Laura Krantz

And so they're like, okay, well, we know it's not the people.

It must be the food.

I know.

I don't know how he didn't just die of a heart attack right there.

And then I think they asked him to do it again.

I don't know if he did.

But yeah, I mean, this is a guy who like is very comfortable in nature.

Eyewitness accounts, these stories of people's personal Bigfoot encounters, they're completely fascinating.

While I believe that many of these witnesses saw something, I also know that their stories are hard to verify.

So did my cousin Grover Krantz, one of the world's most respected Bigfoot researchers.

At a Sasquatch conference way back in 1978, he spoke about his hesitation in relying on eyewitnesses.

I found this tape of Grover in the Smithsonian's archives, and it illustrates how wary he was about these stories.

But his papers also contained a list of supposed Sasquatch sightings, so it seems like he couldn't completely dismiss them either.

For each sighting, he'd note the date, the location, the name of the witness, and whether he thought the stories were legit.

He'd put a big red X by most of them, ones he'd checked out and that didn't pass muster.

but about a handful had question marks or a maddening maybe scribbled next to them.

And that's it.

No additional information.

If he took more detailed notes, they're not with the rest of his papers.

Diane Horton, Grover's fourth wife, we met her in the first episode, she remembers collecting eyewitness accounts with him.