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The team will then visit three of the best-reported encounters, that are usually close to one another. In some heavily Bigfoot reported areas, such as Washington, these events are sometimes invite only.Īfter the witnesses tell their encounter stories, they are asked to mark their sighting locations on a map, which the team then uses to look for a pattern of sightings. The other three (or all four in the first season) members will then head to a 'town hall meeting' to which members of the public are invited to come and share their Bigfoot encounter stories. Starting with the second season, one member of the team will almost always remain at the location for a solo night investigation for several more nights. The team then performs their first night investigation at that same location.

If it is a photograph or a video, the team will perform a recreation and a size comparison of the event, using the same camera that the witness used. The team will go to the location where the evidence was gathered from, and speak to the person who gathered the evidence. Main article: List of Finding Bigfoot episodesĪn episode begins with the Finding Bigfoot team driving to a location on the trail of photographic, video, audio, or eyewitness evidence of a Bigfoot. As a child, she and her father spent quality time together 'squatching' and watching bigfoot movies. While she is not a member of the BFRO, and does not believe in Bigfoot, her interest in the creature was fueled by her father's fascination with the phenomenon.

The skeptical member of the cast is a field biologist born and raised in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 2014, Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia met Fay at Fenway Park before a game and gave him an autographed baseball bat with a Sasquatch logo on the bottom of it.

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He and Barackman are close friends and searched for Bigfoot together before the series started. Fay is known for his 'Gone Squatchin' hat, and often wears other bigfoot-related attire. The tallest and burliest member of the team, he is the one most often used to stand in for bigfoot in reconstructions. The field caller was born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California, and has been interested in bigfoot since the 1980s. He is also an accomplished jazz guitarist holding a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach. The evidence analyst of the group has been a dedicated sasquatch field researcher for the past two decades who has been known to spend over 200 days a year in the field. īorn and raised in Long Beach, California, Barackman currently resides in Portland, Oregon. He has been researching bigfoot for 30 years. Moneymaker was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and moved to Ohio in the 2000s. Moneymaker is the founder and president of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (founded in 1995). The areas they investigate are often described as 'Squatchy', with Washington having been described as 'the squatchiest state.' Their investigations are referred to as 'squatchin''.

For example, the term 'bigfoot' is rarely used in favor of 'squatch' (short for sasquatch). Over the course of the series, the team has introduced many new bigfoot related terms into the American vernacular. The series never questions the existence of bigfoot, but rather documents the team's futile search efforts and study of potential evidence in an attempt to prove the existence of the creature. The team consists of Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) founder and President Matt Moneymaker, researchers James 'Bobo' Fay and Cliff Barackman, and skeptical scientist Ranae Holland. The series finale and the 100th episode was released on May 27, 2018. While the Finding Bigfoot team never captured photographic evidence of the creature's existence, the show gained high ratings and was a top earner for Animal Planet. The program follows four researchers and explorers investigating potential evidence of Bigfoot, a cryptid hominid allegedly living in the wildernesses of the United States and Canada. Finding Bigfoot is an American television series on Animal Planet.