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Hoax - confirmed...GRRRR Hoax: Found Bigfoot Carcass Was Made Of Rubber ATLANTA (AP) ― Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. The two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice was discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit after it was slowly thawed out. The alleged carcass had been handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it. The revelation comes just days after a news conference was held to proclaim that the remains of the creature were found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape. Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com, says in a posting on a Web site run by Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi that as the "evidence" was thawed, the claim began to unravel as a giant hoax. First, the hair sample was burned and "melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair," Kulls said in the posting. The thawing process was sped up and the exposed head was found to be "unusually hollow in one small section." An hour of thawing later and the feet were exposed -- and they were found to be made of rubber.
Ahhhh, publicity! Years from now, if not minutes from now, Boscardi will be known as the guy who broke the rubber Bigfoot suit discovery.
The most disturbing thing here is that these two idiots thought they could get away with it. Didn't they know there would be scrutiny? ... and they took reward money!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'd do it if I could get money. It has been done before too so no one would really remember my name and I could live a normal life outside the city where I claimed it at.
People have submitted drummed-up video and photo evidence but they submitted a frozen body that they had to know would be tested and autopsied at some point. Ever heard of the long arm of the law?!
Funny stuff from the article: "Everyone who has talked down to us is going to eat their words," Whitton said at the time. Phone calls to Whitton and Dyer went unreturned on Tuesday. But the voicemail recording for their Bigfoot Tip Line - which proclaims they search for leprechauns and the Loch Ness monster - has been updated and announcing they're also in search of "big cats and dinosaurs. If you see any of those, give us a call." On Tuesday, Clayton County Police Chief Jeff Turner said he has not spoken to Whitton but processed paperwork to fire him. "Once he perpetrated a fraud, that goes into his credibility and integrity," Turner said. "He has violated the duty of a police officer."
I saw the report this morning...apparently they paid thousands of dollars for it with real body parts of something and now the two guys are MIA...
The two Bigfoot idiots have come out of seclusion. <iframe src="http://edition.cnn.com/video/savp/evp/?loc=int&vid=/video/us/2008/08/21/dnt.bigfoot.phoney.wsb" height="393" width="406" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> Bigfoot hoaxers say it was just 'a big joke' Link ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The two men who claimed to have found the carcass of Bigfoot have surfaced to say: Hey, it was just a joke. "It's Bigfoot," co-hoaxer Rick Dyer says. "Bigfoot doesn't exist." Not everyone is laughing. In an exclusive interview with CNN affiliate WSB, the two hoaxers -- car salesman Rick Dyer and now-fired police officer Matt Whitton -- said the whole situation began as a joke and then got out of hand. "It's just a big hoax, a big joke," Dyer said. "It's Bigfoot," Dyer explained. "Bigfoot doesn't exist." Whitton chimed in: "All this was a big joke. It got into something way bigger than it was supposed to be." At a news conference in California last week, the two men had stood by their claims that they had discovered Bigfoot's corpse and had it on ice. Scientific analysis would prove it, they said. Not quite. Now the two Georgia men admit that the hairy, icy blob was an Internet-purchased Sasquatch costume stuffed with possum roadkill and slaughterhouse leftovers. Whitton and Dyer say that when they came up with the hoax, they had no idea it would become a media circus. "It got legs and ran. It's crazy now," Dyer told WSB. Co-hoaxer Whitton agrees: "It started off as some YouTube videos and a Web site. We're all about having fun." "Fun" isn't exactly how Clayton County Police Chief Jeff Turner sees it. He has kicked Whitton off the police force. "He lied on national TV," Turner says of Whitton, "so a defense attorney now could say, 'How do we know you're not lying now?' " Whitton and Dyer had announced that they had found the body of a 7-foot-7-inch, 500-pound half-ape, half-human creature while hiking in the north Georgia mountains in June. They also said they had spotted about three similar living creatures. Still unclear is how much money Whitton and Dyer got out of the hoax. Steve Kulls, who maintains the SquatchDetective Web site and hosts a similarly named Internet radio program, first interviewed Dyer on July 28 for the radio program. On August 12, Kulls said, Dyer and Whitton "requested an undisclosed sum of money as an advance, expected from the marketing and promotion." Two days later, after signing a receipt and counting the money, Dyer and Whitton showed the Searching for Bigfoot team the freezer containing what they claimed was the carcass: "Something appearing large, hairy and frozen in ice," Kulls wrote on the Web site. It was, as many had suspected, an ape-like costume stuffed with entrails. After the news conference last week, Dyer and Whitton disappeared from view. The truth came out over the weekend. In a Web posting this week, Kulls wrote that "action is being instigated against the perpetrators." The two hoaxers have hired attorney Steve Lister to represent them. "There have been some threats made to them for both civil and criminal prosecution," Lister said. The attorney says the Bigfoot incident "got out of hand." Dyer, asked whether he ever thought that the hoopla had become more than just a joke, implied that everyone should have known it was a hoax. "Well, we told 10 different stories," he said. "Everyone knew we were lying."
