According to the Sacramento Bee, the video (posted here last week) put together by the Humboldt County Convention & Visitors Bureau on a lark has really paid off, netting over 100,000 views in its first week:

The video is a fitting tribute to a myth that was born 50 years ago in the Siskiyou Mountains, where a man from Willow Creek discovered the first set of footprints purportedly made by a humanlike creature as yet unknown to science. A fuzzy video followed, turning Bigfoot into what Stenger likens to “a virtual Loch Ness monster.”

The YouTube clip might be the cleverest bit of tourism marketing ever to emanate from a county best known for its misty redwood forests, untamed rivers, elusive pot growers and dying lumber industry.

Full story here.

This video brought to you by the Humboldt County Convention & Visitors Bureau.

Sign up to win a trip to “Bigfoot Country” here.

And don’t forget – the Bigfoot Days Celebration will be held this weekend in Willow Creek, California. August 27 will mark the 50th anniversary of the first “sighting” of Bigfoot. Details here.