Certainly looks like it.

Matthew Whitton, a cop in Clayton County, Ga., and his friend Rick Dyer, a former corrections officer, say they recently found the body in the woods of northern Georgia and will be revealing all at a press conference tomorrow.

Pics at this link...

http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ga-gorilla-pic/

Could all be a great hoax, but what if it is real? Wow.

Press Release Below...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306

Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. Menlo Park, California
Tom Biscardi, CEO

BIGFOOT BODY FOUND - EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th

FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” has been found in the woods in northern Georgia.

DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be presented in a press conference on Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press.

Here are some of the vital statistics on the “Bigfoot” body:

*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot.
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five and three-quarters inches wide at the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are
eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th.

The creature was found by Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer (residents of Georgia) in the woods in northern Georgia. (The exact location is being kept secret to protect the creatures.)
Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer will be flying in from Georgia to be at the press conference. Also present at the press conference will be Tom Biscardi, CEO of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc.
Whitton is a Clayton County, Georgia, police officer, who is currently on administrative leave after being wounded in the course of duty pursuing an alleged felon. Dyer is a former correctional officer. Whitton and Dyer are co-owners of bigfoottracker.com and Bigfoot Global LLC., a company that offers Bigfoot expeditions. Whitton and Dyer are working with Bigfoot hunter, Tom Biscardi, and Biscardi’s Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., to present and conduct the scientific study of the evidence and information on this body.

A few weeks ago, Whitton and Dyer announced the finding of the body on the “Squatch Detective” radio show, an internet based radio show hosted by Steve Kulls. While on that show, the commentator asked Rick Dyer “Would you allow one of our people to come down and verify the body?” Dyer replied, “The only person we would allow to come down and verify the body was ‘the real Bigfoot Hunter,’ Tom Biscardi.” The next day, the producer of the Squatch Detective show contacted Biscardi with pertinent information on how to contact Dyer and Whitton.

Extensive scientific studies will be done on the body by a team of scientists including a molecular biologist, an anthropologist, a paleontologist and other scientists over the next few months at an undisclosed location. The studies will be carefully documented and the findings will be released to the world, according to Biscardi.

Biscardi is known as “the real Bigfoot Hunter” because of his extensive investigations out in the field. He has been searching for Bigfoot since 1971 and over the past several years, he has been criss-crossing the United States and Canada tracking down the hottest leads on Bigfoot sightings.

Videography on the studies will be done under the supervision of Scott Davis, an independent producer and owner of TV Biz Productions in Phoenix, Arizona.
Currently, Tom Biscardi and his Searching for Bigfoot Team, in conjunction with Bigfoot Global LLC., are preparing to capture another of these creatures alive. That expedition will start very soon. The dates and the locations are being kept confidential.

The body that is currently being studied is being referred to as the “RICKMAT” creature, a name derived from the names of Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton. [Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman recommends the term “Georgia Gorilla” be used to remove any taint of ego from the discovery, and so the general public, media, and science will have a comfortable moniker until a formal zoological name may be bestowed.]

Last year, a film that Biscardi produced about his investigations, called “Bigfoot Lives,” won first place in the Documentary category at the Pocono Mountains Film Festival. Biscardi also hosts a Bigfoot oriented internet radio show that can be heard on Wednesday nights from 7:00pm to 8:00pm PDT at http://www.bigfootliveradioshow.com. The show is heard in over thirty countries.

Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. has exclusive rights to all publishing rights, photo rights, television and film rights, production and distribution rights and other commercial opportunities related to the discovery and findings regarding this body and these creatures.
Interested parties may contact Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., in writing, at their mailing address, 1134 Crane St., Suite 216, Menlo Park, California 94025.

I usually take these "sightings" with a pinch of salt - so let's wait and see what the press conference brings.

Fake as you like.

It looks like a costume daubed with cows entrails.

Clearly someone is very short of money....

"Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. has exclusive rights to all publishing rights, photo rights, television and film rights, production and distribution rights and other commercial opportunities related to the discovery and findings regarding this body and these creatures."

Nice advertising oppportunities for them I'm sure...

Haha....DNA evidence of what?  To compare with all the other Bigfoot DNA samples they have collected in the past?

You aren't actually buying into this are you, Gary?

Looks like a gorilla to me.  Did anyone check if one escaped from the Atlanta zoo?

HaHa, maybe Bert!

I agree it is more likely to be a hoax but it does seem a strange hoax to make, I mean they have got the worlds press onto this now, if they fail to deliver Bigfoot what have they got out of it? Lots of embarrassment and little else.

I am as cynical and skeptical as they come, I rarely believe anything but I don't know, they must have something, surely?

It would be cool though if it were true.

There was a story in the news here in England the other day about hairs that were found in India and were believed to be from a Yeti.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7525060.stm

So that's what happened to Clarence Beaks.

Quoted from bert You aren't actually buying into this are you, Gary?

I don't see why not.  New species of animals are identified every year.  When that species of four inch snakes was found a week or two ago, did anyone cry fraud?  Or that fish found off the coast of Africa that, supposedly, was extinct for a bajillion years?


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe I don't see why not.  New species of animals are identified every year.

Well, sure.  In the ocean or in the deepest rainforests.

But a tribe of giant, hairy, undiscovered, humanoids in the wilds of....Georgia?

C'mon.  You are pulling my leg, right?

Inbreeding Bert!

That's what it sounds like to me.  

Quoted from bert But a tribe of giant, hairy, undiscovered, humanoids in the wilds of....Georgia?

I thought Phil lived in New York.

Quoted from Shelton I thought Phil lived in New York.

Why look, I just spotted a new species of Sheltus ignoramus!

I have an open mind to these things.  The DNA testing of that yeti hair would prove that it's not man, dog, monkey, whatever.  Let's see what happens.


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe The DNA testing of that yeti hair would prove that it's not man, dog, monkey, whatever.

It's polyester.

Disco Bigfoot Lives!*


* - Copyrighted

"I agree it is more likely to be a hoax but it does seem a strange hoax to make, I mean they have got the worlds press onto this now, if they fail to deliver Bigfoot what have they got out of it? Lots of embarrassment and little else.

I am as cynical and skeptical as they come, I rarely believe anything but I don't know, they must have something, surely?"

One of the guys that found it has a gimpy arm after being wounded whilst working for the police. He's probably decided to make his money in a far easier fashion.

Famous Bigfoot Hunter comes along and says for X amount all you have to do is claim to find this crappy model I made and tell everybody that you saw a whole family of them. Then tell the media that you will allow it to be tested, but only by me.

If the hoax is discovered it means that they are just innocent victims of someone else's joke. After all they just found it and the "family" could just be the people that planted it, wearing suits.

Why would he do this?

As you say all the worlds media is now pointing squarely at our friend the BigFoot Hunter. He can run tests and decide it's a hoax. This gives him greater publicity whilst at the same time giving him greater credibility. Credibility that he can then use to sell more books and get more hits on his now suprememly popular website.

Meanwhile our farmer freinds have a nice pile of money for doing nothing but sign a confidentiality agreement. Everyone's a winner...