About this project

A Sasquatch "habituation site" is a place with which members of this primate species have become familiar, and return to repeatedly. Throughout North America, certain people have been able to establish a relationship with these visitors, often exchanging food and gifts. But the Sasquatch always maintain their distance; extreme stealth has allowed them to survive, alongside human beings, for hundreds of thousands of years. Until very recently, our only publicly shared knowledge of Sasquatch (aka Bigfoot) came through chance encounters, fleeting glimpses, and the rare piece of movie or video footage. Yet meanwhile, throughout North America, certain people were busy pursuing private knowledge much more effectively. IMPOSSIBLE VISITS is the first book to chronicle the groundbreaking work of such average but extremely attentive human beings who have experienced, sometimes for many years, consistent Sasquatch visitations to their homes and properties and have sought--in the great and humane spirit of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey--to learn from this retiring, intelligent primate species. The book features half a dozen detailed first-person testimonials, which convey a textured sense of the nature and behavior of Sasquatch, and of the interactions one can have with members of this ancient race.

The documentary will deepen and extend what the book was able to accomplish by way of raising awareness about this species. I have already shot a good deal of video--including footage of a Sasquatch in East Texas--but will need to follow up with the "habituators" who contributed to the book, capturing more of their backstories, the rich accounts of interactions with their primate visitors, as well as direct video evidence of Sasquatch visitations themselves. Also, I will broaden my scope to include other habituators who have contacted me since the publication of the book in early 2009.

What I need in order to get this project off the ground is a broadcast-quality, high-definition video camera and improved night-vision equipment, specifically a FLIR PathfindIR thermal camera.