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August 20th, 2008, 11:54 AM
http://www.nationalpost.com/734800.bin
National Geographic has declared that the recent claims made by a pair of hunters in Georgia have turned out to be nothing more than a "bold hoax".
Karen Hawthorne explains the story here (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/08/15/bigfoot-found-in-georgia-proof-or-hoax.aspx), but in brief, the hunters, Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer claimed to have found a 230-kg Bigfoot corpse that they were keeping on ice, and spoke about their find in California last Friday with "controversial" Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi. At the press conference, the trio showed photos of their alleged find and claimed to have DNA evidence to support their claim.
A biologist at the University of Minnesota, Curt Nelson, analysed the DNA, and found it to be a combination of human and opposum. Nelson told National Geographic that the "suggestion was that the tissue sample was from the intestine of the animal, and that the animal had eaten an opossum. That seems improbable to me."
President of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, Matthew Moneymaker, told National Geographic that the press conference was a "profiteering scam" put together by Biscardi:They know there's tremendous interest in seeing photographs of [Bigfoot], and they're trying to get people to pay to see hoaxed photos. There's been at least a thousand stories in newspapers across the world. Before this, the highest record was about 200 articles in newspapers.
Of Biscardi, Moneymaker says: "Now he's really a famous con man. He was a con man known in Bigfoot circles for years, and now it won't be long before everybody knows it."
Of the Bigfoot corpse, however, Biscardi remains adamant: "I want to get to the bottom of it. What I seen, what I touched, what I felt, and what I prodded was not a mask that was sewn on a bear hide, OK?"
Meanwhile, the world still waits for National Geographic to bring clarity to a couple of other (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/08/13/move-over-montauk-monster-there-s-a-chupacabra-on-the-loose.aspx) recent (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/07/31/the-montauk-monster-and-some-of-the-best-creatures-of-all-time.aspx) monster claims.
National Geographic has declared that the recent claims made by a pair of hunters in Georgia have turned out to be nothing more than a "bold hoax".
Karen Hawthorne explains the story here (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/08/15/bigfoot-found-in-georgia-proof-or-hoax.aspx), but in brief, the hunters, Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer claimed to have found a 230-kg Bigfoot corpse that they were keeping on ice, and spoke about their find in California last Friday with "controversial" Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi. At the press conference, the trio showed photos of their alleged find and claimed to have DNA evidence to support their claim.
A biologist at the University of Minnesota, Curt Nelson, analysed the DNA, and found it to be a combination of human and opposum. Nelson told National Geographic that the "suggestion was that the tissue sample was from the intestine of the animal, and that the animal had eaten an opossum. That seems improbable to me."
President of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, Matthew Moneymaker, told National Geographic that the press conference was a "profiteering scam" put together by Biscardi:They know there's tremendous interest in seeing photographs of [Bigfoot], and they're trying to get people to pay to see hoaxed photos. There's been at least a thousand stories in newspapers across the world. Before this, the highest record was about 200 articles in newspapers.
Of Biscardi, Moneymaker says: "Now he's really a famous con man. He was a con man known in Bigfoot circles for years, and now it won't be long before everybody knows it."
Of the Bigfoot corpse, however, Biscardi remains adamant: "I want to get to the bottom of it. What I seen, what I touched, what I felt, and what I prodded was not a mask that was sewn on a bear hide, OK?"
Meanwhile, the world still waits for National Geographic to bring clarity to a couple of other (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/08/13/move-over-montauk-monster-there-s-a-chupacabra-on-the-loose.aspx) recent (http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/07/31/the-montauk-monster-and-some-of-the-best-creatures-of-all-time.aspx) monster claims.