They found bigfoot!

R.I.P.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/Georgia081208b.jpg

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,402882,00.html

Damn.

http://bfro.net/hoax.asp

http://www.trailer2008.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/iwanttobelieve.jpg

http://bfro.net/hoax.asp

^^^^I couldn't get the "here's how it started/how it ended" links to work

A still from the famous 1967 Bigfoot film, which may or may not show a man in a gorilla suit.

Haaaa someone at CNN is a Futurama fan.

Er, at Fox News rather.

i was reading about this earlier on cryptomundo, where they compared the photos of the "body" and the costume, and surprise! they're identical. you'd think the hoaxers would be smarter.

behold the site of the two doofuses who allegedly "discovered" the body:

http://www.bigfoottracker.com/

anyone remember that Bigfoot! pizza Little Caesers used to have? I just found one sealed in plastic for the past 15 years. I'm going to cook it up now.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v216/sexymollusk/ironicnotfunny/analization.jpg

"analization"

lollz

bahaha bigfoot pizza

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMEsD3_J2DQ

o_O

The well documented Florida Skunk Ape:
http://www.floridaskunkape.com/
http://camocats.com/Images/Google/skunk_ape.jpg

http://www.surfindead.com/geekc.jpg

weird how that one site keeps referring to the hoaxers as "boys" -- "the Georgia boys"

Would they do that if they were from, say, Vermont? "The Vermont boys."

It's like whoever wrote that thinks they're in the Dukes of Hazzard or something.

pretty conclusive evidence imo

http://www.youtube.com/user/knobbylives#p/u/0/jGz8qqRgTVQ

Holy shit!

https://vault.fbi.gov/bigfoot

Important legal Bigfoot information.

https://www.popehat.com/p/incomplete-primer-caselaw-appertaining-bigfoot-aka-sasquatch-lnu

This is all very Elvis Telecom.

new bigfoot doc coming that has practice run footage for patterson-gimlin. whole bigfoot community in huge disarray -- true believers insist "there's more to it than patterson-gimlin" + want to "question the narrative" lol, many others are saying "if the doc does what it says it does, that's the nail in the coffin."

all manner of stuff to dig into if you love this kinda thing - disenchanted youtubes, condescending hand-waves, the lot

https://www.austinchronicle.com/screens/sxsw-film-review-capturing-bigfoot/

this video was kind of a flashpoint from which battle lines were drawn this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBuWLe1MC_A

The truly amazing thing to me is that the 'patterson-gimlin' film took in so many people. To me it always looked like a guy in a gorilla suit. I guess that's the will to believe at work. The same effect is at work in the UFO community.

NB: I'm perfectly willing to think there are other planets in the universe that have evolved complex life, even complex societies with sophisticated technology (though very rarely), but galaxy-spanning space flight that has specifically and repeatedly visited this planet is an extraordinary claim requiring extraordinary evidence - which evidence doesn't yet exist.

yeah i mean the literal existence of bigfoot is obviously untrue, like the literal existence of ufos. i'm sympathetic to the impulse to believe this kind of thing though because there are also very obviously great mysteries "out there" which occasionally or maybe even often break through "the plane of our reality" or however you want to phrase it. of course i realize not everyone believes in, well, mystery itself. i think it's in trying to explain mystery in terms of our reality where people get off track.

i'm a little eye rolly about bigfoot bumper stickers and the like though i will chuckle at stuff like "bigfoot is real and he tried to eat my ass" or whatever.

I love the Coast to Coast episode where Art Bell played a bunch of purported recordings of Bigfoot screaming in the night

i'm sympathetic to the impulse to believe this kind of thing though because there are also very obviously great mysteries "out there" which occasionally or maybe even often break through "the plane of our reality" or however you want to phrase it. of course i realize not everyone believes in, well, mystery itself. i think it's in trying to explain mystery in terms of our reality where people get off track.

yes, I love the way you put this. the desire to believe in monsters who keep eluding our confirmation -- there's something hopeful about it, although I think a lot of Bigfoot types end up on the general "all conspiracy theories are true" train, which is very boring to me. but there's an element of faith in something beyond our grasp in Bigfoot theory. however in practice these guys are being very funny about this, or many of them are. the ones that aren't being funny are expressing a pretty complex sadness that has its own beauty cf. the hairy man road guy above.

otm

i like bigfoot stuff and am down with cryptids generally

it gets very dumb very quickly & a ton of it’s just carnies & orangutan costumez but all the builtup lore & the ~world~ is sort of enjoyable if you just follow along casually

i do love the infighting though - real housewives popcorn.gif etc

yes it's great. "Ok, but Jim Squatch said on his channel-- " "Jim Squatch is a charlatan and I have never taken anything he said at face value since he allied himself with the Skunk Ape denialists. Next"

lool exactly