''Sasquatch'' is an American

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documentary television series that premiered on

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on April 20, 2021, with a

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pre-release screen on March 16, 2021. The show begins with investigative journalist David Holthouse's recalling a story he heard in 1993 on a

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farm in

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, part of the Emerald Triangle in Northern California. Holthouse heard someone say that Bigfoot has killed three people on a nearby cannabis farm. Throughout the show Holthouse talks with marijuana growers and law enforcement in Mendocino County, who tell him about possible connections to the

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biker gang and Spy Rock Road, a lawless marijuana growing area of Mendocino County near Laytonville. These interviews reveal the larger problem of missing persons in the Emerald Triangle.

Cast

* David Holthouse - Self - Investigative Journalist * Ghostdance - Self - Cannabis Farmer * Christopher Dienstag - Self - Former Cannabis Farmer * Razor - Self - Cannabis Farmer * Molly Sinoway - Self - Back to the Lander * Bob Gimlin - Self - Legendary Sasquatch Hunter * Charles Carlson - Self - Back to the Lander * Larry Livermore - Self - Back to the Lander * Diana - Self - Niece of Hugo Olea-Lopez * Wayne and Georges - Themselves - Wayne Stapleton, Georges Hemingway — Life Partners/Sasquatch Hunters * Bob Heironimus - Self - Self-Proclaimed Sasquatch Hoaxer * Brian Regal - Self - Author of Searching for Sasquatch * Luis Espinoza - Self - Lead Investigator, Hugo Olea-Lopez Case * Dale Ferranto - Self - CAMP Commander * Tom Allman - Self - Mendocino County Sheriff * James Fay - Self - Sasquatch Hunter * Jerry Hein - Self - Sasquatch Hunter * Mike Sinoway - Self - Attorney * Mark Saiz - Self - CAMP Officer * Jim Murphy - Self - Retired Police Officer * Jeffrey Meldrum - Self - Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology

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Reception

''Sasquatch'' has received mostly positive reviews with critics praising the pacing, animated recreations, and true sense of danger. Richard Roeper of the ''

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'' wrote, "director Joshua Rofe makes great use of sparse, graphic-novel type re-enactment animation to augment the usual assortment of interviews and archival footage." One of the few negative reviews came from Eileen Jones of ''

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'', who wrote that it consisted of "entirely unserious, exploitative hijinks" which contrasted with the serious subject matter.

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Cast

Episodes

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