Jessica Chobot Leaves Expedition X — Inside Her Next Big Show
Jessica Chobot is back at Discovery with a new series after her 2024 exit from Expedition X, unveiling the project on social media and sending fans into a frenzy.
Jessica Chobot is back at Discovery, and she is not easing in quietly. After bailing on Expedition X in 2024 to chase her own reality projects, the former host finally revealed the new gig. The title sounds like clickbait, but there is a real cold case at the center: 'Bigfoot Took Her'.
The quick version
- Title: 'Bigfoot Took Her'
- Format: Three-part limited series (roughly hour-long episodes), airing back-to-back
- Premiere: Wednesday, October 29, 2025 on Discovery Channel, starting 8 pm ET/PT
- The case: The 1987 disappearance of 16-year-old Theresa Ann Bier in California's Sierra National Forest
- Key detail: The man she went into the woods with said he took her to the Bass Lake area; she was never seen again
- Team: Co-hosted by Jessica Chobot and Robert Collier, a veteran LAPD officer
- How Discovery frames it: One of the strangest modern missing-persons cases
Chobot announced the show on Instagram on October 11, 2025. Fans immediately piled into the comments like they had been waiting all year, which, to be fair, they kind of have. She stuck around Expedition X for seven seasons before stepping away last year, and this is the first time she is back on the network with a series that is very much her show.
The case they are digging into
Theresa Ann Bier was 16 when she vanished in 1987 after heading into the Sierra National Forest with a man she barely knew. That man told authorities he took her to the Bass Lake area in California — and that is the last trace of her. Over time, the local rumor mill morphed the story into something far wilder, which is where the Bigfoot part comes in. The series sets out to separate campfire myth from anything that might actually help explain what happened.
Chobot's pitch, in her own words
'What we found suggests something much darker... and far more human.'
She also teased that she started digging into this a year ago and promised answers on premiere night. The schedule is straightforward: Discovery will run all three episodes back-to-back starting at 8 pm on Wednesday, October 29. If you are into true-crime-with-a-twist, this seems engineered for you.