A travel website this week named California and Willow Creek in particular as one of the best placed to run into Bigfoot.
“I think it’s great,” 5th District Humboldt County Supervisor Ryan Sundberg said, adding wryly, “Obviously Bigfoot is real and if you want to see him come to Willow Creek.”
Expedia.com on Wednesday published its “20 Places Where You Could Encounter Bigfoot” and named California as the second best place with 437 “Sasquatch sightings” to date. The Times-Standard was unable to independently verify each of those sightings.
The blurb on California first mentions the sightings in the South Lake Tahoe area but features a photo of the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum with the Bigfoot statue out front.
“Closer to the coast, Willow Creek in lush Humboldt County — California’s Squatchiest county — has been the location of a few sightings as well as an exhibition at the Willow Creek–China Flat Museum.
The collection includes popular Bigfoot theories and artifacts, and you won’t be able to miss the museum as you drive by — just look for the towering 25-foot redwood ‘Squatch sculpture. Can’t get enough? Chow down at Bigfoot Steakhouse—they serve an omnivore-friendly menu of barbecue, burgers, and even some salads, too, and of course, steaks that could lure Sasquatch from the woods,” the story reads.
California beat out Florida which has 313 sightings but came in second to Washington state with 642 sightings.
Terri Castner is a board member of the museum.
“I saw the article yesterday,” she said Saturday.
Castner said she forwarded it to all her fellow board members for them to see, too. “It’s great,” she said.
Peggy McWilliams is also a board member and has been a museum docent over the past couple decades.
“I started at the museum as a docent long before Bigfoot showed up,” she said about the museum’s Bigfoot room.
A local Bigfoot enthusiast donated all his Bigfoot footprint casts he made to the museum for the Bigfoot room, which also features pictures of the elusive giant, maps and accounts of Bigfoot sightings, McWilliams said.
“A lot of people come from foreign countries all across the world to see the Bigfoot room,” she said.
Being a museum docent, McWilliams said she’s heard her fair share of sighting stories from people across the United State but also from Germany and Australia.
“I don’t doubt for a minute those stories because there’s more than one [Bigfoot],” she said.
It is if you want to milk the cash cow created by people who may have seen something 50 years ago.
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