Animal Planet's 'Finding Bigfoot' believer and skeptic sound off

Moneymaker & Holland,
Courtesy Animal Planet

One is a believer, one is a skeptic, but both are in pursuit of answers about a missing link myth. On Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot (Sundays at 10 p.m.), research biologist Ranae Holland is the voice scientific doubt regarding the Sasquatch while Matt Moneymaker, founder of the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO), needs no convincing but does want more proof. Along with James "Bobo" Fay and Cliff Barackman, each week the show finds Holland and Moneymaker recreating supposed evidence, talking to witnesses, testing theories and investigating "Squatch" hotspots.

On the surface, Holland and Moneymaker's relationship seems like it should be confrontational; the church of the proven fact versus the unproven faith normally don't mix so well. However, the pair says they've mutual respect for each other's mission despite disagreements and debate between them - and they finish each other's sentences about as much as they cut one another off.

Paranormal Pop Culture recently brought the believer and skeptic together over coffee in Bigfoot-neutral New York City for a conversation about their relationship on and off camera, the dangers of reality-TV and how Bigfoot fits into the scientific and paranormal communities.

'Great North' creature: Crewman not cryptid

This story comes courtesy of BFRO (the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization), who recently got word of a dark hominid-looking figure in a 2001 Canadian IMAX nature documentary called Great North, currently viewable on Hulu.  Comments about the "Great North Figure" (GNF) first begin popping up on Hulu in September, and the BFRO went public with its coverage and investigation last week.

The story is engaging, and when you watch the first video clip below, you can see why. As the dark creature lumbers in a ravine and quickly ducks back down, as if to remain unnoticed, it looks like the documentary film crew accidentally caught a sasquatch on camera while tracking caribou migration in Quebec.