Bigfoot Returns to the mist

Well, I can't say that I'm surprised. It didn't take long for it to be revealed that the Georgia bigfoot was a hoax. As it turns out it was searchingforbigfoot.com that was given access to the specimen. Check out their website to see the Fox News story that sums up the uncovering of the hoax. Turns out it was a costume suit. I guess the question is whether the costume is sasquatch or gorilla. But we knew it was a hoax all of the time, right? Anybody who knows anything about Bigfoot knows that the North American range of Bigfoot is limited to the Pacific Northwest. Whether the Old World Yeti of the Himalayas is conspecific is beyond the scope of this blog. 

Oh, as a postscript, my favorite headline covering the recent controversy:

Bigfoot found! Eating an ivory-billed woodpecker...

What more needs to be said?

Bigfoot is Back!

Alright, I'll admit it right here. When I was a kid, I believed in bigfoot. I also believed in extraterrestrial visitation and the Loch Ness Monster. But now that I'm old and skeptical, I just have a hard time believing in those cryptozoological organisms. That goes for claims of the continued existence of once living organisms like Thylacines and Ivory-billed Woodpeckers too. What all of these claims have in common is an inability to provide the simplest of physical documentation or irrefutable photographic evidence. The only thing remarkable about them is that this sort of rubbish still gets news coverage. This week the remains of bigfoot was discovered in northern Georgia. A press conference was held in Palo Alto, California, but get this, none of the physical evidence they had photographed was brought along for examination, and the alleged DNA work was inconclusive. Sounds like HORSE SH*T to me! Do you know that the word gullible isn't in the dictionary? 

The first image is the Georgia bigfoot currently residing in an icebox at some undisclosed location. The second image is of a bigfoot I saw earlier today rooting around in some bushes near my Tucson apartment. There is definitely a resemblance.  Does anyone know the number for FOX news?