Speakers at the event

Conference Speakers

Bob Gimlin

On one eventful day in October of 1967, Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson were horseback riding near the Klamath River area near Bluff Creek when they had an encounter with a creature which they claimed was a Sasquatch. Roger Patterson had his video camera with him and proceeded to capture on film what is purportedly a Bigfoot creature walking away from them. To this day, the film footage taken at Bluff Creek remains one of the most enigmatic pieces of photographic evidence ever to be presented to the field of Cryptozoology. Bob Gimlin will recount the events that led up to his startling encounter.

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Dana Holyfield Evans

Dana's grandfather, Harlan Ford, was the first person to report an encounter with the creature that is now known as the Honey Island Swamp Monster. Film maker and Author, Dana Holyfield Evans has authored multiple books including "Encounters with the Honey Island Swamp Monster" and produced a DVD documentary entitled "The Legend of the Honey Island Swamp Monster". She has made several television appearances, including an appearance on the hit reality show "Swamp People". Dana will discuss her research on this elusive creature and recollections of her grandfather's sighting and field work.

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Linda Godfrey

Linda S. Godfrey is an author and researcher of the strange and uncanny, and is especially well known as an authority on the upright canine known in Wisconsin as the Beast of Bray Road, in Michigan as the Dog Man, in other places as Skinwalker, werewolf or a dozen other names. She appeared in, co-wrote and co-produced the History Channel's Monsterquest episode, "American Werewolf," based on her book "Hunting the American Werewolf" and also appeared in the show's season 4 finale.

She has canvassed Wis. and Michigan looking for the strange and offbeat, from outsider artists and giant roadside statues to local cemetery lore, eccentric people and history, to ghost stories and unidentified creatures and UFO's. She put over 5,000 miles on her "weirdmobile" and found enough strangeness to fill both Weird Michigan and Weird Wisconsin for Barnes & Noble in 2006, and the sequels, Strange Michigan and Strange Wisconsin for Trails Books.

Linda is a former award-winning newspaper reporter and art teacher and provides many illustrations for her own books.