Creature Feature At Salt Fork

If you weren't at the Salt Fork State Park Lodge this past weekend, you missed out. Creature Weekend took place, and was an awesome event for everyone who attended.

The picturesque gloom at the Salt Fork Lodge was the perfect backdrop for the otherworldly event going on this past Saturday. A mist of rain blanketed the lake and made the autumn foliage seem distant. An appropriate setting for the Creature Weekend event, where people come from all over to discuss matters of the extraordinary and mysterious.

It’s the kind of affair where people aren’t surprised to overhear conversations about Bigfoot, because the legendary creature is the focal point of the event.

“They’re telepathic, so they can communicate with their minds,” said one energetic vendor to a couple. “You may not have known that.”

In most crowds, that’d be a true statement— in this one, perhaps not. This crowd is hip to that kind of thinking.

“The more time you spend looking into these phenomena, the more there are things you can’t explain,” said Bruce Harrington, self-proclaimed man of science and organizer of the event. “There’s some high strangeness that defies logical explanation.”

Harrington spent his childhood summers scanning the waters of Lake Champlain in New York, where a famed lake monster is said to lurk. For ten summers, he watched through a pair of binoculars, hoping to catch a glimpse of the elusive creature. Since then, his interest has grown to include all of cryptozoology and taken him over much of the Americas. He takes it upon himself to follow up on credible sightings in an effort to validate them.

“People see and experience things that aren’t explainable,” Harrington said. “As a researcher, I go out there to try and disprove or corroborate them.”

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