Bigfoot Found?

Char

It's all over the front page of Yahoo right now. I just read a bunch of stuff...lol, pretty much what I expected out of Tom Biscardi. True or not ? Still not 100% sure either way... but, it's not looking good.

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Jolie Rouge

Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot
By MALIA WOLLAN, Associated Press Writer
Fri Aug 15, 9:08 PM ET

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Bigfoot or big fat lie? Whenever someone reports sighting the hairy beast of yore (details always fuzzy) or capturing the hirsute humanoid on film (images always grainy), it scares up a dubious debate of international proportions. Friday was just the latest episode in the Sasquatch show, as unreal as it may be.

Two men who claim to have stumbled across a Bigfoot corpse in the woods of northern Georgia indignantly stood by their story at a news conference in Palo Alto during which they offered an e-mail from a scientist as evidence and acknowledged they wouldn't mind making a few bucks from the "find" they have kept stuffed in a freezer for over a month.

"Everyone who has talked down to us is going to eat their words," predicted Matt Whitton, an officer on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department.

Whitton and Rick Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in early July on YouTube videos and their Web site. Although they did not consider themselves devoted Bigfoot trackers before then, they have since started offering weekend search expeditions in Georgia for $499. The specimen they bagged, the men say, was one of several apelike creatures they spotted cavorting in the woods.

As they faced a skeptical audience of several hundred journalists and Bigfoot fans that included one curiosity seeker in a Chewbacca suit, the pair were joined Friday by Tom Biscardi, head of a group called Searching for Bigfoot. Other Bigfoot hunters call Biscardi a huckster looking for media attention.

Biscardi fielded most of the questions. Among them: Why should anyone accept the men's tale when they weren't willing to display their frozen artifact or pinpoint where they allegedly found it? How come bushwhackers aren't constantly tripping over primate remains if there are as many as 7,000 Bigfoots roaming the United States, as Biscardi claimed?

"I understand where you are coming from, but how many real Bigfoot researchers are out there trekking 140,000 miles a year?" Biscardi said.

Biscardi, Whitton and Dyer presented what they called evidence supporting the Bigfoot theory. It was an e-mail from a University of Minnesota scientist, but all it said was that of the three DNA samples sent to the scientist, one was human, one was likely a possum and the third could not be tested because of technical problems.

At least one other Bigfoot researcher, Idaho State University anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum, called the trio's claims "not compelling in the least." He told the Scientific American that photographs posted on the Web site "just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect."

Whitton and Dyer have offered three different accounts of how they found the beast's remains.

In early videos, the animal was shot by a former felon, and the men followed it into the woods. In a second version, they found a "family of Bigfoot" in the north Georgia mountains. In the third, the two were hiking and stumbled upon the corpse with open wounds.

In one of their YouTube videos, they are shown speaking with a man they identify as a scientist. Earlier this week, they admitted that the man was Dyer's brother. Dyer said they were simply having fun.

Asked why anyone should believe his claims when he already had shown a flair for tomfoolery, he suggested that skeptics simply are jealous.

"They don't have a choice to believe us. We have a body," Dyer said.


Associated Press writer Juanita Cousins in Atlanta contributed to this report.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/...W.jPiTKhus0NUE

On the Net: Bigfoot Tracker: http://www.bigfoottracker.com

Big Foot Field Researchers Organization: http://www.bfro.net/

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mesue

From what I have read and seen so far Jolie, I would have to say it is a hoax.

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janelle

Who cares about the DNA? Get the body to a lab as soon as they can is what I would do, especially if I wanted to prove what I found.

And if there are so many of them how come more dead ones are not found? Where do they go to die? You would think their skeletons would be found just like any other dead animal.

Jolie Rouge

"Bigfoot" fails DNA test
Fri Aug 15, 6:47 PM ET

PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever.

Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence.

Its spread was fueled by a photograph of a hairy heap, bearing a close resemblance to a shaggy full-body gorilla costume, stuffed into a container resembling a refrigerator.

One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.

Bigfoot creatures are said to live in the forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. An opossum is a marsupial about the size of a house cat.

Results of the DNA tests were revealed in an e-mail from Nelson and distributed at the Palo Alto, California, news conference held by Tom Biscardi, host of a weekly online radio show about the Bigfoot.

Also present were Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two who say they discovered the Bigfoot corpse while hiking in the woods of northern Georgia. They also are co-owners of a company that offers Bigfoot merchandise.

Despite the dubious photo and the commercial interests of the alleged discoverers, the Bigfoot claim drew interest from Australia to Europe and even The New York Times.

Biscardi said the DNA samples may not have been taken correctly and may have been contaminated, and that he would proceed with an autopsy of the alleged Bigfoot remains, currently in a freezer at an undisclosed location.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/...81MtrIG1ZxieAA

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mesue

When animal out in the wild get sick their instinct is to hide, from other animals, they are vulnearable when sick. So you have a sick animal or dying animals hiding to keep from being discovered and then you have smaller animals eating it once it dies, they eat the bones also, it is a good source for calcium and then insects also eat remains, the hair woulld get blown about the wind.

Hubby has been all over these mountains here, and he said he has never seen any bear remains either, but we know their here. We have seen their foot prints and seen them. So the fact that ones body has not been found is not really that significant.

I believe this is a hoax, but I'm hoping it is the real thing. The panda was a myth at one time too, just like Bigfoot, though there were numerous sightings and prints found.

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Char

There was a guy on the AM Talk radio show "Coast to Coast AM" the other night, he owns a company that makes 'creature suits', masks, etc... for movies... he said that the head on this 'bigfoot' was the work of a dear friend of his that is also 'in the business'... but, he believed the 'costume head' was purchased at his friends shop in South Carolina. His friend had nothing to do with the 'scam', just that he would know this 'work' anywhere, and, the instant he saw the bigfoot head, he knew it was the work of his friend.

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Mini

That picture was freaky lol it looked real to me but then again I dont know much

This may have been proven to be a hoax but I personally still believe Bigfoot exists...somewhere....

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ilovecats

This confuses me.If it is a hoax,then what did the people who do the dna tests take a sample from?A dead man in a monkey suit?Didn't they notice?You can't tell if the picture is real but someone other than the people faking it(if they were faking it)saw it,couldn't they tell?

ahippiechic

I think they were sent samples and didn't take them themselves.

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tngirl

I won't say that Big Foot doesn't exist. Back in the 70's the people believed there was one in our area in NW Tn. We had a lot of livestock mutilations that went on for a summer. Whatever it was, I guess it was a migratory animal. That maybe the reason it is harder to prove they exist.

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