scdreamin3 Posted August 16, 2008 CID Share Posted August 16, 2008 Georgia men claim hairy, frozen corpse is bigfoot By MALIA WOLLAN, Associated Press Writer 26 minutes ago 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. ___ Related Video - - javascript:void(window.open('http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/ynews;_ylt=AjLxDhsVufVSY24Cn0kvX5lH2ocA?ch=4226726&cl=9298791&lang=en','playerWindow','width=793,height=608,scrollbars=no')); ___ On the Net: Bigfoot Tracker: http://www.bigfoottracker.com Big Foot Field Researchers Organization: http://www.bfro.net/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scdreamin3 Posted August 16, 2008 Author CID Share Posted August 16, 2008 You sure that isn't you roaming around in those woods Coknuk? Lol, just kidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted August 16, 2008 CID Share Posted August 16, 2008 Why not ? Hell there's so much we dismiss and laugh at, you never know what's real and whats not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grambler Posted August 16, 2008 CID Share Posted August 16, 2008 Sure would like to know where in North Georgia, because I've been through lots of the woods in North Georgia and never seen anything like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninjageek Posted August 16, 2008 CID Share Posted August 16, 2008 How messed up will it be if this turns out to be legit. All the people we swore were nuts will now get to say TOLD YA SO!! Time will tell, this should be fun and intresting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyantm06 Posted August 20, 2008 CID Share Posted August 20, 2008 So...Did they find out if this was real? That would be the shit!! I am going to look at videos on YouTube now...God, I wish he was real...I wouldn't mind getting high with Big Foot lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scdreamin3 Posted August 21, 2008 Author CID Share Posted August 21, 2008 Nope, unfortunately. Sorry I haven't updated. I have been real busy with "Ubuntu and the case of the non-working Bluetooth". Turns out it was all a hoax. Man I'm PO'ed. These guys said they had a body and everything. Well, the "body" apparently came from a costume store. So, if you ever want to make National Headlines and look like a total arse in front of the whole world, go to a costume store, buy a bigfoot costume, put it in a freezer, take pic's of it, and tell the world you've found bigfoot, something countless people have been trying to do for centuries. Oh, and tell 'em you found the lochness monster while your at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted August 21, 2008 CID Share Posted August 21, 2008 Not really any surprise there. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted September 15, 2008 CID Share Posted September 15, 2008 Well of course big foot is real and still breathing. And still kicking ass and taking no license plates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted September 15, 2008 CID Share Posted September 15, 2008 , no he ain't real ,bigfoot may have been once (Neanderthal ) but not today if he was ,he would be claiming social; security as a endangered species , and staring on " I am a celebrity get me out of here " , just my view .warped as it is , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mudmanc4 Posted September 15, 2008 CID Share Posted September 15, 2008 , no he ain't real ,bigfoot may have been once (Neanderthal ) but not today if he was ,he would be claiming social; security as a endangered species , and staring on " I am a celebrity get me out of here " , just my view .warped as it is , I couldn't agree more :haha: Or better yet, running for president, claiming if you all didn't vote for him that you were being racists :haha: omg, thats hilarious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roco Posted September 15, 2008 CID Share Posted September 15, 2008 I couldn't agree more :haha: Or better yet, running for president, claiming if you all didn't vote for him that you were being racists :haha: omg, thats hilarious , so true , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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