The sixth annual Georgia Bigfoot Conference will make an impression in a region called “prime Bigfoot country” this weekend at The Dillard House.
“We are sharing this planet with them and the more we can do to learn from them and they learn about us the easier it is going to be,” said Robin McCray on a recent “ScaryCast” podcast. McCray and her husband Pat will serve as the conference’s keynote speaker.
The Saturday, April 1, conference will be at The Dillard House at 768 Franklin Street in Dillard and Friday, March 31, VIP “meet and greet” will be at the nearby R.M. Rose Distillery. Ticket information is available at http://www.GeorgiaBigfootConference.org.
The March 31 “meet and greet” is from 5:50 to 8 p.m. and the Bigfoot Talks and Vendors Saturday is from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Robin and Pat McCray are international speakers, Bigfoot experiencers and Podcast co-hosts of “ScaryCast.”
“They are not all bad,” Pat McCray said on the podcast. “There is more good of them than bad just like our own people. I try to get people to understand. We have bad people and we have good people.”
Along with the McCrays, the conference will have Matt Delph, Bigfoot researcher; Jessica Jones, Bigfoot researcher and Podcast host of “Into The Portal;” Rev. Lynn Myers, author and professor; Ryan Tremblay, host of “Monster Radio;” Spencer Fisher, researcher of the “Olympic Project;” and Dr. John Stamey, who again serves as the conference chairman.
Also scheduled to attend are Sonya Thompson and Kevin Holland who portrayed zombies on “The Walking Dead” series filmed in Georgia; artist Kip Ramey; and Billy Redden, who had the role of the banjo-playing boy in the movie “Deliverance.”
The McCrays are scheduled Saturday to speak from 10 to 11:45 a.m. The lunch period at the conference will be from noon to 1:15 p.m. as vendors will remain open during that time. The day’s speakers will be eating at The Dillard House restaurant and attendees are invited to join them at their tables.
The VIP event which is limited to 100 people is expected to have the McCrays, Thompson, Delph, Stamey, Holland and others will be at the gathering. Bigfoot punch will be available for attendees and R.M. Rose Distillery will provide a cash bar.
Stamey, who calls the Rabun County area “prime Bigfoot country,” said he met Robin McCray at the first conference and she has taught him a lot about Bigfoots.
Pat McCray said on the podcast she and her husband plan to talk about Bigfoot as a physical presence and a paranormal presence; provide personal experiences they have on a daily basis; and also answer questions from the audience.
“Nobody wants to be lectured to. People want to be talked to. One of the things I like to tell everybody on any show I am on is I am not an expect,” Robin McCray said. “I am someone that has had a lot of experiences that I am happy to share, but everybody is important when it comes to learning information whether you have had an encounter or if you haven’t had an encounter. Your views are every bit as important as people who have had encounters. And the reason that is is because it is going to take all of us together to learn. You never stop learning in the field of research. I learn things daily. I really do.
“You are never going to learn it all,” she said on the March 21 “ScaryCast” about Bigfoots. “They are never going to let you know it all so when you talk to people about it you don’t want to lecture them. You want to have a normal conversation. I understand the point of view that some people think they are animals or an ape or whatever, but the reality of the situation is at one point we all started that way.
“As you are around them and they teach you about their culture, their way of life, and their family units, you realize that they not only have their language,” McCray said. “They can speak our language. They have laws. They have an alphabet. They are a type of human. They are not our type of human, but they are a type of human.”
McCray said DNA testing has been proven Bigfoots are part-human.
“We are sharing this planet with them and the more we can do to learn from them and they learn about us the easier it is going to be,” McCray said.
“There are a lot of creatures out there in this world that people have never known existed and they are starting to come to the forefront now. They are making their presence known,” she said. “They don’t necessarily want anything from us. They just want to be left alone to live their lives as we do.”
Large tracks reportedly were discovered in the Timpson Creek community in Rabun County in September 2017. A footprint cast was made and locals discovered the imprint was not of a bear which led to speculation as to its creator. For a couple years after the print was found, the cast was featured in an exhibit at Expedition Bigfoot Adventure Outpost.
While the conference’s focus will be on Bigfoot, Myers plans to discuss Biblical answers to questions about aliens from space.
At the 2022 conference that was held at the Rabun County Civic Center, Myers said polls conducted years before the 2021 “soft disclosure” events, more than 60 percent of the population believed there is likely alien life in outer space. Approximately 48 percent of the population believed that aliens from outer space may be visiting the Earth in UFOs and 12 percent claimed to have seen a UFO.
“It cannot be denied that some people who make claims of this type of experiences may need medical help for chemical imbalances or other medical issues,” Myers said last year. “However, the church must be aware that there is adequate scriptural and historical evidence to give credence to the possibility that such experiences are actually occurring in the lives of some people.”