Bigfoot Find a Fraud
just this last Sunday Greg, Stephanie, Bing, Julia, Ben and I were wondering how many days the Bigfoot finders would be able to hold out before their fraud was uncovered. This was one of the weakest cases of cryptozoology to make it through to the media in years. They had a frozen corpse, right? They were gathering scientists to sample DNA, right? Except the scientists that they were inviting weren’t scientists at all, they were bigfoot hunders. Fools deluded by a weird desire to prove that a legend is actually true.
Guess what? They have vanished, leaving behind their rubber bigfoot along with $50,000. Sydney Morning Herald:
gullibility abounds
Investigator Steve Kulls wrote on the Searching for Bigfoot website that, after the supposed frozen corpse was examined on Sunday, it was found to be a fake.
“I extracted some [hair] from the alleged corpse and examined it and had some concerns,” he wrote.
“We burned said sample and said hair sample melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair.
“At that time we contacted [Searching for Bigfoot CEO Tom Biscardi, who was present at the press conference] who gave us permission to begin an expedited melting process.
“Within one hour we were able to see the partially exposed head, as I was now able to touch it, I was able to feel that it seemed mostly firm, but unusually hollow in one small section. This was yet another ominous sign.
“As the team and I began examining this area near the feet, I observed the foot which looked unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber foot.
“Later that day, Tom Biscardi informed us that both Matthew Whitton and Ricky Dyer admitted it was a costume.”
Mr Whitton and Mr Dyer agreed to meet Mr Biscardi at a hotel later that day to provide a written admission of what they had done, Mr Kulls said.
But when Mr Biscardi arrived at the hotel, the pair had vanished, he said.
“The motives behind this fraud are still unknown at this time,” Mr Kulls said.
“It is still unclear why Whitton who, being a police officer for the Clayton County Police Department in Georgia, got up before the world and lied and was complicit in a scheme to defraud in a felonious manner.”
It was also revealed that Mr Biscardi paid an “undisclosed sum” to Mr Whitton and Mr Dyer as an advance on the returns expected from the “marketing and promotion” of the Bigfoot discovery announcement.
FoxNews.com reported the sum was rumoured to be $US50,000 ($57,000).
How long could they have held out? Long enough to get the money they were after. Why else would somebody do something like this? The humor is in the gullibility of the Searching for Bigfoot Team. Laying out that kind of money before testing is stupid enough. To sign a contract to provide the service of marketing a bigfoot is beyond stupid. It is a case of being blinded by a desire to believe.
Mr Biscardi and his organisation, Searching for Bigfoot, are now working with the two men to capture another Bigfoot alive.
They are keeping details of the expedition, and the exact location where the Bigfoot body was found, secret.
As news of the discovery spreads across the internet, particularly in the US, many have already raised questions about its authenticity, claiming it’s all a hoax.
“We trekked in for a day a half … what kind of lunatic would be out here in a monkey suit? I saw the thing, I touched it,” Mr Biscardi said.
“They’re fine guys, one works for the police department in Georgia, and the other was a correctional officer. They’re pretty credible guys.”
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H/t to Dr. Laden
