I went here once. It's two rooms filled with all kinds of Bigfoot memorobilia.
The admittance charge is up to the visitor: they could give nothing, or something.
Posted on 11/29/2024 11:55:11 AM PST by nickcarraway
The Bigfoot Discovery Museum in the Santa Cruz Mountains will close after 20 years as its owner retires.
"It's going to be weird for me. Yeah. I'm so used to this, and I've been doing this for so, so long. To suddenly have it all go away, and everything is going to be strange," said owner Michael Ruggs.
The iconic museum, located alongside Highway 9 in Felton, has embodied Santa Cruz's quirkiness for twenty years.
As Ruggs retires, the museum will retire alongside him.
"Well, anywhere from 30 to 70 people come in the door and, they'll check everything out, and, I show them our local sighting map, and, they're usually amazed to see how many sightings there have been in this area. I was amazed, too, because when I opened it, I didn't expect that to happen," Ruggs said.
Ruggs says he first saw Bigfoot when he was a kid.
"I looked upstream, and then when I look back towards the woods. Whoa, here's this big hairy guy standing there looking at me. And we had eye contact for about the count of three. Then I heard my mother screaming. Mikey, where are you? So I thought, oh, jeez, I better get back," Ruggs recalled.
California man who went missing for 25 years found after sister sees his picture in the news The museum boasted statues, collectibles, plaster foot and hand prints of the creature, and a detailed exhibit on the Patterson-Gimlin film.
For visitors, it was all about the "what if?"
"Read all the details, take into account what is there, what could be, you know, and keep your mind open when you're trying to go through it all. So just enjoy it," Allison Luna a visitor said.
Ruggs says it's bittersweet to say goodbye to the museum and the community.
"I would say, thank you for your support. Thank you for coming in, bringing in friends and relatives. It has helped make this happen. And, this is a wonderful community here in Santa Cruz. I just love this place," Ruggs said.
I went here once. It's two rooms filled with all kinds of Bigfoot memorobilia.
The admittance charge is up to the visitor: they could give nothing, or something.
He can’t find some gooney goo goo to take it over?
Giorgio Tsoukalos would be perfect for the job.
Was thinking along those lines...
Actually it was Whoopi Goldberg he saw.
This one seems to be still going, in Nebraska. I think this is where the ‘ripped and braided flag’ stories come from:
https://www.1011now.com/2024/02/01/bigfoot-museum-offers-walks-weird-side-hastings/
Might give him a call.
Perfect.
Do they offer any scholarly lectures by Bigfoot researchers?
Keep it in the family.
Thus, the reason why the 'legend' persists. Ditto for the Loch Ness monster.
It's all about the rubes and their dollars.
I’m not sure. Bigfoot has always seemed strangely plausible to me. (Much more so than ‘extraterrestrial visitors’, despite the many sightings of impossible things in the sky by credible people.)
Bigfoots aren't into publishing research.
Bigfoot researchers are into it - they hold symposia and do all that scientifical stuff.
I’m a fan of Dr. Meldrum, and was of John Green.
There’s another Bigfoot Museum near Portland. I almost stopped to take a look, but my traveling companion wasn’t interested.
The only 'evidence' for BF are foot prints and blurry photos/shaky video.
No scat, no skeletons, no tufts of fur. Every other animal in the forest leaves these, but none for bigfoot.
I don’t know. The Patterson/Gimlin film and the commentary I’ve seen on it seem very convincing. For its time, I don’t see how that film could have been faked.
And if the creature exists, it’s not anything like ‘every other animal’.
What about birth certificates and mortgages?
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