Laura Krantz

But I think I understand more why people are fascinated.

I have talked to so many people, not nearly as many people as you have.

How many episodes?

1,400 episodes at this point?

So you've obviously talked to tons and tons and tons of people, but all of these people who have had some pretty intense and kind of questionable experiences out in the woods where they've experienced something that they just can't recognize what happened.

And a number of those people are people who should...

know what's happening simply because they are naturalists or people in the biological sciences or fish and game, wildlife.

They know these ecosystems, they know the kinds of animals that are in them, and then they have an experience that just changes their opinion on everything.

I think

Hearing those conversations with people, sitting down, looking them in the eye, hearing what they had to say and realizing that they've had these kinds of experiences made me think a little bit more about the possibility of Bigfoot's existence, or at least understand how people end up thinking that Bigfoot might exist.

I did.

I read his book, which is in my bookshelf somewhere down there.

And then I was able to go through his, you know, he donated all of his stuff to the National Museum of Natural History.

The Smithsonian.

And I was able to go through his stuff at the archives, which was pretty incredible.

You know, seeing the cast reading some of his papers, the video where he tries to mimic the walk with mimic Patty's walk in the Patterson Gimlin film, you know,

I am not an expert in the Bigfoot world, and especially going into the research for this, I may not have necessarily known what I was looking at either.

So I'll be the first to admit that there could be stuff in there that I just didn't recognize it for what it was.

But in reading his papers and in looking at the materials that he had, it was clear that he was gathering pieces to try and make a solid case.

But even in his own writing at the end, he's like, I still am not convinced that Bigfoot's