Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT Returns January 1, 2012 [Press Release]


This just in.

Finding Bigfoot season 2 will be starting up on the first day of 2012. That's right. Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT returns for a brand-new season on Sunday, January 1, 2012, at 10 PM (ET/PT) for further expeditions to investigate reports of the mysterious bigfoot. Mark your calendar everybody.

Read press release below.

For centuries, eyewitness accounts and colorful stories have fueled rumor that large, furry, human-like animals have roamed the forests in North America and other continents. These legendary creatures have come to be known as bigfoot or sasquatch. The folklore around Bigfoot has many doubters and many true believers, and passionate groups like the Bigfoot Field Research Organization (BFRO) have formed to investigate stories, analyze evidence and strengthen their hypotheses of these elusive beings.

Over the course of 10 hour-long episodes, Animal Planet's FINDING BIGFOOT returns for a brand-new season on Sunday, January 1, 2012, at 10 PM (ET/PT) for further expeditions to investigate reports of the mysterious bigfoot. From small towns in the South to remote areas of the mountain West and dense forest of the Northeast and into Canada, four passionate, driven researchers and adventurers embark on one single-minded mission - to find this beast.

BFRO members Matt Moneymaker and James "Bobo" Fay, professional educator Cliff Barackman and skeptical biologist Ranae Holland engage in the ultimate quest in search of proof that Bigfoot really does exist - and that he or she is alive and abundant in North America. By examining photos and videos of the creature, speaking to local witnesses, using new technology and luring the mysterious beast with the team's squatch calls, the group uncovers startling proof of the legendary and highly intelligent enigma that has eluded capture for centuries and fascinated man for just as long.

During the series premiere, called "Baby Bigfoot," the quartet of investigators head to the Catskills in New York near Poughkeepsie to provide in-depth analysis of 15-year-old video footage from 1997 that indicates a juvenile or baby sasquatch could have been in the area at the time.

"Even though this area of the Hudson River Valley is fairly populated and not terribly far from the urban New York City, there is still a lot of forest here," explains Moneymaker, "and a lot of vegetation to support something like a sasquatch."

"It is definitely a primate," adds Bobo. "I think we're looking at a juvenile sasquatch, which is quite amazing because [seeing] a baby is incredibly rare."

Splitting up into teams of two and using infrared technology, the intrepid sleuths embark on a night mission that eerily is similar to "The Blair Witch Project," poking around abandoned cabins and remote orchards to capture a sighting of bigfoot. They also talk to many locals and conduct deep detailed re-creations of sightings, all culminating with an evening adventure where they employ a baboon (borrowed from the local zoo) to assist with their investigation. But what do they find?

Throughout the new season of FINDING BIGFOOT, the team scours North America to follow up on compelling evidence, new and old, including visiting such popular outdoor destinations as Moose Lake in Minnesota; the Catskills Mountains in New York; Salt Fork State Park in Ohio; and Dunes State Park and Morgan Monroe State Park in Indiana. They also head to rural regions of Rhode Island, New Mexico, Kentucky, Virginia and Alberta, Canada.

"What I like most about the series is we all have our differing opinions, and I love that we get to go in the field, recreate to scale and determine if what we saw was real," explains Holland.

Ranking among the network's top three series and delivering 1.2M P2+ viewers, the initial season of FINDING BIGFOOT this past summer found a sizeable audience among viewers, whether they believe in or question the existence of sasquatch.

FINDING BIGFOOT is a produced for Animal Planet by Ping Pong Productions. Brad Kuhlman and Casey Brumels are the executive producers for Ping Pong, and Keith Hoffman is the executive producer for Animal Planet. More information about FINDING BIGFOOT is available at www.animalplanet.com/findingbigfoot.

