"I've developed a strange fascination with the Animal Planet reality show (in the loosest definition of that word) Finding Bigfoot. If you haven't watched it, I can't recommend it because it's a show built entirely on the principle of wandering through the woods and NOT finding bigfoot. Somehow, they've managed to squeeze several seasons out of it. I find the show alternately amusing and frustrating, but it did inspire me to write a bigfoot story. So there's that at least."
— Author's Notes
"Bigfoot Dreams" is a Comic Fantasy short story written by A. Lee Martinez and published in the 2013 anthology book Robots versus Slime Monsters. The story is set after the events of the novel Gil's All Fright Diner, where Duke and Earl have an encounter with the survivor of a bigfoot attack.
"Bigfoot Dreams" provides examples of:
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Clinton has a hard time believing that ghosts exist, even after surviving a bigfoot attack and running into a werewolf and vampire.
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Bigfoot is a race of spiritual beings that take the form of humanoid ape creatures, wandering in and out of the mortal plane and the spirit plane as one would walk between rooms of a building. While normally docile, a bigfoot will eat the hearts of three humans under the light of a full moon to become a human themselves.
- Fisher King: Because bigfoot is a spiritual creature that exists between worlds, its presence is given away by a sudden shift in atmosphere. The sky turning different colors, trees taking on weird shapes, unusual smells in the air, and so on.
- Tomato in the Mirror: Duke and Earl manage to find Clinton's mauled corpse and they all realize that the Clinton they've been communicating will was a bigfoot, having turned into Clinton after undergoing the ritual to become human. Even Clinton didn't know it until he saw the body.
