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'Bigfoot' Trackers Claim They've Found Their Prey
POSTED: 7:04 pm PDT August 12, 2008 UPDATED: 9:40 am PDT August 13, 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- It’s more than 7-feet tall. Weighs over 500 pounds and walked upright -- three "Bigfoot" seekers, including a Redwood City man, Wednesday claimed they have proof that they have found the body of the elusive creature in the wilds of Georgia.
And on Friday, at a news conference in Palo Alto, they say they will present DNA evidence to prove the carcass of “Rickmat” is that of a bigfoot.
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, Georgia residents who lead Bigfoot-tracking expeditions, say they found the body of what appears to be a Bigfoot in the woods of northern Georgia and will join local Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi at the news conference, according to Robert Barrows, who is publicizing the event.
Among the creatures's other physical characteristics of the body -- according to the hunters website -- http://www.searchingforbigfoot.com/ -- were flat feet similar to human feet. Its footprint is 16 ¾ inches long and the length from palm to tip of the middle finger is 11 ½ inches long.
"I think you'll find that this is the real deal," Barrows said of the alleged discovery.
Whitton, a police officer in Clayton County, and Dyer, a former correctional officer, are not saying exactly where the body was found or where it is now, Barrows said.
Biscardi, a veteran Bigfoot tracker who said he went to Georgia to view the find over the weekend, said DNA tests are being conducted and a team of scientists will study the body, but declined to name any scientists involved.
Officials from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Resources Division said the largest wildlife they are aware of in the state are black bears and white-tail deer.
-------------------- When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis Posts: 2166 | From: St. Louis | Registered: Feb 2005
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: you mean my cousin Billy Joe Bubba is dead?
Well as long as it's not another "pug" dog would be sufficient.
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That has to be just a horrendous smell. Those things had the nickname of "Stink-Ape" in Florida.. just add that to dead and "Thawed Out".
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Meanwhile, down in South Texas, a pair of Highway Cops claim to have SEEN a guaranteed to be 100% real live and breathing chupacabra trotting off down the pavement in their headlights.
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Meanwhile, down in South Texas, a pair of Highway Cops claim to have SEEN a guaranteed to be 100% real live and breathing chupacabra trotting off down the pavement in their headlights.
those guy must've gotten more than just a "taste" of the confiscated contraband....
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"those guy must've gotten more than just a "taste" of the confiscated contraband...."
They claim to have videos from a dashboard camera.
Probably, they are like the last couple of claimed sightings. They got the dead bodies and tested them via DNA and such and they turned out to be hairless (due to mange) coyotes.
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I don't have copy of their video. There was a still photo, supposedly from that video, in the local paper a couple of days ago. It looked like a hairless coyote to me.
But, hell, who am I to say. I'm not a trained observer like highway cop, just a lifetime woodsman that has seen few mangey coyotes before.
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I could be wrong, but isn't the Chupacabra supposed to be some kind of flying monster? That's what the people in Brazil told me.
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I think your right. It sure looks similar to the dead one they found a couple months back. Image below is the previous one found dead.
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Sorry, but I feel no fear or awe of some mysterious beast from those pictures, just real sadness for the plight the innocent poor coyote.
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quote:Originally posted by bdgee: Sorry, but I feel no fear or awe of some mysterious beast from those pictures, just real sadness for the plight the innocent poor coyote.
Have they figured out what is causing the recent increase in severe mange amongst the Coyote population in Texas?
-------------------- When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. Sinclair Lewis Posts: 2166 | From: St. Louis | Registered: Feb 2005
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The recent bigfoot story was a bunch of bull****: "Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence.
Its spread was fueled by a photograph of a hairy heap, bearing a close resemblance to a shaggy full-body gorilla costume, stuffed into a container resembling a refrigerator.
One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.
Bigfoot creatures are said to live in the forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. An opossum is a marsupial about the size of a house cat.
Results of the DNA tests were revealed in an e-mail from Nelson and distributed at the Palo Alto, California, news conference held by Tom Biscardi, host of a weekly online radio show about the Bigfoot.
Also present were Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two who say they discovered the Bigfoot corpse while hiking in the woods of northern Georgia. They also are co-owners of a company that offers Bigfoot merchandise.
Despite the dubious photo and the commercial interests of the alleged discoverers, the Bigfoot claim drew interest from Australia to Europe and even The New York Times.
Biscardi said the DNA samples may not have been taken correctly and may have been contaminated, and that he would proceed with an autopsy of the alleged Bigfoot remains, currently in a freezer at an undisclosed location."
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Haven't heard for my second cousin Nate for a while....had to tell from that picture. Teeth look right though. He has always been proud of his straight white teeth.
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Bigfoot Body Revealed to Be Halloween Costume Tuesday , August 19, 2008 By Paul Wagenseil
So it really was a rubber suit.
The excitement over a supposed Bigfoot body that built all last week, culminating Friday in a circus-like press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., collapsed like a wet soufflé over the weekend as an independent investigator found out it was all fake.
SearchingforBigfoot.com owner Tom Biscardi paid an "undisclosed sum" to Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two Georgia men who say they found the body, for their frozen corpse and the privilege of trotting them out in front of TV cameras.
At the same time, Biscardi sent self-described "Sasquatch detective" Steve Kulls back to Georgia to check out the body.
Kulls, it's safe to say, was severely disappointed.
The upshot? The real Bigfoot, once found, is now missing. So are Whitton, Dyer and Biscardi's money.
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In a long statement on SearchingforBigfoot.com, Kulls reveals what he found early Sunday morning Eastern time as the body thawed out.
"I extracted some [hair] from the alleged corpse and examined it and had some concerns," Kulls writes. "We burned said sample and said hair sample melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair."
Kulls called Biscardi in California, who told him to heat the body to speed up thawing.
"Within one hour we were able to see the partially exposed head," Kulls continues. "I was able to feel that it seemed mostly firm, but unusually hollow in one small section. This was yet another ominous sign."
Then came the clincher.
"Within the next hour of thaw, a break appeared up near the feet area. ... I observed the foot which looked unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber foot."
That jibes with what Jerry Parrino, owner of Internet Halloween-costume retailer TheHorrorDome.com, told FOXNews.com last week.
"It definitely looks like our [Sasquatch] costume," Parrino said after viewing photos of the body.
The Biscardi team immediately went into crisis mode. Biscardi called Whitton and Dyer at their California hotel. They admitted it was a hoax and agreed to sign a promissory note at a meeting set for 8 a.m. Pacific time at the hotel.
But when Biscardi got there, he "found that they had left."
"At this time action is being instigated against the perpetrators of this fraud," Kulls writes on Biscardi's Web site. "On behalf of myself I can say with certainty Matthew Whitton and Ricky Dyer [are] not the best Bigfoot trackers in the world!"
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