Bigfoot Research - Search for the Susquehanna Yeti
The Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society is proud to announce the return of the East Coast Bigfoot Conference for 2008, which will feature Bob Chance as a keynote speaker.
The East Coast Bigfoot Conference will be held September 27, 2008 from Noon to 7:00 p.m. (with doors opening at 11:00 a.m.) at Gator’s Lounge, located above Pitzer’s Townhouse Restaurant at 101 S. 5th Street, Jeannette, Pennsylvania 15644. Phone: 724-527-5262.
Reserved seating is $20.00 and General Admission is $10.00.
The location is 35 miles East of downtown Pittsburgh, PA and 50 miles east of the Pittsburgh International Airport. For directions from the airport click here: Airport to Pitzer’s Townhouse Restaurant
For a complete listing of Hotels/Motels in the surrounding area please click here: HOTELS/MOTELS
Bob Chance was also a guest speaker at the 2006 East Coast Bigfoot Conference, which I attended. The 240- mile drive to get there only took me about 3.5 hours, but it was worth it.
It was my first conference and I wasn’t sure what to expect. I really feared it would be held in an overlit VFW hall with a crowd of 17, but I was pleasantly surprised. I think there were more than 400 people there and the presenters and vendors were really great.
If you’re a fan of hairy hominids you could have had a field day and emptied your bank account, indeed it appeared many did, purchasing items like Harry and the Hendersons dolls, DVDs, posters, casts, books and artwork. I got a Pennsylvania Bigfoot Society shirt, a couple stickers for my car and a Weird Pennsylvania book and was quite happy.
The first speaker, Rick Noll, was one of the guys on site when the Skookum body cast was made out West - you know the imprint of what they believe was a bigfoot lying on its side in the mud and reaching for apples. He was very knowledgable and wowed everyone with footage from New York, which shows a couple of drunken teens in the foreground and an apparent 6- or 7-foot biped in the background lifting some type of arboreal ape (baby bigfoot?) into a tree. You could hear a pin drop in the room as people watched this tailless simian bounce around and swing from the limbs in the tree.
The second speaker, Scott Herriott, is a stand-up comic and a former host on Tech TV who had a bigfoot encounter a decade ago. While not as impressive as Noll’s footage and wherewithall, Herriott kept the crowd rollling with laughter, especially when his DVD Journey to Squatchdom kept skipping and jamming up in the player.
Bob Chance didn’t have any products or books to hawk, although his new book Earthline is coming out soon, but he did bring live snakes - including a copperhead - for the visitors to view and handle. Not the copperhead. He spoke in a booming voice, without the microphone, about the struggles of trying to prove the existance of a Bigfoot anywhere, much less the unlikely East Coast.
The highlight of the day was when a young boy asked Chance if he ever considered if Bigfoots were Werewolves because both were hairy and came out at night. He could have blown the question off or made a joke of it, but Chance leveled with the kid (”I’m a little shaky on werewolves…”) and encouraged him to keep going with that line of thinking because investigators constantly need to keep an open mind in tracking down new leads.
It was a well-run event with just the right balance of serious investigators and hokey sensationalism. There was no conference in 2007, but now the East Coast bigfoot investigators are back in 2008 and looking to make up for lost time. See you there.
