Animal Planet’s astonishingly long-lived “Finding Bigfoot” came to Montana in search of the show’s titular namesake, and though they went home without having proven definitively that Sasquatch was real, they at least had a few days’ worth of beautiful scenery as consolation. It goes without saying, though, that the wildest and hairiest of all Montana’s reality show moments (not to mention my favorite) are those involving monsters. In an interview with Allegheny Mountain Radio he said that even though he and his wife lived in a very remote area near the border to Idaho, “in the middle of the Kootenai National Forest,” they were visited last year by “over 300 people that came to our house last summer to take our picture and shake our hand,” including one pair who were “honeymooners from Switzerland.” Eventually, Tom decided to retire to Florida to escape the crowds back in Montana, with the unhappy result that this year’s season 8 aired without him. That is, he did, until the number of television tourists drove him away. He made a living there selling hand-crafted moccasins, knives, and other frontier goods. And there’s fan-favorite Tom Oar, who lived along the Yaak River in Lincoln County, Montana. Or consider “Mountain Men,” which had several protagonists who lived in Montana, like Rich Lewis, a man who made national news in 2007 when he hunted down a mountain lion in Twin Bridges, MT, that had killed several dogs.
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