
The field caller was born and raised in Manhattan Beach, California, and has been interested in bigfoot since the 1980s. He is also an accomplished jazz guitarist holding a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University, Long Beach. The evidence analyst of the group has been a dedicated sasquatch field researcher for the past two decades who has been known to spend over 200 days a year in the field. īorn and raised in Long Beach, California, Barackman currently resides in Portland, Oregon. He has been researching bigfoot for 30 years.

Moneymaker was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, and moved to Ohio in the 2000s. Moneymaker is the founder and president of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (founded in 1995). The areas they investigate are often described as "Squatchy", with Washington having been described as "the squatchiest state." Their investigations are referred to as "squatchin'". For example, the term "bigfoot" is rarely used in favor of "squatch" (short for sasquatch). Over the course of the series, the team has introduced many new bigfoot related terms into the American vernacular.

The series never questions the existence of bigfoot, but rather documents the team's futile search efforts and study of potential evidence in an attempt to prove the existence of the creature. The team consists of Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) founder and President Matt Moneymaker, researchers James "Bobo" Fay and Cliff Barackman, and skeptical scientist Ranae Holland. The series finale and the 100th episode was released on May 27, 2018.

While the Finding Bigfoot team never captured photographic evidence of the creature's existence, the show gained high ratings and was a top earner for Animal Planet. The program follows four researchers and explorers investigating potential evidence of Bigfoot, a cryptid hominid allegedly living in the wildernesses of the United States and Canada. Finding Bigfoot is an American television series on Animal Planet.
