Those who follow my work on these pages and others know that I write a lot of different types of content. I think my readers’ favorites – and admittedly mine too – are the pieces I do on true crime and “unsolved mysteries” like UFOs and the Loch Ness Monster. Every once in a very long while, those two areas converge – and this is one of those bizarre times. There are those in California that believe that Bigfoot might be a serial killer!

Could North America’s most well-known man-like cryptid be responsible for a series of brutal murders?

That’s the question documentarians are seeking to answer in a new series that has just premiered on Hulu. The three-part program “Sasquatch,” which started on April 20, explores a wild theory that the mythical creature may be responsible for long-rumored murders and disappearances of three unidentified Mexican men in northern California in 1993.

But is Bigfoot really the prime suspect in a decades-old string of cold cases about men reportedly torn limb from limb, for whom no bodies were ever found — and which exist only as horrific hearsay?

That depends on who you ask. Most encounters with Bigfoot or Sasquatch seem to indicate that he is a shy, gentle giant, resulting in nothing more but blurry photographs. Yet, there have been other incidences documented by so-called “Bigfoot Hunters” and showcased in the new series that say the creature is anything but and that he is well capable of murderous rage.

“There’s the one story about a guy out in Weitchpec [in California] who got pulled apart,” relates Bigfoot-seeker James “Bobo” Fay in the program. “Like, all four of his limbs and head pulled off. That was back in the early ‘70s. Man, when they see you, they see a big, old slab of meat walking out there.”

Adding to the film’s intrigue — the trio of men who are the show’s jumping-off point allegedly were part of an influx of migrant workers toiling on then-illegal, prolific and competitive cannabis farms deep in the foggy redwood forests of Mendocino County. 

With that detail, things just get weirder, as some even say the beast may have a hankering for hemp.

“There’s been rumors up there about 10-foot-tall pot plants — the buds on top are all snapped off,” Sasquatch hunter Jerry Hein suggests in the doc. “Well, it’s Bigfoot. They eat ’em like corn. Plus, they get a nice, little buzz off it.” 

But Brooklyn-born “Sasquatch” director Joshua Rofé — who also worked on the 2019 docu-series “Lorena,” about the infamous, penis-lopping wife of John Wayne Bobbitt — is less focused on proving or disproving tall tales. With the help of investigative journalist David Holthouse, who interviews the subjects, Rofé sets out to learn why people believe such “outlandish” stories in the first place.

“This is a ghost story. We set out to make a documentary hunting down the source of this ghost story. Not trying to prove the existence or not of this mythical beast, but to find the source of this absolutely insane story about a Sasquatch murdering three people,” Rofé told The NY Post.

“And so it was a wild thing to suddenly sit down with people who said, ‘Yes, I’m aware of that story. And I also believe that it happened.’ ”

Rofé added that he was “clear-eyed going in that the subject of Sasquatch is something that is not taken seriously by most people,” and that he wanted to treat his interview subjects “with dignity and respect,” rather than outright skepticism. Rofé and Holthouse even interviewed Bob Gimlin, who, with his late friend Roger Patterson is known for the most famous footage, from 1967, ever captured of Bigfoot.

“I wanted to treat them the same way I would somebody whose testimony in a court case was the center of a project, you know what I mean?” Rofé said of the show’s subjects. “Just, this is a real person. This is what’s important to them, and this is what’s true to them. And so let’s hear what they have to say.”

For Rofé, the question being asked was less, “Is Sasquatch a serial killer?” than “What was the culture that existed that would essentially birth and then breed a story like this?” he said.

Without spoiling too many of the film’s eventual conclusions, Rofé’s assessments zero in on one more grounded, if unnerving, possibility about the real murderous culprits lurking in the woods, one echoed by Holthouse himself.

“No, I don’t think f–kin’ Bigfoot did it,” Holthouse declares in the docuseries. “No. I don’t believe in Bigfoot, but I sure as hell believe in greed and that greed turns people into monsters. It’s not Bigfoot making all those people disappear in the woods.”