02-22-2025, 02:11 PM
Bigfoot... we struggle to determine it's reality here all the time, people discuss the cryptid all over the world...
So California legislators have suggested making Bigfoot the "official" California cryptid.
From ArsTechnica: Under new bill, Bigfoot could become California’s “official cryptid”
You might suspect that a one-line bill about Bigfoot that bears the number "666" is a joke, but AB-666 is apparently a serious offering from California Assemblymember Chris Rogers. Rogers represents a California district known for its Bigfoot sightings (or "sightings," depending on your persuasion—many of these have been faked), and he wants to make Bigfoot the "official cryptid" of the state.
Of course, it might go without saying that the media spokesperson in this article thinks it's all a joke... not to be taken seriously... a 'fluff' article about those wacky folks who will be pleased to find their mysterious object of interest is somehow "official."
I suppose it can be forgiven, given the stigma and stereotypes propagated over the generations about any people who don't conform to what has been declared 'real' or otherwise.
That's... pretty much the bill, which was introduced this week and already has Bigfoot advocates excited. SFGate talked to Matt Moneymaker, who it describes as "a longtime Bigfoot researcher and former star of the Animal Planet series Finding Bigfoot," about the bill. Moneymaker loves it, noting that he has personally “had a face-to-face encounter one time, after which I was absolutely sure they existed because I had one about 20 feet in front of me, growling at me.”
Rogers represents California Assembly District 2, a sprawling expanse of Northern California that includes the town of Willow Grove, epicenter of the early Bigfoot sightings back in the 1950s. Today, the small community boasts the Bigfoot Museum, the Bigfoot Motel, and the Bigfoot Steakhouse—to say nothing of Bigfoot's Barbershop, Bigfoot Equipment & Repair, and, of course, the Bigfoot Cannabis Company. The bill seems like an easy way to goose interest in Bigfoot and to reap the tourist dollars that come from that interest.
Washington state once experienced such a proposal.... it never made it out of committee....
But of course, there's also the hope of Bigfoot "tourism" dollars... and I imagine Hollywood can create all manner of 'productions' to bolster the new economic possibilities. It's what they do.
Meanwhile the mystery of what people are calling Bigfoot is still... a mystery.
So California legislators have suggested making Bigfoot the "official" California cryptid.
From ArsTechnica: Under new bill, Bigfoot could become California’s “official cryptid”
You might suspect that a one-line bill about Bigfoot that bears the number "666" is a joke, but AB-666 is apparently a serious offering from California Assemblymember Chris Rogers. Rogers represents a California district known for its Bigfoot sightings (or "sightings," depending on your persuasion—many of these have been faked), and he wants to make Bigfoot the "official cryptid" of the state.
Of course, it might go without saying that the media spokesperson in this article thinks it's all a joke... not to be taken seriously... a 'fluff' article about those wacky folks who will be pleased to find their mysterious object of interest is somehow "official."
I suppose it can be forgiven, given the stigma and stereotypes propagated over the generations about any people who don't conform to what has been declared 'real' or otherwise.
That's... pretty much the bill, which was introduced this week and already has Bigfoot advocates excited. SFGate talked to Matt Moneymaker, who it describes as "a longtime Bigfoot researcher and former star of the Animal Planet series Finding Bigfoot," about the bill. Moneymaker loves it, noting that he has personally “had a face-to-face encounter one time, after which I was absolutely sure they existed because I had one about 20 feet in front of me, growling at me.”
Rogers represents California Assembly District 2, a sprawling expanse of Northern California that includes the town of Willow Grove, epicenter of the early Bigfoot sightings back in the 1950s. Today, the small community boasts the Bigfoot Museum, the Bigfoot Motel, and the Bigfoot Steakhouse—to say nothing of Bigfoot's Barbershop, Bigfoot Equipment & Repair, and, of course, the Bigfoot Cannabis Company. The bill seems like an easy way to goose interest in Bigfoot and to reap the tourist dollars that come from that interest.
Washington state once experienced such a proposal.... it never made it out of committee....
But of course, there's also the hope of Bigfoot "tourism" dollars... and I imagine Hollywood can create all manner of 'productions' to bolster the new economic possibilities. It's what they do.
Meanwhile the mystery of what people are calling Bigfoot is still... a mystery.
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