Name: The Sasquatch Attack Story That Inspired David Holthouse's Documentary
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'The Sasquatch Attack Story That Inspired David Holthouse's Documentary' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-05-06. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience.
For people who don't know, the docu-series is called Sasquatch, and you look at
it on
Hulu and you go, "Oh man, it's a Bigfoot documentary."
Nope.
Not really.
No.
It's a lot scarier.
How did this come about?
How did this project fall into your lap?
Well, the genesis of the project really goes back to the fall of 1993.
I was visiting a buddy of mine who was working on a dope farm, and he kind of—it
was harvest
season, which is like a particularly dangerous time of the year up there.
But he kind of got me a hall pass with the guy that owned the farm and vouched
for me, for
me to parachute in for about a week.
And something that didn't make it in the show is that I went up there to do
like a heroic
mushroom trip with this guy.
So, the day before—the day that the ship went down, we took about an eighth
of mushrooms
each and went tripping around the redwoods.
That didn't make it in the show, okay?
But that night, as we were coming down, we were in the cabin, the A-frame cabin
that belonged
to the guy that owned the farm.
And these two dudes showed up late at night, covered in mud, like splattered
with mud, soaked,
claiming that they'd just been to a nearby dope farm where they'd seen three
bodies that
were torn up, like mutilated.
And these guys were freaking out, okay?
They seemed legitimately traumatized to me.
They seemed—they were exuding this energy of terror and having just seen mutilated
bodies
to the point where I was just trying to shrink into the couch where I was.
I was really not happy to be in that room at that point.
How old were you at the time?
I was 23 years old.
Yeah.
Okay?
I was just getting going in journalism, you know?
And they—you know, the owner of the farm kind of pulled them off to the side
and they
were having a conversation in the kitchen.
And when they were trying to keep their voices hushed, but these guys, they
were so rattled.
Also, like, I didn't know the signs at the time, but now looking back, I'm like,
they were
on crystal.
They were tweaking, right?
Yeah.
And so they were—like, their voices were going up and down in volume, but
they were clearly
saying that they'd just, like, seen these three bodies and they'd seen, like,
Sasquatch footprints
at the murder scene.
And they knew it wasn't a ripoff, they were saying, because, you know, it was—all
the
weed had been harvested, but it was still there.
Like, some plants had been torn up and thrown around, right?
But the bud was still there.
Like, hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of weed, if it was a typical patch.
And, you know, it was—like, at one point, the guy was like, "Are you sure
they're
dead?"
They were like, "Are you fucking not listening to us?"
They were torn to pieces, man.
They're fucking dead.
You know?
And a Bigfoot killed these guys.
So—and he kind of, like, got them out of the farm and, like, sat down and was
like,
"Well, that was really fucking weird," and we, like, had a laugh, you know?
But obviously that story stuck with me for the next quarter century, and it was
one that
I kind of—I told it around, like, a ghost story around the campfire kind of
thing a few
times.
But then a friend of mine and a guy I collaborate with, Joshua Fay, who's the
director of the
series Sasquatch, he—we were just finishing up another project together, and
he texted me
out of the blue, and he'd become—he'd become a fan of this podcast, Sasquatch
Chronicles.
Right?
And he texted me, he's like, "Dude, if we could find some sort of true crime
story wrapped
up with a Sasquatch angle, like, we'd really have something."
What is Sasquatch Chronicles?
It's a—I don't even listen to it.
I've never listened to it, but it's a podcast that's, like, it's basically,
like, people's
reporting their Sasquatch encounters, okay?
And so he sent me this text out of the blue, and I hit him right back, I was
like, "I might
have one."
So he's like, "Dude, like, can you—can you look into that?"
So the next step was to get a hold of—get a hold of Buddy that I was working
on, you know,
that was working on the farm up there.
Get a hold of anybody I could find that worked in the dope game up in northern
Mendocino County.
It was near a town called Branscombe that worked in that area at that time in
the dope
game.
Be like, "Did you ever hear a story like this?"
Because—but our thinking was, you know, it—we can't, like, do a series if
it was just
me hearing that story in that cabin that one night, but it's the kind of story
where you
think, like, that probably spread beyond that one cabin, right?
Those guys didn't seem like the type that they were going to keep that to
themselves,
okay?
So, you know, after drawing a lot of blanks, we finally, like, hit this one
sort of information
of the ecosystem sub-circle up there, if you will, where people had heard that
story.
And they were like, "Yes, three guys did get killed, but there's, you know,
there's
more to it," right?
They were like, "There's a story behind that, and it doesn't really involve a
Sasquatch actually
killing these guys."
But, I mean, I don't want to spoil the show for anybody who hasn't seen it.
For anybody who hasn't seen it, it's well worth the three—they're, like, 50
minutes or
so?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Something like an hour TV show length?
Yeah.
It's—it's very intense.
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