Tennessee Wildman Con : A Cryptid Convention

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Now that the Con is over, we thought we'd share this years VIP poster design, done by Gage H Designs. Make sure to check...
08/13/2026

Now that the Con is over, we thought we'd share this years VIP poster design, done by Gage H Designs.

Make sure to check out Gage's crazy cryptid designs at his website https://www.gagehdesigns.com

Our VIPs got this poster signed by all our guest speakers which we think will, in time, become quite a valuable collectible.

Special thanks to all our VIP attendees for always making these posters possible!

08/09/2026

On behalf of the entire Tennessee Wildman Con team, we would like to extend our sincerest thanks to everyone who took part in the fourth annual Tennessee Wildman Con.

To our attendees: thank you for spending your Saturday with us, supporting our guests and vendors, attending the presentations, exploring both floors of the Con, and embracing everything strange and unusual that we brought to McMinnville this year.

To our vendors: thank you for bringing such an incredible variety of artwork, books, crafts, collectibles, merchandise, and experiences to the event. The Tennessee Wildman Con would not be what it is without the creativity, enthusiasm, and hard work you bring to the Vendor Hall.

We also extend our deepest appreciation to our speakers and special guests for sharing their research, experiences, knowledge, and stories with everyone who attended. We heard severeal people over the course of the day recanting stories they heard in the Speaker Hall, and hearing such was quite rewarding, as it means people were paying attention.

A very special thank-you goes to our event team, volunteers, venue staff, and everyone else who worked tirelessly behind the scenes to bring the Con together. SO many hours of preparation went into this weekend, and its success belongs to every person who helped make it happen.

Finally, we want to thank the City of McMinnville and our local community for continuing to embrace our particular brand of strangeness. Seeing our hometown welcome and support the Tennessee Wildman Con through so many different avenues means more to our team than we can adequately express.

It still amazes us that this unusual little idea has grown into an annual event bringing field investigators, researchers, experiencers, creators, vendors, and the cryptid-curious together right here in little ole' McMinnville, Tennessee.

Thank you to everyone who helped make the fourth annual Tennessee Wildman Con another success.

We are incredibly grateful that you chose to be part of it.

Until next year, see you in the woods!

08/07/2026

The Tennessee Wildman Con opens Saturday, August 8, at 9:00 AM at Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville!

Tickets will be available at the door. We accept cash or venmo - $5s, $10s, and $20s are greatly appreciated to help us keep the lines moving. Please be advised that we cannot accept personal checks or $100 bills.

Prices:
GENERAL ADMISSION — $5

SPEAKER CONFERENCE — $50
Includes General Admission.

SPEAKER CONFERENCE COUPLES PASS — $80
Covers two people and includes General Admission for both.

Tickets will also remain available on Eventbrite throughout the event. If you have already purchased through Eventbrite, just have your ticket or confirmation ready when you arrive.

Children under 12 receive free General Admission with the purchase of an adult ticket! For their safety, children must remain with an adult at all times.

Cosplayers and active local law enforcement officers receive free General Admission - Just come dressed to impress or bring your badge.

Parking is free and available in front of the Milner Center.

Doors open at 9:00 AM! The convention runs until 6:00 PM!

We do not allow early entry to the vendor hall but will begin check-in and ticket sales before 9 for your convenience.

We can’t wait to welcome everyone to two full floors of speakers, researchers, vendors, special guests and fun!

Join us TOMORROW Saturday August 8th, at the Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville Tennessee for the 4th annual Tennes...
08/07/2026

Join us TOMORROW Saturday August 8th, at the Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville Tennessee for the 4th annual Tennessee Wildman Con : A Cryptid Convention!

Twelve guest speakers discussing such topics as Bigfoot, Dogman, Nephilim and the further-paranormal.

Headlined by such legends of Bigfootdom as M.k. Davis, Tim Coonbo Baker and the Tennessee Bigfoot Man, Darrell Denton, come meet them and other veteran researchers,
Chester Moore of Dark Outdoors Media and Harley Owens of North Carolina Investigates, along side rising star, boots-on-the-ground field investigators Miguel Ramirez of Sasquatch Theory,
Adam Whited and Shelby Whited of the Half Inch Wrench Crew and Joseph Ringling, the Ozark Hairy Man!

Visit with our special guests, cryptozoologist team
David Eller and Janice Carol Eller of P.U.R.S.U.E., Author and paranormal investigator Kelly Shaffer, forensics cryptid artist
Kenny Momo, and recent experiencer, Liam Pierce, of Cryptid Core Company.

Also in attendance -
Blondes and Boos
Sasquatch aka SuperDave
Woodwalkerz
Squatchin’ Holler Podcast
The Oddcast Podcast - Off the Record
Pathfinders
A.J Mason (Author)
Jade Astra (Author)
Jack LaFountain (Author)
Keith Adam Luethke (Author)
N.S. Thorngrave (Author)
Mike Dupler (Author)

While you're there, make sure to check our our expansive Vendor Hall, with over fifty astonishing artisan vendors over two floors selling all forms of Bigfoot, cryptid themed and unusually unique items you'll find nowhere else!

From 12:30 until 1:30pm get ready for a trip back to the 80's and 90's as vocalist Jacob Roper takes the second level stage for a live performance you'll never forget!

Hungry? No worries, there will be multiple food trucks just outside the Milner venue to sate all your cravings.

