Little evidence of Bigfoot

BIGFOOT lived in northern Georgia and his cousins are still there. At least that's what a pair of hunters and a Californian Bigfoot expert cum promoter continue to claim.

But if they have definitive evidence to prove it, it wasn't presented at a press conference on Friday where they had said they would make believers out of everyone.

A second round of DNA testing on what the men claim is a dead 2.13-metre, 250-kilogram Bigfoot they say they stumbled on while hiking in Georgia in June is still being completed.

Of three samples in a preliminary DNA test, one came back inconclusive, one contained traces of human DNA and one had traces of opossum DNA, probably from something the creature ate, they claimed.

They didn't produce a Bigfoot corpse; that is in a hidden location, they said, after being moved from a freezer that broke down a couple of times. They will not say exactly where they found the creature and claim they saw a band of other Bigfoots watching them. Neither will they allow anyone other than their own hand-picked scientists to examine the body of the dead animal.

"We're now the best Bigfoot hunters in the world," said Matthew Whitton, 31. Whitton and his hiking partner, Rick Dyer, 28, wore the hats to prove it, advertising their website.

Mr Whitton is a police officer who is on disability leave; Mr Dyer is a car salesman and tow-truck operator.

The pair produced two more still pictures. One blurry image, they claim, clearly shows one of several other Bigfoot family members that they said were walking beside them in their top-secret, undisclosed location where they allege they found the dead man-ape.

Another overlit, blurry photo shows what they claim is the mouth and teeth of the dead Sasquatch.

Preparations are under way for an autopsy on the animal, they said. Scientists are about to get involved, but one is on holiday until tomorrow and two others from Russia have yet to arrive in the US, they said.

A reporter from the Fox television network will be the first journalist to see the dead animal, maybe as early as this week, they said.

Tom Biscardi, a Bigfoot enthusiast known for questionable Bigfoot promotions in the past, swears all of this is not a hoax.

"This is as real as you're standing right where you are," he said.

Others say the story is nonsense. "This is becoming like an alien autopsy," said Jeffery Meldrum, a noted Bigfoot researcher and a professor of anthropology at Idaho State University. "Shenanigans."

Mr Whitton, who was wearing a plaster cast after being shot in the wrist last month while pursuing a robbery suspect, and Mr Dyer, who says he is a former prison officer, haven't done much to satisfy sceptics.

The men have previously posted videos of the purported Bigfoot on YouTube in which Mr Whitton's brother pretended to be a scientist, but by the end of the video he announces it was all done in fun.

The voicemail on Mr Whitton's telephone previously claimed they were leading expeditions to find not just Bigfoot but also the Loch Ness Monster and leprechauns.

On Friday Mr Whitton said these were all spoofs done just for fun and to throw off some of the "psychos" who had been bugging them since they appeared on an internet radio show touting their find.

The pair teamed up with Mr Biscardi after literally stumbling on their find almost two months ago, they said.

"When you punch in Bigfoot [on the internet], the first name that comes up is Tom Biscardi," Mr Dyer said when asked how they came across their new partner.

Mr Dyer said he and Mr Whitton had dragged the dead Sasquatch out of woods in northern Georgia almost two months ago. They hauled it back home in Mr Dyer's tow truck, they claimed, then filled up a freezer with water to try and freeze the creature in ice.

The freezer broke down a couple of times after that, Mr Dyer said.

Mr Biscardi runs an internet radio show and website devoted to Bigfoot under the umbrella of a company called Searching for Bigfoot.

In 2005, Mr Biscardi claimed he had met a woman in Nevada who had captured two living Bigfoot creatures. He charged about $US15 for visitors to his website to see blurry video claiming to show the captured creatures.

On Friday Mr Biscardi said he subsequently determined that the woman was mentally ill and he discontinued that business sideline.

A reporter from the Fox television network will be the first journalist to see the dead animal, maybe as early as this week, they said.

...and they wonder why the freezer broke....BTW...Why isnt the hair matted from the water?

Bigfoot is in my hot tub right now. Hence, he can't be dead. Conclusion: Hoax.

Bigfoot luv lime Jell-O.

Bigfoot Body Revealed to Be Halloween Costume
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
By Paul Wagenseil

So it really was a rubber suit.

The excitement over a supposed Bigfoot body that built all last week, culminating Friday in a circus-like press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., collapsed like a wet soufflé over the weekend as an independent investigator found out it was all fake.

SearchingforBigfoot.com owner Tom Biscardi paid an "undisclosed sum" to Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two Georgia men who say they found the body, for their frozen corpse and the privilege of trotting them out in front of TV cameras.

At the same time, Biscardi sent self-described "Sasquatch detective" Steve Kulls back to Georgia to check out the body.

Kulls, it's safe to say, was severely disappointed.

The upshot? The real Bigfoot, once found, is now missing. So are Whitton, Dyer and Biscardi's money.

• Click here to see more photos of Bigfoot and the press conference.
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In a long statement on SearchingforBigfoot.com, Kulls reveals what he found early Sunday morning Eastern time as the body thawed out.

"I extracted some [hair] from the alleged corpse and examined it and had some concerns," Kulls writes. "We burned said sample and said hair sample melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair."

Kulls called Biscardi in California, who told him to heat the body to speed up thawing.

"Within one hour we were able to see the partially exposed head," Kulls continues. "I was able to feel that it seemed mostly firm, but unusually hollow in one small section. This was yet another ominous sign."

Then came the clincher.

"Within the next hour of thaw, a break appeared up near the feet area. ... I observed the foot which looked unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber foot."

That jibes with what Jerry Parrino, owner of Internet Halloween-costume retailer TheHorrorDome.com, told FOXNews.com last week.

"It definitely looks like our [Sasquatch] costume," Parrino said after viewing photos of the body.

The Biscardi team immediately went into crisis mode. Biscardi called Whitton and Dyer at their California hotel. They admitted it was a hoax and agreed to sign a promissory note at a meeting set for 8 a.m. Pacific time at the hotel.

But when Biscardi got there, he "found that they had left."

"At this time action is being instigated against the perpetrators of this fraud," Kulls writes on Biscardi's Web site. "On behalf of myself I can say with certainty Matthew Whitton and Ricky Dyer [are] not the best Bigfoot trackers in the world!"

• Click here to read the sad story in its entirety on SearchingforBigfoot.com.

• Click here to start your own Bigfoot hoax.

*Sigh* Geez, some people just won't leave my family alone. Yes, some of us are nearly 7 feet tall (I really am the short one at 5' 10" with size 11 shoes) and we have a lot of excess body hair from our ancestory hailing from the frozen North.

So Cousin Roger lives like a hermit in Northern California, it's not like he's the first person to do so. And he's a nudist, but with body hair like Robin Williams, what's to get offended about? Those of us who live in more social situations actually gave Nair enough business to make it a household name.

So it breaks my heart {tears welling up} to hear that what was once a family joke is now a freak circus with hoaxes galore. We're people too! {uncontrollable sobbing}



BTW, Durachko, if Uncle Bob is being a nuisance in the hot tub, just give my Aunt Cindy a call. And make him clean the filters after he's done, too. My parents' pool furnace still smells like it's cremating chihuahuas every time it kicks on since he came to town.

Hmm, thought I left her on the beach in Pattaya, Thailand.