David Cross, Bigfoot and The Journey of "The Dark Divide" – SLUG Magazine
Film Interviews Anyone who paid attention in their high school English class likely has some familiarity with “The Hero’s Journey.” It’s the template for most storytelling, wherein a hero goes on an adventure, is victorious (or sometimes fails) and comes home changed by it. But for Robert Michael Pyle, a real-life hero’s journey took place in 1995 when this accomplished lepidopterist set out on a 30-day trek through the Gifford Pinchot National Forest—also known as “the dark divide,” famously known as Bigfoot country—a place where tourists flock every year hoping to...