So today is supposedly the big day when a couple of dudes (Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer) from Georgia (the southern USA state – not the country currently being invaded by Russia) hold a press conference and reveal to the world that they have found Bigfoot. Their proof? The screenshot above, taken from a video they created.
So many red flag questions arise from this whole incident like: Why hold a press conference? Why not just turn the carcass over to reputable scientists for inspection? Why not send samples from the carcass to numerous labs across the country for analysis? Why not release numerous, high resolution images of the carcass along with detailed photos of the location where it was found? Why does it look exactly like a soggy version of this Bigfoot costume with some entrails thrown on it? And, most importantly, why would you keep such a monumentally historic find ON ICE IN YOUR BEER COOLER!?!
You know something is a hoax when even the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization comes out against your claims of finding proof that Bigfoot exists. The press conference is being put on by Carmine Thomas Biscardi – a Las Vegas promoter who has orchestrated Bigfoot hoaxes in the past. I am sure at this press conference they will have “scientists” (aka “dudes in lab coats they have paid to be there” – the “scientist” that appears in this YouTube video about the Georgia Bigfoot find is actually Whitton’s brother, who is not a scientist) to back up their “DNA evidence”.
All I can say is, to me that photo looks like a perfectly good waste of a beer cooler.
UPDATE: As expected, the press conference was a whole lot of talking with little showing of anything that would pass as evidence. IMO, the photo of the “teeth” they showed seem awfully white and straight for a wild creature that has been living in the woods.
Related Articles…
Bigfoot Hunters Press Conference Reveals… Little [Fox News]
Bigfoot Press Conference Yields Little Evidence, Lots of Scorn [Scientific American]
‘Bigfoot’ press conference reveals possum DNA [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
The Bigfoot press conference and the art of selling a website [C|NET News]
UPDATE 8/19: Annnnnnnd, it’s official…
Bigfoot Finding A Fraud [WGCL 46 News, Atlanta]
UPDATE 8/21: In the “Seriously, You Have Nothing Better To Do With Your Time?” Dept. …
Bigfoot hoaxers say it was just ‘a big joke’ [CNN]
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I don’t know what you’re talking about. That lo-res, badly lighted photo is all the proof I need to show bigfoot exists! Long live Harry and the Hendersons!
haha really…that must be a pretty big cooler to be able to fit ‘bigfoot’ inside it!
No kidding to Jason’s comment about the big cooler. How much beer do these people need? I guess, enough to make them fake a Big Foot carcass and then kill something to get it’s entrails to make it seem genuine.
Yeah, they say it is a “freezer”. (With ice dumped in it? Aren’t freezers, like, ELECTRIC?) But we all know that thing was holding a bunch of Miller Lites before “Bigfoot” was thrown in there!
I don’t think they have electricity where these people come from.