Go see for yourself
Festivals, museums, statues and whole towns built around a monster. Dates move every year, so check with the organizer before you drive.
Checked October 2026. Dates move from year to year; always check the organizer before traveling. Coordinates marked approx are town centers.
Downtown Point Pleasant, WV, US
The biggest cryptid festival in the country. Started in 2002 by Mothman Museum founder Jeff Wamsley, when a couple hundred people came. Now draws crowds estimated in the tens of thousands, with speakers, live music, vendors, costumes and tours of the TNT area where the 1966 sightings began.
Fouke Community Center, 201 E Redcut Rd, Fouke, AR, US · Website
A research-minded gathering about the Fouke (Boggy Creek) Monster. Friday dinner and talk, then a Saturday of speakers, vendors, guided swamp tours and a closing Q&A. 2026 speakers included Lyle Blackburn and Chester Moore. Ticketed.
The Dancing Ranch Farm, 490 Miller County 218, Fouke, AR, US
A newer, family-style festival on the same legend as the Fouke event. Cryptid speakers, live music, food, kids' rides and petting zoo, wrestling and an outdoor movie. Separate from the Fouke Monster Festival.
Veterans Park, Willow Creek, CA, US · Website
A small-town celebration in the self-styled Bigfoot Capital of the World, running since the 1960s. Parade, Bigfoot calling contest, costume contest, live music, more than 70 vendors, and an ice cream social at the Willow Creek-China Flat Museum.
Main Street, downtown Bishopville, SC, US · Website
Lee County's festival for the Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp, first reported in 1988. Parade, food trucks, music and arts and crafts (vendors set up inside the S.C. Cotton Museum), plus a car show at the train depot.
Bridgeview Harbour Marina, 54 Harbour Lane, Port Henry, NY, US · Website
Port Henry's long-running party for Champ, the Lake Champlain monster. Cardboard boat race, carnival games, music, vendors and book signings on the lakeshore. Running for about four decades.
Honobia (Kiamichi Mountains), OK, US · Website
A remote mountain festival with researcher talks, campfire encounter stories, vendors, music and camping. Long known as the Honobia Bigfoot Festival and Conference; the 2025 edition ran under the name Bigfoot at the 40 after organizational changes.
Greater Smokies Event Grounds, 7930 E Lamar Alexander Pkwy, Townsend, TN, US · Website
A one-day festival at the quiet side of the Smokies with guest speakers, vendors, food trucks, music, and a 5K and fun run. Cliff Barackman has been a featured speaker.
Historic downtown Marion, NC, US · Website
Free downtown festival tied to a reported 2019 Lake James sighting. Bigfoot calling contest, author talks, music, vendors, costumed characters, a Jeep zone and a 5K. Free shuttle.
Salt Fork Lodge and Conference Center, Salt Fork State Park, Cambridge, OH, US · Website
One of the largest Bigfoot conferences, held at a state park that is itself a well-known sighting area. A full day of talks by researchers and TV personalities, then a Sunday town hall.
Jefferson Tourism and Visitor Center, Jefferson, TX, US
Billed as Texas's original annual Bigfoot conference, hosted by the Texas Bigfoot Research Conservancy in a historic East Texas river town. Talks, meet-and-greets and piney-woods lore.
Marienville Town Circle, 100 W Spruce St, Marienville, PA, US · Website
A three-day weekend in the Allegheny National Forest country with a Bigfoot Hunt competition, a 5K, and food and craft vendors.
Downtown Sharon, along the Shenango River, PA, US
A brand-new riverside community festival. Program details were thin at the time of checking.
Paranormal Books & Curiosities, 621 Cookman Ave, Asbury Park, NJ, US · Website
A folklore festival built around the Jersey Devil and Walpurgisnacht traditions: films, walking tours, a vendor market and costumed events. Held at the shore, not in the Pine Barrens.
700 East Ash Street, Mason, MI, US · Website
A free-or-donation conference with presentations of video, photo and audio evidence on Bigfoot and the Michigan Dogman.
