Cryptid Tourism Economics 2026: How West Virginia Built a Mothman Industry
Cryptid tourism in West Virginia turns regional folklore into a measurable economy. Point Pleasant’s Mothman Festival, held the third weekend of September, drew about 30,000 visitors in 2025, by one cellphone-data count, and anchors a year-round museum economy. Five named cryptids — Mothman, the Flatwoods Monster, Bigfoot, the Grafton Monster, and the Vegetable Man — […]
Bigfoot in Film and Television
If you want to study Bigfoot as a biological question, go read the track casts and the eDNA papers. If you want to study Bigfoot as a cultural phenomenon, watch the films. Almost everything most people know about Sasquatch, including what they think a sighting looks like, was authored on screen. The creature, as a […]