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FIELD REPORT · NATIONAL · OCT 14, 2026A $1 Million Bigfoot Bounty: Why Prizes for Proof Never Get PaidHard Mountain Dew’s $1 million Bigfoot Bounty runs to Nov. 30, but its own rules say the top prize won’t be paid. A history of bounties nobody collected.FIELD REPORT · WASHINGTON · OCT 14, 2026A Boulder, a Jogger and a Figure on the Wind River HighwayA driver says she saw a reddish-brown upright figure above a fresh rockslide near Carson, Washington, in May. What the report shows – and what it can’t.FIELD REPORT · NORTHEAST · OCT 14, 2026A Costume, a Road Crossing and a Pond: The Northeast’s Bigfoot SummerA Connecticut night-drive sighting, the ‘Syracuse Figure’ photos from upstate New York and a Maine ‘Bigfoot’ that police unmasked: the Northeast in 2026.FIELD REPORT · WASHINGTON · OCT 14, 2026A Reel From a Locked Safe Reopens the Patterson–Gimlin DebateCapturing Bigfoot, out October 20, says a 1966 reel shows a rehearsal for the famous Bigfoot film. What is claimed, by whom, and what remains unproven.FIELD REPORT · ALASKA & HAWAII · OCT 14, 2026Alaska and Hawaii: Land Otters, a Lake Mystery and the Night MarchersA Hawaiian writer pushes back on night-marcher myths, a Tlingit elder explains the Kóoshdaa Káa, and Iliamna Lake’s monster hunt remains unfinished.FIELD REPORT · GREAT LAKES · OCT 14, 2026Bessie Rides Again: Lake Erie’s Monster Becomes a Plastic ProtestA 15-foot ‘trash monster’ made of river litter brought Lake Erie’s Bessie back to Cleveland. Here’s the legend behind her, and what scientists say.FIELD REPORT · OHIO · OCT 14, 2026Eight Reported Sightings in Five Days: Inside Ohio’s 2026 Bigfoot FlapA burst of reported Bigfoot encounters around Portage County in March drew national coverage, a joking sheriff, a flood of fakes and some sharp skepticism.FIELD REPORT · CALIFORNIA · OCT 14, 2026Fresno Throws Its First Nightcrawler Fest for a Cryptid Born on VideoA 2007 security-camera clip of two walking ‘pairs of pants’ now has a library card and a festival. How Fresno turned a viral cryptid into a mascot.FIELD REPORT · BRITISH COLUMBIA · OCT 14, 2026From Harrison to Comox: British Columbia’s 2026 Sasquatch SeasonSts’ailes Sasquatch Days, a Bigfoot town hall in Victoria, Squatch Watch in the Comox Valley and an eDNA hunt on Vancouver Island: B.C.’s Sasquatch year.FIELD REPORT · KENTUCKY · OCT 14, 2026Goatmen and Goblins: Kentucky’s Monster Festivals Have a Big YearLouisville’s Goatman Festival marks ten years at Pope Lick, and Hopkinsville’s GoblinCon grew in year two. How Kentucky turned two legends into events.EXPLAINER · SCIENCE · OCT 14, 2026How Scientists Test Bigfoot Evidence – and What Would Convince ThemHair DNA, eDNA, footprint casts and the Patterson–Gimlin film: how each kind of Bigfoot evidence has been tested, what it showed and what is still missing.FIELD REPORT · IDAHO · OCT 14, 2026Idaho’s Bigfoot Summer: Campers’ Weekend Claims and a Hiker’s SightingTwo 2026 witness reports from Idaho’s backcountry – teen campers near Lost Valley Reservoir and a hiker at Deadwood Dam – and what they do and don’t show.FIELD REPORT · GREAT LAKES · OCT 14, 2026Is the Michigan Dogman Due in 2027? How a 1987 Prank Set the ClockMichigan media are counting down to 2027, when the Dogman is supposedly due again. The 10-year cycle traces back to a radio DJ’s April Fools’ song.FIELD REPORT · MEXICO & THE SOUTHWEST · OCT 14, 2026La Llorona’s October: Xochimilco’s Canals to the Rio GrandeMexico City’s long-running La Llorona show on Xochimilco’s canals is back, and the Weeping Woman is on stage in Texas and New Mexico this month too.FIELD REPORT · CAROLINAS & GEORGIA · OCT 14, 2026Lizard Man, Altie, Normie and the Beast: The Carolinas and GeorgiaBishopville’s fifth Lizard Man Stomp, a new marker for Lake Norman’s Normie, the Beast of Bladenboro’s festival and Georgia’s Altamaha-ha in 2026.FIELD REPORT · APPALACHIA · OCT 14, 2026Mothman at 60: A Packed Festival, a Ballet and the TNT Area’s PastPoint Pleasant’s Mothman Festival drew big crowds, a Charleston ballet sold out its opening night, and the TNT area’s wartime past got a fresh look.FIELD GUIDE · FESTIVALS · OCT 14, 2026North American Cryptid Festivals: The 2026–27 CalendarFrom Point Pleasant’s Mothman Festival to Houma’s Rougarou Fest: where and when the big monster festivals happen, and the latest dates we could confirm.FIELD REPORT · PACIFIC NORTHWEST · OCT 14, 2026Pacific Northwest Bigfoot, Fall 2026: New Reports and a Film FightA 1966 reel challenging the Patterson–Gimlin film, fresh witness reports from Washington and Idaho, and a busy Sasquatch calendar from Oregon to B.C.FIELD REPORT · THE SOUTH · OCT 14, 2026Swamp Monster Season: Skunk Ape, Boggy Creek and the Rougarou in 2026From a Florida theme park to an Arkansas farm and a Louisiana bayou town, the South’s swamp cryptids are pulling crowds in 2026. What happened, and why.FIELD REPORT · CANADA · OCT 14, 2026The ‘Ogopogo Tooth’ That Wasn’t: A Lake Country Find Points to SturgeonA girl diving off a dock on Okanagan Lake found a strange white object this summer. Museum experts now think it is a sturgeon scute, not a monster tooth.FIELD REPORT · WYOMING · OCT 14, 2026Wyoming’s Lost Pedro Mummy: A $10,000 Reward Dies With Its SponsorA New York creationist’s 2005 bounty for Wyoming’s missing ‘little mummy’ will never be paid. What Pedro was, where it went and why the search stalled.

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