sQuatch Fest Report from our nanasbananas

 Well now, here I am with a short report on sQuatch Fest. Wow, there were at least 4 dozen vendors of all kinds. Some Squatch related, some other things, like soaps, jewelry, etc. Saw one with Native American flavored stuff and she had a gorgeous small dream catcher made of leather strips. A beer garden, duh. 😀 The food vendors were right out the door and it all smelled so good. Of course there were those who were selling books and even foot castings and such, talking about their own sightings and experiences, but they seemed sketchy to me. I think you'd recognize one guy, got a pic of him. Talked to him a bit, nice guy, didn't seem too strange. lol But he has that mind that may or not include things like aliens? I've seen a pic on here (see the shirt front?). He goes lots of places, next is Forks, Canby, and Marblemouth.

The main draw for us was the experts who not only had their stuff, some with books, but each one was scheduled to give a talk for about an hour telling us about their experiences and evidence and such. We were only able to attend one of the talks, Cliff Barackman. He's the one who was on the Finding Bigfoot reality show on Animal Planet. He had slides showing lots of footprints, history of the search from way back, etc. He used to be a teacher, now most of his time is taken by the North American Bigfoot Center in Boring, OR. He's been gathering tons of stuff from Bigfoot researchers through the years.

The lady declines to be identified, 😀 but I like her hat. lol (Says Bigfoot Country on it with a pic of Bigfoot and some footprints). 

My kid wanted to hear Dr. Jeff Meldrum who is very well known, but we couldn't get there early enough. He did purchase his book though. Thinking I'll have to read it, so much I don't know about.

Cliff Barrackman and Dr. Meldrum are very much science and evidence guys. In other words, Bigfoot is real, an animal that has yet to be discovered/proven to exist although he's been seen by many people and continues to be. That's always been my mindset as well. He's real, an animal, not a myth, though there are mythical-like stories and traditions about him. It's natural for our minds to imagine or interpret things in different ways, especially if we can't explain them to our satisfaction.

Guess that's the best I can do, sorry. But you can bet I'm going again next year, God willing! Maybe we can attend more of the presentations next time, and learn more.

(THANKS SO MUCH NANA!)