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

[MalloMel]

I would not believe something of such great importance without some empirical evidence. What is wrong with so many of us that we will believe so many things, unquestionably, just because someone told us so. That is the same thing that makes advertising so effective. It's a shame, but we have a genetic propensity to such cr@p.

Most of the problems that we are experiencing today is because of this quirk that we have. They are all because someone sold us on stuff that just is not so. Buckle up, because it 'ain't' over yet, and it ain't' going to be over for hundreds of thousands of years. Evolution takes a very long time. I hope you enjoy the ride.

[rh654]

LOL - I can't believe people actually paid money for that "evidence" - just too funny.

[Sundialsvc4]

ROTFLMAO...

[machivellianX]

I think they are covering up the real thing....

[AmandaBC]

Even though it sucked pretty badly, at least you could get a couple of good laughs out of "Strange Wilderness." This one is not even funny... Gee, who could have predicted it would be a hoax?

[gcallaghan]

This rube is still looking for big cats and dinosaurs. If there's a reward, I'll point him in the right direction. Come by my house early in the evening on October 31 and he'll can gather all the proof he needs. Bring the reward - cash - no checks

[Warmglobe]

Maybe I have some stuff around the house they mught buy from me

[tablogloid]

If you want to find a bigfoot, look in Dubya's mouth.

[cambridgedude]

:)

[Whinger]

How to destroy your credibility and public respect in one easy lesson!

Childish idiots!

[DrScientist]

Somehow I'm sure that John Edwards is involved in this. The truth is out there.

[Aurelius]

Bigfoot is our national symbol. Why do you people hate America?

[AmandaBC]

Sorry, but Sasquatch (i.e. Bigfoot) is very, very Canadian... ;)

[MarkInIrvine]

no - it wasn't the feds or the cia - it was the rapture and only big hairy demi-humans were raptured up into the sky, because they're the only ones who aren't perfidious sinners. duh! everybody knows that!

[Paris]

OMG. Wake up everybody. This was the real thing. Obviously the Feds got to it first, confiscated the corpse and replaced it with a rubber gorilla suit. Make it look like a scam, but it is not. FBI, or CIA now have he real bigfoot in the freezer right next to all the frozen aliens.

[chendri887]

But George Noory and Art Bell said it was true! And they said the world was going to end every night for the last twenty years! Aw, dang! Another failed Apocalypse!

[pilgrim7]

We got the biggest laugh seeing pix of bigfoot and some intestines before finding out someone actually forked over money to find out it was a hoax. Couldn't believe how gullible those "researchers" were. They can easily recoup their loss by investing in some prime development land in Florida that's going real cheap due to all the foreclosures: 1-800-Ima-Fool.