![]() ![]() MARTINEZ: But you know what, Laura? When I think about Bigfoot, it's never about whether I believe it's real, but more about how I want to believe that it's real. KRANTZ: Like, there's a way to think about it like that. OK, so maybe Bigfoot doesn't turn invisible, but maybe Bigfoot is covered with so many twigs and leaves and hair that, like, if he stands really still, you can't see him anymore. KRANTZ: Well, I mean, think of it this way. I know it probably wouldn't if it was real. I'm just hoping it has a little bit of mysticism to it. MARTINEZ: I'm hoping Bigfoot had a little magic to it. How can we look at this logically? How can we look at this through the lens of science? And that's what I'm kind of hoping to encourage the readers to do, is say, OK, this is a really interesting idea. KRANTZ: I approached this from the standpoint of Bigfoot is a flesh-and-blood creature, the same as anything else on this earth. MARTINEZ: And so Krantz went into the wilderness to find out for herself. ![]() And so, for me, it was sort of this question, how can you hold on to being a scientist and also onto this idea of Bigfoot at the same time? And yet he also thought that Bigfoot was out there. And he was a professor of anthropology at Washington State University. ![]() MARTINEZ: Turns out Krantz had a relative who had done his own digging into Bigfoot. It is learning how to think about evolution and how we fit into the world. It's partially a little bit of science education. LAURA KRANTZ: This is partially a mystery. That podcast has now become her first children's book, titled "The Search For Sasquatch." So I was fascinated when in 2018 she put out a podcast called "Wild Thing" where she journeyed into the world of Bigfoot. I know the journalist Laura Krantz to be a science-trusting, facts-first person. ![]()
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