He’s hit a new Lowe.
Actor Rob Lowe claims he saw Bigfoot while filming his upcoming show in the Ozark Mountains, which stretch over parts of Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
The sighting went down while he and his sons were shooting the A&E series, “The Lowe Files,” and they spotted the “wood ape” — which is what people in the central U.S. call Bigfoot.
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“We had an incredible encounter with what locals call the ‘wood ape,'” Lowe told Entertainment Weekly. “I’m fully aware that I sound like a crazy, Hollywood kook right now.”
But “The West Wing” star — who rose to fame in the ’80s with films like “The Outsiders,” “St. Elmo’s Fire” and “About Last Night” — said that the experience was totally real and he was genuinely terrified of what he saw in the forest.
He added that he ended up lying on the ground, “thinking I was going to be killed.”
The “wood ape” scene won’t air until the season finale of “The Lowe Files,” but the 53-year-old actor, who has portrayed Colonel Sanders for KFC, revealed a bit about the scene to EW.
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“We’re 100 miles from the nearest town,” Lowe said. “We spent 45 minutes on the most rugged, brutal mountain trails. It’s 1 in the morning. There are a lot of serious former military men with loaded weapons (with us), then something starts approaching our camps that is defying their orders to stop and their warnings that (they were) armed.”
The nine-episode season, premiering Aug. 2, will follow Lowe and his sons, Matthew and John Owen — both in their 20s — on adventures across the country to places like an underwater alien base off the California coast and a haunted boys’ reformatory.
“If you put Anthony Bourdain in a blender with Scooby Doo, you’d get the tone of this show,” Lowe said of his hunt for urban legends. “Nothing is staged, nothing is trick-cut — no B.S.”
