Bigfoot site stuns the world: It was a hoax
It was all so exciting while it lasted.
But now one has to lie down, shaking with shock, on discovering that the supposed Bigfoot discovery was, indeed, a gorilla suit in a freezer.
The Web site Searchingforbigfoot.com, owned by Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi, on Tuesday carried the words of Steve Kulls, who is apparently the executive director of something called Squatchdetective.com. Kulls was invited to be a witness to the thawing of the captured cadaver.
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"We contacted Mr. Biscardi who gave us permission to begin an expedited melting process. We set up a salamander heater to heat the freezer," wrote Kulls.
"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," he continued.
"Within the next hour of thaw, a break appeared up near the feet area. 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."
Live beings do not have rubber feet.
Subsequently, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton, the two Georgians who claimed they had happened upon Bigfoot's body, allegedly admitted their sleight of mouth.
Kulls added: "The motives behind this fraud are still unknown at this time. 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."
Of course, now legal action is threatened because there appears to have been money given to Dyer and Whitton in exchange for the gorilla suit. And, presumably, the freezer.
According to Kulls: "At this time the victim of this series of deceptions, Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., is seeking justice for themselves and for all the people who were deceived by this deception. Due to this event peoples lives have been disrupted and many people, so wanting vindication about there prior experiences, were hurt. Let us all try to be mindful of such."
Regardless of how many more Searching For Bigfoot T-shirts have been sold over the last week, I believe I was hurt by this deception and I hope you do too. And I look forward to each of us receiving, at the very least, several hairs from the gorilla suit.
Chris Matyszczyk is an award-winning creative director who advises major corporations on content creation and marketing. He brings an irreverent, sarcastic, and sometimes ironic voice to the tech world. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. 
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The world is not 'stunned' and lives were not 'disrupted'
I think the bulk of us were suitably skeptical and this played out pretty much as we collectively expected.
No, it does not stun "the world". It may stun the public in the US, cause you guys tend to believe everything that is thrown at you. And I'm not only talking about aliens and angels. Look at your presidential candidates: they both are hoaxes, too."
What is YOUR citizenship?
good stuff.
So maybe as the monster hunters were out in the woods looking for him, yelling "Bigfoot!', expecting him to come to them...if they had been yelling "medium Sized Foot", they might have found him long ago.
- by bobsbridge August 20, 2008 7:47 AM PDT
- I will tell you what is really scary about this whole affair, the people that believe this trash are registered voters.
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