Bigfoot Body Revealed To Be A Rubber Gorilla Suit

ATLANTA — Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice _ handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it _ was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.

The revelation comes just days after a much ballyhooed news conference was held in California to proclaim that the remains of the creature found in the North Georgia mountains was the legendary man-ape.

Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com and host of Squatchdetective Radio, 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.

Matt Whitton, an officer who has been on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department, and Rick Dyer, a former Georgia corrections officer, announced the find in early July on YouTube videos and a Web site.

"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."

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Comments

[DrCalif]

I'd say these hoaxters have a promising political career ahead of them....

[dctackett]

how sad... I wonder if this dude is mental and actually thinks he found evidence... not being able to except that something he's dedicated his whole life to is not real.
Bigfoot is not real... neither are unicorns, tooth fairies, santa claus, leprechauns or gods...
the really sad thing is, that there are people out there that actually believe it... and they will never give up the belief, just like people who believe in gods.

[johnnygoodwud]

i hear big foot is actually in iraq, protecting the hidden WMD's

[cobraxus]

BFRO was the first to denounce these guys...within minutes of the press conference ending.

[EJA]

I can't believe this turned out to be a hoax. Who would have guessed?

The alien autopsy is still real, right?

[Enid]

P.T. Barman would love it.

[jpcline004]

Well the National Enquirer was right about Edwards, so they are still batting .500

[the964kid]

Dude, I was really hoping this was it...

I'm pretty sure the real Big Foot is hanging out with Bin Laden, which means we'll never find him.

[alted1663]

And his name was Magilla.

[JerzGirl226]

He got exactly what he deserved. That whole story sounded like such nonsense.

[Peddler]

So Bigfoot turned out to be a "rubber gorilla." Why do I feel that Hillary Clinton is involved in this?

[RabidRightRebel]

I am afraid that bigfoot is as big a myth as an honest Republican.

[chronicBob]

Some gullible rube pays money in faith that a mythical creature exists, only to find out that the evidence is phony.
Believers put money in the collection plate at church every Sunday in faith that a mythical deity exists, without any real evidence at all .
God or Bigfoot?
YOU DECIDE!

[Bluedog12]

I have researched claim and it is not a hoax. In fact Mohammed Atta trained with "Big Foot “in Bagdad at the behest of Saddam Hussein. Big Foot then traveled under the pseudonym R. Cheney to Niamey the capital of Niger where he obtained enriched yellow cake. Being a Big Foot no one in the excess of evil explained to him that you can't eat yellow cake. Sadly the effects of consuming enriched uranium caught up with Big Foot and he met his demise in the hills of Appalachia.

[Durango]

As they showed on Olberman's program they simply bought a Bigfoot costume off the shelf.

The guy who invented Big Foot died (I think) and his son exposed the hoax years ago. Showed the wooden big feet he used.

Why are so many people, but particularly the media so quick to report on such nonsense?

This is the 21 century. We were supposed to leave all that superstition behind us.

Hell, the Enlightenment was CENTURIES ago!

[tfred]

What does living in the 21st Century have to do with anything. The press still reports on Jesus and all that superstitious nonsense.

[Durango]

I'm not one to knock anyones religion. What the Hell do I know.

But superstitions and hoaxes are another thing.

When I was young they told me that the world advanced. And by the 21 Century we would have put all superstition behind us.

Instead it is getting worse!!!

(One big thing I have against Bill Richardson. One of his first acts as Governor was to change the numbers on Hwy 666.

Pure unadulterated superstition!.

I would have thought better of you Bill if you hadn't a done that.)

[Mass Irish 2nd Generation]

It is great distraction from the real news. No wonder Europe thinks the American people are so maddeningly ignorant. Thanks, mass media.

[MalloMel]

It's a real shame that we are held up to such ridicule by the Europeans and much of the rest of the world.