Days Inn & Suites, 350 Days Drive, Sutton (VIP night at the Flatwoods Monster Museum), WV, US · Website
Speakers including Flatwoods expert Frank Feschino Jr., podcasters, vendors and a costume contest. Pairs well with the Mothman Festival a week later.
Downtown Fayetteville and local trails, WV, US · Website
Appalachian folklore weekend near the New River Gorge: costumed Bigfoot and Mothman on the trails, a cryptid art walk and art show, scavenger hunt, kids' junior cryptozoologist program, Bigfoot hunts and ghost tours.
Bladenboro, NC, US · Website
A small-town fall festival for the Beast of Bladenboro, the 1950s animal-killing mystery. Music, carnival rides, costume contests, crafts and food.
Remer, MN, US
An annual summer celebration in a Cass County town that claims Bigfoot reports back to the late 1800s. A 2009 trail-camera photo near town drew wide interest.
400 Main Street, Point Pleasant, WV, US
Founded by local author Jeff Wamsley (opened 2006). Holds original handwritten 1966 witness statements, props from The Mothman Prophecies film, and decades of clippings. Guided Mothman tours offered. The Mothman statue is around the corner.
490 Broadway, Bangor, ME, US · Website
Loren Coleman's museum, founded 2003, which calls itself the largest and oldest cryptozoology museum in the world. Moved from Portland to a historic Art Deco building in Bangor in 2026 with about four times the space. Thousands of items, including a Sasquatch exhibit. Some renovation still under way.
1934 Highway 515, Cherry Log, GA, US · Website
A 4,000-square-foot museum and sighting-report center founded by David and Malinda Bakara. Footprint and handprint casts, audio of reported vocalizations, witness audio stations, a small theater and exhibits on the yeti and skunk ape.
38949 Hwy 299, Willow Creek, CA, US
A local history museum with a dedicated Bigfoot wing and a large carved Bigfoot on the building. About 30 footprint casts, a 1958 cast described as the first, a 1947 footprint photo, and Patterson-Gimlin film material. Admission by donation.
31297 SE Hwy 26, Boring, OR, US · Website
Opened August 2019 by Cliff Barackman of Finding Bigfoot and his wife. Casts, witness accounts, maps, photo and audio evidence, and a life-size Sasquatch named Murphy. On the road to Mount Hood.
208 Main Street, Sutton, WV, US · Website
Doubles as the Braxton County visitor center. Replicas, drawings, figurines and memorabilia on the 1952 Flatwoods sighting. Two miles off I-79 Exit 62.
Fouke, AR, US
A convenience store with a small Fouke Monster museum corner: track casts, newspaper stories, photos and souvenirs, plus well-reviewed barbecue. Reviews in 2026 report a new owner after long-time owner Denny Roberts sold it.
Former Drumnadrochit Hotel, Drumnadrochit, IV63 6AN, Scotland, UK · Website
Guided one-hour walk through rooms of the old hotel where the modern Nessie story began with Aldie Mackay's 1933 report. Films, artifacts and the history of searches. Also runs a one-hour Deepscan boat cruise on the loch.
40904 Tamiami Trail East (Trail Lakes Campground), Ochopee, FL, US
Dave Shealy's roadside base in the Everglades for studying the skunk ape. Gift shop, reptile exhibit and a campground. About 36 miles east of Naples on US 41.
Harrison Hot Springs, BC, Canada
A small museum in the town that calls itself Canada's Sasquatch capital, home of the late researcher John Green. The town also has Sasquatch statues and street-sign silhouettes, and Sasquatch Provincial Park is nearby.
Waldomore, Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library, Clarksburg, WV, US · Website
The files, 300 books, magazines, photos and props of Gray Barker, who wrote up the Flatwoods Monster and popularized the Men in Black. A research archive rather than a display museum; strict reading-room rules.
