Bart Cutino

Researcher/Financial Professional

Born and raised in beautiful Monterey, CA, Bart Cutino is a longtime sasquatch researcher who’s been affiliated with many research organizations including the BFRO (since 2004), The Olympic Project (2009) and the Sierras Evidence Initiative he co-founded in 2012. In the last 20 years he’s appeared on several network TV shows and documentaries, including several episodes and the monster 2-hour finale of Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot in which he maintains close friendships and continues to do field work with all the male cast members.

In the summer of 2007, Bart had his first definitive sasquatch visual encounter via a non-recordable thermal imaging unit near Bumping Lake, WA, hence he’s employed thermal technology as his primary documentative research method ever since. Over the years since, he's contributed some intriguing and impressively documented visual/audio evidence in his pursuits including the 2011 NorCal Tree Destruction video which includes live recorded audio and video (context of exchange with likely target species) and arguably the most thoroughly documented thermal footage on record (The Sierra’s Thermal Footage) which consists of multiple tall, bipedal subjects that were recorded unexpectedly while they quietly loitered 105 yards near his team’s camp at 7000 ft in the California Sierras in August of 2012.

Bart is still very active as a researcher throughout the Pacific Northwest and along with Kirk Brandenburg, spearheads an annual summer research expedition coined “Bartfoot” with Washington state’s elite researcher’s. He still resides in Carmel, CA with his wife Kim and two children (Bella & Tony). By day he’s a financial professional and Vice-President of his firm, Central Coast Financial Mgt.