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Title: BIGFOOT BODY FOUND DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a PRESS CONFERENCE
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URL Source: http://www.cryptomundo.com/cryptozoo-news/ga-gorilla/
Published: Aug 12, 2008
Author: Posted by: Loren Coleman
Post Date: 2008-08-12 23:28:10 by HOUNDDAWG
Keywords: Big, hairy, deal!
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Comments: 30
I have just talked with Robert Barrows, R.M. Barrows, Inc., Advertising & Public Relations, Burlingame, California, who informed me the following release has been distributed to news agencies worldwide. It is now in the hands of the media at large, and they will be going with this story. The embargo on the news is lifted. Therefore, here it is for Cryptomundo readers. I feel, in all honesty, this, indeed, may be the real deal, and I say this carefully after reviewing information that has been shared privately with me. I cannot say more yet. But people will be very surprised. ~ Loren Coleman, Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America. 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 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
Poster Comment: proof at last? Or, just some Georgia mountain boy who worships ZZ TOP?
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Big, hairy critters. Can they be drafted and sent to fight for Israel? *Discuss*
Will this make my peas grow?
We cannot afford peace at any price. - Newt Gingrich, May 29, 1998
(EDIT:) How's that?
What's peas got to do with this? Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold?? Or are you thinking of mountain man survival skills maybe?
Can they be drafted and sent to fight for Israel? I'm sayin' nothin' unless you ping "All Monsters and All Agents of Anti-Christ". Then I'll know I'm with friends and can speak freely.
But he is well enough to go hiking in the woods. Hmmmmm.
REDCLIFF, Wash. -- A hunter claims that he saw the legendary beast known as Bigfoot, shot him five times through the chest and watched it bleed to death in a remote part of Washington state. Before he fired the five rounds, the man reportedly took a photo of the strange creature known as Sasquatch. "He bled like any wild animal," said Irvine Knotts, a local man who said he was sick to death of the Bigfoot legend. "He died like a mule with no teeth, squealin' like a rubber ducky." Knotts said he loaded his rifle and headed for the woods to settle the Bigfoot legend once and for all. He went to an area where it was reported the beast was last seen. "I found him there and he looked like a big dirty rat who hadn't bathed in years," said Knotts. "And he smelled like baked racoon with garlic stuffed in its ears. Disgusting. But it's finally over, this stupid hunt for the varmint is over." Scientists are shocked that after all the years of searching, hunting and tracking, a man with no experience found Bigfoot so easily. But they were disappointed, too. "We could have learned much from the creature," said one scientist, "if anyone had captured it alive. Dead, it isn't worth much to us." "Nonsense," said Knotts. "Fur's gonna make a great rug once I can blow the stink off of it."
Finally?
I'm going to be the turd in a punchbowl and call BS. Some bowhunter sitting in a tree would have seen one by now or got it on a game camera (the ones that are strapped to a tree to document the movement of deer/elk/etc.). How the hell did one escape being killed during the Civil War when tens of thousands of troops were all over northern Georgia?? Naw, I'll believe it when it's on National Geographic....or somebody like Chuck Adams or Michael Waddell bags one...
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 12th, 2008 Would you believe a bunch of lyin' ass Yankees?
Hahahahaha!!!! Nice try, those reenactors aren't skinny like the real soldiers were from a prolonged diet of hardtack and coffee.
Hilarious! LMAO!
That's exactly what I said! Two of those guys can barely button their blouses, and they sure didn't just finish a 1500 mile hike down from "The Nawth"!
Here's the FOX NEWS video.
Can they be drafted and sent to fight for Israel? Careful now...
I shall not vote for evil, lesser or otherwise.
