The line to enter stretched down the block as over 2,000 visitors from around Louisiana and as far away as Montana and Pennsylvania packed the Natchitoches Events Center Saturday, September 7 for our area’s inaugural Bigfoot Festival.

Visitors could attend talks by five Bigfoot researchers and experts who described their efforts to find the elusive creatures. The event center hall featured vendors with a wide variety of outdoor and Bigfoot related merchandise. The Louisiana Dept of Wildlife and Fisheries brought their wildlife education materials. In addition to their more conventional items, they got into the spirit of the event with a poster on how to identify evidence of Bigfoot using conventional methods such as scat and footprints.

Regardless of one’s opinion on the existence of Bigfoot, we can all agree that the city’s first Bigfoot Festival was a resounding success that brought quite a few visitors to our area. We hope they and their families had a good time and will return for future events!