SC EP:1249 Laura Krantz
4/19/202659 min
Laura Krantz is a journalist, editor and producer, in both radio and print, and co-founder of Foxtopus Ink. Her podcast, Wild Thing has received critical acclaim from Scientific American, Rolling Stone, and The Atlantic, which named it one of the best 50 podcasts in 2018 and 2020.
Wild Thing is also the inspiration for a series of non-fiction, middle-grade books from ABRAMS Kids, including The Search for Sasquatch, Is There Anybody Out There?, and Do You Believe In Magic?
In addition to Wild Thing, her recent work includes reporting, editing and production work on Master Plan (The Lever), The Syndicate (Imperative Entertainment/Foxtopus), Side Door (Smithsonian), Air/Space (Smithsonian), and others. Laura's prior experience includes a decade of editing and producing at NPR in Washington, DC, and at KPCC in Los Angeles.
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 0· Soundbite0:00
[dramatic music] It looked like somebody was bent over and had their head in the window of the deer blind, and it either heard me or smelled me, and he pulled his head out of the tent and stood straight up, and that, that shocked me. They don't make people that, that big.
Speaker 10:26
The way it moved, uh, almost as if it was gliding across the beach. I've never seen anything move like that in my life. [Bigfoot howls] They were screaming at each other in gibberish. [Bigfoot howls] It sounded like a language, and they were chuntering away, back and forwards, back and forwards, back and forwards. [Bigfoot howls] I know what a bear looks like, and there is no way on this planet that what I saw were bears.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:01
[dramatic music] [Bigfoot howls] 911, what are you reporting?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:15
Jesus Christ, you better- Sir? See 'em.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:18
Hello?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:20
Get somebody out here.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:21
What's going on now, sir?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:23
That son of a bitch is about 6'9", I don't know.
Speaker 2· Soundbite1:26
Do you see him now, sir?
Speaker 0· Soundbite1:27
Yes, I'm looking right at him. Uh-oh.