Leading Skeptic Ponders the Question Is the "Crying Woman" Really a Bigfoot?

World renown and leading skeptic Joe Nickell weighs in on the myth of the Crying Woman, and if it might be a bigfoot as it was discussed recently on an episode of Finding Bigfoot.

While the Animal Planet TV series Finding Bigfoot never does find the elusive man-beast, the show’s “team” tries hard to convince us they have. Again and again, they try to conjure up the mythological creature with a fuzzy photo, bent twig, or fleeting shadow. Their leader, Matt Moneymaker, is, at least, aptly named for a Bigfoot ballyhooer.

He and other team members, including Bigfoot caller “Bobo,” even try to find their quarry in the merest old tale—namely, that of “the Crying Woman” of Zwolle, Louisiana. As Bobo confided to the show’s fans (in an episode titled “Beast of the Bayou,” aired June 22, 2014), “We think those stories are about a ‘squatch.” Now, you might fear that, in so quickly jumping to a conclusion, team members might hurt themselves, but I rather think the only damage will be to their reputation for critical thinking—which is already not high.

Nevertheless, this tantalizing possibility—that tales of “a woman crying and screaming at night” (as Bobo says) could actually be Bigfoot—shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Never mind that various non-Bigfoot forest denizens actually make such vocalizations.

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