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🗓️ 2 October 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Laura Krantz is a veteran public radio editor and producer. So how did she end up in the wilds of the Pacific Northwest, eyeballing some giant ground nests… that might have been made by Bigfoot? You can place the blame squarely on the shoulders of a guy named Grover. He was a tenured professor of anthropology at Washington State University and one of world’s preeminent experts on Sasquatch. And it turns out that Grover is also Laura’s long-lost cousin. How could she not do a story about this guy?
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0:00.0 | I'm riding in a massive black pickup truck as it bounces over a logging road. |
0:18.8 | We're on gated and locked private timberland in a secret location out on Washington's Olympic |
0:24.1 | Peninsula. |
0:26.3 | In the driver's seat, a wiry and bearded chain coarsing keeps his hands lightly on the |
0:30.8 | wheel. |
0:31.8 | And behind me, producer Kelsey Ray juggles a pile of recording equipment. |
0:35.9 | So how many times have you been out here? |
0:37.9 | I've been out here a lot. |
0:39.5 | Do you still get excited when you come out? |
0:41.1 | Every time, yeah. |
0:42.1 | Because almost every time I've come out here, I've just discovered something new, something |
0:48.0 | always jumps out at me. |
0:50.0 | Here we are. |
0:54.0 | We're about to plunge through the underbrush, scouting for signs of a creature that I'm |
1:04.7 | betting all of us have heard about, but aren't sure if it actually exists. |
1:09.2 | I'm pretty excited about this. |
1:11.8 | You know, we're going somewhere where a lot of people just haven't had access, so we're |
1:14.9 | getting to see something that a lot of people haven't seen who probably would kill for |
1:19.7 | this. |
1:20.7 | So I'm getting my boots laced up. |
1:24.1 | We have the bug spray. |
1:26.1 | Yeah. |
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