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As far as Bigfoot hoaxes go, it
was short-lived one.
Only days after Georgia residents
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer told reporters at a press
conference on Friday that they had a dead Bigfoot
body, their evidence has been exposed as a rubber
ape costume.
The deception was made public by
the very company Whitton and Dyer teamed up with to
announce their supposed find.
In a statement posted on the Web
site of Searching for Bigfoot Inc., "Sasquatch
Detective" Steve Kulls said he realized the Bigfoot
"corpse" was a fake when the frozen body
began to thaw—after the press conference had
already taken place.
(See "Bigfoot Discovery Declared
a Hoax" [August 18, 2008].)
Ominous Signs
Kulls wrote that he and a colleague
plucked a few hairs from the defrosting body and burned
them for analysis, but became suspicious when they
"melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair."
More ominous signs emerged as the
ice encasing the body began to melt away.
"Within the next hour of thaw,
a break appeared up near the feet area," Kulls
wrote. "As the team and I began examining this
area near the feet, I observed the foot, which looked
unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber
foot."
Kulls wrote that he immediately informed
Searching for Bigfoot CEO Tom Biscardi about the discovery.
Upon confrontation, Whitton and Dyer reportedly admitted
to the hoax.
However, many elements of Kulls's
account sharply contradict earlier statements made
by Biscardi, who stood alongside Whitton and Dyer
at the press conference in Palo Alto, California,
last Friday.
At the conference, Biscardi said
he had flown to Georgia and had actually seen, touched,
and prodded the body and was satisfied it "was
not a mask sewn on a bear hide."
Read the full article here...
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080820-bigfoot-body.html
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