By Dan King
Bigfoot is coming to the big screen.
A documentary filmmaker, who is aiming to tell the stories of various “Small Town Monsters,” has released the trailer for his film about Whitehall’s Sasquatch history. Seth Breedlove and his crew at Small Town Monsters announced Sunday night that they had completed the trailer for their film, titled “Beast of Whitehall.”
The documentary, featuring interviews with witnesses and prominent public figures, is the second part of the “Small Town Monsters” documentary series.
Breedlove and crew filmed the documentary in July, coincidentally at the same time Animal Planet released its episode of “Finding Bigfoot,” based in Whitehall.
“It’s not going to be like anything anyone in Whitehall has ever seen before,” said Breedlove.
The group’s first documentary, “The Minerva Monster” was a hit in the Indie community and they hope that momentum will continue with the Whitehall episode.
The documentary focuses predominantly on the famous Abair Road sighting in 1976, calling it “impetus for a rash of sightings around the town of Whitehall that continue to this day.” While offering a new twist, the documentary still looks to show how the Abair sighting has turned Whitehall into “The Bigfoot Capital of the East Coast.”
Featured in the trailer are Abair Road witness Brian Gosselin and Bigfoot historian Paul Bartholomew. Gosselin details his experience on Abair Road, while Bartholomew explains the impact the sighting had not only on the town of Whitehall, but the region as a whole.
“I still dream about that incident once in a while,” Gosselin says in the trailer. “But back then I relived that thing day-in and day-out, night after night I would relive that. And you know, one of the craziest things right to this day, right to this moment and this second is what the hell was I looking at.”
That interview with Gosselin is shot at the location of the Abair Road sighting, with Gosselin pointing out to the filmmakers what he saw.
Bartholomew, later in the trailer, says: “It was the talk of the town, it was the talk of the region, it was a big deal.”
The full-length documentary will be released next year, with more details emerging as the release date draws closer.
To find out more about the documentary and to see the trailer of the “Beast of Whitehall,” check out “Small Town Monsters” on Facebook.
Breedlove said when the documentary is released it will offer something more “realistic” than other documentaries or films detailing the Bigfoot history in Whitehall.
“We want Whitehall to have something that isn’t really cheesy, but something to actually be proud of,” he said, referring to the fact that this documentary will focus more on interactions with the actual witnesses.