Bigfoot Trackers Say They've Got a Body

cnredd · #1 (**permalink**) 08-14-2008, 03:25 AM

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Two Northern California men and two Georgians say they've got a body, a photo and DNA evidence pertaining to the elusive forest-dwelling man-ape — and that they'll reveal all at a press conference in Palo Alto, Calif., on Friday.

"I think you'll find that this is the real deal," Robert Barrows of Redwood City, Calif., told the Bay City News local wire service.

Matthew Whitton, a cop in Clayton County, Ga., and his friend Rick Dyer, a former corrections officer, say they recently found the body in the woods of northern Georgia.

Veteran Bigfoot tracker Tom Biscardi said he's examined the body, and that scientists will get their chance soon.

I anticipate the most "WTF" scene in science since the global cooling of the 70s...

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saltwn · #2 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 02:44 AM

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Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim to see the man-ape.

Still, the Georgia men say DNA from the creature could prove once and for all that the frozen creature is Sasquatch.

Whitton, an officer on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department, and Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in early July.

There's more including video here Sasquatch hunters claim hairy corpse is Bigfoot - Science - MSNBC.com

I bet Art Bell is hot on this story!

cnredd · #3 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 02:48 AM

Damn...

And I was so hopeful...

saltwn · #4 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 02:52 AM

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Originally Posted by cnredd

Damn...

And I was so hopeful...

cnredd · #5 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 03:04 AM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

Sorry...

I thought you were updating it...I mentioned this elsewhere with a yawn smile because I knew they'd fuzzy it up...

And they did...

Bigfoot Hunters Press Conference Reveals... Little

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The much-anticipated Bigfoot press conference Friday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., revealed little more than two men — introduced by a self-styled Sasquatch seeker — claiming to possess the 7-foot "body" of a "bipedal creature" on ice in a secret location, awaiting an autopsy.

The men, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, were joined in the press conference by Tom Biscardi, host of an Bigfoot Internet radio show, who said the men approached him with their "find," saying, "We want to talk to Tom Biscardi... They didn't want to meet anyone else."

Biscardi showed reporters two blurry photos, claiming one was the mouth of the "creature" while the other was another creature running through the Georgia woods. The men claimed they "stumbled on the creature," but would not reveal more because they were concerned about it being an "endangered species."

Biscardi reiterated his invitation to FOX News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly to come to Georgia and view the body, and plugged his Internet radio show.

He said there wouldn't be anything more revealed Friday, but promised that he would "assemble" a group of scientists to examine the alleged corpse.

Whitton recounted how he and Dyer found the "body," and said that more Bigfoots "paralleled" them as they were loading it onto a flatbed truck.

Spencer Collins · #6 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 03:04 AM

Hey...everyone needs a hobby...

saltwn · #7 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 03:20 AM

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At a news conference Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., Whitton, Dyer and Tom Biscardi, head of a group called Searching for Bigfoot, presented what they called evidence supporting the Bigfoot theory. It was an e-mail from a University of Minnesota entomologist, saying one of the DNA samples that the men said they took from the corpse was "inconclusive," which could mean it didn't come from a known species.

Biscardi defended the pair at Friday's news conference among skeptical reporters.

"Do you think these fellows would come this far and put their reputations and their jobs on the line if they didn't have what they say they have?" he said.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Reserve spokesman Tom Mackenzie, however, said officers also are not taking the claim seriously and will not investigate Bigfoot because it not a federal priority.

"It's not on endangered species on any list that we've got," Mackenzie said.

So it's not the pictures now we're waiting on it's the DNA evidence. Don't any scientists in California have an interest in this? I mean California being flaky and all...

dga · #8 (**permalink**) 08-19-2008, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by saltwn

So it's not the pictures now we're waiting on it's the DNA evidence. Don't any scientists in California have an interest in this? I mean California being flaky and all...

Because the whole thing was a scam of course,

Web Site: Bigfoot Finding A Fraud - Atlanta News Story - WGCL Atlanta

saltwn · #9 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by dga

Because the whole thing was a scam of course,

Web Site: Bigfoot Finding A Fraud - Atlanta News Story - WGCL Atlanta

That still doesn't answer why scientist who studied the sex life of a cabbage on government grants didn't think it was worth investigating.

But yeah, wacky huh? I hope they got enough money to retire cause I don't think anyone will hire them now.

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