Bigfoot: beyond the trail : documentary film series (2021-Present)
Bigfoot: Beyond the Trail is an ongoing documentary film series that follows my investigations of various Sasquatch cases around North America. Each episode is its own film and they are released to the Small Town Monsters YouTube channel on a monthly basis. At over 40 episodes so far there are collectively over 20 million views. Below you will find a link to the full episodes playlist as well as a map of where each episode took place.
Full Episode Playlist link: youtube.com/playlist/BeyondTheTrail
STRANGE PLACES : documentary film series (2024)
Strange Places is an investigative documentary series that follows my adventures into various unusual places around the world. Whether it be mysterious regions, abandoned locations or areas with forgotten history, I have a lot of amazing plans for this series and am excited to share it throughout the year.
Full Episode list:
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- LOST IN THE LAND BETWEEN THE LAKES (Land Between the Lakes, Kentucky/Tennessee, February 2024)
- GHOSTS OF THE PAST ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI (Abandoned Forts along the Mississippi River, South Louisiana, March 2024)
- APOCALYPTIC PENNSYLVANIA (Abandoned ghost towns & tunnels in Pennsylvania, May 2024)
- SPIRITS IN THE MINES (Exploring abandoned haunted mine in northeast Pennsylvania, June 2024)
- UFO SECRETS OF EAST MOUNTAIN (Abandoned Cold war era USAF Radar Base connected to UFO sightings, including the Betty & Barney Hill Abduction, July 2024)
- CREEPY CAVES & LEGENDS OF APPALACHIA (Exploring various cave legends of the southern Appalachians, including cave exploration, August 2024)
- SECRETS OF THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY (Morbid curiosities, centuries old history, secret caves only known to the locals thoroughly explored in the valley, September 2024)
- THE MYSTERY OF THE BROWN MOUNTAIN LIGHTS (Investigating the spook lights stories around Brown Mountain and the Linville Gorge in North Carolina, November 2024)
- CALIFORNIA'S LOST HIGHWAY IN BIGFOOT COUNTRY (The abandoned G-O Road in Northern California's Bluff Creek Region, December 2024)
- THE UFO INCIDENT OVER DUBOIS PENNSYLVANIA (My personal UFO encounter and story in an area of high strangeness in Pennsylvania, January, 2025)
ALEKS PETAKOV ADVENTURES youtube channel (2016-Present)
Check out my YouTube channel Aleks Petakov Adventures, formerly called "Sasquatch: Out of the Shadows" which features short documentaries, adventure videos, Bigfoot eyewitnesses interviews & over 100 episodes of Sasquatch: Out of the Shadows LIVE, a livestream show I started on the channel in early 2020. The channel has amassed over 8,000 subscribers & over 800,000 views.
Dark Coast: Hunt for the Alaskan Bigfoot documentary film series (2023)
Dark Coast: Hunt for the Alaskan Bigfoot is an episodic documentary film series following my two week expedition to the location known as "Area A" on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, previously featured in Bigfoot, Beyond the Trail: The Alaskan Coastal Sasquatch part's one and two. It is a less polished, more boots on the ground investigative series than Bigfoot: Beyond the Trail, but is similar in many ways.
- EPISODE ONE: ORIGINS
- EPISODE TWO: INTO THE FOG
- EPISODE THREE: SHADOW VALLEY
- EPISODE FOUR: RAINFOREST FRONTIER
- EPISODE FIVE: JOURNEY'S END
lions of the east : Feature documentary (2020)
Lions of the East is a feature documentary that examines the decades of sightings of mountain lions & mystery big cats in New England, despite being "officially" extinct. Wildlife officials, biologists, researchers & eyewitnesses play a crucial role in this controversial topic unfolding across the region.
The film has been on DVD & available digitally since March of 2020. It will be re-released to the Small Town Monsters YouTube channel in September of 2022.
Watch on YouTube here: youtube.com/LionsOfTheEast
Order a digital copy here: LionsOfTheEastDigital
On the Trail of...Champ : Documentary Mini-series (2018)
On the trial of…Champ chronicles North America’s most infamous lake monster, affectionately known as “Champ”.
Shot on location at Lake Champlain, Vermont/New York, USA, On the trail of…Champ dives deep into the rich history of the region in connection with Champ, as well as Champ’s cultural impact in many of the rural communities that border the lake.
On the Trail of...Champ can be ordered on DVD by clicking this link: squareup.com/petakovmedia/store
The series can be streamed online on: Amazon (Available as a feature length documentary): amazon.com/OnTheTrailOfChamp
mystery at loch ness, documentary (2016)
