Monday, August 18, 2008

Bigfoot Body Claim is a Hoax


Imagine that. "If it seems too good to be true..."—you know the old adage.

I just got through listening to Sasquatch Detective Steve Kulls's statement on the live BlogTalkRadio program where Mr. Kulls broke the news that the recent claim of two Georgia men that they had found the body of a bigfoot is...well, bogus. Mr. Kulls was actually on the scene where the "body" was, reporting by telephone. He stated the head had a hollow place in it, the "hair" melted into a ball when burned (uncharacteristic of actual hair), and the foot was definitely made out of rubber.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two men who made the claim and held a press conference in Palo Alto, California on Friday, August 15, 2008, admitted to the fraud. These guys are going to have some fallout to deal with, and rightly so. They've also committed a crime, according to the program.

While not related even remotely to UFOs (probably), I felt the need to include this post. Once again, this sort of thing damages the credible reports of honest people just the same as if they'd hoaxed a UFO sighting or some sort of amazing UFO evidence. Sigh.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

i'm still trying to figure out if "Sasquatch" is Bigfoot's name, or if that's the name of his species

NearSide said...

It's just another name for "Bigfoot".

Taken from the Wikipedia entry:

"Burns coined the term Sasquatch, which is from the Halkomelem sésquac meaning "wild man", and used it to described the unified creature in his articles. Burns's articles popularized both the legend and its new name, making it well known in western Canada before it gained popularity in the United States."