Bigfoot located in North Georgia Mountains (Hoax) Cop Fired

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I love these stories. Shit, what if it turned out to be true?


Bigfoot located in Georgia?
By AJC | Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 12:07 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The search for Bigfoot, the maybe-mythical half-man/half-gorilla beast also known as Sasquatch, may have ended in Georgia.

According to a press release issued by “Searching For Bigfoot,” a California-based web site, two men have not only found the corpse of a 7-foot-7, 500-plus pound man-monkey, but they’ve also found a tribe of his brethren living at an undisclosed location in the North Georgia mountains. The men are to appear at a press conference in California with “DNA evidence and photo evidence” this Friday.

According the the press release, one of the discoverers is Matthew Whitton, a police officer on administrative leave for being wounded in the line of duty. The AJC recently reported a police officer with the same name was shot during the robbery of a Krystal restaurant, but we’ve been unable to contact Whitton to see if they are one and the same.

Curiously, Whitton, along with fellow big-game hunter Rick Dyer, a former correctional officer, are co-owners of bigfoottracker.com and Bigfoot Global LLC., a company that offers Bigfoot expeditions. The men are working with allegedly famous 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, according to the press release.
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Georgia? Doesn't Shitney Houston live in Atlanta?

Uhm...didn't some organization post like a $4-million REWARD for proof of bigfoot?

I'll believe it when I see them collect their check.

As far as the bigfoot myth...I don't completely dismiss it.

Primates at one time dominated the Earth...I don't discount the possibility that a semi-intelligent primate could have managed to avoid modern man all this time. Once upon a time, African gorillas were considered mythical creatures in the West. The bigfoot/sasquatch/yeti creatuire could very well exist...and be just smart enough to avoid contact with our high-tech (scary) civilization.

PurpleJedi said:

Th NGM's are my back yard


Shit I gotta stop runnin round the woods 1/2 naked and howling

Mach said:

Th NGM's are my back yard


Shit I gotta stop runnin round the woods 1/2 naked and howling

paisleypark4 said:

paisleypark4 said:

I hope this shit is real. I bet my husband that they would find bigfoot in our lifetime, so if this is real, he owes me some red lobster. The native Americans believed in bigfoot and had a name for him even before Europeans came to this country, so there must be some validity to the story. Over 100,000 gorillas that noone knew existed in Africa were recently discovered,so even though we think we know everything, we clearly dont.

AlienX2050 said:

paisleypark4 said:

The site has been down. Photoshope with dummy?

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Mach said:

Th NGM's are my back yard


Shit I gotta stop runnin round the woods 1/2 naked and howling

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UPDATE.

Cop’s Bigfoot sighting has roots in Georgia lore
By BO EMERSON

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Bigfoot? In Georgia? However did he get in?

Friday at a press conference in California, two Georgians will produce evidence of what they claim is a half-ape, half-man hailing from the Peach State.

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The putative Bigfoot carcass in a freezer.
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From left, Matthew Whitton, Tom Biscardi and Ric Dyer.
Recent headlines:


Schools on edge as investigation continues
Cop's Bigfoot sighting has roots in Georgia lore
Ex-Clayton cop nabbed in Internet sting pleads guilty
• Clayton County news But according to dedicated Bigfoot followers, a large, hairy, mysterious creature has been popping up in north and middle Georgia since before European settlers arrived.

Native Americans throughout the continent have had a variety of names for the creature, including Hairy Man and Sasquatch. Northern California became Sasquatch’s cultural home in the 1950s, when a bulldozer operator cutting a road through the Bluff Creek area made a plaster cast of a footprint that was roughly 16 inches long.

Newspapers ran photos of Jerry Crew with his plaster cast, and “Bigfoot” was born.

This week, a Clayton County police officer helped give Georgia its own shot at Bigfoot glory, by claiming to have acquired a Bigfoot carcass in the North Georgia mountains.

Matthew Whitton, and his partner, former corrections officer Ric Dyer, announced they will reveal their findings today in a Palo Alto, Calif., press conference co-hosted by Bigfoot entrepreneur Tom Biscardi.

Biscardi’s Web site, searchingforbigfoot.com, was immediately swamped by Internet traffic and crashed.

