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Yes, I know.
Calling something a true-crime story when it involves tales of a sasquatch (or Bigfoot, if you prefer) seems oxymoronic.
However, the makers of Sasquatch, a new three-part documentary series from Hulu, use a story about the mythical beast as a starting point for a closer look at a potential triple murder that is the stuff of legend in the Northern Californian mountains.
At the centre of the story is investigative journalist David Holthouse, and an evening in 1993 that he spent at a cabin adjacent to a marijuana farm in the so-called Emerald Triangle (Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino Counties).
More from The Hollywood Reporter:
Holthouse, who has built a career on dangerous embedded reporting, remembers a group of men barging into the cabin and announcing that they’d just found the bodies of three farm workers torn to shreds and that the killer was a Bigfoot.
Nearly 30 years later, Holthouse and Rofé set out to learn the truth about what did or didn’t happen on that dark and stormy night in one of the most impenetrable places in the country…
Holthouse is only partially certain of what he heard that night in 1993 and there’s no criminal record confirming any triple homicide. That doesn’t mean, mind you, that nothing occurred, since as several people are willing to acknowledge on camera, the Emerald Triangle is home to any number of unsolved murders, unidentified murder victims and an industry sustained by undocumented workers whose presence was never recorded and whose absence wouldn’t be acknowledged.
There are interviews with sasquatch believers, but it’s also a look at how an area that was once a hippie haven has turned into a lucrative hub for marijuana cultivation and distribution.
Also, if you’ve watched Murder Mountain, you’ll know there are some very unsavoury characters in the area.
Roll the tape:
The three-part docuseries launches today on Hulu, and has received some favourable reviews.
Writing for Variety, Daniel D’Addario calls it “intrepid both in its pursuit of truth and its readiness to interrogate why that truth is interesting to us,” adding that Sasquatch is “an impressive, propulsive piece of work”.
I’m in.
[source:hollywoodreporter]
