Thread: American 'Bigfoot' is monkey suit

American 'Bigfoot' is monkey suit

The claimed recent discovery of Bigfoot in the US state of Georgia has turned out to be a hoax - it was a rubber gorilla suit in a block of ice.
Two men said last week they had found a 2.3m-tall (7ft 7in), 226kg (500lb) corpse of the legendary ape-like creature in a wood in June.
Two researchers bought the "carcass", encased in ice, for an undisclosed sum.
But as it thawed it turned out to be a rubber monkey outfit. Bigfoot has been the subject of decades of hoaxes.
Matt Whitton, a police officer, and Rick Dyer, a former prison officer, told a new conference in California last week that they had made the find while hiking.
'Dinosaurs'
A photograph on the men's website showed what appeared to be a large, hairy creature.
But Bigfoot experts reacted suspiciously to the men's claims and the story soon began to unravel.

BIGFOOT BASICS
First documented report was prints found by Canadian trader in 1811
Name dates from 1958 reports of giant footprints found in California
Ray Wallace, who died in 2002, claimed to have faked these
Most famous footage shot in 1967 and contested ever since

Steve Kulls - of squatchdetective.com - observed the thawing and said that as the ice melted, the exposed head was found to be "unusually hollow in one small section".
As the process continued the feet were exposed - and were found to be made of rubber.
AP news agency reported that telephone calls to Mr Whitton and Mr Dyer were not returned on Tuesday.
But the voicemail recording for their Bigfoot Tip Line - which proclaims they also search for leprechauns and the Loch Ness monster - has been updated. It announced the duo were also looking for "big cats and dinosaurs".

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Do you think that that these 'creatures' could really be real or have existed?

Are Nessie, The Beast of Bognor, Bigfoot and UFO's possibly real?

Will the people who have paid for the suit get a refund?

looks like a big scam involving a police officer, are they going to sue ?

I thought this was another hoax right from the start. While the scientists or whoever were "investigating" to see if the carcass was real, the media made reports about it. It's a yawner.

.... and the cop got fired.

The fact that people believe it at all is what gets me. The reports of Bigfoot have been going on for years. There must be enough of them to reproduce. So one would think that they would be seen at least once in a while or the odd corpse found.

On the history channel they are running a Monster series, one was about BigFoot or Sasquat as the Canadians call it, Quite an interesting episode,factual without being theatrical !!
Some guy had his shed wrecked in a remote part of Canada, so he set a trap outside his shed door comprising of a board a metre square studded with large screws and nails, he returned to find the board coated with blood, skin and hair.
The investigation team visited the site and recovered the board and samples of the material although they were by now weather beaten, they measured the footprint based on the stain and found it to be around 18 inches! long,
They managed to obtain some DNA from the skin etc and on analysis it was neither Human nor Ape, somewhere in between, research on the samples is on going! If you can catch a repeat of the programme it,s worth a watch,

Sounds like a 'Trailer Park Boys' episode.

Explain??

Obviously French Canadian, I would think!!!

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

Obviously French Canadian, I would think!!!

More likely a Newfie.

Good post from me eh??

Big foot, UFOs and socialist democracies. All myths in which there is no credible evidence any of them have ever existed.

But, "a sucker is born every minute" and shows about bigfoot on the history channel probably pull in better ratings than shows based on actual factual evidence.

Well, last year they discovered a new mammal in the jungles of borneo... the size of a cat

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | 'New mammal' seen in Borneo woods

Recently some new species of fish were discoverd in the Pacific trench...

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Discovery of a new fish species

Both places are very remote, the new species found were both relatively small.....

I absolutely do not see how a bigfoot or a loch ness monster could 'hide' for all these years.

and didnt they admit that the loch ness monster was a hoax anyway...?

Loch Ness Monster Hoaxes

It's just tourism authorities from countries that have really crap things to do, trying to make thier place a little more interesting.

I saw another discovery program. The "X" squad or something. They got a load of people who claimed to have seen big foot to show them a site that was supposed to be famous for siteings. At the same time they had an actor in a very convincing big foot suit run across the fields and into the trees. All the people brought onto the show were stunned and really belived that they'd seen it again!

Loch Ness, Area 51, crop circles, bigfoot, Barrack Obama.

Some people will be duped by practically anything.

Originally Posted by wanderering walter

Hey A.A you still hav,nt had your treatment yet!! read the post from Mr Squirrel, you know more than Dr Kurt Nelson And Dr Jeff Meldrum?? sat on your arse inside a darkened room you know more than qualified people, it may be a myth but when it is proved real otherwise best hold your opinion for thats what it is, stick your head up your arse and meet friends of similar intelligence

What the hell is this post all about??

Kinda uncalled for.

Have a red.

Originally Posted by kingwilly

on the contrary, we have mapped and explored a lot of the sea, most of it is empty desert.

Mapped yes using sonar and the like. Explored, I think very little in the biological sense.

We know more about the Martian landscape than we do the Marianas Trench.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Loch Ness, Area 51, crop circles, bigfoot, Barrack Obama.

Some people will be duped by practically anything.

And retired loud-mouth flyboys, too.

Originally Posted by Texpat

Some people will be duped by practically anything.

Only have to walk into any place of worship to realise that.

I think Big-Foot is related to KW....Can anybody get a sample of KW's DNA...