You may suspect {that a} one-line invoice about Bigfoot that bears the quantity “666” is a joke, however AB-666 is outwardly a severe providing from California Assemblymember Chris Rogers. Rogers represents a California district identified for its Bigfoot sightings (or “sightings,” relying in your persuasion—many of those have been faked), and he desires to make Bigfoot the “official cryptid” of the state.

His invoice notes that California already has many official symbols, together with the golden poppy (official flower), the California redwood (official tree), the phrase “Eureka” (official motto), the red-legged frog (official amphibian), the grizzly bear (official animal), swing dancing (official dance), and the saber-toothed cat (official fossil). The state has so many of those that there are separate classes for freshwater fish (golden trout) and marine fish (garibaldi). So why not, Rogers desires to know, “designate Bigfoot because the official state cryptid”?

That is… just about the invoice, which was launched this week and already has Bigfoot advocates excited. SFGate talked to Matt Moneymaker, who it describes as “a longtime Bigfoot researcher and former star of the Animal Planet sequence Discovering Bigfoot,” concerning the invoice. Moneymaker loves it, noting that he has personally “had a face-to-face encounter one time, after which I used to be completely positive they existed as a result of I had one about 20 toes in entrance of me, growling at me.”

Rogers represents California Meeting District 2, a sprawling expanse of Northern California that features the city of Willow Grove, epicenter of the early Bigfoot sightings again within the Nineteen Fifties. At this time, the small neighborhood boasts the Bigfoot Museum, the Bigfoot Motel, and the Bigfoot Steakhouse—to say nothing of Bigfoot’s Barbershop, Bigfoot Tools & Restore, and, after all, the Bigfoot Hashish Firm. The invoice looks as if a simple technique to goose curiosity in Bigfoot and to reap the vacationer {dollars} that come from that curiosity.

This isn’t to disclaim the underlying actuality of a Bigfoot-like creature (although you may certainly depend me among the many extraordinarily, extraordinarily skeptical—certainly most of these sightings are of bears). Moneymaker runs the Bigfoot Field Researchers’ Organization, which tracks sightings throughout the US. The most recent one I might discover on the location was report 77,879 (!), which got here from rural Buchanan County, Virginia, on November 10, 2024.