Ranae Holland talks about what it's like being "The Skeptic" on the Finding Bigfoot show

Lately, we've heard a lot from the Finding Bigfoot boys about what it's like looking for Bigfoot on the show, but what about Ranae Holland, the only skeptic on the team? We haven’t heard much from her, so we found this article about her.

According to the article from ArgusLeader.com, Holland was a professional field biologist with many research studies to her credit, and initially she was very reluctant to associate her name with the Animal Planet TV show.

There's a lot more to the story, but here's a snippet:

Ranae Holland doesn’t believe furry, humanlike animals are roaming mostly undetected across North America.

But the former Sioux Falls resident, billed as the “skeptical biologist” of TV’s Animal Planet team of researchers looking for a Bigfoot creature, says a lot of other people do.

Some of the people they meet have wild tales, and even blurry, shaky videos they show Holland and her research team on “Finding Bigfoot,” a TV show that started its second season Jan. 1 . Holland says she keeps an open mind, listens to people’s stories and researches clues.

The Seattle and New York City resident applies scientific methodology and protocol to the expedition’s investigations across the country and in Canada.

“Finding Bigfoot” is trying to verify the existence, or nonexistence, of the hulking creature also referred to as a sasquatch. One of the second season’s 10 episodes is shot in northern Minnesota, at Moose Lake.

So did they find Bigfoot?

“I can’t believe you’re asking me that!” Holland said last week by phone from Death Valley where she’s now doing some non-Bigfoot-related research. “You’ll just have to watch and see. We definitely had some very interesting experiences out there.”

At first, Holland, 41, was reluctant to be associated with the TV show.

She’s a professional field biologist with many research studies to her credit. Those include the Alaska Salmon Program, where she specialized in interactions between brown bears and salmon. Maybe that’s a way Bigfoot finds food, the show’s creators reasoned.

“They came to me and asked if I would do this, and I said, ‘Absolutely not!’ ” Holland said. “I was very hesitant to be a scientist affiliated with Bigfoot, let alone being edited any way they wanted.”

But she talked with professional colleagues and mentors, who all said she should go for it, especially considering she has a history with Bigfoot. As a youngster, she and her dad were interested in the possibility of the existence of such a creature.

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