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METALINE FALLS- Saturday and Sunday, June 15-16, Bigfoot fans strong will converge on Metaline Falls for the annual 2024 Bigfoot Festival for food, Sasquatch souvenirs and Bigfoot sightings. Picture, please?
Kelly Flanagan, Pend Oreille Region Tourism Alliance president, said she anticipates a burgeoning 9,000 attendees during the weekend full of believers and nonbelievers alike.
“The RV park is already sold out,” she said. With 160 vendors, a Sunday pancake breakfast and search and rescue workers explaining how to be safe in the woods while searching for Bigfoot, there is something for everyone.
“If it brings economic growth, I’m a believer,” Flanagan said.
Five presenters are lined up to tickle the public’s fancy who include Thomas Sewid, Mel Skahan, Legacy Discoveries, Scot Violette of Squatch America, and Jesus Payan, Jr.
Sewid, a native from Vancouver, British Columbia, is the co-operator of the Sasquatch Island stage show, along with his wife Peggy Seaview. During their stage show, they will display and perform with traditional Sasquatch masks and other creature regalia.
Skahan is an enrolled member of the Yakama Nation in Washington state. During his forestry career was the main investigator for all the encounters of Bigfoot.
He has done many interviews with all media including Coast to Coast AM, The Robb Report, ESPN and The Yakima Herald Republic.
Established in April 2023, in Coeur d’Alene, Legacy Discoveries is a field research team dedicated to Sasquatch investigations.
Violette with his wife Hannah run Squatch America. Scot Violette, a student of anthropology, has devoted his life to pursuing what mainstream science long ago decided was merely a myth.
Payan Jr. is an actor who plays “Gonzo” on the television series “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” along with numerous other hit movies with John Cena, Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington.
Payan Jr. began his lifelong quest to find and understand the reality of the elusive Sasquatch. He was chosen as one of the field researchers for the “Falcon Project.”
Payan Jr. worked with numerous people who held doctorate degrees in anthropology and was part of the Cryptid Hominid Genome Project.
Attendees get a chance at dining with presenters on June 15 beginning at 5 p.m. with a social hour with dinner at 6 p.m.
Each table will be comprised of one researcher and eight guests who will enjoy a catered meal in a unique atmosphere. Only 80 seats available at $45 each.
The Bigfoot 5k run kickstarts the weekend festival. The run begins Friday, June 15 at 8 a.m. that. A Bigfoot Kid’s Color Run happens the day before, Thursday, at 6:30 p.m.
The course starts in downtown Metaline Falls, proceeds up and down Lehigh Hill with gorgeous mountain views, past the historic Cutter Theatre, along the beautiful Pend Oreille River and finish at the town’s Busta Park.
