• Bigfoot hunters turn to rugged W.Va. wilderness
ELKINS, W.Va. (AP) — A team of Bigfoot enthusiasts is hoping to find the legendary creature in the bogs and barrens of a West Virginia wilderness area.
Members of Sasquatch Watch of Virginia went camping in the rugged Allegheny Mountain highlands of the Dolly Sods Wilderness Area with GPS navigators, cameras, voice recorders and plaster of Paris to make casts of huge footprints.
Billy Willard, founder of the group, says they’re looking in places where people have reported sightings. He says he never seen Bigfoot himself.
Bruce Harrington, the group’s self-described skeptical member, says he has yet to see convincing proof that the creature exists.
The group took plaster casts of suspicious prints but didn’t spot the creature during the expedition last weekend.
• Sleepy Hollow church: No Halloween-themed weddings
SLEEPY HOLLOW, N.Y. (AP) — A church made famous by Washington Irving’s short story, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” has rejected a couple’s request to hold a Halloween-themed wedding.
Lisa Panensky and Jim Nieves signed a contract 13 months ago to get married on Halloween at the Old Dutch Church in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.
Church officials balked at the couple’s plans to wear costumes and include theme music from “The Addams Family” and “The Munsters.”
The Rev. Jeff Gargano said he only recently learned of the Halloween theme. He offered instead to marry them in the cemetery of the 17th-century church, but the couple declined.
The church has offered to refund their deposit. The couple say they may get married at home.
Local News
October 30, 2009
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