The Town That Cried Bigfoot

The Town That Cried Bigfoot

★ 10.0IMDb Score

Overview:

In the bitter winter of 1978, four desperate council members from a small Virginia town hatched a daring Bigfoot hoax to save it from the brink of bankruptcy. But as the money grew, so did the greed-triggering the town's first unsolved murder.

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