SAN DIEGO (FOX5/KUSI) — California has some well-known state symbols, such because the poppy flower and the California quail because the official chicken. In latest instances, it has added an official bat and even an official dinosaur.
Now it might quickly have an official cryptid. Undecided what that’s? It is a creature that has been claimed to exist however has by no means been confirmed to exist.
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Chances are you’ll already know of some of those: the Loch Ness Monster, the chupacabra and the Yeti.
A California legislator has launched a invoice that will make Bigfoot, also referred to as Sasquatch, the official cryptid.
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The textual content of the invoice reads for now: It’s the intent of the Legislature to enact laws that will designate Bigfoot because the official state cryptid.
Whether or not on objective or by likelihood, the invoice’s quantity, AB 666, occurs to refer to a different otherworldly determine. The invoice may have its first committee listening to in mid-March.
Bigfoot has lengthy been related to Northern California, however can be strongly related to Washington State and has reportedly been noticed as distant as New York and Georgia.
A well-known videotape supposedly captured Bigfoot, or an individual in a fancy dress, strolling alongside a creek north of Eureka, California, the place the majestic redwood bushes, the state’s official tree, are considerable.
