Minnesota
Remer, the ‘Home of Bigfoot,’ draws thousands of believers and curiosity-seekers to festival
“We’re very self-disciplined [and] keep the facts straight,” he said.
In 2009, Tim Kedrowski’s trail camera on his family’s hunting land in Remer captured a blurry image of a towering, dark figure with long arms. The image made headlines worldwide.
Some thought it was a hoax, but Kedrowski contacted the MN.B.R.T. to confirm it was a bigfoot.
Kedrowski, who died last year, wasn’t a bigfoot believer, said son Casey Kedrowski of Rice, Minn. But without the trail camera image, he said, Remer couldn’t lay claim to bigfoot like the way it does today.
Ruyak trademarked Remer as the Home of Bigfoot, a designation he said was solidified after the reputed 2009 sighting. He has studied local reports of alleged bigfoot sightings dating back to the early 1900s, when town founder William P. Remer discovered massive footprints.