I have been sucked into Cabin in the Woods, a YouTube channel that presents Bigfoot videos with the tone and pacing of a serious documentary series, while frequently veering into the kind of paranormal speculation that makes me pause the video and stare at the wall.
The channel is genuinely entertaining. It has all the right ingredients: ominous forest footage, confident narration, eyewitness accounts, old cryptid lore, and just enough science-adjacent language about evidence, DNA, and "proof" to feel like it is building a case. But then, every so often, it swerves from "what could explain this?" into Bigfoot speaks to me via ESP," and my face meets my palm.
I really enjoy host Robert Maxwell, and the folks he interviews, travels, and explores with are an entertaining cast of characters. I can't explain why I can watch these videos knowing it's most likely going to be some cryptid lore matched with off-camera knocking on trees, but I can not stop.
I do not recommend Cabin in the Woods as science. I absolutely recommend it as a specimen of high-grade Bigfoot woo in documentary clothing.
Previously:
• See Bigfoot's 'buttocks imprint' in Blue Ridge, Georgia
• I enjoy the history and the hilarity on 'Alaskan Killer Bigfoot'
• Mapping out the famous Patterson–Gimlin film of bigfoot
• Big Data meets Bigfoot
