Ep. 885: The Sport of Finding Bigfoot, Seriously - Laura Krantz
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Bigfoot encounters: Laura Krantz's journey from skeptic to exploring the world of Bigfoot believers after discovering her family tie to researcher Grover Krantz, featuring professors, rangers, police officers, and normal people with strange sightings, documented in her podcast Wild Thing.
“There’s no way Bigfoot could be real...
...at least that’s what I thought.”
Laura Krantz is a self-described skeptic. However, several years ago she read an article about Grover Krantz, an anthropology professor and Bigfoot researcher. She thought it odd they shared last names. After more digging, she was surprised to discover that Grover was a cousin to her grandfather. She had to learn more about this mysterious world of folks who believe in the creature but aren’t “crazy”. What she found was fascinating. These aren’t tin hat-wearing antisocial hermits in the forest. They are professors, teachers, forest rangers, and police officers who all had undeniably strange encounters with a creature that they never thought they’d believe in. Laura, a former NPR producer, documented her journey which she turned into Wild Thing, a podcast about the lore and reality of who or what Bigfoot really is and her quest to know more about the folks who search for it. Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, welcome to the adventure sports podcast. I'm your host, Mason. Today is a throwback |
| 0:25.4 | episode to 2018 when we talked to Laura Krantz about a crazy story when she came across the fact |
| 0:33.4 | that she was related to an anthropologist who had spent much of his career looking for |
| 0:38.9 | Bigfoot. And so after writing an article about this crazy coincidence and kind of all the |
| 0:44.6 | things she began to find while looking at the life of her relative, she made a podcast about it, |
| 0:53.4 | a really good podcast. And at the time she was working for |
| 0:56.9 | NPR, started this podcast to just explore kind of the relationship between science and society |
| 1:03.4 | and study the folks who look for Bigfoot. So it's a really interesting idea. And what I love |
| 1:08.8 | about this and how it ties into adventure sports podcast is |
| 1:11.7 | just the the concept of exploration. I love when I run into, you know, an unexpected, |
| 1:19.7 | an unexpected things happens, you know, that in a certain day. I live for the spontaneous |
| 1:26.8 | and for the unexpected. Just the other day, I think I might have |
| 1:30.0 | already shared this story. I was kayaking probably a month ago now. And an old man was on the shore. |
| 1:36.5 | I was with my son. Actually, we were paddleboarding. And we get to talk and this guy's almost 80. |
| 1:42.2 | And we're just literally talking, talking about our life |
| 1:45.4 | and there's a connection made. |
| 1:46.6 | I mentioned my grandfather's name and he goes, |
| 1:48.6 | whoa, I know who that is. |
| 1:50.0 | And this is hours away from where I grew up. |
| 1:52.8 | And come to find out we're related. |
| 1:55.8 | Me and this man I've never met before |
| 1:58.2 | at a beach that I hardly go to that I was paddleboarding on with my son |
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