Bigfoots Body found

[thunderbolt]

Poor Ookla!!!!

[Johnny]

[toysrus]

Foot

I'm not sure whats with this new Foot story. I believe he Patterson footage was the real deal, but lets wait and see what we hear in the next few days.

[Vortigern99]

Toysrus, the Georgia body has already been revealed as a hoax. The hoaxers have put a video on youtube (see the link above to bfro.net) admitting the whole thing, while brazenly insisting those who called them out are "stalkers" who have "nothing better to do with their time". They claim they're still better experts on bigfoot than anyone working in the field, and that their book on the subject will be better and more accurate than any other, blah blah blah.

[johnmiic]

Jeeezzzeee!!! How did I not see this thread till now!?!?!?!?!

If Bigfoot/Sasquatch exists, and I suspect it does, the population would likely be between 5 & 10 thousand, at least, in the USA. I think that population figure was estimated by the late Dr. Grover Krantz. Anyone interested in a serious scientific examination of what Bigfoot might be, should seek out Krantz's books, Big Footprints or Bigfoot:The Evidence. They are essentailly the same book. He writes in a way any layman can understand. I have re-read several chapters. His theories are very interesting.

They did a little experiment on the History Channel show, Monster Quest. They took a fresh deer carcass and left it in the woods for a month with a time-lapse camera. It was tied with wire and fixed to the ground with metal spikes so no one could walk off with it. They wanted to see how long before a dead body disappears from decay and animal scavenging. Their estimates were about a month. When they reviewed the slideshow they found the carcass was almost completely gone in 7 days!!! It took only a week for animals and bugs to strip the whole thing until it was nearly un-recognizable. If a Bigfoot dies it would likely seek a spot to hide before it dies to avoid predatory animals, then likely it would be devoured by scavenging animals and bugs very quickly, whatever is left would be covered by the forest and decay so nothing would be left. We are also not accounting for the possibility they bury their dead. In which case you would absolutely never walk down a trail in a forest and stumble upon a body. Some people think this is giving them too much credit. Many think as an animal it would not bury it's dead. However, an animal that has been able to avoid huiman contact for so many centuries must have some amount of intelligence. I suspect they are not just dumb animals.

[david_b]

'Heard he was a HIT with the ladieeeees..!

[Marvelmania]

and now they're hunting Leprechauns?

Sasquatch hunters claim hairy corpse is Bigfoot - Science - MSNBC.com

[Vortigern99]

^ ^ ^ That article was updated 2 hours ago, but oddly fails to mention the youtube video in which the hoaxers confess the hoax. It also declines to mention that Biscardi pulled a similar hoax, a known hoax, three years ago. /rolls eyes/

[Customslab]

what happened at the big press conf. at noon in cali.?

[Vortigern99]

From Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is Bigfoot - Yahoo! News

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.

[mitchedwards]

The DNA was proven to be a human possum mix

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.

[Vortigern99]

Funny how no body is forthcoming as promised.

[saildog]

Funny how no body is forthcoming as promised.

I was otherwise engaged.

[The Toyroom]

I thought he was Bionic...he shouldn't have gone down that easily.

[AUSSIE-Rebooted-AMM]

I would have thought the DNA may have come back part Belgium and Part Tasmanian Devil!