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August 20, 2008

Bigfoot hoax

NOW UPDATED BELOW

The body of a bigfoot has been discovered in North Georgia.  Two bigfoot hobby hunters, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer say they were hiking in the woods in July when they came across the dead sasquatch.

The dead dirty ape is seven feet, seven inches tall and weighs more than 500 pounds.  Whitton and Dyer took it home - possibly by strapping it to the hood - and have stuffed it into a freezer.

The sasquatch seekers also say they saw three live bigfoots (bigfeet?) while they were hauling off their huge hairy hominid carcass.

Whitton and Dyer held a press conference on Friday and released a photo of their curious cadaver lying in a chest freezer with his intestines splayed across his torso like a string of sasquatch sausages.  They claim they intend to release video footage and DNA evidence that their hirsute humanoid is what they say it is and not at all a gorilla costume and some frozen deli cuts.

UPDATE

Bigfoot has been confirmed as a gorilla costume and some frozen deli cuts!

  Rick Biscardi, a Californian Bigfoot hunter, who allegedly paid $50,000 for the rights to Bigfoot turned it over to Steve Kulls, a self-styled "Sasquatch detective" for testing.  Kulls was unsure of the authenticity of Bigfoot so began to melt the ice block.  Within an hour the head was partially exposed, Kulls said "As I was now able to touch it, I was able to feel that it seemed mostly firm, but unusually hollow in one small section. This was yet another ominous sign. "  An ice crack then appeared around the feet which meant Kulls could get his hand in and discover he was touching a rubber foot.

Whitton and Dyer confirmed in a telephone conversation to Rick Biscardi that it was a hoax and promised to return the $50,000.  Whitton has since been fired from his job as a Georgia police officer.

American 'Bigfoot' is monkey suit
BBC News, UK - 1 hour ago
The claimed recent discovery of Bigfoot in the US state of Georgia has turned out to be a hoax - it was a rubber gorilla suit in a block of ice. ...

Bigfoot’s body a hoax, California site reveals
Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA
The body of a supposed ape-man found in the North Georgia mountains was nothing but an empty rubber monkey suit embedded in ice, according to ...

Police 'hero' fired as Bigfoot claim melts away
Times Online, UK
An American police officer who claimed to have found Bigfoot has been fired from the force, after it emerged that the hairy heap in his freezer was not the ...

Men's claim of Bigfoot carcass isn't worth Squatch
San Jose Mercury News,  USA
Melting ice uncovered a hoax this week, as the "Bigfoot" found in a Georgia woods turned out to be . . . a rubber Halloween costume. ...

Frozen 'Bigfoot' a hoax
Edmonton Sun,  Canada
Two researchers trying to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice - handed over to them for an undisclosed sum ...

"Bigfoot" was rubber gorilla costume
Reuters UK, UK
No wonder Bigfoot failed a DNA test. Researchers said on Tuesday the hairy heap claimed by two men to be the corpse of the mythical ...

Bigfoot discovery revealed as rubber gorilla suit hoax
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom
Two American hunters who claimed to have definitive evidence proving the existence of Bigfoot have been exposed as hoaxers. By Catherine Elsworth in Los ...

Cop could face sack over Bigfoot hoax
Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia
A POLICE officer faces the sack after he and another man claimed to have the body of Bigfoot in a freezer. The body turned out to be a ...

 

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Posted by: Mike | Aug 17, 2008 6:43:22 PM

I find it a little unbelievable that people still believe Big Foot exists. Of course it was a fake, all mythical creatures are fake. Do people still hunt for Dragons?

Posted by: Grand Caveman | Sep 9, 2008 5:28:16 PM

just because the biscardi bigfooot was a hoax does not mean to discount bigfoot. the evidence for bigfoot is very convincing i suggest people look into the subject instead of coming out with the same boring comments,, its a man in a suit. look bigfoot is a real animal so get over it all the disbelivers.

Posted by: mark | Aug 24, 2009 12:35:08 PM