Aleksandar Petakov: Sasquatch in the Northeast | ST 037

10/10/22 • 113 min

In this installment of Sasquatch Tracks, the team is joined by researcher Aleksandar Petakov for a discussion about his wide-ranging cryptozoological interests.

Aleksandar Petakov was born in 1993 during the last year of Apartheid in South Africa to parents that fled civil war in the former Yugoslavia. He grew up in the United States & has always been interested in global events, history, the outdoors and adventuring. Traveling across the United States and the world, Aleksandar has looked into various Cryptozoological creatures such as Sasquatch, the Loch Ness Monster, the Lake Champlain monster, Mystery big cats as well as other Fortean phenomenon such as UFO's and mysterious places ranging from the paranormal Bridgewater Triangle of Massachusetts to the hermit kingdom of North Korea. He has created short documentary films and series on these subjects, among others.

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Aleksandar is a 2015 Quinnipiac University graduate with a BA in Communications with minors in History & Political Science. He currently resides in New England. Aside from filmmaking Aleksandar has a passion for the outdoors as an avid hiker, backpacker & outdoorsman & has spent time in wilderness areas around North America. The Appalachian Institute for Hominology Studies welcomes Petakov's unique insights and traveler's tales, as we explore his several documentaries and other film exploits in search of answers to several of America's greatest cryptozoological mysteries.

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In this installment of Sasquatch Tracks, the team is joined by researcher Aleksandar Petakov for a discussion about his wide-ranging cryptozoological interests.

Stories and other links discussed in this episode:

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Got a news tip or story to share? Send us an Email.

Have you seen an animal you can't identify? Submit a report here.

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Tate Hieronymus: A Search for Sabe | ST 036

In this installment of Sasquatch Tracks, the team catches up on the subject of Indigenous American beliefs about Sasquatch, as discussed in a recent BBC Travel feature, as well as sightings reports and emails from our listeners. We are then joined by filmmaker and researcher Tate Hieronymus, producer of the forthcoming four-part series “A Search for Sabe,” which chronicles he and his colleagues’ investigations into Sasquatch sightings in several regions of the Western United States.

Tate shares with us about his investigations and documentary film work at sites that include the famous Bluff Creek location where Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin made their controversial film of a purported Sasquatch in 1967, along with his own collection of thermal footage of an unknown subject. Tate also discusses his forthcoming documentary series, "A Search for Sabe," and shares some of the locations that are chronicled in the series. Finally, we also get a few of Tate's personal perspectives and reflections on the study of relict hominoids in North America, and what they have yielded over time.

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- Magic Mind: MagicMind.co/sasquatch
- The true origin of Sasquatch - BBC Travel
- Tate Hieronymus on YouTube

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Mister Sam Shearon: Bigfoot, Wolflike Cryptids, and Monstrous Mysteries | ST 038

In this Halloween installment of Sasquatch Tracks, we are joined by Mister Sam Shearon, who in addition to being renowned for his unique cryptozoological artwork, presents an impressive knowledge of all-things Sasquatch, along with an assorted conversation about eerie cryptids in keeping with the season.

Along with his impressive horror art, Sam Shearon is known for his work in the field of cryptozoology, most notably for compiling artists impressions, of the Beast of Lytham[7] from eyewitness accounts. Shearon's cryptozoological art[8] was on display at the 2005 Weird Weekend, an annual conference at the Centre for Fortean Zoology. His work can be found in publications of the Fortean Times, Paranormal Magazine as well as the cover artwork for IDW Comics for the Angel[9] series, 30 Days of Night, The X-Files, Alan Roberts Wire Hangers, H.P.Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu, KISS, Mars Attacks, Judge Dredd, Hellraiser and Clive Barker's Books of Bloodand also horror magazine Fangoria's Trinity of Terrors.

Sam spends some time in this episode discussing everything from Sasquatch, to mysterious wolflike cryptids, and much more in a conversation curated especially for the Halloween season.

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