Wisconsin-based paranormal investigator Jay Bachochin has spent the last five years documenting his forays into the Dairy State’s southeast Kettle Moraine State Forest in search of Bigfoot, and has compiled the highlights of his footage into the documentary Finding Jay.

A self-described skeptic when it came to Bigfoot, Bachochin never expected to find anything when he first began his investigation; but that all changed after one bizarre incident in the Kettle Moraine. Jay and his wife Katie recorded an unearthly howl that they couldn’t explain; a howl that led the investigator down a bizarre path to high strangeness that included everything from Bigfoot to Dogman to UFOs.

The film clocks in at just over two hours, which is longer than most documentaries, but Bachochin’s dedication to thoroughness is evident in the level of detail present. Many won’t need the documentary’s definition of Bigfoot, but those who do will be happy it’s there. And some of the repeated ruminations regarding the phenomena presented in the film border on repetitive, but they serve to reinforce the main theme of the narrative—endlessly repeating mysteries and their consistent effect on those who witness them.

Finding Jay uses wide open camera shots to express the isolation of rural Wisconsin, a land of rolling agricultural fields and thick, hilly forests. Exactly the sort of place that might hide any number of anomalous phenomena. In contrast, the investigation footage is almost claustrophobic—by necessity shot with handheld cameras under the often oppressive canopy of the Kettle Moraine State Forest.