2019 CREATURE WEEKEND SPEAKERS
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Bob Gimlin
Creature Weekend is proud to announce our first speaker for the 2019 Creature Weekend conference to be held from October 18-20, 2019 at Salt Fork State Lodge. Born in Missouri in 1931, Bob Gimlin eventually moved to Washington where he currently lives and works as a rancher. In his youth, Bob was known for his keen tracking ability, his experience rodeo riding and breaking in young horses. In October of 1967, Bob Gimlin and his friend Roger Patterson rode out to an area in northern California where there had been intermittent reports of Bigfoot sightings and tracks. On October 20, 1967 Bob and Roger were traveling upstream along the east bank of Bluff Creek when they encountered what was allegedly a Bigfoot. During this encounter, Roger Patterson was able to film 53 seconds of footage depicting a hairy bipedal creature departing the scene in rapid fashion. This footage has been scrutinized for over 50 years and to this day, has never been proven to be a hoax.
Creature Weekend is proud to announce our first speaker for the 2019 Creature Weekend conference to be held from October 18-20, 2019 at Salt Fork State Lodge. Born in Missouri in 1931, Bob Gimlin eventually moved to Washington where he currently lives and works as a rancher. In his youth, Bob was known for his keen tracking ability, his experience rodeo riding and breaking in young horses. In October of 1967, Bob Gimlin and his friend Roger Patterson rode out to an area in northern California where there had been intermittent reports of Bigfoot sightings and tracks. On October 20, 1967 Bob and Roger were traveling upstream along the east bank of Bluff Creek when they encountered what was allegedly a Bigfoot. During this encounter, Roger Patterson was able to film 53 seconds of footage depicting a hairy bipedal creature departing the scene in rapid fashion. This footage has been scrutinized for over 50 years and to this day, has never been proven to be a hoax.
JAMES RENNER
Creature Weekend is excited to announce another speaker for this year's conference, James Renner. In addition to being an Ohio resident, James is a journalist and author. His articles about Ohio cryptids have appeared in Cleveland Scene and the Free Times. He is the author of several novels, including The Man from Primrose Lane, which featured the Loveland Frog as a character. James's book, It Came from Ohio is a compendium of Cryptids and weird tales from the Buckeye State. Come and listen to his spellbinding stories of :
• The giant, spark-emitting Loveland Frog
• The bloodthirsty Melon Heads of Kirtland
• The lumber-wielding Werewolf of Defiance
• The Mothman of the Ohio River
• The UFO that inspired "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
Creature Weekend is excited to announce another speaker for this year's conference, James Renner. In addition to being an Ohio resident, James is a journalist and author. His articles about Ohio cryptids have appeared in Cleveland Scene and the Free Times. He is the author of several novels, including The Man from Primrose Lane, which featured the Loveland Frog as a character. James's book, It Came from Ohio is a compendium of Cryptids and weird tales from the Buckeye State. Come and listen to his spellbinding stories of :
• The giant, spark-emitting Loveland Frog
• The bloodthirsty Melon Heads of Kirtland
• The lumber-wielding Werewolf of Defiance
• The Mothman of the Ohio River
• The UFO that inspired "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"
Adam Davies
Whether you call him an Explorer, Adventurer or Cryptozoologist, there is no one alive today who has done more active fieldwork to prove the existence of yet-to-be-discovered animals, frequently in remote and sometimes dangerous parts of the world. From the dense jungles of the Congo and Sumatra, to the Deserts of Mongolia, and the Mountains of Nepal, Adam has traveled the world in search of scientific evidence of the existence of these creatures.
Notably, Adam has achieved unique results in his research. Expeditions which he has either led or been a key part of have gotten excellent results. Examples include the Orang-Pendek in Sumatra, Sasquatch, the Yeren in China, and the Seljord Serpent in Norway.
Adam has appeared on numerous television programs and channels, including the National Geographic channel, The Discovery Channel, History Channel’s Monster Quest, and Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot, to name just a few. The majority of Adam’s research and expeditions have been self-financed and he devotes the much of his spare time to his passion of discovering the world’s mystery animals. Until such time as he can devote himself full-time to cryptozoology, Adam is presently employed by the British government (he’s a secret agent — Sshh! Don’t tell!).
Whether you call him an Explorer, Adventurer or Cryptozoologist, there is no one alive today who has done more active fieldwork to prove the existence of yet-to-be-discovered animals, frequently in remote and sometimes dangerous parts of the world. From the dense jungles of the Congo and Sumatra, to the Deserts of Mongolia, and the Mountains of Nepal, Adam has traveled the world in search of scientific evidence of the existence of these creatures.
Notably, Adam has achieved unique results in his research. Expeditions which he has either led or been a key part of have gotten excellent results. Examples include the Orang-Pendek in Sumatra, Sasquatch, the Yeren in China, and the Seljord Serpent in Norway.
Adam has appeared on numerous television programs and channels, including the National Geographic channel, The Discovery Channel, History Channel’s Monster Quest, and Animal Planet’s Finding Bigfoot, to name just a few. The majority of Adam’s research and expeditions have been self-financed and he devotes the much of his spare time to his passion of discovering the world’s mystery animals. Until such time as he can devote himself full-time to cryptozoology, Adam is presently employed by the British government (he’s a secret agent — Sshh! Don’t tell!).
James Vieira
James Vieira is a stonemason, author, explorer, historical detective and host of the History Channel shows -"Search for the Lost Giants" (2014) "Roanoke: Search for the Lost Colony" (2015) and "Return to Roanoke: Search the Seven" (2016). He has also appeared on Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates (2017), Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox (2018), Travel Channel’s Code of the Wild (2019) and Science Channel’s Uncharted (2019). He has investigated worldwide ancient stone sites, studied global indigenous oral traditions, religious documents, the readings of the great mystics and the literature of secret societies to form an alternative theory regarding the origins of civilization.
James Vieira is a stonemason, author, explorer, historical detective and host of the History Channel shows -"Search for the Lost Giants" (2014) "Roanoke: Search for the Lost Colony" (2015) and "Return to Roanoke: Search the Seven" (2016). He has also appeared on Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates (2017), Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox (2018), Travel Channel’s Code of the Wild (2019) and Science Channel’s Uncharted (2019). He has investigated worldwide ancient stone sites, studied global indigenous oral traditions, religious documents, the readings of the great mystics and the literature of secret societies to form an alternative theory regarding the origins of civilization.
Scott Carpenter
Scott Carpenter has been researching the Bigfoot phenomenon and other cryptids since 2009. A member of North American Bigfoot Search, Scott participated in the ground-breaking Sasquatch Genome Study, contributing multiple hair and salvia samples, eleven of which were used in the study.
Scott’s research has also been featured on the television show “Finding Bigfoot” and more recently, Scott’s work was featured on award winning series by Les Stroud, “Survivor Man: Bigfoot.”
Scott holds a BS in Computer Science and is the operations manager for a software development firm. He currently resides in East Tennessee, is married, has six children and two grandchildren.
Scott Carpenter has been researching the Bigfoot phenomenon and other cryptids since 2009. A member of North American Bigfoot Search, Scott participated in the ground-breaking Sasquatch Genome Study, contributing multiple hair and salvia samples, eleven of which were used in the study.
Scott’s research has also been featured on the television show “Finding Bigfoot” and more recently, Scott’s work was featured on award winning series by Les Stroud, “Survivor Man: Bigfoot.”
Scott holds a BS in Computer Science and is the operations manager for a software development firm. He currently resides in East Tennessee, is married, has six children and two grandchildren.
