Laura Krantz

I think he died in 2003.

I want to say maybe it was 2002.

And yeah, that article didn't come out until 2006.

And then I kind of sat on it for a long time and didn't I didn't really start working on the podcast until almost 10 years later.

um my husband kind of pushed me into doing it he'd been an anthropology professor and grover was well known in anthropology circles whether or not you studied bigfoot or you'd gone to washington state like his was a name that people knew partially because of the work that he'd done on human evolution and human migration too so when my husband and i started dating and i mentioned i was related to grover kranz he was like what you have to you have to write a book it's like i can't write a book but eventually i got around to doing a podcast

Yeah, I started working on it in 2016, but the first season came out in 2018.

Honestly, I hadn't ever really thought about Bigfoot.

I mean, I grew up in Idaho.

I went camping all the time.

We were out in the woods a lot.

And Bigfoot wasn't a story that was really present, at least where I grew up.

I'd seen Harry and the Hendersons and classic movie, but it was just sort of more like tabloid, front of the National Enquirer, maybe a campfire story kind of thing.

So I hadn't put much thought into it, which I think is why...

grovers the fact that he was both a scientist and he was certain of bigfoot's existence or was you know very much wanted to prove bigfoot's existence or find if bigfoot was real i was kind of like how can you be both of those things and that's sort of what pushed me down that road um

I just I was like, maybe I missed something.

Maybe there's this whole thing about Bigfoot or there's there's information about Bigfoot that I've completely just missed.

And there's more to this myth than I thought.

It did, to some degree.

I mean, I went in being pretty skeptical, and I'm still skeptical.

I haven't seen the kind of evidence that I think would have convinced Grover or convinced me that Bigfoot exists.