Steve Busti

Steve Busti is the owner and curator of the Museum of the Weird in Austin, Texas. He frequently appears in documentaries and reality shows as an authority on subjects such as cryptozoology, paranormal occurrences and unexplained mysteries of the world. Busti began his career as a cartoonist, a comic book artist-writer, and a graphic designer, before moving to Texas in the 1990s where he got into filmmaking. Immersing himself in Austin's then-burgeoning indie film scene. he acted in and directed many short films and was an extra in features such as The Faculty (1998), Office Space (1999), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), and Idiocracy (2006). Busti later found a new calling as a tourist attraction entrepreneur upon opening his museum in Austin. In recent years Busti has appeared as himself on several reality TV programs, mainly as curator of the Museum of the Weird. In 2013, his museum was catapulted into the public eye thanks to the acquisition of the Minnesota Iceman, a legendary sideshow attraction of a frozen prehistoric caveman, which has since been featured on such programs as Mysteries at the Museum and In Search of Monsters. In April 2019, Busti acquired the last known surviving contact print of the original Cottingley Fairies photo, a famous 1920s hoax that appeared to show photographic evidence of fairies.