Oklahoma Is Offering A Huge Reward For This But Its Not Going To Be Easy To Find

When it comes to bagging a trophy animal, you could ask ten hunters what the most prized kill would be, and you’d be likely to get eleven different answers. Some believe that taking down an elephant is the ultimate feat, for size if nothing else. Others prefer something with bit more danger, like bear or alligator.

But what about the mythical creature known as “bigfoot”? Would any serious hunter worth their salt be caught dead looking to bag one of these cryptids?

For $2 million maybe.

An Oklahoma lawmaker’s audacious idea to create a Sasquatch hunting season in the state has transformed into a literal Bigfoot bounty that promises over $2 million to the first person to capture the legendary creature alive. State Representative Justin Humphrey sparked worldwide headlines back in January when he introduced the controversial legislation calling for the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Division to issue permits for people to hunt the famed cryptid. Despite all the publicity or perhaps because of it, the bill ultimately got bogged down in bureaucracy and never made it to the Oklahoma House floor for a vote. Be that as it may, Humphrey is undeterred and has come up with a clever way to both further the concept and raise the stakes considerably.

Here’s how it went down.

As he explained to a local media outlet, the lawmaker learned of a legal loophole, of sorts, that would apparently allow him to bypass legislation and, instead, simply enlist the state’s tourism department to issue ‘tracking permits’ for Bigfoot under the proviso that the holder of the license understood that they were not allowed to kill or harm the creature. However, should they manage to capture a Sasquatch, the individual would stand to reap a hefty reward. According to Humphrey, his originally envisioned $25,000 prize for the creature has now ballooned to a whopping $2.1 million Bigfoot bounty thanks to pledges from a local business and a film production company.

Of course, this would be no easy task, as science has long refuted the existence of the creature, and evidence of the hairy, ape-like beast’s existence is circumstantial at best.