FOX news: when we jest, you call it.
www.sciam.com/article.cfm...press-conference-biscardi August 15, 2008 Bigfoot Press Conference Yields Little Evidence, Lots of Scorn Enthusiast says he wants to make as much money as possible from alleged Sasquatch find, skeptics are hardly convinced By Erik Vance BIG CLAIMS: Tom Biscardi holds up a photo of an animal he claims is Bigfoot, at a press conference August 15, 2008, in Palo Alto, California PALO ALTO, CALIF.—It was perhaps the most highly touted press conference of the week, but it didn't reveal much in the way of evidence: Three bigfoot enthusiasts announced today that a series of genetic tests performed on samples taken from a carcass they claim is a Sasquatch came back as a mixture of human and opossum. In addition to the mixed DNA results, Tom Biscardi, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer showed the audience two blurry photos, one of a solitary figure in mixed hardwood forest and another of the mouth of what appeared to be the tongue and teeth of a primate. Nevertheless, fielding questions from a packed room in Palo Alto, the trio called their discovery groundbreaking and held to their claim that the animal they are currently holding in "an undisclosed location" is indeed the legendary bigfoot. "We're not bigfoot hunters originally," Whitton said. "We stumbled upon this creature. It was a stroke of luck, I can tell you that." Whitton and Dyer said they discovered the carcass when they were hiking in a forest near their home sometime in June and that it has been stored in a large freezer since then. They refused to say exactly where and when, stating only that it was in northern Georgia and that they captured video of several live animals. They said when they found the carcass they hauled it into a truck and brought it to a freezer. They then set up a Web site to offer tours into the area and made an announcement on a bigfoot enthusiast radio program. That's when Biscardi got involved, moved the animal to another location, and began contacting the media. In the week before the press conference, Whitton and Dyer spent several days sparring with skeptics and created a YouTube video where they held a stuffed bear up to the camera and repeated their claims of having found a Sasquatch. Meanwhile, Biscardi sent three samples of the carcass to biologist Curtis Nelson at the University of Minnesota for analysis. In an e-mail, Nelson told Biscardi that most of DNA segments taken from two of the samples matched human DNA. One came back as a likely match for an American opossum. Biscardi said this is likely from a stomach sample and that the creature might have eaten an opossum. He did not say why he had sampled from the stomach. Despite Biscardi's assurances that soon he would bring in scientists from Stanford University and journalists from Fox News to inspect the body, scientists are skeptical that the find is legitimate. "It's about what I expected," said Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology from Idaho State University in Pocatello who has studied the bigfoot phenomenon. "Today they should have produced a physical piece of the corpse, if not the corpse itself. Until they produce the body, it doesn't matter." "What they should have done is contact a reputable scientist and have it examined at a known university," said Benjamin Radford, who writes for the Skeptical Inquirer magazine and has followed bigfoot hunters for more than a decade. "Instead, this whole thing is very cloak and dagger. It all about, 'We have unnamed scientists working at an undisclosed location under armed guard.'" Meldrum said it's still remotely possible the claims are genuine, but that the group's behavior resembles that of previous hoaxes. He said that even if the genetic testing had turned up some evidence that it was bigfoot, no one can verify where the animal was found. Today's pronouncement was not Biscardi's first. In 2005 he claimed that he had captured a Sasquatch. The beast never materialized, and Biscardi said he had been swindled by a deranged attention-seeker. Radford says hoaxers make money off tours through bigfoot country and with documentary films—a motivation Biscardi doesn't discount. When asked at the press conference how much money he expects to make from his alleged discovery, Biscardi said, "As much as I possibly can." He said, however, that he will satisfy all skeptics when he releases the actual body. Earlier this week he invited Megyn Kelly of Fox News to Georgia to view the carcass.
This is bull shit. A Sasquatch in Georgia? I spent quite abit of time in the early seventies here running with a friend who loved to investigate sightings. I believe they exist, but not in fucking Georgia for crying out loud.
That was my reaction.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds. *The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like. *It is male. Nothing to see here, it is just the remains of The Great Khali's daddy. ~(;^{]
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. What a world; chimps in the White House, and Big Foot is reported to be in one Georgia, with the Russians invading the other one. This is very strange. ;-D
Congress must be ramrodding some kind of ape-ugly legislation through right now, is my first thought.
