Bigfoot film to offer ‘new angle’

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By Dan King

Filming of Bigfoot-related shows has been the topic du jour in Whitehall lately, and that continues.

Seth Breedlove, a documentary filmmaker from Ohio, and his crew are producing a documentary on Whitehall, which he says takes a different angle to the Bigfoot history in town.

It happened by coincidence that Breedlove and crew were filming in Whitehall at the same time as the airing of the “Finding Bigfoot” episode on Animal Planet.

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Mayor Ken Bartholomew gets hooked up for an interview.

“It’s not going to be anything people in Whitehall have seen before,” Breedlove said. “So far we’ve talked with six different witnesses from the famous Abair Road sighting, including Brian Gosselin, whose story is pretty famous. And we had someone approach us off the record who was there that night, which kind of puts a different angle on this.”

Breedlove said the Whitehall-based documentary, titled “Beast of Whitehall,” will be the second installment of the documentary series titled “Small Town Monsters.” The first was based in Wells and was called “The Minerva Monster,” which focused on a monster in that small town.

“The Whitehall story is pretty famous in Bigfoot lore,” Breedlove added. “Whitehall was always someplace we wanted to go for this and it worked out that we were screening our Wells episode, so we could come here and do some filming.”

The “Small Town Monsters” crew was out and about in Whitehall for a few days last week and Breedlove said they got some great b-roll filming and interviews done.

“We want to document the history in the most realistic way possible and that’s talking to the actual witnesses,” he said. “We want Whitehall to have something that isn’t really cheesy, but something to actually be proud of.”

Breedlove, the group’s director, said the film will focus not only on the Bigfoot history in Whitehall, but the history of the town and area as a whole, something that he says other films and shows do not offer.

Local Bigfoot expert Paul Bartholomew said he was excited about the filming, because he felt it would keep the Bigfoot momentum going and put positive attention on the Birthplace of the U.S. Navy.

The “Small Town Monsters” cast is currently in the middle of filming multiple documentaries simultaneously, but the group anticipates that a trailer about the Whitehall film will be released within two weeks.

Breedlove said that anyone interested in seeing photos of the crew’s work, b-roll that will be used in the documentary, or just stay up to date on the potential release date of the trailer and eventually the film can visit the Facebook page, facebook.com/minervamonster or the website www.smalltownmonsters.com.