Sasquatch Symposium a Smashing Success!

826 Boston, GOOD magazine, and the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute wish to thank the 300+ people who attended the first annual North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research on April 12th! The unique conference– the first of its kind to be held in Boston– attracted throngs of the curious to the Institute including cryptozoologists and citizen scientists.

Mammalologist Eugene Mirman (HBO’s Flight of the Conchords) cracked up the crowd with his own cryptid inventions– the Very Long Mouse and the Harrison Ford-o-Taur– while award-winning author Jim Shepard read “Ancestral Legacies,” a story about soldiers pursuing the yeti. “Yeti Researcher” editor Josh Bearman and the world’s leading cryptozoologist Loren Coleman joined Shepard and Mirman for a panel titled “Does Sasquatch Exist?” The ensemble entertained questions like “Bigfoot: friend or foe?” and “Should it be illegal to shoot a Sasquatch?”

Giant crab wrestling and leech ballet– both big crowd pleasers– rounded out the seminar’s events. DJ Ripley got the Bigfoot crowd moving as others perused the Institute’s full line of research gear like the Disaster Pod and Jungle Hygiene Kit. Throughout the Symposium, registrants disappeared, one after another, into the Simulactron, the Institute’s own climate-simulation chamber.

We thank everyone who attended this year’s Symposium! Stay tuned for the Institute’s upcoming film series, which will feature such legendary flicks as “Snow Beast” and “Sasquatch Odyssey.” And, as this year’s Symposium fades, remember the sage words of Bigfoot researcher Daniel Perez– “It looks like a man in a Bigfoot suit until you see a man in a Bigfoot suit.”

Thank you, too, to the following sponsors: GOOD magazine, Sweet Leaf Tea, Sweet Riot, and Clif Bar.

Photo credits: Ben Sisto

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