Tom Biscardi is a scam artist 72.14.207.104/search?q=ca...+tom+Biscardi+fraud&hl=en He will say that his broadcast has more than 40,000 subscribers, some from as far away as Ireland, Russia and Poland. Many likely found out about Biscardi's mission during recent coast-to-coast radio broadcasts. ----------------------------- 72.14.207.104/search?q=ca.../+tom+Biscardi+hoax&hl=en MAN CHARGES TO VIEW BIGFOOT EXPEDITION As artist Jill Miller sits at her campsite waiting for Bigfoot to show up and broadcasting it all live on her webcam, Las Vegas show producer Tom Biscardi is planning on doing the same thing - and charging for it. Biscardi claims that his 16-person expedition to northern California will cost about $400,000, but not to worry - he already has 40,000 subscribers across the globe (no word on the truth to this). At $14.95 a week and $59.95 for the full 90 day search, he's well above the mark. ************ To all new subscribers who registered at FindingBigfoot.Com from August 19, 2005 at 11pm through August 23, 2005 at 11:59pm: I want to apologize, first of all, to each and every one of you who subscribed after hearing me on the George Noory show, Coast to Coast AM, on August 19, 2005. I honestly and truly believed that we had one of these creatures. We will honor all requests for refunds due to misinformation received regarding a Bigfoot capture near Stagecoach, Nevada. Refund requests must be made directly through INSINC by August 26, 2005 at 11:59pm PST. Email: bigfootppv@insinc.com If it's not this one, there'll be another one out there, and we will be on the trail for it. I hope you understand, and I hope you keep watching. Sincerely, Tom Biscardi CEO and Founder Great American Bigfoot Research Organization By ALEX BREITLER August 10, 2005 Tom Biscardi is on the hunt for Bigfoot, and you're invited to join him. For a fee, that is. The controversial Sasquatch sleuth has embarked on yet another expedition, this time in western Siskiyou County where a flurry of sightings has been reported in recent weeks. This time, Biscardi is broadcasting his search on the Internet, saying he hopes to bring viewers around the world a genuine Bigfoot encounter - like the one he claimed to have had near Burney, Calif., earlier this year. Happy Camp has mixed feelings about this Bigfoot business. Some boldly back Biscardi while others skewer him for inviting ridicule into their community. "There's the old-timers that are saying, 'Yeah, there's something up here,' " said Vickie Schmalzbach, who owns JavaBobs Bigfoot Deli with her husband, Bob. "And then there's the group that says, 'Oh, brother.' " Three cameras are documenting the 90-day expedition around the clock. The cost to viewers is $14.95 for a seven-day pass and $59.95 for all 90 days. Biscardi, a former show producer from Las Vegas, said he's been exploring the woods since Saturday. Braving triple-digit temperatures and swarms of mosquitoes, he's been busy clearing brush, positioning cameras and riding ATVs along what he believes to be a Bigfoot migration route. He said he thinks two creatures living in the area are responsible for recent sightings, at least two of which involved motorists on Highway 96. "We're very, very close," Biscardi said last week. "This is one of the hottest areas I've ever seen in my life." Besides footage from his jaunts through the woods, the video feeds also feature locals sharing breathless accounts of Bigfoot encounters, re-enactments of those sightings and interviews with primate experts, Biscardi said. Why charge the viewing public? Biscardi pegs the cost of the expedition at about $400,000 so far. He said he needs the money to pay his 16-member crew and to purchase the equipment needed to hunt the beast and broadcast the adventure. "This stuff didn't cost 20 cents," he said. Biscardi, 57, has made ambitious plans to track and even capture Bigfoot in the past, including the use of net grenade launchers or even "sleep bombs" that would be dropped on the creature from the air. This time he has a "secret weapon" that he won't discuss. He will say that his broadcast has more than 40,000 subscribers, some from as far away as Ireland, Russia and Poland. Many likely found out about Biscardi's mission during recent coast-to-coast radio broadcasts. He has already gained some notoriety for claims that he's spotted Bigfoot five times in more than three decades of searching. Back in Happy Camp, some residents say their town shouldn't embrace the expedition, arguing it promotes the region for the wrong reasons. On Tuesday, a television news crew from the San Francisco Bay Area toured the area with Biscardi. "Those in town supporting this idea that Bigfoot exists are doing it simply to make money," wrote John Goodwin in a recent letter to the online Happy Camp News. "Guess what? Happy Camp looks ridiculous as a result." Even some Bigfoot believers say Biscardi is a big