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Photographs from The Valley and Pursuit of Sasquatch: A Portrait of Dr. Grover S. Krantz

Mad Monkey Ventures is in production of The Valley, a documentary about small-town communities confronting the encroachment of urban sprawl. The film documents several residents of the Snoqualmie Valley, and focuses on the quintessential northwest town, North Bend, of Twin Peaks fame.


The Valley
The 1990s brought unprecedented growth and development to Seattle and the surrounding metropolitan area. The Snoqualmie Valley, a fertile valley at the base of the Cascade Mountain range approximately 30 miles east of Seattle, was once a provident logging and farming community. As more affluent commuter families begin to make it the Snoqualmie Valley home, these small rural communities are feeling the effects of an increasing population. This influx is causing some lifelong residents to question their continued subsistence in the valley.
The transformation of the Snoqualmie Valley is not only a factor of aesthetics and topography. This transformation confronts the lifestyles and values of the people who have called the Snoqualmie Valley home for generations. The neighboring cities throughout the valley share in this predicament.

Pursuit of Sasquatch: A Portrait of Dr. Grover S. Krantz features interviews of Sasquatch researchers illuminating the life of the late Dr. Grover S. Krantz and the inspiration behind the search for Sasquatch. Shot on location in the deep woods of British Columbia, Sasquatch symposiums in Washington and in the hillsides of Idaho believed to be a bipedal ape living amongst the forests of North America. "As the these photographs document the personalities and artifacts of the greater research community.
A published writer of scientific journals, Dr. Grover S. Krantz was one of the first academics to study what he believed to be a bipedal ape living amongst the forests of North America. "As the  modern era’s first academically affiliated physical anthropologist to openly involve himself in Bigfoot research, Krantz was the most quoted authority on the Bigfoot controversy." -Coleman, Loren. (2003).
He continued to pursue tangible evidence of its existence until his death in Port Angeles, WA in 2002. A community of researchers continue to search for tangible evidence of this elusive creature known as Sasquatch.

All text, photographs and materials copyright David Walega, Christopher Daikos or Mad Monkey Ventures. (except where otherwise noted)