Michael Rugg is the curator of the Bigfoot Discovery Museum located in the Santa Cruz mountains of central California. Its purpose is to educate the public about the probability of bigfoot and the current best guesses as to its habits and its place in the natural world. Rugg has been collecting information and artefacts and studying unclassified bipedal primates since the early 1950s when the first photos of mysterious tracks on Mount Everest appeared in western newspapers.