Aug 18 2008
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Bigfoot Press Conference Report
Photo by Adam Gorightly
Intrepid reporter Adam Gorightly attended Friday’s Bigfoot press conference with promoter Tom Biscardi and hunters Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer in Palo Alto, CA and files an observant and humor-laced report, quoted here in part:
When asked why he hadn’t immediately reported his Bigfoot discovery to Georgia authorities, Whitton replied that he saw no reason to do so, which indeed seems a curious statement, as the corpse was apparently discovered on state land, and anything removed from said land is under the domain of Georgia Fish and Game Laws. Whitton — himself a sworn officer — must certainly have been aware of this fact. Just the same, it appears that Georgia authorities aren’t overly concerned about these dead Bigfoot allegations, as they consider the story a probable hoax. Of course, this begs the question: If this corpse doesn’t actually exist, are we talking here about a case of fraud perpetrated to make a quick buck, which is perhaps something that Georgia law enforcement authorities should also be concerned about? Or, if Whitton and Dyer actually did discover a dead Bigfoot, another obvious question arises: To whom does the body legally belong?
The whole ruckus is invariably tainted by the profit motive, which has not endeared Biscardi and pals to anyone who might support their claims. They promise more DNA testing and media and scientific examination of the habeas corpus Gigantopithecus sasquatchii.
For myself, I happen to currently subscribe to the model that Bigfoot (and various other beasties like the Chupacabras and Loch Ness Monster) are not permanent physical residents of our everyday reality, and therefore can never be captured or killed. My term for them would probably be “para-cryptids.”
As one of my heroes, The Amazing Criswell might say: “I fearlessly predict that this whole dead Bigfoot craze will fizzle out within weeks, probably less.”
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August 18th, 2008 at 6:13 am
I hope it goes away sooner than that. I’ve already lost interest. After briefly getting my hopes up it’s now obvious it’s a hoax.
August 18th, 2008 at 11:44 am
I was amazed by how forgiving the journalists that attended that “conference” were with Biscardi and the Georgia boys. Seriously, you make people fly in to California, and you only present two lame photos, one of them your average “blobsquatch” of which you can find hundreds of them all around the Web? That’s it? That is worthy of a Press conference?
I can fairly predict one sure thing that will come out of this whole mess: That Matt fellow will NEVER wear a police uniform. In fact I think that’s what he had in mind since the beginning of this Bogus Bigfoot Body Bondoogle.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Alas, our worse fears became true. The story is nothing but a crude hoax, the body nothing but a rubber costume.
The most amazing thing about this is the lengths to which some people would pursue their 15 minutes of fame, even at their risk of their reputation, not to mention their jobs and maybe even their freedoms.
I know we all would like to forget this sad incident as quickly as possible, but the debunkers won’t let us for MANY years to come. And maybe that’s for the best in this case.