A man in an ape costume is seen outside a hotel where a media conference is held announcing the claim that a deceased sasquatch creature has been found in Georgia in 2008. (Ben Margot/Associated Press)Hundreds of Bigfoot enthusiasts joined a television crew in North Carolina to search for the legendary creature on Saturday.

Cable channel Animal Planet is filming a six-part series about Bigfoot sightings in the U.S. More than 300 volunteers scoured the Uhwarrie National Forest near Charlotte, N.C., for evidence of the purportedly ape-like animal, also commonly known as the sasquatch, the Salisbury Post reports.

There have been several reports of Bigfoot sightings in different North Carolina counties since the 1970s.

In June 2010, a Cleveland County man named Tim Peeler called police after allegedly seeing a 10-feet-fall creature with a long beard and yellowish-blond hair wander onto his rural property, according to the Charlotte Observer.

Volunteers at the Bigfoot search on Saturday didn't catch a glimpse of the elusive animal, but apparently found some hair samples, which the Animal Planet crew saved for analysis.

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