About 30 miles east of Portland the residents of Sandy, Oregon, prepare for their annual Sandy Mountain Festival, July 11th and 12th, and some undeniable and blatant sasquatchploitation is in full swing. Sandy is a town in Clackamas County of approximately 8000 people on the Sandy River in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains and Mount Hood. A quick search reported bigfoot sightings in Clackamas County of BFRO’s database turns up a collection of Class A and Class B sightings.
Their local newspaper, the Sandy Post ran several strange articles concerning the Sasquatch Sightings contest, where $100 can be won if your entry form is randomly drawn by this Festival Queen.
Below are two of the articles.
Hunt is on for Sasquatch Jr. – June 9, 2009
Hunt intensifies for Sasquatch Jr. – June 23, 2009
And who found Sasquatch Jr. and collected the $100 prize?
Eight-teen year old Sandy High School graduate Zachary Funk.
If you are planning on attending the Sandy Mountain Festival, you had best make your reservations to stay at the Bigfoot Lodge and Trailer Park now.
Florida-based Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) will be working with the Utah Sasquatch Group to search a remote section of the Ashley National Forest, near the Utah-Wyoming border this weekend, looking for Bigfoot evidence.
BFRO returns to Utah for the first time since a 2007 expedition. Approximately 25 participants will spend the weekend setting up and monitoring audio and video equipment and hiking through the area looking for any sign of bigfoot. Reports as recent as two weeks ago of a strange hairy “reddish figure” and past discoveries of unexplained large foot prints in the area must have Utah Squatching Group member John R. Salmond excited to have the resources of the BFRO in Utah this weekend.
Utah is bit of a bigfoot hotspot, with multiple bigfoot groups. Utah Bigfoot claims there have been over 160 bigfoot sightings reported in Utah, most located around the Uintah mountains. Other hotspots include Big Cottonwood Canyon, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Timpanogas, Logan, Ogden, High Uintah’s, and West Desert.
I imagine the Bumble was the introduction to the ‘yeti’ to many children over the years who watched the 1964 stop motion animation Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer TV special.
The Bumble hates everything to do with Christmas. He gets knocked unconscious and all his teeth removed in the Christmas Special, but is seen at the end, with his teeth back, placing a star on the top of a Christmas tree.
So here on Day 4 of our 12 Days of Paranormal Christmas, we give a big shout out to the Bumble and we are sorry he got his arm cut off by Luke Skywalker in the beginning of Empire Strikes Back.
