Hunters find dead Bigfoot, have body in freezer

**Catlady** · August 14th, 2008, 10:12 AM

It may look like a discarded fancy dress Chewbacca costume in a compost heap, but two hunters are claiming that this is the dead body of the legendary Bigfoot.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, who run Bigfoot expeditions, have told how they found Sasquatch two weeks ago in the woods of north Georgia, storing it since then in a freezer.

Pics have been posted on searchingforbigfoot.com but a press conference where further DNA and photographic proof will be presented from the pair and "the real Bigfoot Hunter" Tom Biscardi has been promised.

Whitton and Dyer maintain that the monstrous corpse nestling among their frozen peas and fish fingers is a "part human and part ape" male, weighing over 230kg with reddish hair.

According to reports, it has 41cm long flat feet feet, each with five toes and the hands have five fingers. The teeth are described as being more "human-like than ape like".

However, the pair are refusing to pinpoint exactly where they made their beastly discovery to protect other Bigfoots, which they claim to have spotted close to the body.

Biscardi denied that the claims are part of an elaborate hoax.

He said: "We trekked for a day a half ... what kind of lunatic would be out here in a monkey suit? I saw the thing, I touched it."

**MickeyFine** · August 14th, 2008, 10:37 AM

Holy Rat shit batman!

I cant wait till they get loch ness and the tooth fairy too!

**Catlady** · August 14th, 2008, 11:18 AM

Here's another article with a little more detail. I'm not making a judgement on this just yet. Considering the occupations of the men involved and the side business they run, I am inclined to believe that concocting a hoax like this and being found out could do a lot of damage. I'm not confident that these guys would risk it.
Also, if this is in fact true, I hope they rethink capturing one. To me, taking a creature like that and putting it on display would be criminal (shades of King Kong.)

From the Times online:
US hunters claim to have found Bigfoot
The Georgia hunters crammed their "Bigfoot" into a freezer
Philippe Naughton
Two American hunters say they have a bit of a surprise in their freezer: a Bigfoot, or Sasquatch.

The pair, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, say that they discovered the body of the mythical apeman in a remote forest in northern Georgia - USA not Eastern Europe - about two weeks ago.

They plan to present "DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature" at a press conference in Palo Alto, California, tomorrow and an associate said that the body would be on show as well.

Mr Whitton is a Georgia police officer currently on leave after being shot in the line of duty while Mr Dyer is a former prison warden. The two men also run a Bigfoot tracking business.

Announcing their find, the cryptozoologists said that the creature was seven foot seven inches (2.31m) tall and weighs over 500lb (230kg). It is has both human and ape-like features and - as its nickname suggests - huge flat feet measuring 16-3/4 inches (42.5 cm) in length.

Mr Whitton and Mr Dyer say that they are sure the creature walks upright because they sighted several of them on the day that they found the creature's body.

The claims have been met with widespread scepticism but the pair have won the backing of America's best know Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi, who has been searching for the creature since 1971 and says that he is sure the find is authentic.

"It's a huge situation for me after 35 years, because I've wanted to bring one back," Mr Biscardi told the Sydney Morning Herald.

"They showed me the body. They took me to the area where they found it - it took a day and a half to get there."

"I got to be honest, when I first saw it I hated to see it in that state it was in. I wanted to capture one so the world could see it walking. I guess this is the next best thing for the time being," he said.

Mr Biscardi said that a video filmed by the two men the day they found the body showed at least "three others walking upright like a man". He is now co-operating with the two men in trying to capture another Bigfoot alive.

Speaking of tomorrow's press conference, he added: "We'll release the DNA analysis, and we'll have the body right next to the two boys ... then you can see it's real, that it's not all bullshit."

**Catlady** · August 16th, 2008, 01:11 AM

Apparently the press conference today was a big nothing. However, some new video has appeared on youtube that documents someone else's experience with Sasquatch and is pretty compelling:
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p22BGJ6dXU"]YouTube - Bigfoot in the Redwoods (in HQ)[/ame]

**Unamused Cat** · August 19th, 2008, 01:12 PM

In a long statement on SearchingforBigfoot.com, Kulls reveals what he found early Sunday morning Eastern time as the body thawed out.

"I extracted some [hair] from the alleged corpse and examined it and had some concerns," Kulls writes. "We burned said sample and said hair sample melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair."

Kulls called Biscardi in California, who told him to heat the body to speed up thawing.

"Within one hour we were able to see the partially exposed head," Kulls continues. "I was able to feel that it seemed mostly firm, but unusually hollow in one small section. This was yet another ominous sign."

Then came the clincher.

"Within the next hour of thaw, a break appeared up near the feet area. ... I observed the foot which looked unnatural, reached in and confirmed it was a rubber foot."