faker. "It's the phoniest thing I've ever heard of in my life," said longtime Bigfoot enthusiast John Green. Green, who lives in British Columbia, Canada, won't be subscribing to the pay-per-view service. "It's just a scam," he said Tuesday. "I don't think he (Biscardi) is even interested in looking for Bigfoot." Green's skepticism is rooted in the fact that Biscardi has ties to Ivan Marx, a Burney hunting guide who claimed to catch Bigfoot on film in 1970. The film was later deemed a hoax. But Bob Schmalzbach - whose deli offers "sandwiches that can satisfy Sasquatch" - says Biscardi seems to be on the level. Heck, the 56-year-old Schmalzbach has joined in the search. His deli serves as headquarters and has become a clearinghouse of Bigfoot info, offering a place for residents to share their sightings in secrecy. Happy Camp, population 1,100, hosts a Bigfoot Jamboree each Labor Day. "We have statues of Bigfoot," Schmalzbach said. "Everything's Bigfoot this, Bigfoot that." But Schmalzbach guesses many residents who've seen the mythical monster don't want to come forward. Biscardi said he hopes to add to Happy Camp's legacy. Folks can sign up for the Bigfoot broadcasts on his Web site. Buyers, beware. The fine print offers this unusual disclaimer: "This subscription does not guarantee that you will personally witness a Bigfoot encounter." On the Net For more information about Tom Biscardi and his pay-per-view Bigfoot operation, visit www.findingbigfoot.com. (Contact Alex Breitler of the Redding Record Searchlight in Calif. at www.redding.com/) Copyright 2005, Times Record News. All Rights Reserved.
That was my reaction. www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/page2693.html?theme=light Watch CNN's video coverage of Friday's 'Bigfoot' Press Conference in which Matt Whitton recounts how he and Rick Dyer supposedly found the elusive ape-man in a remote forest in northern Georgia.
That was my reaction. 8/16/08 Bigfoot Costume At the start of the program, mask and prop maker Chuck Jarman said the dead 'Bigfoot Body' is a costume (left) that he sculpted for a Halloween company two years ago.
Georgia has had some reported sightings.
The point of the whole exercise I think.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.pings
#2. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
#3. To: HOUNDDAWG (#1)
(Edited)
( I vote for the Georgia mountain boy/man with the zztop thingie......
#4. To: rack42 (#2)
#5. To: HOUNDDAWG (#1)
Big, hairy critters.
#6. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
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.
"You have delusions of adequacy."
#7. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
Irvine Knotts shot him 4 yrs ago.
#8. To: HOUNDDAWG. all (#0)
DNA evidence...
"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments, and which cannot fail to keep a man (or woman) in everlasting ignorance that principle is contempt prior to investigation." ~ Herbert Spencer
#9. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#10. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
#11. To: X-15 (#9)
How the hell did one escape being killed during the Civil War when tens of thousands of troops were all over northern Georgia??
#12. To: HOUNDDAWG (#11)
“The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people…and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit!” Schweizerische Schutzenseitunt (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#13. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
#14. To: X-15 (#12)
Hahahahaha!!!! Nice try, those reenactors aren't skinny like the real soldiers were from a prolonged diet of hardtack and coffee.
#15. To: X-15 (#9)
#16. To: HOUNDDAWG (#1)
Big, hairy critters.
#17. To: James Deffenbach, aristeides, christine, Jethro Tull, rowdee, lodwick, X-15, buckeye, scrapper2, Tauzero, Rupert_Pupkin, buckeye, (#1)
#18. To: HOUNDDAWG (#17)
#19. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
#20. To: TwentyTwelve (#19)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#21. To: Ferret Mike (#20)
This is bull shit. A Sasquatch in Georgia?
"You have delusions of adequacy."
#22. To: HOUNDDAWG (#0)
*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
Lord Acton
#23. To: farmfriend (#21)
"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power -- he's free again. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
#24. To: Ferret Mike, farmfriend (#23)
#25. To: Ferret Mike, ALL (#20)
This is bull shit. A Sasquatch in Georgia?
#26. To: farmfriend (#21)
This is bull shit. A Sasquatch in Georgia?
#27. To: James Deffenbach (#22)
Nothing to see here, it is just the remains of The Great Khali's daddy. ~(;^{]
#28. To: farmfriend, Ferret Mike (#21)
This is bull shit. A Sasquatch in Georgia?
#29. To: Ferret Mike (#20)
#30. To: TwentyTwelve (#27)
Searching For Bigfoot Shopping
Lord Acton
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