Come be part of the Legendary!

It's going to be a W I L D time!

Tennessee Wildman Con has always been centered around being an experiencer-based Conference - Experiencers: ordinary peo...
08/06/2026

Tennessee Wildman Con has always been centered around being an experiencer-based Conference - Experiencers: ordinary people who have encountered something extraordinary that should not otherwise exist according to the mainstream.

And being an experiencer-Con, we’re very proud and excited to welcome Special Guests Liam and Xander Pierce of Cryptid Core Company to the fourth annual Tennessee Wildman Con!

Liam and Xander recently became experiencers themselves when, in April of this year, they jointly witnessed a very large white-colored Bigfoot on the Cumberland Plateau during Fortean TN’s first annual Tennessee Cryptid CampOut. This incident sent the father-son team down the rabbit-hole towards field investigation, and brought about the formation of their brand, Cryptid Core Co.

Be sure to stop by their booth, meet them and hear more about their remarkable encounter, from the experiencers, themselves!

Have you ever seen or heard something in the woods that you simply couldn’t explain? You’re not alone—and you don’t have to worry about being laughed at or dismissed at the Tennessee Wildman Con.

Several research organizations, such as Fortean TN, Cryptid Core Company, Squatchin' Holler, Blondes and Boos, Pathfinders and Woodwalkerz will all be on hand to listen and talk with you about your own sightings and experiences.

Come meet Liam and Xander, and other experiencers, this Saturday, August 8, at Tennessee Wildman Con at the Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville, Tennessee!

Tennessee has a long history of strange encounters and mysterious phenomenon, going back to it's founding—and we are inc...
08/06/2026

Tennessee has a long history of strange encounters and mysterious phenomenon, going back to it's founding—and we are incredibly proud to showcase the home-state researchers who travel mile after mile through its forests, mountains and backroads in search of answers.

Joining us will be renowned Smoky Mountains researcher Harley Owens, whose years in the field have included encounters with both Bigfoot and Dogman within his research area.

Harley has been a guest at Wildman before, and his talk on Bigfoot, Dogman and Nephilim in the Smoky Mountains is not to be missed.

Also representing our home state is Fortean TN. Our team has been involved in field investigations across Tennessee since the late 1990s, pursuing reports, speaking with witnesses and exploring some of the wildest and most remote areas the state has to offer.

This work isn’t conducted from behind a desk. These researchers and investigators put boots on the ground, trek countless miles and dedicate years of their lives to better understanding the mysteries hiding within Tennessee’s wilderness.

Come to Tennessee Wildman Con this Saturday, August 8, and meet the Tennessee-based researchers and investigators who are out there searching for answers!

Milner Recreation Center
McMinnville, Tennessee
9:00 AM–6:00 PM

The future of Bigfoot research is coming to Tennessee Wildman Con!We’re incredibly excited—and genuinely proud—to showca...
08/06/2026

The future of Bigfoot research is coming to Tennessee Wildman Con!

We’re incredibly excited—and genuinely proud—to showcase some of the rising stars who are putting in the real boots-on-the-ground work and quickly making names for themselves in the Bigfoot community.

Joining us this Saturday will be:

Miguel Ramirez of Sasquatch Theory

Adam and Shelby Whited of the Half Inch Wrench Crew

Joseph Ringling, the field investigator known as the Ozark Hairy Man

They’ll be joined by Special Guest Kenny MoMo, a talented Bigfoot forensic illustrative artist whose work helps bring eyewitness encounters to life.

These passionate investigators and artists represent the next generation of Bigfoot research. They’re out in the field, asking questions, pursuing evidence and bringing fresh energy and new perspectives to Bigfootdom—and we believe you’ll be hearing their names a lot more in the years ahead!

Come meet them at Tennessee Wildman Con this Saturday, August 8, at the Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville, Tennessee!

Doors open at 9:00 AM. We can’t wait to see you there!

08/04/2026

Some exciting news from Guest Speaker Chester Moore!

Come meet Chester (and all our other great guests) at the 4th annual Tennessee Wildman Con, coming THIS Saturday, August 8th at the Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville Tennessee!

See you Saturday!

Legends of the Bigfoot world!Come meet them, THIS Saturday, August 8th at the Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville Te...
08/03/2026

Legends of the Bigfoot world!

Come meet them, THIS Saturday, August 8th at the Milner Recreation Center in McMinnville Tennessee!

12 Guest Speakers on the subject of Bigfoot, Dogman, Nephilim and more!

Special Guests on hand to answer all your cryptid quandries!

50+ Artisan and Craft Vendors displaying and selling all sorts of Bigfoot, cryptid and other unique items you'll find nowhere else!

Food Trucks on hand to sate those summer hunger cravings!

Come experience the legendary with us!

It's going to be a W I L D time!

Less than a week away!12 Guest Speakers on the subjects of Bigfoot, Dogman, Nephilim and more!Special Guests on hand to ...
08/02/2026

Less than a week away!

12 Guest Speakers on the subjects of Bigfoot, Dogman, Nephilim and more!

Special Guests on hand to answer all your cryptid inquiries!

50+ Artisan and Craft Vendors on hand selling all forms of Bigfoot and cryptid related merch!

Food Trucks on hand to feed those hunger cravings!

Come join us as we investigate the legendary!

It's gonna be a W I L D time!

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McMinnville, TN
37110

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+19315075247

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