Man Admits to Bigfoot Hoax 113
JCMay writes "You know that film we've all seen on TV where a large, hairy creature is walking through the woods, looks back over his right shoulder at the camera, and continues walking on? WorldNetDaily is reporting that a man has admitted to a 1967 bigfoot hoax where he was filmed walking through the woods wearing a gorilla suit."
the funny part (Score:5, Funny)
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This bigfoot hoax thing old news.
Re:the funny part (Score:2, Informative)
There is an easy solution - login, go to Preferences -> Homepage, and under "Exclude Stories from the Homepage", put a little tick next to Timothy. You'll never see anything from him again!
BTW judging from recent form I'd have to agree with you
Re:the funny part (Score:4, Insightful)
Bob.
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What!?! (Score:1)
Already known (Score:4, Insightful)
And, I read a book by James Randi a couple years ago where he talks about a cold reader that he trained (like John Edwards). The cold reader did his little tricks, and even after the hoax was exposed, his marks still thought he had some psychic abilities.
Therefore, I predict Bigfoot believers still have a long and profitable future ahead.
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Speaking of crazy things people believe in....
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To put it another way: Just because the Piltdown Man was fake, doesn't disprove the theory of evolution.
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The same thing happened when it was revealed that the Loch Ness Monster picture was actually a toy submarine [csicop.org] and when the Air Force released the true information on the formerly Top Secret Project Mogul which is what really happened at Roswell [csicop.org].
"It can't be true! Why did they lie all this time? What were they covering up?"
Maybe it was because the project was Top Secret, get it?
Re:Already known (Score:3, Interesting)
As for crop circles though, sure those British gents admitted to the hoax but it doesn't explain that it has been happening for hundreds of years all over the world. Maybe not in the crazy detail they created, but nevertheless...
Just like the golden Egyptian space shuttle replica, or the cave paintings of typical Alien beings, some things are our history and we'll probably never really understand it.
Re:Already known (Score:2)
Do you have a source for that claim?
Obviously some things are lost to the sands of time (unless someone invents a time machine) but that doesn't mean it was aliens or gods or even little pink faeries. Let's try to keep the distinction between fact and fantasy in mind.
Re:Already known (Score:3, Interesting)
Of course it doesn't explain it. It can't, because it hasn't been happening for hundreds of years all over the world.
Irregular unpatterned crop "circles" can be formed by normal weather. I've seen it *happen* myself. But no one today calls these evidence of UFOs, aliens or other twaddle. But in the past it might have been different, and there may have been some silly reports of "strange devilish circles in me barle
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the truly scientifically unexplained crop circles are formed within an hour, have high levels of radiation
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Houdini would not explain the trick, and Doyle insisted that Houdini must be using supernatural powers. Despite their disagreements, the two men remained friends for some time.
This site [prairieghosts.com] tells about the friendship between Doyle and Houdini.
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Not only did they come forward, they presented a video of themselves making the crop circles.
One ufologist said before seeing the film that it was impossible for humans to create this particular crop circle because of the "woven" stalks, lack of footprints, etc. Then after being shown the film, she said "well that may explain this one, but it can't possibly explain all of the other unexplainable circles!"
FYI - James Randi & Skeptic Sites (Score:3, Interesting)
Other interesting sites are CSICOP [csicop.org] and Skeptic Magazine [skeptic.com].
Re:Already known (Score:4, Informative)
evidence that can't be proven is a religion. You've either got faith or you've got facts.
and there is a ton of faith in the world.
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The pictures are not a bear or a guy in a suit.
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"Perfume sprayers testing biological toxins!!"
"POWER OUTAGE HID MARTIAN INVASION"
AL QAEDA TERROR MESSAGE HIDDEN IN BARNEY SHOW"
gee, maybe this isn't the place to be getting proof for bigfoot.
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From what I saw I learned that Bigfoot is very likly real, since the DNA samples taken from hair were definatly simian (IE Monkey) and the tracks were too much alike across the world to be anything else.
