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April 22, 2008

826 Boston, GOOD magazine, and the Greater Boston Bigfoot Research Institute wish to thank the 300+ people who attended the first annual North American Symposium on Sasquatch Research on April 12th! The unique conference– the first of its kind to be held in Boston– attracted throngs of the curious to the Institute including cryptozoologists and citizen scientists.
Mammalologist Eugene Mirman (HBO’s Flight of the Conchords) cracked up the crowd with his own cryptid inventions– the Very Long Mouse and the Harrison Ford-o-Taur– while award-winning author Jim Shepard read “Ancestral Legacies,” a story about soldiers pursuing the yeti. “Yeti Researcher” editor Josh Bearman and the world’s leading cryptozoologist Loren Coleman joined Shepard and Mirman for a panel titled “Does Sasquatch Exist?” The ensemble entertained questions like “Bigfoot: friend or foe?” and “Should it be illegal to shoot a Sasquatch?”
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