Vermont Public Specials
Thousands attend Adirondack Sasquatch festival
Season 2024 Episode 15 | 2m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
The annual Sasquatch Festival and Calling Contest in NY draws visitors from around the country
In Whitehall, NY, the annual Sasquatch Festival and Calling Contest draws visitors from around the country and the world to celebrate these elusive, mythical creatures. You know, the big, hairy guy that’s said to wander around the woods. Thousands of people attend the event every year. Activities include guest speakers, games and local bands jamming in the park gazebo.
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Vermont Public Specials is a local public television program presented by Vermont Public
Vermont Public Specials
Thousands attend Adirondack Sasquatch festival
Season 2024 Episode 15 | 2m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
In Whitehall, NY, the annual Sasquatch Festival and Calling Contest draws visitors from around the country and the world to celebrate these elusive, mythical creatures. You know, the big, hairy guy that’s said to wander around the woods. Thousands of people attend the event every year. Activities include guest speakers, games and local bands jamming in the park gazebo.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipYou know, Sasquatch is a is a beloved kind of entity here in Whitehall, and it's given us this opportunity to create a festival.
So it's a really it's kind of a really special subject for Whitehall.
It's become part of the town.
The town has really embraced it.
The festival was actually started by a a man named, Dave Molenaar.
He had the idea for a Sasquatch calling contest after hearing about a mosquito calling contest.
Woop!
Woop!
But he thought, hey, if they have a mosquito calling contest, there's no way we can't have a Sasquatch calling contest.
Hyeah!
Oh, god.
We all live in our own bubbles.
So of course there's things out there that we don't know or tha we don't see on a daily basis.
Ohhhhh Uhhhhhh Oooohhhh Life with the possibility of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster is far superior to one without.
When the aliens came and built the pyramids, they took the Sasquatch and, spliced the DNA, combining it with the alien DNA.
And that's where humans came from.
Rooooaaaar Ooooooooh Ooooooooh.
Its that one piece of something in our community that kind of bonds everyone together.
They all really enjoy it.
I think it's just the idea that such a small community can bring such a large impact to such a big group of people, like there's people from Alaska here and we're like, you're out, you're here for support, you're in Whitehall, New York for Sasquatch.
And I think that just really shocks people.
It's that whole like, put yourself on the map kind of situation.
Woo!
Thank you very much.
Great job everybody.
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