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Expedition: Bigfoot, The Sasquatch Museum

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Expedition: Bigfoot, The Sasquatch Museum

Cherry Log, GA · North Georgia Mountains$Adults and teens $9, ages 5 to 12 $6, under 5 free

About

Tucked along Highway 515 between Blue Ridge and Ellijay, this 4,000-square-foot shrine to Sasquatch claims the largest permanent collection of Bigfoot artifacts anywhere, and it does not pretend to be neutral about whether the big guy is real. Founded in 2016 by Navy veteran and Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization member David Bakara and his wife Malinda, it packs in wall after wall of footprint and handprint casts, sighting maps, hair samples, and listening stations piping out genuine recorded grunts and howls. You can settle into the Sasquatch Theater for looping eyewitness footage, gawk at the world's only Bigfoot research and tech ATV the Bakaras once drove on Florida investigations, and find a cast of a rare Bigfoot butt-print laid out on red velvet. Cap it with the gift shop, where David sells footprint casting kits he assembles himself.

Highlights

Largest permanent collection of Bigfoot artifactsWall of footprint and handprint castsSasquatch Theater with eyewitness footageWorld's only Bigfoot research and tech ATVListening stations of real grunts and howls

Getting there

1934 GA-515, Cherry Log, GA 30522

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