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The Western North Carolina Bigfoot Festival has been postponed.
The WNC Bigfoot Festival, originally planned for September 17 and 18 in Marion, has been pushed back until next year, WCNC reports. The festival announced its decision to postpone on Wednesday (September 1), citing rising coronavirus cases.
"Due to the increased COVID-19 numbers and the continued spread of COVID-19 in Western North Carolina, the 2021 WNC Bigfoot Festival has been postponed until Friday, May 27 and Saturday, May 28, 2022," the festival wrote in a post on Facebook. "We're hopeful that by May 2022 things will be safer, so that everyone can come and enjoy a few days of Sasquatch fun."
According to the festival's website, the educational panels and family-friendly activities, like the Bigfoot Calling Contest, make it "the southeast's premier Bigfoot event."
"You may come a skeptic," the website states, "but you'll leave a believer after attending the WNC Bigfoot Festival."
Though the WNC Bigfoot Festival is postponed until May, there are still some local Bigfoot-themed activities planned for the area, like exploring trails with reported Sasquatch sightings to Yeti cornhole and even Bigfoot's Downtown Tour of Marion.
For more information about the local events, check out the website here.