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This spark of inspiration set him on a search for an angle, some event or incident that spoke to the distinct spirit of Sasquatch country. He told me to just try one episode, and four days later, I’d listened to 11 of them.” He was moved by the intensity and vulnerability of the contributors, and realized that even if the 10ft oddity they all claimed to have glimpsed might not be real, his potency in the collective imagination definitely was. “I’m not a huge monster movie person, not that into creature-features. “Right away, I had no interest,” Rofé laughs. His friend and producer Zach Cregger recommended the Sasquatch Chronicles podcast, a collection of interviews with people spinning yarns of their run-ins. “I wanted something about which no publicly available information existed.” “I got to thinking, ‘Wow, what if the next thing, we do something you can’t Google?’” Rofé says.

He wanted to blaze his own path, break some new ground, put shoe-leather to pavement – whichever metaphor you prefer. As he researched the noted penis-amputator, he was stricken by how much archival footage and other supplemental materials were readily available to any average joe willing to file the right requests to the right people. In February of 2018, Rofé was wrapping up a series on Lorena Bobbitt when he started itching for a new challenge. “Some monsters are real,” warns the production’s tagline naturally, it’s referring to homo sapiens. But there’s a far darker truth buried deep beneath the legend, pertaining instead to a mammal capable of greater violence than any other in the animal kingdom. What begins as an inspection of Bigfoot as a sociological phenomenon leads Rofé and his partner-in-true-crime, journalist David Holthouse, to a 1993 triple homicide said by locals to be the handiwork of the infamous ape-creature. His three-part project takes the myth of the shy giant allegedly hiding in the wilds of the west coast as a jumping-off point, leaving behind the cryptozoological to pursue something more tangible and knowable.