Bigfoot Museum hosts opening day celebration

Bigfoot Museum hosts opening day celebration

The Willow Creek-China Flat Bigfoot Museum is holding its opening day Saturday, with a variety of events planned to celebrate. An opening blessing and land acknowledgment with Danny Ammon, Tsnungwe elder, takes place at 11 a.m., followed at 11:15 a.m. by a children’s presentation on “Sasquatch, Leprechauns, Giant Salamanders and All the Creatures Hiding Among Us in the Trinity Forest” with cryptobiologist Mike McFadin. From noon to 2 p.m., Ken G…

Bigfoot and Our Need to Believe

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox.The last time I was at the library, I came across John O’Connor’s The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster, while looking for another, less fun, book. O’Connor is a Bigfoot skeptic, and he comes at the topic with a journalist’s…

In search of the elusive Bigfoot

Part 1 of an occasional series looking at the history of and search for Bigfoot in Northern California. There’s a two-inch, no-frills advertisement tucked away in a corner of The Trinity Journal. Since 2018, Tom Morris, 66, has consistently placed this ad asking for tips, sightings, tracks and vocalizations of Bigfoot. Morris’ advertisement is black and white — binary, like the way people think about the giant beast, they either believe in it or…