As for crop circles... Well, I doubt that they are more then complex hoaxes, because there certianly aren't any aliens out their who, being advanced enough to travel great distences extreamly fast and without being detected, would be dumb enough to contact
Re:Already known (Score:2)
A lot of people still believed the alien autopsy was real, despite the mountains of conclusive counterevidence. Hell, even after Fox admitted they faked it and lied to sell it for $60 a copy, some people STILL believe it.
When the hoaxter admits they lied (can you say moontruth.com, who have been caught in multiple forgeries and forced to admit the truth - but are STILL considered a credible source of information by s
Oh no! (Score:4, Funny)
Does it matter? (Score:5, Insightful)
Ever hear of the "Viking explorers went to Minnesota" theory? I bet you haven't heard that the guy who made this one up admitted it was fake years ago.
The same thing with crop circles. The guy who started this admitted it years ago, but the mistique and belief (mistaken belief?) remains.
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It is all on the net (Score:2)
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Check out http://www.bfro.net/ for an idea of the scope of evidence for this creature.
Remember, mountain gorillas, bonobos, and plenty of other large animals were all thought to
It's just like UFOs (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:It's just like UFOs - and other things (Score:2)
More people in this age bracket believe in UFOs than believe that they will ever see a penny of social security money.
When will the government get us out of this Ponzi Scheme - But wait, it must be true, I get a statement every year from the government telling me what is in my "account"
Re:Does it matter? (Score:2)
I was mugged by bigfoot in the Maine woods while investigating Stephen King death claims that I read on
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It was rather the son of a neighbor of the person who "found" the stone, who claimed that this person had once discussed "fooling people."
It's still potentially damning, but not quite at the same level.
Found a buried tablet.... (Score:1, Funny)
No, he's real.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No, he's real.... (Score:2, Funny)
*sniff* *sniff*
Re:No, he's real.... (Score:3, Informative)
Oops. Here's the fixed links:
Episode 55, The Secret of Bigfoot, Part 1 [sixmillion...site.co.uk]
Episode 56, The Secret of Bigfoot, Part 2 [sixmillion...site.co.uk]
So he lied and now he is telling the truth? (Score:3, Interesting)
If bigfoot does not exist then that does not make the film a hoax. The filmer could have believed what he saw was real. Most people who see the Lochness monster ain't lying they just thought they saw something wich looked like the monster in their mind. A hoax is deliberate misleading.
And if the movie is a hoax or a honest mistake then this proves nothing about bigfoot. Sad thing is that it is really hard to prove a negative. Those who believe will simply say we haven't found it yet. Those who don't will be hard pressed to prove their is nothing to be found. In a way I think bigfoot is charming. It certainly is one of the less harmfull conspiracy theories you can follow.
Re: Articles and idiots (Score:1)
The guy claims that he didn't get squat:
Re:So he lied and now he is telling the truth? (Score:2)
Umm, it would still be a hoax, it's just that the camera man wouldn't be considered one of the hoax-ers.
Besides, as it's been said many times before... The two men were out hunting, and had rifles in-hand. It would have been very easy for them to prove this once and for all.
They got to him first! (Score:5, Funny)
It's real, I tell you (Score:1)
When scared or tracked, a frightened Bigfoot has its Squonk genes take over and it melts into a puddle of tears. The same thing happens when one dies or is shot. This is why there are no bones or other fossil remains of Bigfoot to be found.
"The Squonk is of a very retiring disposition and due to its ugliness, weeps constantly. I
Re:It's real, I tell you (Score:1)
*scratches*
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Me real (Score:4, Funny)
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*nuzzles*
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And to think I thought bigfoot was real science... (Score:4, Insightful)
So I wonder for a second or two, why is there no one putting as much effort into showing the faults, or conversly if it is real why hasn't the entire media gone ape-shit over it?
And suddenly I remember, to most rational people the faults are obvious if you stop for a few minutes and look at the 'evidence' (take a look at Richard Hoagland's wonderful blown up martian images). And to the believers everything that points against them is either from close minded "establishment" scientists, or some grand conspiracy.
You could give UFO nuts immediate access to EVERYTHING the US gov't has ever produced, and when they found no records of the grand Alien-Gov't summit they would claim that it was all removed.
