Vermilion Bay Bigfoot gets into St. Patrick's Day spirit

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 17, 2025 4:15 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 minutes ago

Who, exactly, built Vermilion Bay's 20-foot-fall, hitchhiking Bigfoot statue whitethorn beryllium a mystery, but what's definite is the legendary cryptid's fondness for St. Patrick's Day. 

The statue, which has stood on Highway 17 for decades, is showing disconnected its fondness for each things Irish, implicit with a greenish buckle hat, small leprechaun friend, and a cookware of gold.

Max Nagy, economical improvement serviceman with Vermilion Bay, says volunteers dressed up Bigfoot for the occasion.

"It's a amusive gesture," helium said. "A lot of radical don't recognize it's done by volunteers."

"It truly stands out," Nagy said. "Being a tiny assemblage similar ourselves, you've got to benignant of person to person that 1 happening that stands retired erstwhile radical are driving through."

The Sunset Country Travel Association's website states the statue was moved to its existent determination successful 1982 by erstwhile owners Liz and Max Lang (Nagy said the Lang household donated the statue to the municipality successful 2024).

The statue, the website states, "was built wholly by manus by a section antheral respective decades ago. The sanction of this antheral is chartless and his whereabouts is an adjacent greater mystery."