What the latest about Bigfoot?

[Palo_Verde]

The top scientists at ‘Searching for Bigfoot, Inc.’ were supposed to have a press conference today to display all their evidence of the amazing discovery of a Bigfoot carcass.

Their claim has been all over the news, but I can’t find the results of their presentation.

What does the DNA say?

[Acid_Lamp]

@autz

The top scientists at ‘Searching for Bigfoot, Inc.’ were supposed to have a press conference today to display all their evidence of the amazing discovery of a Bigfoot carcass.

Their claim has been all over the news, but I can’t find the results of their presentation.

What does the DNA say?

I was able to catch the last half of the conference after some technical difficulties. There should be two more pictures coming, and they handed out DNA results to the press. I suppose it should be up in a few hours, but as of yet I cannot find anything new. Cryptomundo, and cryptozoology.com are both down from server overload as is the site of the body-finders.

The photos show a close up of the tongue and teeth, and a second image of a live creature apparently. They were two small for me to view properly online via streaming video.

[Palo_Verde]

Cool!

I have a $100 bet with my 11 year old son that this isn’t really bigfoot. He’s a True Believer. He doesn’t have $100 so I don’t know what I’ll get when I win.

[photopat]

From CNN :

Whitton and Dyer plan to unveil what they say is DNA and photo evidence of the discovery in Palo Alto, California, in conjunction with a group called Searching for Bigfoot Inc.

A photograph on that group’s Web site shows what appears to be the body of a large, hairy creature with an ape-like face, stuffed into a large freezer.

According to a written release, the two announced the discovery on an Internet radio show, “Squatch Detective,” several weeks ago.

"The only person we would allow to come down and verify the body was ‘the Real Bigfoot Hunter,’ Tom Biscardi," Dyer said, referring to Searching for Bigfoot’s CEO, who has been looking for the elusive, legendary creature in the United States and Canada since 1971.

(bolding mine)

You can continue to color me skeptical.

[interface2x]

I just saw a quick story on local CBS news about this that showed a couple of excerpts from the press conference. From what I could tell, they wanted to get across the following information:

1. We found it.
2. It’s bigfoot.
3. No one else has ever found it.
4. We found it.
5. It’s really bigfoot.
6. We’re awesome because we found it.
7. We found it.

Color me skeptical, as well. Care to talk about anything other than, “we’re awesome because we found it and no one else has ever found it”?

[photopat]

@interface2x

Care to talk about anything other than, “we’re awesome because we found it and no one else has ever found it”?

They can’t because then questions start coming up. I suspect it’ll be a looooong time before DNA evidence is brought forth. I also really doubt any truly unbiased scientists will be given the opportunity to examine the sculpture. I mean corpse.

[Gatopescado]

I keep having to switch to Olympic coverage to verify that it is actually 2008.

[Musicat]

@photopat

I also really doubt any truly unbiased scientists will be given the opportunity to examine the sculpture. I mean corpse.

It’s neither. It’s an ape suit costume in the original box with some roadkill dumped in for good measure. Mark my words!

[photopat]

@Musicat

It’s neither. It’s an ape suit costume in the original box with some roadkill dumped in for good measure. Mark my words!

Ha! Let me just point out that to some artists an ape suit in the original box with roadkill added would be a sculpture. Of course to others it would be a Mixed Media piece, so YMMV.

All I know is, if I found something that I thought might be Bigfoot, I wouldn’t call a press conference until after it had been examined every way to Sunday, and even then I’d be veeeeery cautious. Science by publicist ain’t science.

[glee]

@interface2x

I just saw a quick story on local CBS news about this that showed a couple of excerpts from the press conference. From what I could tell, they wanted to get across the following information:

1. We found it.
2. It’s bigfoot.
3. No one else has ever found it.
4. We found it.
5. It’s really bigfoot.
6. We’re awesome because we found it.
7. We found it.

Color me skeptical, as well. Care to talk about anything other than, “we’re awesome because we found it and no one else has ever found it”?

You can add

8. Hey everyone - pay our **Bigfoot company ** money to look for Bigfoot.
9. This free publicity for our **Bigfoot company ** is great. :rolleyes:
10. Did we mention our Bigfoot company?
11. We’re going to string this story out as long as possible, like the marketing department of our **Bigfoot company ** told us to. :smack:

[devilsknew]

@interface2x

I just saw a quick story on local CBS news about this that showed a couple of excerpts from the press conference. From what I could tell, they wanted to get across the following information:

1. We found it.
2. It’s bigfoot.
3. No one else has ever found it.
4. We found it.
5. It’s really bigfoot.
6. We’re awesome because we found it.
7. We found it.

Color me skeptical, as well. Care to talk about anything other than, “we’re awesome because we found it and no one else has ever found it”?

@glee

8. Hey everyone - pay our Bigfoot company money to look for Bigfoot.
9. This free publicity for our Bigfoot company is great.
10. Did we mention our Bigfoot company?
11. We’re going to string this story out as long as possible, like the marketing department of our Bigfoot company told us to.

Actually, I saw the whole conference and I didn’t get that impression at all. The story and explanations were curt and straight to the point. and the bulk of the time Whitten and Dyer answered questions to the best of their ability. There was never any mention of their business, they didn’t shill for it once, except for the hats they wore that were illegible on camera.

[Voyager]

My two local papers both covered it, since it was around here, and they were less than impressed. The picture looked phony, and the three samples sent to one place came back:

1. Unidentified
2. Human
3. Possum

The explanation for the last was that Bigfoot must have eaten some possum. The basic impression was that these guys produced a lot less evidence than they told the press they would.

The stories also mentioned that the first release was on YouTube with one of the discoverers posing as an expert. The whole thing stinks of hoax and wishful thinking, at best.

[Cervaise]

<Chevy Chase> In other news, Generalissimo Bigfoot is still bullshit. </cc>

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

@autz

Cool!

I have a $100 bet with my 11 year old son that this isn’t really bigfoot. He’s a True Believer. He doesn’t have $100 so I don’t know what I’ll get when I win.

A refund of all the money that the “Tooth Fairy” gave him.

[bdgr]

And a costume it is…
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/bizarre&id=6337459

[Ellen_Cherry]

Did you see the Bigfoot on Mars picture? Bwhahahahaha!

[Zsofia]

By odd and unbelievable circumstance I happen to know one of the local Bigfoot experts. (Really.) He says it’s horseshit.

[Revtim]

OK, so what exactly were these people trying to do? They had to know that Searching For Bigfoot Inc. would notice it was a gorilla suit. Have they skipped town with the advance they got for the “body”?

[bdgr]

@Revtim

Have they skipped town with the advance they got for the “body”?

Yep

[Wile_E]

Well, no big surprise there but these sort of things really bug me. All these false claims of Bigfoots and el Chupacabras will only lead to complacence so when the real Bigfoot or el Chupacabra show up they’ll just be able to walk right up and take our homes, jobs and women!