Oct 24

Bigfoot conference set for today in Hot Springs

MISSOULA, Mont. – Montana will get a peek into the world of cryptozoology on Oct. 24, when the first-ever Big Sky Bigfoot Conference is held at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs.

The conference includes a list of speakers from around the country, including one living in Missoula.

Brian Sullivan runs the Montana Bigfoot Project Facebook page. He will speak on the best safety practices when encountering one of the creatures.

Of course, there is no proof that Bigfoot exists at all, and much of the scientific community dismisses the notion entirely. Sullivan does not. He says he stood 40 feet away from a Bigfoot when he was just a boy.

“He was holding the branches apart, from about 9 feet up, that’s where his head was,” Sullivan said.

He said it bared its teeth at him, and he grabbed his snow sled and left.

The Minnesota native’s curiosity led him to Montana, where he runs Montana Bigfoot Project and spends most of the warm months out in the woods, looking for signs.

Sullivan hopes the conference will encourage people to share if they’ve seen the creature.

“They’re so afraid of the ridicule factor that they’ll never talk about it, and it bothers them the rest of their life,” he said.

Sullivan believes Bigfoots hunt for deer in Missoula’s Pattee Canyon. Other than footprints, he says Bigfoots mark their territory or areas of danger by bending trees or stacking dead limbs. In Pattee Canyon, he believes an animal skeleton he found 14 feet off the ground on a tree limb could be a marker as well.

“There was no meat on the bones when I found it,” he said. “It must be a marker of some kind; there’s no reason for anything to put it there.”

Source: http://m.nbcmontana.com/news/bigfoot-conference-set-for-saturday-in-hot-springs/35971916

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