Update: 2014 Original Texas Bigfoot Conference
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on September 30th, 2014
Update: Rob Riggs, author of In The Big Thicket: On The Trail of the Wild Man, Weird Texas and Bigfoot: Exploring the Myth & Discovering the Truth has been added to the speaker lineup!
The Original Texas Bigfoot Conference returns to Jefferson, TX. Established in 2001 as the original annual Bigfoot Conference in Texas by the Texas Bigfoot Research Center. Craig Woolheater, Monica Rawlins and Gino Napoli bring back the event on Texas Bigfoot Weekend as proclaimed on October 15, 2005 by the mayor of the City of Jefferson, TX. The third weekend in Jefferson is proclaimed as Texas Bigfoot Weekend.
The event takes place on October 18, 2014 and will be held at the Jefferson Transportation and Visitors Center.
The daylong event takes place from 10 AM to 5 PM on Saturday, with a VIP catered BBQ dinner and movie screening from 6 to 10 PM that night.
Jefferson Transportation and Visitors Center
305 E. Austin St.
Jefferson, TX 75657
Confirmed speakers:
John Kirk III
Lyle Blackburn
Nick Redfern
Ken Gerhard
Rob Riggs
Schedule of Events
Saturday, October 18:
10:00 doors open – vendor tables open
11:30 opening comments
11:40 Nick Redfern
12:30 break
12:40 Ken Gerhard
1:30 break
1:40 Rob Riggs
2:30 break
2:40 Lyle Blackburn
3:30 break
3:40 John Kirk III
4:30 Speaker Q&A/panel discussion
5:30 presentations end
6:00 Catered BBQ dinner
7:30 Something In The Woods trailer
Followed directly by screening of Willow Creek
General admission – $20
Children under 12- $10
Catered dinner/movie screening – $25 ($30 at door)
VIP package – $45 ($50 at door)
Reserved conference seating
Catered dinner/movie screening
Registration Info/Buy Tickets
Host Hotel: Executive Inn & Suites Jefferson
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I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
The conference was wonderful. Great to be back in Jefferson Texas. The conference belongs in deep East Texas.
This event was my first time listening to Rob Riggs, he did not disappoint. His stories of the Big Thicket was great.