East Glacier Bigfoot museum plan scrapped

A massive hotel project planned in East Glacier won’t include what was proposed to be the biggest Bigfoot museum in the world.

Bigfoot Project Investments Chief Financial Officer Sara Reynolds said Wednesday the company has severed ties with East Glacier businessman Bill Stewart, who owns the Dancing Bears Inn that will be razed to make room for a 100-room hotel.

“We could not reach a mutually beneficial agreement to move forward on the project,” Reynolds told the Daily Inter Lake. “We just parted ways.”

Tom Biscardi, the president and chief executive officer of Bigfoot Project Investments, is a well-known Bigfoot researcher who has produced several Bigfoot films and videos that revolve around his extensive search for the creature known as Bigfoot. He also is the creator and host of the “Bigfoot Live” show, a live podcast covering new Bigfoot sightings, encounters, news and expedition updates.

“We are still looking at East Glacier and the Browning area [for a museum] because we know that’s a great place to have a project because of the activity there,” Reynolds said. “We’re talking to a few individuals who have ideas that are of interest to us.”

Biscardi believes the East Glacier area is a Bigfoot migrational route. He told the Inter Lake last year the Blackfeet Tribe has several stories about Bigfoot, some of which have been handed down through generations, including information about a possible location of a Bigfoot burial cave near East Glacier.

Biscardi had proposed the Bigfoot museum as a way to generate more tourism to the East Glacier region and as a base for guided trips in search of Bigfoot.

Stewart, whose company, East Glacier Park Enterprises, owns and operates Dancing Bears Inn and other properties, told the Missoulian recently the hotel project is still moving forward with a new group of investors.

Features editor Lynnette Hintze may be reached at 758-4421 or lhintze@dailyinterlake.com.