bigfoot found?

[attgig]

http://www.local6.com/news/17188085/detail.html


Two U.S. hunters are claiming they found the body of a giant ape-like "Bigfoot" creature and plan to prove it at a news conference.

Photos released online show the large, hairy beast crammed into a freezer where it was apparently being preserved.

The beast is 7-foot-7 and weighs more than 500 pounds, a news released issued by the searchingforbigfoot.com Web site reported. It has red eyes and human-like teeth.

The supposed discoverers, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, are believed to have found the creature's body in the woods of northern Georgia.

Whitton is a Clayton County police officer who has been on medical leave since being shot in July and Dyer is a former correctional officer, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

A well-known "Bigfoot" hunter Tom Biscardi said he believes the find is authentic.

Details of the expedition and the exact location where the body was found are being kept a secret.

More images of the creature and the DNA samples will be presented Friday.



website is down. exceeded bandwidth. hilarious that it's in Georgia... i thought bigfoot lived in the northwest.

[DarkFury]

Sounds like they done shot some big hairy dude with big feet. :shrug:

[Markel]

Tomorrow's the day they are supposed to reveal the details. Guess we'll have to wait to find out if it's bigfoot or bighoax.

[uncledaddy]

http://www.local6.com/news/17188085/detail.html




website is down. exceeded bandwidth. hilarious that it's in Georgia... i thought bigfoot lived in the northwest.

Must be "Global Warming", that causes everything. :hmm: :heh: :D

[eSDee]

A new mall must be opening in the area ;)

[mojo]

it's probably just nick nolte

http://www.raymondkwan.com/uploader2/files/1256/nick_nolte.jpg

[mcs328]

I thought it was confirmed to be a hoax by a well known hoaxer who bought a bigfoot costume and made some alterations. On the other hand there was video evidence of the dreaded chupocabra.

[SteveB]

OH NO, they shot my cousin Billy Bob. We told him he had to shave and take a shower at least once a year.

Funny, I live in Clayton County, same as one of the guys that 'found' it.

[Napoleon54]

I wonder what bigfoot meat tastes like. Bigfoot porterhouse, bigfoot meatloaf, bigfoot stew...

[bachviet]

http://www.local6.com/news/17188085/detail.html




website is down. exceeded bandwidth. hilarious that it's in Georgia... i thought bigfoot lived in the northwest.
He/She is on summer vacation.

[ArkiStan]

I'm waaaaiting...

[mojo]

I'm waaaaiting...
you'll be waiting a while. it's a hoax (http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/15/bigfoot-sasquatch-hoax.html)

all they could come up with is 2 blurry photos and no DNA.

well, i guess they want to keep the DNA away from the public to "protect the species" :hmm:

[zippyjuan]

Lemme see. They said they found the body already dead. No wait, they also said they followed a fellon who shot it. Wait, no, they said they stumbled upon a whole familiy. They said they were not looking for bigfoot and would not know where to start to look. But they call themselves bigfoot seekers. Andsomehow, that does not look like something seven feet tall and 500 pounds in that freezer. Fox says it looks like this costume: http://thehorrordome.com/HDSHOPPINGPROPS/SasquatchLARGE.htm

And no, they did not reveal any new information at the press conference. No surprises there.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404805,00.html

The much-anticipated Bigfoot press conference Friday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., revealed little more than two men — introduced by a self-styled Sasquatch seeker — claiming to possess the 7-foot "body" of a "bipedal creature" on ice in a secret location, awaiting an autopsy.

The men, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, were joined in the press conference by Tom Biscardi, host of an Bigfoot Internet radio show, who said the men approached him with their "find," saying, "We want to talk to Tom Biscardi... They didn't want to meet anyone else."

Biscardi showed reporters two blurry photos, claiming one was the mouth of the "creature" while the other was another creature running through the Georgia woods. The men claimed they "stumbled on the creature," but would not reveal more because they were concerned about it being an "endangered species."

Biscardi reiterated his invitation to FOX News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly to come to Georgia and view the body, and plugged his Internet radio show.

He said there wouldn't be anything more revealed Friday, but promised that he would "assemble" a group of scientists to examine the alleged corpse.

Whitton recounted how he and Dyer found the "body," and said that more Bigfoots "paralleled" them as they were loading it onto a flatbed truck.

Biscardi said Whitton and Dyer had gotten death threats from Sasquatch fanatics, whom Whitton deemed "psychos."

None of this was likely to dissuade skeptics, even among Bigfoot experts, who questioned Biscardi's past ventures and noticed that the body in the freezer looked a lot like a Sasquatch Halloween costume available on the Internet .

"It definitely looks like our costume," Jerry Parrino, owner of TheHorrorDome.com, told FOXNews.com.

"This 'body' has little to do with Bigfoot and everything to do with a Sasquatch costume that someone developed after watching too many gorilla movies," warned Loren Coleman , who runs the influential Cryptomundo blog devoted to strange and unknown animals. "The teeth that seem to have been placed in the mouth could be my late mother's false teeth."

"I've had interactions with Tom Biscardi in the past, and based on that history, I would say that anything he is involved in is suspect," Idaho State anthropologist and Bigfoot investigator Jeffrey Meldrum told Scientific American .

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Reserve spokesman Tom Mackenzie told the Associated Press his agency isn't taking the claim seriously and won't investigate.

"It's not on endangered species on any list that we've got," he said.



Watch for "Alien Autopsy II: Harry and the Hendersons".

[uncledaddy]

Wow, a back door attempt at fame and celebrity status. :shake:

[zippyjuan]

For $500 bucks they will take you along on one of their "expiditions". http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20080815/48a4ff40_3ca6_1552620080815-1684905684

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.



I like the Chewbacc suit part.

[Napoleon54]

Michael Keaton (hushed voice): "I'm bigfoot."