The Town That Cried Bigfoot
- Documentary
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A hoax to save a town. A murder to hide the truth.
In the bitter winter of 1978, four desperate council members from a small Virginia town hatched a daring Bigfoot hoax to save it from the brink of bankruptcy. But as the money grew, so did the greed-triggering the town's first unsolved murder.
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- corruption
- 1970s
- bigfoot
- west virginia
- mockumentary
- murder
- scam
- hunting
- county jail
- tourist attraction
- virginia
- crooked sheriff
- small town sheriff
- hoax
- 1980s
- southern sasquatch
- sasquatch
- state crimes
- tourist trap
- political scandal
- small town thieves
- bigfoot hunter
- small southern town
- mayoral election
- gritty
- lumber mill
- unsolved murder