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From the High Desert

A Cultural History of Art Bell

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Michael Rugg

Michael Rugg

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Michael Rugg is a Bigfoot researcher and the founder and curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, California, renowned for his lifelong dedication to documenting Sasquatch evidence and cultural history. As a leading figure in the Bigfoot research community, he has spent decades collecting footprint casts, eyewitness accounts, and archival materials while educating the public through his museum and numerous appearances on late-night radio and documentary programs.

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August 6, 2015: Bigfoot Discovery Museum - Michael Rugg

Aug 6, 2015
2h 37m
Michael Rugg, curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, joins Art Bell with a childhood encounter that launched a lifetime of research. Around 1950, Rugg wandered from his parents' campsite on Northern California's Eel River and found a towering figure covered in reddish-brown hai...