Hulu has released the first trailer for its upcoming docuseries Sasquatch, which explores the not-so-straightforward story of a gruesome triple homicide and its alleged connection to a deadly monster living in the woods of California.
Posted on YouTube, the two-minute-long trailer opens with footage of a vast forest, while a distorted voice explains, "Someone doesn't have to be out in the woods to feel like, 'I might not belong here and something is going to take me out.'"
The rest of the trailer features a compilation of footage from the infamous Emerald Triangle in Northern California, as well as commentary from journalist David Holthouse -- who serves as the main narrator of what he calls "the craziest story I've heard heard." It's also explained in the teaser that the Emerald Triangle is both one of the largest cannabis growing regions in the United States, as well as the location that holds the highest missing persons and murder rate in the state.
"People pass through here and they just see how beautiful it is," someone else reveals in a voiceover. "They have no idea the shit that goes on in this area."
Additional footage shows snippets from interviews with both police officers and local experts, who can't seem to agree on who or what caused the violent crimes in the area: "..Hippies listening to the Grateful Dead, but packing an AR-15" or an elusive, seven-foot tall urban legend.
"The rate of missing persons cases is the highest in the United States by far," Holthouse continues. "Old-time cannabis growers are willing to sit down and talk to me, but there's no way they're ever going to go on camera." The trailer ends with audio of one of the interviewees saying, "I don't know if I believe in Bigfoot, but I sure as hell believe there are monsters among us."
Sasquatch is the latest of several documentaries and docuseries that have been released via Hulu in the past few years. Other standouts streaming on the platform right now include Framing Britney Spears, Too Funny to Fail and Truth and Lies: The Menedez Brothers.
Directed by Joshua Rofé (Lorena) and executive produced by Steven Berger and the Duplass Brothers, the three-part Sasquatch docuseries will also feature never-before-seen footage from the scene of the crimes, interviews with top-secret subjects and larger-than-life characters beyond Bigfoot. The docuseries starts streaming on Hulu on April 20.
Source: YouTube