I think there may be Sasquatches out there, but this isn't one of them...This is a Hoax. Bigfeet are notorious pranksters...They love to mess with them redneck boys...

I do feel sorry for the poor possum that they gutted to get the "intestines" look on the gorilla costume they jammed into the cooler...

I am much too lazy to look this up myself, but somebody should fill us in as to what was covered in this alleged "press conference" of theirs.

As moderator, I officially designate that as Gary's job because he started all of this silliness.

I'm not Gary, but...

the press conference was nothing really. Only a couple of photographs and an email stating that DNA testing was (sort of) identified as an un-known species.

But since the press conference, it's been 99% proven a hoax. Supposedly one of the people named in the press conference has come clean and said that the body is fake. The person is supposed to release something on some sort of bigfoot-related radio show in the next few days.

Also to note, the person who held the conference (Tom Biscardi) has already been proven a hoaxster a few years back when he claimed to have a live bigfoot in a cage. When people called him on it, he disappeared from public.

I just read in the news that it was a Halloween costume...

What no!!! I had such high hopes that they really had found a bigfoot.  Well that's knackered my accumulator bet that Nessy and the Jersey Devil would be found by the end of the year.  I declined the pixies and fairies bet though, they are bitches to catch.

Quoted from bert As moderator, I officially designate that as Gary's job because he started all of this silliness.

Cheers Bert!

I was trying rather sheepishly to ignore this thread in the vain hope it would curl up and die a natural death and my onset of severe attack of naivety would go largely unnoticed. Fat chance! Bert is right, i started this silliness. Yes, surprise, surprise the press conference was a bit of a joke to be honest and all they succeeded in doing was making monkeys of the worlds press who turned up to it.

I was taken by the story, OK of course I thought it probably end up being a hoax (although had hopes it would be real) but I was hoping that it would be a bloody clever hoax. A throwback to the old days before the Interweb and 24 hour TV when good old fashioned hoaxes seem so skillfully pulled off that they would fool the world. The Photograph of the fairies in an English garden or the Alien Autopsy for example. These were more innocent times when people couldn't jump onto google and debunk everything before it even starts.

What I never assumed is that a couple of idiots could think they could fool the world with what Pia has correctly called a Halloween costume and a handful of Possum innards. I expected much more, but I stupidly over-estimated the capabilities of our little Bigfoot hunters.

Of course I wanted it to be true and still think that there is a chance of Bigfeet our there in the world somewhere (recent sightings in the Himalayas') but sadly in this case it seems not.

But we should not allow a couple of Missing links from Georgia to throw a spanner in the works of the whole idea of Bigfoot or related. There seems to be a fair bit of credible evidence that points to a 'Super Sea Creature' much bigger than Blue Whales that only lives in the depths of the oceans but who's giant roar has been captured on Sonar a few times, this will not doubt be discovered at some point.

As Fox Mulder once said - "I want my sister back!"