That jibes with what Jerry Parrino, owner of Internet Halloween-costume retailer TheHorrorDome.com, told FOXNews.com last week.

"It definitely looks like our [Sasquatch] costume," Parrino said after viewing photos of the body.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,406101,00.html

**Dakota Valkyrie** · August 19th, 2008, 01:31 PM

From a statement on SearchingforBigfoot.com:

...
Tom Biscardi informed us that both Matthew Whitton and Ricky Dyer admitted it was a costume. They reportedly agreed to sign a promissory note and admission of what they had done, and set a meeting in their hotel room in California for 8AM on August 17th, 2008.

At that time I drew up the documents for Mr. Biscardi. On August 17th, 2008 Tom Biscardi went to the hotel where Dyer and Whitton were staying and found that they had left. At this time action is being instigated against the perpetrators of this fraud. Tom Biscardi asked us to contact you, the press, and share all that we have discovered.

The motives behind this fraud are still unknown at this time. It is still unclear why Whitton who, being a police officer for the Clayton County Police Department in Georgia got up before the world and lied and was complicit in a scheme to defraud in a felonious manner.
....
On behalf of myself I can say with certainty Matthew Whitton and Ricky Dyer not the best Bigfoot trackers in the world!

Add [

] to the end of that statement.

**tricia381** · August 20th, 2008, 01:03 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26298733/

turns out the cop may be fired because of this. haha

**Catlady** · August 20th, 2008, 08:10 PM

Originally Posted by tricia381

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26298733/

turns out the cop may be fired because of this. haha

I was willing to hold off on making a judgement on this story exactly because, considering this guy's occupation as a police officer I would have thought that he of all people would know he would get found out. And knowing what we know now about the costume and synthetic fur, I just don't get how they could have thought for one minute that they would get away with this. So what's the motive? Why do something that is easily found out and guaranteed to open themselves up to fraud charges, destroy their reputations, ruin their lives and make them a laughingstock. All in one fell swoop. Any ideas?

On the bright side, those little families of Bigfoots in the woods will be safe from gangs of hunters trying to capture them since nobody now probably believes they are there. :)

**Dakota Valkyrie** · August 20th, 2008, 08:32 PM

Originally Posted by Catlady

On the bright side, those little families of Bigfoots in the woods will be safe from gangs of hunters trying to capture them since nobody now probably believes they are there. :)

That was the plan all along. They lied so now they have all the Bigfoots to themselves. ;)

**Pete Bondurant** · August 20th, 2008, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by Catlady

On the bright side, those little families of Bigfoots in the woods will be safe from gangs of hunters trying to capture them since nobody now probably believes they are there. :)

They are not safe, not if Larry has anything to say about it.

**Jaded** · August 21st, 2008, 03:01 AM

The hunt was on Wednesday for two North American forest-roaming bipeds, last seen in Northern California, present whereabouts unknown.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the Georgia men who claimed to have found a Bigfoot body, were being sought by Tom Biscardi, whose money they absconded with once the frozen "corpse" was revealed to be a hoax.

"We have a contract with these people," Biscardi, a former Las Vegas promoter now based in Menlo Park, Calif., told Fox News Wednesday morning. "We paid them the money the night before [the press conference.] ... They didn't figure I'd have a turbo heater on that thing to thaw it out before they left California."

sked to confirm rumors that he'd given Dyer and Whitton a $50,000 advance on future earnings from the bogus Bigfoot, Biscardi would say only that "it was a substantial amount of money" numbering in the thousands which came from unnamed "investors."

Biscardi told Fox's Megyn Kelly, who'd previously been invited to view the specimen herself, that the rubber Halloween suit had been stuffed full of, well, organic material.

"It was the most macabre thing you've ever seen in your life," he said. "There's body parts of other animals in there — bones, eyes, tongues, cheeks. It's just incredible."

Asked how he could have been fooled, Biscardi argued that it was hard to tell when the thing was encased in a block of ice.

It's possible that fraud charges could be filed against Dyer and Whitton, as Biscardi seems to want, though it's not clear whether it'd be a criminal or civil case.

"[Biscardi] freely gave them the money," noted Jeffrey Turner, police chief of Clayton County, Ga., who fired Whitton as an officer Tuesday but couldn't locate him to inform him of his termination. "It'd be a civil matter."

It may be difficult for Biscardi to claim he was defrauded, as the "24-Hour Sighting Hotline" number posted on Dyer and Whitton's Web site, BigfootTracker.com, asks for tips related to "leprechauns, unicorns, large cats, dinosaurs," as well as "Jimmy Hoffa or Elvis."

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,407263,00.html