Highway 9, just south of Felton, CA, US
Michael Rugg's museum in the Santa Cruz Mountains ran about 20 years, with casts, memorabilia and a map of local sighting reports. It closed when Rugg retired; a mural on the barn is reported to remain. Some exhibits reportedly went to Oregon.
4th Street at Main, Point Pleasant, WV, US
A 12-foot polished-steel Mothman with red eyes, unveiled in 2003. The most photographed cryptid statue in America, steps from the Mothman Museum.
About 6 miles north of Point Pleasant on Route 62, WV, US
The old WWII explosives works with concrete igloos where the first 1966 Mothman sighting was reported. Tours run during the Mothman Festival.
Flatwoods and around Braxton County (along Hwy 19), WV, US · Website
Five giant chairs shaped like the Flatwoods Monster, placed around the county by the visitors bureau. Photograph all five to earn a free 'Braxie' sticker. The town sign reads 'Home of the Green Monster.'
Willow Creek (Hwy 299 and Hwy 96), CA, US
A carved Bigfoot at the museum, a Bigfoot statue and mural at a gas station, a community-building mural and the Bigfoot Motel, all within a mile. Gateway to the Bluff Creek area.
Bluff Creek, Six Rivers National Forest, near Orleans, CA, US
Where Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin shot their 1967 film. The exact spot was lost for decades and relocated in 2011. Not a developed site.
Port Henry lakeshore, NY, US · Website
A large Champ model and a history marker on Lake Champlain in the village that hosts Champ Day.
Rhinelander Area Chamber of Commerce grounds, WI, US
Fiberglass Hodag by local artist Tracy Goberville. The Hodag began as Eugene Shepard's 1893 hoax and is now the city's symbol and high-school mascot. Two more hodags at the ice arena; the Hodag Country Festival is in town.
Fouke, Miller County (about 15-25 min south of Texarkana), AR, US
Home of the Boggy Creek legend and setting of the 1972 film The Legend of Boggy Creek. Stop at Monster Mart; swamp tours run during the festival.
Bishopville, Lee County, SC, US
Where 17-year-old Christopher Davis reported a 7-foot scaly creature in 1988. The story ran in more than 100 papers and local shops sold Lizard Man merchandise. One 1988 sighting report was later admitted to be a hoax.
Harrison Hot Springs, Fraser Valley, BC, Canada
Sasquatch statues at the village entrance, silhouette street signs, a small museum and hiking in Sasquatch Provincial Park. The word Sasquatch comes from a Halkomelem term, and the area is tied to the 1941 Ruby Creek report. Sasquatch Days is held with the Chehalis community.
Drumnadrochit, Highlands, Scotland, UK · Website
The main Nessie village: the Loch Ness Centre, the Nessieland attraction with a gift shop and playground, and boat trips on the loch. Base for the 2023 volunteer search of about 300 people.
Remer, Cass County, MN, US
A small northwoods town that has leaned into Bigfoot, with a summer festival and claims of reports going back to the 1800s.
Jefferson, Marion County, TX, US
A historic East Texas river town that hosts the Texas Bigfoot Conference and a twice-yearly paranormal conference, with the Excelsior House, billed as Texas's oldest continuously operating hotel.
Honobia, Kiamichi Mountains, OK, US
A hamlet of roughly 130-150 people in the Kiamichi Mountains that has become a gathering place for Bigfoot enthusiasts, with the Bigfoot Outpost shop and an annual festival.
Bray Road near Elkhorn, Walworth County, WI, US
The rural road behind the Beast of Bray Road, a wolf-like upright creature reported mainly in the 1980s-90s and made famous by reporter Linda Godfrey. No attraction here; it is a public road through farmland.
Downtown Marion, McDowell County, NC, US · Website
A mountain town with a Bigfoot mural and Bigfoot merchandise downtown, near Lake James where a 2019 sighting launched the WNC Bigfoot Festival.
Highway 9 south of Felton, CA, US
The museum is gone, but a Bigfoot mural on the red barn is reported to remain. Private property; view from the road.