Bigfoot hunters gather in Hattiesburg

[struggle4progress]

By The Associated Press
on June 06, 2016 at 11:13 AM
updated June 06, 2016 at 11:21 AM

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi — ... people interested in .. Bigfoot gathered Saturday for the 10th annual Down South Bigfoot Rally ... at the Paul B. Johnson Park.

Don McDonald, from the Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization, ... told WDAM television that he has spent 20 years trying to track down .. Bigfoot. Every year he hosts this event ...

McDonald says he's been called "crazy" ...

During the event, he showed ... a map with places where Bigfoot has been sighted in Mississippi ...

http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2016/06/hes_out_there_bigfoot_hunters.html

[pinboy3niner]

1. 20 years yeti's still goin'?

That's abominable!

[GreydeeThos]

2. You don't 'reckon Bigfoot was caused by radiation exposure

When you think of nuclear test sites, remote Pacific islands and desert wastelands come to mind. Not many people think of Hattiesburg, MIssissippi -- but the United States carried out two nuclear tests in a little town just outside that city in 1964, in an operation that went by the reassuring-to-no-one moniker Project Dribble. No one saw any mushroom clouds, though, because the two nukes they tested were detonated underground, in a 3,000-foot-deep shaft drilled into a reservoir of ancient salt called the Tatum Salt Dome (left over from the Mesozoic era, when that part of the state was covered by sea water). Those were the early days of the Nuclear Test Ban, and we were trying to figure out if other nations could cheat by doing underground tests that could fool seismographs -- so we did a few of our own.

Mushroom Clouds in Mississippi: the Little-Known History of Nuclear Testing in the American South

[pinboy3niner]

3. He'd certainly be easier to find if he glowed in the dark

[Just reading posts]

4. Um...good luck with that.

[pinboy3niner]

5. Welcome to DU

--Bigfoot

[KamaAina]

6. nolabear has got to be mixed up in this somehow

She is a living link between the Gulf South and the Pacific Northwest.

[pinboy3niner]

7. Indeed! After gettng her heads-up tweet...

...the Bigfoot clan decided to spend that weekend having a family reunion in Alabama. The shuffleboard tournament was the highlight of the event.

[progressoid]

8. McDonald says he's been called "crazy"

Crazy? No way.

[Mendocino]

9. PT Barnum was right

n/t