Sasquatch

Starts off with some good Bigfoot tails and that's where it ends with Bigfoot. After they get into the 3 murders. You can kind of just say yeah it may be Bigfoot or it was really just some dope growers taking out some Mexicans that were on or near their crop or they were the competition. It's not a bad documentary, it's just titled wrong. So much so they did it on purpose so they would hopefully real you in. From the looks of it, it did. I would have watched this anyways as it's just another murder Mountain mystery. Just wouldn't have been as eager as I was when I seen the Sasquatch title. I might have gave it a 7-8ish if they would gone with a more truthful Title.

With some of the garbage docs that Netflix has been churning out recently Hulu decided they can play the game too. They hook you in with the title and get you thinking maybe this might be a fun romp down the old Big Foot trail, but nooooooope, this is almost all about weed and hippies and paranoia. If they had just said that up front with an appropriate title I might have watched anyways.

In this doc you are not going to find any revelations of real Sasquatch events building evidence the creature exists. So if you click on this doc thinking that you'll be disappointed. Instead it takes a story of Sasquatch massacre from a level of a folktale to a possible real event. In this you'll get twists and turns as the area around Humbolt County is a bizarre mix of the lawless old west and the counterculture getting squeezed out from their last outpost in the continental US. In other words it is a sparsely populated area that has plenty of characters who live outside of the norms and laws we are much more rigidly conformed to otherwise. Centered around the growing of marijuana illegally and legally there's a disconnect from the normal rules and lifestyles we all live by. In this atmosphere comes a Sasquatch story where three men were "shredded and mangled to death" by a Sasquatch. Is there any truth? Did, in fact, three men who were pretty much illegal aliens from Mexico meet a grisly death? If so, were these men victims of a Sasquatch attack? If you stick through this you get what is very likely the real gist of the story. Though too long it does deliver in the end an answer. As such I enjoyed it but admit it has nothing for those who want that proof Sasquatch exists.

...so it's a little weird that people are complaining about this show not being "about Bigfoot." Another show about someone looking for something they absolutely aren't going to find would be redundant and boring. This is an incredible true crime story with an ending you won't be expecting. Just do yourself a favor and watch it-unless for some reason you'd rather watch people spend 8 episodes in the woods chasing prerecorded Bigfoot noises.

I was all geared up for this. I love Bigfoot stories and documentaries. This is not one.

The first episode talks about the story of how Bigfoot allegedly killed three men at a pot farm in 1993, just like the description says. But after that, it just becomes a documentary about the marijuana farm scene in Northern California from the 1980s until today. It's an okay documentary about that, but ridiculous to mislead viewers into thinking this has anything to do with Sasquatch. That subject is barely touched upon here.