Animal Planet Media (APM), a multi-media business unit of Discovery Communications, is the world's only entertainment brand that immerses viewers in the full range of life in the animal kingdom with rich, deep content via multiple platforms and offers animal lovers and pet owners access to a centralized online, television and mobile community for immersive, engaging, high-quality entertainment, information and enrichment. APM consists of the Animal Planet television network, available in more than 96 million homes in the US; online assets www.animalplanet.com, the ultimate online destination for all things animal; the 24/7 broadband channel, Animal Planet Beyond; Petfinder.com, the #1 pet-related Web property globally that facilitates pet adoption; and other media platforms including a robust Video-on-Demand (VOD) service; mobile content; and merchandising extensions.

[via tv.broadwayworld.com]

Comments

  1. I'm doing a happy dance right now. I'm a big kid, but I do love this show and the characters in it. I don't expect ground-breaking discoveries, but I love going around the country with them as a viewer and asking the locals questions, interviewing witnesses, and hitting the woods after dark. Sounds like a dream date to me.

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  2. I'm with Autumnforest.I don't expect the find of the century,but I must admit that I enjoy the show.Cliff has a killer sasquatch call.
    I wonder where in Alberta they'll be.The province has a history of sightings from Bragg Creek (not far from Calgary),to Banff,Nordegg(very interesting back roads I've been on up there) and Whitecourt,to name a few.
    I'll be waiting patiently for the Alberta episode.

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  3. This crypto TV show stuff just continues the circus that is all things bigfoot. I wish that these Finding Bigfoot people would actually find bigfoot. Why dont't they try to kill or capture one instead of running around in the dark. "There's a squatch in these woods."

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  4. @sasquaiNation

    The Alberta episode should be interesting. But one of the main reasons they went to Alberta was to see Todd Standing and his "Sylvanic area". (located in between Banff and Kootney National Parks) Apparentlt they found all his evidence to be not genuine and who knows where they went from there.

    Here is the link to the Forum that Finding Bigfoot, found Todd Standing claims to be "not credible".
    http://s2.excoboard.com/BFRO/164903/2301911

    Also, today, for some reason The Sylvanic website cannot be accessed today. www.sylvanic.com.

    I have always bee able to get on, but today I cant..... maybe Todd thinks this will get him publicity like Erickson............

    Paul

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  5. Also, i think Shawn had a few posts regarding ths too. Shawn?

    Paul

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  6. Yeah, it posted about this a few months ago. I referenced the BFRO post. Oddly enough, a few days after I posted this, a producer for the show said Todd was credible. It could be they're trying to be nice to Todd and don't want to hurt their featured witness.

    http://bigfootevidence.blogspot.com/2011/09/finding-bigfoot-debunks-todd-standings.html

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  7. Strange...Cliff posted the tweet "epic" when the Alberta session was over...

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  8. Thats right....... I do remember that.... Maybe we do have something to look forward too!


    Paul

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  9. Anything bigfoot related with the names Todd Standing and/or Tom Biscardi associated with it can immediately be dismissed as not being credible.

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  10. A better format for the Finding Bigfoot show would be to have a guy loaded down with numerous fully automatic weapons and grenades and dressed like Rambo going into the woods by himself to take down a squatch.

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  11. jeez, thats another stupid fake show to avoid, the only thing missing in that show is when they are in the woods howling like idiots is beer. just like ghost hunters and others like it, they'll never find anything, but act like its a big deal to see a bent tree, or pile of sticks.

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  12. I too like this show, especially Bobo and Cliff, and it does bring attention to the Bigfoot research field, since science wont do it. Chances are quite remote in getting any definitive proof in the format that is used. Just to many people and production crew in the woods for to short of time. Maybe they will get thermals but those will probably be to far away to show much, and I certainly hope some better audio is obtained this season. Some more time spent on interviewing encounter witness' would be nice, as this is the best evidence to date besides Patterson's film

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  13. Does anyone else think that the name Bobo sounds like it belongs to a trained circus chimp?

    "It is definitely a primate," adds Bobo.

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