According to IMDb.com, there are over 150 Bigfoot documentaries listed on its site. And
when you head over to Amazon Prime and simply type “Bigfoot” into the search bar, that
certainly seems to be the case.
What also seems to be true is that most of these documentaries look and sound the same:
boring drone footage of empty forests on bright, sunny days, paired with over-the-top,
tense-sounding film scores.
Then there’s the narrator (laughably) doing their best to sound scary while trying to draw
you into the story. Oh, and let’s not forget the latest trend: shapeshifting, AI-generated
Bigfoot images that even annoy the most diehard Bigfoot believers.
Well, the good news is not all Bigfoot documentaries are created equal. The Town That Cried Bigfoot opens with an authentic 1978 frantic call to the Weyburn, Virginia, Sheriff’s Office from a farmer claiming he has blood all over the side of his house and a drowned cow in his creek. If that bloody farmhouse image, one that could make even Quentin Tarantino proud, doesn’t grab your attention, then maybe the next scene—a body being loaded into a hearse as a 1978 newscaster’s voice declares, “Tonight, another body was found in the town of Weyburn, and local residents are terrified!”—will.
Director Mark Dossett tells the tale of a Bigfoot hoax gone horribly wrong in the winter of 1978 in the small lumber mill town of Weyburn, Virginia, nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. The hoax was so disastrous that it wiped the town completely off the map.
Oh, did I mention that it also led to the mayor’s suicide, the sheriff being stabbed to death in prison, the town attorney abandoning his family and fleeing town, and triggering the town’s first unsolved murder—the town mechanic shot dead in his driveway? Yeah, this definitely isn’t your average stock footage Bigfoot doc.
This 47-minute documentary is pieced together from raw, gritty newsreel footage that took place between 1978 and 1980. From the moment the film starts until the very last frame, you feel as though you’ve traveled back in time to an era that was both simpler and more dangerous.
Even if you’re not one of the millions of Bigfoot believers around the world, this documentary has something for everyone. From small-town corruption to unsolved murders, The Town That Cried Bigfoot takes you on a gritty, raw grindhouse journey through a small-town mystery.
Think beyond the usual tales of blurry footage and pixelated figures in the woods. If you thought you knew how Bigfoot stories unfold, think again.This isn’t your typical Bigfoot doc—it’s a dark, twisted story that’ll leave you questioning what was a hoax and what wasn’t.
This one redefines the genre.
Now streaming on Amazon Prime.
https://www.amazon.com/Town-That-Cried-Bigfoot/dp/B0DXDM6RLN
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