Aug 19, 2008 6:18 pm US/Pacific
Hoax! Found Bigfoot Carcass Was Made Of Rubber
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The purported body of a Bigfoot thawed out in a freezer, which turned out to be a rubber ape suit.
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Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across Bigfoot's corpse in the woods of northern Georgia. Here, someone holds up a photo of the alleged creature's mouth.
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Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across Bigfoot's 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.
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Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across Bigfoot's 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.
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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.
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