Finding Bigfoot... in Bailey

On Saturday night I made my debut on national television.  Well, sort of.  There have been so many reported sightings of Bigfoot in this part of the front range of the Rockies in recent months that the Animal Planet show "Finding Bigfoot" came to Bailey to film an episode of the show here.  They always start by organizing a town hall meeting to hear stories from eye-witnesses, or those who have either heard vocalizations or seen footprints. I found out about the meeting from a friend who (along with another woman) both saw a Sasquatch at the end of May this year.  They were close enough to see the color of the hair, and they estimated that it was at least 7 feet tall.  Anyway, I digress.  When we found out that Animal Planet was going to film this for national TV, we quickly printed some t- shirts with the name of our (as yet unopened) coffee shop: The Sasquatch Outpost.  I also rushed to finish the life-size cutout of a Sasquatch that we plan to put on the outside of our building to advertise the coffee shop so I could bring it to the filming.  We arrived at the location of the meeting an hour and a half early, and the parking lot was already almost full.  I went and talked with one of the producers of the show, and told him that I'd brought a Sasquatch cutout if they were interested in putting it up somewhere for fun.  The Squatch is holding a sign that says, "I do not believe the evidence supports the existence of humans. signed, Sasquatch".  He consulted with the executive producer, and they gave me the O.K., thinking they could use if for some B shots.  Well, it was a big hit, and I was able to get a couple of members of the cast - Bobo and Cliff - to pose next to the Squatch cutout.  In the end, the producer loved it and he had the cast walk past it going in to the hall for the opening of the episode.  Hopefully it will be shown when the episode airs sometime in March! 
     There were 15 or 20 people who came forward as witnesses, and the filming took over 2 hours (which they'll probably edit down to 10 minutes).  It was a lot of fun, and maybe we'll get some free advertising for the coffee shop when "Finding Bigfoot" puts Bailey on the map.

Me and Bobo with my Sasquatch cutout

Another cast member Cliff with the big guy.  Cliff is a genuinely nice guy, and he offered to advertise our coffee shop on his website!

Some of the crowd waiting for the show to start.  Our friend Gwyn came with me - she's on the front row with her friend, both wearing our green Sasquatch Outpost T-shirts.  We got some great advertising, and maybe all three of us will be on national TV!

The cast at the end of the filming.