May I never run out of Bigfoot documentaries.

It took three directors — Lawrence Crowley (who also directed 1976’s In Search of Bigfoot), William F. Miller (the man who made Mysteries from Beyond the Triangle) and J.H. Moss — to make this, a film that follows Robert W. Morgan as he tries to find Bigfoot. In the mid-1950s, Morgan encountered Bigfoot while hunting in the mountains of Mason County, Washington. The creature stood and stared at him, yet Morgan never felt fear. In 1974, he founded the American Anthropological Research Foundation (AARF), of which he is the executive director and which is committed to Bigfoot research. Beyond that, he also appears in The Mysterious Monsters and directed, wrote and starred in Blood Stalkers. That’d be enough for most men, but he also wrote Mako: The Jaws of Death.

Beyond the interviews of people who’d seen Sasquatch — keep in mind, this was made the same year as The Legend of Boggy Creek — we get Roger Patterson showing up to discuss his famous Bigfoot footage, Sam Melville from The Rookies showing up to hunt Bigfoot just in time for a forest fire and Janos Prohaska, who played a bear on Dusty’s Trail, a black bear on Here’s Lucy, a Horta on Star Trek, a gorilla on Gilligan’s Island and Giant Debbie the Bloop on Lost In Space, appears to tell us that as someone who plays animals so often in movies, he can tell that the Patterson-Gimlin footage is real, just in time for the narration to tell us that Bigfoot is a woman because it has big, pendeulous beasts.

Plus, you get to meet Don Blake, who navigates the rugged Washington terrain on crutches, providing some of the film’s most earnest (and physically impressive) moments; sociologist Ann Swain, who provides the first sighting of the expedition, a huge black form that vanished as soon as she looked through her binoculars and John Green and René Dahinden, who coldly lets the the idealistic Morgan know that the only way to prove Bigfoot exists is to bring one in dead.

Oh man, I almost forgot. Patty Carter recounts being befriended by a young Sasquatch as a child, claiming they used to play catch by gently throwing sticks and rocks at each other. She then tells us about watching a female creature pop out a baby!

The ending! Oh man, the sight of rookie officer Officer Mike Danko looking somberly at the smoke while Morgan laments that the shy creature will never return, with hundreds of people running up and down, is the perfect, inconclusive ending for this kind of regional cinema.

This movie is bullshit, but it’s the best bullshit.

You can watch this on YouTube.