While the concept of 'bigfoot' isn't as ridiculous and absurd as aliens coming all the way to our planet is supposedly faster-than-light craft to anally probe whitley steiber, drawn in some wheat, and possibly do things to people that can ussually be otherwise explained with real psycological/physialogic explainations its increasingly closure that that level when NOONE has ever taken a remotely clear photo / video or capture/killed one. Its a figgin lare animal in a relatively well traveled and populated region people!
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I don't really care about the nuts (Score:2)
What scares me is the people out there who don't understand how science works seing these *documentaries* on big foot, loch ness, aliens or whatever (This is why I boycott the Discovery
Re:I don't really care about the nuts (Score:3, Insightful)
Well, I don't know if that kind of reponsibility should be placed on 'the scientific community.' It'd have to be someone's job, right?
I know that a lot of people believe complete bullshit, but is that really a problem? Who cares if some schmuck things that magnets will cure their athelete's foot or whatn
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Well, in a democracy citizens are the ultimate policy makers (at least in theory) and since the government funds a great deal of scientific research, I think it is important that people understand the scientific method so that when they hear about the government funding research for something th
Washington Post, not Worldnet Daily (Score:4, Informative)
This confirms an earlier confession... (Score:4, Informative)
In December 2002, Ray L. Wallace made a death bed confession that BigFoot was a hoax. CNN [cnn.com] had all of the details. I remember seeing accounts that showed photos of the wooden feet, etc.
"It's time people knew it was a hoax," (Score:2)
Umm... Everyone with a non-zero IQ already knew that.
OLD NEWS! (Score:2)
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When you say "anybody who bothers to read the Oregonian," you're sounding like "well, of course every enlightened individual reads the Oregonian". In my experience, bright people are off reading something else.
Re:OLD NEWS! (Score:1)
Besides, us granola Oregonians would rather find news online than read all those dead trees.
Any Doubt? (Score:2)
Next headline from the subscriber section... (Score:1)
What??? He existed on a TV sitcom! (Score:2)
Conversation with a cab driver (Score:1)
Cabbie: I'm only going to live in Arizona for a year more. After that, I'm going to live in Alaska
Me: Oh really? What will you be doing there?
Cabbie: I wanna be a Gold Prospector. And I wanna look for fossils.
Me: Sounds Interesting. What kind of fossils will you be looking for?
Cabbie: Well, anything I can find. But what I really wanna find is a fossil of Big Foot.
Me: Oh...
First SBT ... then this (Score:1)
bigfoot research at bfro.net (Score:3, Insightful)
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"Maine has the highest percentage of forest land in the country, nearly 90 percent, equating to over 17 million acres."
http://www.ume.maine.edu/~MIAL/products/
Re:bigfoot research at bfro.net (Score:1)
Hey, if Eric Rudolph (The Olympic Bomber) can hide out for 5 years in North Carolina, then I have to admit that Bigfoot could stay hidden in Oregon or Washington state for a lot longer.
Re:bigfoot research at bfro.net (Score:2)
Rudolph wasn't caught until a *cop* saw him and did his duty. It's entirely possible that there were even some sympathetic cops who put their religion before their sworn duty and looked the other
Hoax claim a hoax (Score:4, Insightful)
Skeptic Sites (mildly OT) (Score:2)
Sasquatch Militia (Score:2)
Bigfoot hoax? (Score:2)
Not convinced it's a hoax (Score:1)
I don't know...there are a lot of factors in there to suggest that it's not a hoax. There are a few things that bother me:
Bigfoot or Big hoax? (Score:1)
My theory (Score:1)
Re:Yes... (Score:2)
You'll never find an actual full quote of him saying that, because it was a deliberately misquoted sound-bite.
Re:Yes... (Score:2)
However, you will find a quote of him saying something about taking the lead in the Senate for creating the Internet (I can't remember the exact quote off the top of my head, and I'm not going to go hunting around for it). So, despite what the Gore apologists would like us all to believe, the intent was essentially the same: Gore was indeed trying to take credit for the Internet being what it is.
Re:Al Gore invented the Internet (Score:1)