Bigfoot Bash coming to Michigan Magazine Museum July 23

Legend and reality will meet on Friday, July 23 at the first Bigfoot Bash at the Michigan Magazine Museum, 3309 North Abbe Road, in Comins.

The three-day bash will provide a serious study of Bigfoot in Michigan with dashes of fun and live entertainment. Comins is the "heart of Bigfoot country," with 35 documented sightings, said event organizers.

Several guest speakers are scheduled to appear during the weekend festivities to share stories of their own Bigfoot sightings.

Phil Shaw will lead the stream of guest speakers at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 24, with a presentation on the historical and amusing side of Bigfoot. Shaw graduated from Michigan State University with a Bachelor's degree in science.

At 1 p.m., architect Sanjay Singhal will share his childhood stories of seeing Bigfoot in South Dakota. Singhal graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's degree in architecture. He also has a Master's degree from the University of Notre Dame.

The event will also include presentations that featuring unpublished sighting reports and rare audio recordings.

For more event information, call (989) 826-3169.

GUEST SPEAKER LINKS
Our Strange World mention Phil Shaw
Sanjay Singhal's Blog

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Horacio Sanz of SNL follows Bigfoot on Twitter

on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon a very Bill Richardson–looking Horacio Sanz discusses what it's like to follow Bigfoot on Twitter.



We can only assume he means the tweets of Graham Roumieu from the hilarious "Bigfoot, I Not Dead" fame. He tweets for Bigfoot under the pseudonym @hellobigfoot

Its about a minute and 13 seconds into the video.


EXTERNAL LINKS
Boing Boing's Article on Me Bigfoot
Hello Bigfoot Tweets
Our review of Grahams 3rd Book

Wigs on sale at Wal-Mart; Man Makes Bigfoot Attraction

How do you beat a fiberglass castle maze, 50 ft mechanical dinosaurs, or stone henge made out of foam (foamhenge)? You buy 40 wigs at Wal-Mart and create a Bigfoot roadside adventure open to the public.



Mark Cline A.K.A. Professor Cline begins to explain why a roadside park with castles and dinosaurs did not satisfy his creative urges.

“When I was a kid, I was a member of the Bigfoot Fan Club,” said Mark Cline, recalling his misspent 1970s youth. “They sent you a record of his grunts.”

And what was the inspiration for his Bigfoot attraction 40 years later?

“Right after Halloween last year, I walked into Wal-Mart,” he said. “I saw 40 black afro-wigs at 90 percent off. I said, “I can get these for 80 cents apiece. What can I do with them? Well, I could make Bigfoot out of them….’ And, bam!, all of a sudden all the tumblers fell into place.”

The result is Mark Cline’s newest attraction, Hunt Bigfoot with a Redneck.

As Mark describes it, the attraction is an exercise in “adventure storytelling,” with lots of bad puns and monsters thrown in. Visitors meet the redneck outside his trailer in the woods. The redneck says that he and his kin have lived in harmony with Bigfoot for years. But now his singing Big Mouth Billy Bass is missing, and he intends to hunt down Bigfoot to get his fish back.

The hunting trail leads past several “redneck urban legends,” according to Mark, including a crashed flying saucer and a hermit Elvis. Bigfoot is finally spotted inside an outhouse and blown up with dynamite.

If your ever in the Virginia area it is one of the roadside attractions recommended by www.roadsideamerica.com

Professor Cline's Haunted Monster Museum & Dark Maze
Address: Hwy 130, Natural Bridge, VA
Directions: I-81 to the exits for Natural Bridge, then follow US 11 into town. At the junction of Hwy 130 and US 11, across Hwy 130 from the entrance to the Natural Bridge attraction.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Flash News Article
Roadside America Blog