Who looks for 'Bigfoot?' Journalist John O'Connor wanted to find out

Do you believe in Bigfoot?

There are Bigfoot seekers and reports of sightings all over the world. Journalist and Boston College instructor John O'Connor wanted to find out more about members of this subculture, so he spent a year seeking the seekers. He writes about what he found in his book "The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster."

O’Connor set out “to understand why otherwise sane, lucid people believe in unbelievable things” — and he says the answer is more complicated than anticipated.

For O’Connor, the Bigfoot subculture reflects a tension between modern, domestic life and a call to the wild.

“It just seemed to unpack a lot of stuff that's going on in the culture at large right now about belief and belonging and loneliness and a loss of our wilderness,” he says.

Read highlights from the full interview here.