Speaker 1: Bigfoot continues to be everywhere and nowhere, all at once,
Speaker 1: popping up in headlines, podcasts, and especially on the festival circuit.
Speaker 1: This past week, the fifth annual Upper Cumberland Bigfoot Festival
Speaker 1: swept through Crossville, Tennessee, drawing crowds on October eighteenth, with
Speaker 1: a mix of cryptid investigators, barbecue, a Bigfoot five K
Speaker 1: glow run, and a reunion of Reality TV's Mountain Monsters Crew.
Speaker 1: According to the event organizers, the whole affair raised significant
Speaker 1: funds for local veterans, a tradition that's made the festival
Speaker 1: a beloved autumn staple in the region, not just for
Speaker 1: its mullet contest or helicopter rites, but for that feeling
Speaker 1: you might actually catch a glimpse of the big Guy
Speaker 1: mingling among food trucks and folks in furry costumes. Just
Speaker 1: a few states over, the long running Texas Bigfoot Conference
Speaker 1: kicked off its twenty fifth year in Jefferson, Texas, gathering enthusiasts, speakers,
Speaker 1: and skeptics to grill Up BBC and discussed the possibilities
Speaker 1: of moving Bigfoot from cryptid folklore into scientific legitimacy. As
Speaker 1: explained by the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. The meet and
Speaker 1: greet dinner featured several heavyweights in the field rehashing everything
Speaker 1: from alleged hair samples. The FBI still stands by deer
Speaker 1: hair in case you wondered to the hypothesis that Texas
Speaker 1: has as much right to call itself a bigfoot state
Speaker 1: as the misty forests of the Pacific Northwest, though, as
Speaker 1: Mark Wilson told the Mansfield News Journal, mainstream science is
Speaker 1: still unconvinced. National Sasquatch Awareness Day on October twenty first
Speaker 1: insured a social media surge with trending lists naming Washington State,
Speaker 1: West Virginia, Oregon, and British Columbia as top bigfoot hotspots
Speaker 1: based on sighting stats, climate and sheer wilderness. Places like
Speaker 1: Willow Creek, California claimed a Bigfoot Capital of the World
Speaker 1: Moniker again and Schumania County, Washington even reminded us it
Speaker 1: officially protects the creature under county law. Meanwhile, Decatur, Illinois,
Speaker 1: is offering Bigfoot night hikes this weekend, complete with s'mores
Speaker 1: and the ambient sounds of the forest, plus guest talks
Speaker 1: on famous local encounters, blending education and campfire lore. Announced
Speaker 1: by local parks officials. On the media front, Bigfoot enjoyed
Speaker 1: a star turn on the California Now podcast, where Josh
Speaker 1: Myers and a guest dissected the creature's role in northern
Speaker 1: California legends, adding to a recent groundswell of weird California
Speaker 1: content being shared online. Coast to Coast AM's Best Of
Speaker 1: featured yet another round of late night speculation about Bigfoot's
Speaker 1: intelligence and hidden culture, with author Tom Cantrell offering more
Speaker 1: mystical take still unverified by conventional science. Despite the buzz,
Speaker 1: there have been no verified sightings or scientific breakthroughs, just
Speaker 1: fresh debate, clever festivals, and a whole lot of new
Speaker 1: tiktoks about accidental blurry encounters in the woods. If Bigfoot
Speaker 1: is out there, he's as good at pr as he
Speaker 1: is at staying hidden. And that is it for today.
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