Bigfoot Claim a Hoax - Duh!
Category: General NewsPosted: August 19, 2008 06:05PM
Author: Nemo
When the Bigfoot capture claim story broke last week, the Internet went wild. Close on the heels of the story was a healthy amount of skepticism. With the a looming press conference and the promise of DNA evidence it was better than a sideshow at the county fair. The pair of Georgia hunters, Ricky Dyer and Mathew Whitton, had hooked up with another purported Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi, who was to run the press conference. To no one's surprise there was nothing but promises made centering around forthcoming DNA evidence. I hope you're keeping up here. The DNA 'evidence' turned out to be, hold on here, bogus as one sample was from a human and the second was 96% from an opossum. Biscardi suggested the DNA might not have been collected correctly and had become contaminated and promised an autopsy on the body was forthcoming. That led to the discovery that the body was a fake and was, instead, made of rubber. In a bizarre twist, the group running the press conference now claims they were defrauded by the pair of hunters. Searching for Bigfoot revealed today it had paid Dyer and Whitton for the rights to handle the publicity of the Bigfoot discovery. Once the deception was uncovered, members of Searching for Bigfoot attempted to recover its money, only to find Dyer and Whitton had left town.
