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EXPEDITION:
BIGFOOT!

The Sasquatch
Museum
1934 GA-515, Blue
Ridge, Georgia,
706-946-2601

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Beware of the hairy Bigfoot
model at The Sasquatch
Museum in Georgia.

Did a Bigfoot save a guy's life in 2000? And how about the guy
who didn't go into the woods for five years after seeing one?
Story and photos by JOE TENNIS

D

avid Bakara was 12 years old when
he saw 1972's "The Legend of Boggy Creek."
That movie focused on a Bigfoot
stalking an area of Arkansas. "And it was
portrayed as a real thing. It wasn't like a
joke," says Bakara, 56.
"At that time, I thought, 'There are a
lot of people that were seeing this thing.'
And it just amazed me to think there
were eight-nine-10-foot-tall hairy giants,
families of them, living on the outskirts
of civilization or hiding from us. I just
found that fascinating."

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Bakara later became a Bigfoot researcher while living in Florida, and, he
says, he saw or heard two Bigfoots while
in the Sunshine State at Alva. One, he
says, was about seven feet tall, about 60
feet away, hiding behind a tree. Another,
he says, "just sounded like a German
tank in the woods."
Five years ago, Bakara moved to the
mountains of Georgia to be "closer to
the woods" and, in 2016, opened Expedition: Bigfoot! The Sasquatch Museum
at Cherry Log, just off Ga. 515, between
Ellijay and Blue Ridge.

Since then, he says, people "from
every walk of life" have come to share
stories of sightings. "Sunday, within 15
minutes, we had four witnesses come
in," he says.
One man told of how a Bigfoot saved
his life in 2000.
Others relate stories of fear.
"The phenomenon itself is frightening," Bakara says. "We're not just chasing some monkey. When you see one of
these things, there is nothing humorous
about it."
Yet the museum's exhibits and videos



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