ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
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.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 3 days
Average audio length:
26 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United States
99 episodes
since March 23, 2021
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
What happens when it becomes increasingly difficult to tell a real wildlife image from a fake one?
In this episode of Dark Outdoors®, award-winning wildlife journalist Chester Moore examines how artificial intelligence, manipulated imagery, viral misinformation and sensationalism are changing the …
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
For decades, Chester Moore has investigated reports of mysterious cats roaming the American wilds. Some can probably be explained as mountain lions. Others aren't nearly so easy.
In this episode of Dark Outdoors®, Chester digs into some of the strangest big-cat encounters people have personally br…
Sometimes the strangest thing you encounter in the woods isn't an animal.
Over the years, Dark Outdoors® host Chester Moore has collected some truly bizarre stories from hunters, anglers and other people who spend serious time in wild places. In this episode, he digs into some of the strangest—enc…
Some wildlife crimes are difficult to comprehend.
Years ago, Chester Moore traveled to a location where someone had illegally killed a buffalo, removed its head with a chainsaw and abandoned the rest of the animal to rot. What he encountered there opened a window into a side of the outdoors most p…
Deep along the Brazos River, something attacked a calf in the darkness.
The people who witnessed the event couldn't see exactly what was happening—but they could hear it.
They heard the struggle. They heard multiple animals involved. And, most disturbingly, they described hearing bones being brok…
ne night in the Texas darkness, Chester Moore found himself looking through the sights of a rifle at an animal he had every opportunity to shoot.
He didn't pull the trigger.
What Chester believes stood in front of him that night was a red wolf—an animal officially declared extinct in the wild acr…
What exactly is a feral human?
The phrase conjures images of people living beyond civilization—hidden deep in forests, mountains and other wild places. But the reality behind the idea may be stranger, and far more complicated, than the legends.
In this special episode of Dark Outdoors®, Chester M…
In 1997, Chester Moore and his wife Lisa were driving to Pasadena, Texas, to visit a friend when they came upon a scene they would never forget.
Police and investigators had converged on an area near a retention pond. Chester and Lisa didn't know exactly what had happened, but they would soon lear…
For Chester Moore, the question isn't simply an internet legend. It is connected to a mystery that has fascinated him since childhood.
In this episode of Dark Outdoors, Chester digs into his archives and revisits an investigation into reports of giant rattlesnakes, including an extraordinary accou…
Lightning can turn a fishing trip, hike, hunt or day on the water into a life-threatening situation in seconds. And some of the most dangerous storms can arrive with frightening speed.
In this episode of Dark Outdoors, Chester Moore reaches into his archives for an interview recorded several years…
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