
Dark Outdoors® is a multiple award-winning podcast that investigates terrifying encounters, unsolved mysteries, crime, and dangerous wildlife. Hosted by award-winning wildlife journalist and conservation communicator Chester Moore, each episode investigates the darker side of the outdoors through gripping storytelling, expert interviews, and firsthand reporting. From serial killers in remote forests and missing persons cases to poaching, wildlife trafficking, deadly animal attacks, cryptids, and emerging wildlife threats like screwworm, Dark Outdoors uncovers the stories most outdoor enthusiasts never hear. Whether the danger comes from nature, criminals, or the unexplained, one truth remains: the outdoors has a dark side.
- Publisher
- darkoutdoors
- Category
- science · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Aug 2022
- Latest episode
- 3 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
34 of 93 episodes have a transcript.
3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Death of Cryptozoology
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
He Found a Lion in His Chicken Coop In Texas
8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Who In The Green Hell Was That?
Inside a recent episode
The Death of Cryptozoology
Published 3 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Go to YouTube, go to any Facebook feed, and you will see dozens, if not hundreds, of videos of Bigfoot. I'm talking about realistic-looking stuff, but that I know is absolute garbage. How do I know it's garbage? Because we had a handful of interesting and semi-interesting videos Video files dating back 60 years. And then all of a sudden, AI rises and there's people holding baby Bigfoots. There's, you know, Bigfoots walking in groups in the forest right up to game cameras looking at them. Absolute AI garbage. But here's the problem. A lot of people believe this stuff, and it goes far beyond the realm of Bigfoot. […]
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- Greg Bostwick
- David Cleaver
- Matt James
- Daniel
- Chris Carroll
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 76 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 48 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 25 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 16
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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