While there is keen interest in the Southeastern Sasquatch among a small group of Georgia hobbyists, few of them were convinced that Whitton and Dyer’s claims would bring credit to the region.

“In my opinion it’s a hoax,” said Steven Hyde, who has spent many evenings in the woods tracking the possible existence of an Abominable Georgian. Hyde, 43, said he’s seen Whitton’s photographs of the putative Bigfoot carcass in a freezer, and says, “it appears to be a manufactured costume available on the Internet.”

On Whitton and Dyer’s Web site they call themselves “the best bigfoot trackers in the world” and offer a spot on their next expedition in September at $1,000, along with T-shirts that say “Bigfoot Tracker Chick.”

They’ve also posted a series of over-the-top YouTube videos attacking their critics and promising a dramatic “reveal.” Whitton has been on medical leave since being shot in the wrist July 3 while pursuing a suspect in a Krystal robbery.

Clayton police chief Jeff Turner said that while Whitton has permission to run his Bigfoot tracking business on the side, his claims of capturing the mythical creature could reflect on his official image.

“When he comes back from medical leave, we’ll have to sit down and address those issues,” Turner said.

Taking gullible visitors on Bigfoot tracking expeditions could be a new form of “eco-tourism,” joked Rick Spears, longtime “cryptozoologist” and author and illustrator of “Tales of the Cryptids: Mysterious Creatures That May or May Not Exist.”

Spears is an exhibit designer who works for Fernbank Science Center and studies mythical creatures on his own. He remains open-minded about the possibility of a real Bigfoot, especially since interviewing noted primatologist Jane Goodall, who told him that the evidence of Bigfoot existence is more convincing than the evidence to the contrary.

One tantalizing clue is a track left by some Shaq-sized creature on the banks of the Elkins River, taken by Pike County sheriff James P. Akin in 1997. Spears and Hyde both have castings of the 17-inch footprint, and Hyde has something else, a blurry photo from a daylight encounter in the Pike County woods.

“It’s what we call a ‘Blobsquatch,’” joked Hyde, meaning that the photo could be anything, though at the time he pressed the shutter, he says, he was looking at a shadowy figure 75 yards away that was thoroughly non-human and non-ape. “I watched the thing for almost 10 minutes.”

Wayne Ford, a reporter with the Athens Banner-Herald, said “if these things do exist, they exist around here.”

Ford has interviewed a number of Georgians who have had encounters with large hairy creatures, detailing some of those findings in a 2001 Athens Magazine story about “Georgia’s Swamp Ape.”

“It was not a bear,” one visitor from Tallahassee told Ford, about an August 2000 sighting in Putnam County. “The thing was huge. It was really tall and its head looked like it went right down into its shoulders.”

The grapevine brought news of free-range hairy beasts in North Georgia to Jane T.R. Dewar, co-founder of Gorilla Haven, in Morganton, and sent her checking on the gorillas that she and her husband shelter in their Fannin County sanctuary.

The two operate a privately funded getaway for zoo gorillas past their prime, and currently are tending to two silverbacks, Joe and Oliver.

“They’re all present and accounted for,” she said, “including their big hairy feet.”

AJC staff writer Kathy Jefcoats contributed to this report.

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This would be really cool, but I don't believe pix at all anymore...
seems everything is photoshopped these days

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Okay, I'm still in disbelief but there's a lot of talk about this thing in Atlanta.

Here's Fox News.



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PurpleJedi said:

Mach said:

Th NGM's are my back yard


Shit I gotta stop runnin round the woods 1/2 naked and howling

You don't shave in that outdoor shower of yours, do you?
Most cameras have telephoto lenses now, you know.

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If these cats are tripping... I say throw them to the pit! I hope there's a fine for this if they're lying! But look at this shit!



Bigfoot’s body? Or another big, fat hoax?ASHLEY SURDIN; The Washington Post Published: August 16th, 2008 06:47 AMBigfoot has been found in the Georgia woods and is being held in a cooler at an undisclosed location.
So say two self-proclaimed Bigfoot trackers, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, who held a news conference Friday in Palo Alto, Calif., to publicize their claim of having found the elusive Sasquatch, or at least the body of one, in the northern part of the Peach State. The exact location is being kept secret, they said, to protect other Bigfoots still wandering there.

