The Bigfoot Truth Tax
About this episode
Filmmaker Darcy Weir discusses Sasquatch evidence, fringe documentaries, and the complexities within the Bigfoot community.
Filmmaker Darcy Weir joins the show for a wide-ranging conversation about fringe documentaries, Sasquatch evidence, UFO disclosure, hidden history, and the price that comes with challenging popular narratives. Darcy looks back on his early work covering Philip Schneider and the underground-base claims, then traces the path that led him into cryptids and Sasquatch through films like The Unwonted Sasquatch and Sasquatch Among Wild Men. The conversation explores Darcy’s habit of tackling strange subjects before they break into the mainstream, from UFO secrecy to global “wild man” traditions and the possibility of surviving relic hominids. He and the host discuss the evidence that keeps serious researchers in the conversation, including the work of Grover Krantz and Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, while also looking at why official acknowledgment of Sasquatch could create economic, legal, land-use, and public-safety problems for institutions that would rather leave the subject alone. They also get into the fractures inside the Bigfoot community itself, from hoaxers and sensational claims to the growing divide between researchers who focus on physical evidence and those who push paranormal…
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