bigfoot

He does tend to bigfoot the conversations, even when he’s getting news he wants to hear.

If that sounds insufficiently serious, one might want to tune in to “Bigfoot Took Her.”

The 16-year-old from Fresno, Calif., vanished in 1987 while on a camping trip with 43-year-old Bigfoot enthusiast Russell “Skip” Welch.

Welch’s story is about as credible as Bigfoot himself, but the hosts of the series, Jessica Chobot and Robert Collier, buy into it all long enough to launch their thesis and their show, which is as interesting in terms of documentary-TV production as it is as a detective story.

“Bigfoot attacks are so rare,” Ms. Chobot says, voicing amazement at Skip Welch’s contention that the creature was the culprit.