The public was excluded from the conference, but a picture of the supposed 500-plus-pound dead biped was posted online at on www.searchingforbigfoot.com, looking like a mangy mound of fur, entrails and the pinched face of a close cousin to the “Star Wars” character Chewbacca – all crammed into a water-filled freezer. A second photo shows the proud captors and Tom Biscardi, a fellow Bigfoot hunter and owner of the Web site, posed next to the wet heap of fuzz.

Some Bigfoot enthusiasts were less than convinced.

“It looks like a costume, a waterlogged costume that’s been stuffed into a freezer,” said Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and one of the few Ph.D.s doing Bigfoot field work. “It just doesn’t have the hallmark of a real corpse.”

The Web site said the male, flat-footed man-ape, christened RICKMAT in honor of its locaters, measures 7 feet, 7 inches tall and bears reddish hair, blackish-gray eyes and humanlike teeth.

Whitton and Dyer said a team of scientists is being dispatched to Georgia over the next few months to pursue the matter. Meantime, Biscardi and his team are making plans to capture a second creature alive, the Web site said.

Whitton is a Georgia police officer on administrative leave after being wounded on duty. Dyer is a former correctional officer. The two co-own www.bigfoot tracker.com and Bigfoot Global LLC, which offers Bigfoot expeditions.

At the news conference, a throng of media representatives swarmed as Biscardi handed out two new photos: a grainy outline of a creature standing in the forest; and a close-up of an apelike muzzle, one lip drawn back to reveal a row of teeth and a bloated tongue.

The three trackers also handed out what they said was DNA evidence from an expert, who found three matches: indeterminate, humans and a possum.

Asked how much the men hoped to make from the discovery, Biscardi said, “As much as possible.”

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First, I wouldn't be quoting fox News on this.

superman said:

It's a hoax

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all i gots to say is WHO GIVES A SHIT. where is osama bin laden people? lets worry bout that! LOL

Hey lover..ive got a sugarcane...that I wanna lose in you...baby can you stand the pain

I find it a little funny that they won't let anyone actually see it for themselves,only pictures. Hell if I had actually found the corpse of a bigfoot I would want to show everyone,and let everyone see it,and I would be very willing of letting scientist do tests to make sure that it actually was a bigfoot.

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"Bigfoot" fails DNA test


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1 of 4Full SizePALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Bigfoot remains as elusive as ever. Results from tests on genetic material from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference on Friday held after the claimed discovery swept the Internet, failed to prove its existence.

Its spread was fueled by a photograph of a hairy heap, bearing a close resemblance to a shaggy full-body gorilla costume, stuffed into a container resembling a refrigerator.

One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis.

Bigfoot creatures are said to live in the forests of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. An opossum is a marsupial about the size of a house cat.

Results of the DNA tests were revealed in an e-mail from Nelson and distributed at the Palo Alto, California, news conference held by Tom Biscardi, host of a weekly online radio show about the Bigfoot.

Also present were Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, the two who say they discovered the Bigfoot corpse while hiking in the woods of northern Georgia. They also are co-owners of a company that offers Bigfoot merchandise.

Despite the dubious photo and the commercial interests of the alleged discoverers, the Bigfoot claim drew interest from Australia to Europe and even The New York Times.

Biscardi said the DNA samples may not have been taken correctly and may have been contaminated, and that he would proceed with an autopsy of the alleged Bigfoot remains, currently in a freezer at an undisclosed location.

(Reporting by Clare Baldwin in Palo Alto; writing by Jim Christie; editing by Mary Milliken and Peter Henderson)


http://www.reuters.com/ar...0720080817

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It looks like a wet chewbacca costume/figure!

CarrieMpls said:

It looks like a wet chewbacca costume/figure!

So that poor Monster of Montauk's 15 minutes of fame are over already??

...sometimes, it's really, really embarrassing to be from Georgia...

illimack said:

roodboi said:

Mach said:

roodboi said:

...sometimes, it's really, really embarrassing to be from Georgia...

Cumberland Island National Seashore, Ga is like :OMFG:


We'll forgive you