Bigfoot Is Real! (Or maybe not.)

[nace186]

Nearly a year ago a self-described professional Bigfoot hunter claimed to have shot and killed one of the creatures in San Antonio.
The alleged incident was featured in a documentary released last year that left more questions than answers.
On Thursday Rick Dyer finally released pictures of the alleged beast's body (see below).


"Bigfoot is 100 percent real -- there's no question about that," Dyer said.
Dyer claims he shot and killed the mythical creature in a wooded area on the northwest side near Loop 1604 and Highway 151 in early September 2012.

Until Thursday Dyer never provided any proof beyond a grainy video clip he shot of the big beast outside his tent. More video was included in the documentary "Shooting Bigfoot," but it failed to impress skeptics.
Following a lengthy battle with his investors, Dyer said he was finally able to reclaim the body.

"I have been worried for so long. I have been put off for so long, and finally we went up to Washington (state) and we got the body," Dyer said. "Every test that you can possibly imagine was performed on this body -- from DNA tests to 3D optical scans to body scans. It is the real deal. It's Bigfoot and Bigfoot's here, and I shot it and now I'm proving it to the world."

Dyer has let more than 100 people see the body up close and recorded their reactions.

"We wanted to get people's reactions, make them believers, and we did it to over a 130 people," Dyer said. "We definitely made them believers."
Despite a history of past Bigfoot hoaxes, Dyer insists he's not fooling around this time.

"Bigfoot is not a tooth fairy -- Bigfoot is real," Dyer said. "The most important thing to me is being vindicated, letting people know that I am the best Bigfoot tracker in the world and it's not just me saying it."
Dyer plans to hold a news conference in the coming days, where he will show the full body and release the test results.

Following the big reveal, Dyer plans to take the body on tour across the U.S., Mexico and Canada. He said he will charge a small fee to view the body.

http://www.ksat.com/news/bigfoot-hu...ature/-/478452/23743310/-/23q274/-/index.html

 

[halik]

Retarded. Someone let Adlep know about this, so he can make a thread about how real bigfoot is.

 

[purbeast0]

didn't watch the video, but LOL @ the picture. that's the best picture he could come up with?

 

[lozina]

I try to be open minded and not prejudice but when I hear someone say they believe in bigfoot I just immediately think they are retarded

 

[darkewaffle]

I bet bigfoot is a protected species.

 

[Tweak155]

It's a dead giveaway when they can't just show the body on camera and document what they've found.

I find this stuff amusing / interesting, but don't believe anything about it being real. It's a good lesson on showing what people will believe.

 

[Greenman]

It's going to suck for the guy if the DNA tests show he bagged a really hairy homeless guy.

 

[Pardus]

rtrtrt

 

[cbrunny]

Shenanigans!

 

[Iron Woode]

It's a dead giveaway when they can't just show the body on camera and document what they've found.

I find this stuff amusing / interesting, but don't believe anything about it being real. It's a good lesson on showing what people will believe.

it's also a dead giveaway when he charges money so people can see it.

 

[DrPizza]

it's also a dead giveaway when he charges money so people can see it.

But, hopefully, there's an attorney general out there who will charge him with fraud the moment the first customer pays. Or, perhaps wait until the guy has charged enough people money that it's a felony charge rather than a misdemeanor.

(Ditto for Rossi's scam - now that he's (allegedly) collecting money, time to throw his scammy body into FPMITAP (or whatever the equivalent is in his country.)

 

[BoomerD]

Many dumb people believe the Abominable Snowman and Loch Ness Monster are real.

 

[Tweak155]

^ lol just noticed the new avatar.

 

[Geosurface]

It's disappointing to realize that this will totally end up being a hoax... because it would actually be pretty amazing to establish the existence of a "new" primate species.

 

[alien42]

It's disappointing to realize that this will totally end up being a hoax... because it would actually be pretty amazing to establish the existence of a "new" primate species.

that has happened fairly recently...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_ape

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesula

 

[SKORPI0]

http://www.imaging-resource.com/new...footage-completely-changes-the-iconic-footage

 

[darkewaffle]

Why is it each time I see a 'stabilized' version of some old video it supposedly "completely changes" it lol.

 

[qtnguyen87]

um, the videos bigfoot does not match the picture he shows us.....wtf?

 

[Geosurface]

that has happened fairly recently...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_ape

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesula

I guess I meant something truly distinct from any other known species and such. Bigfoot would be a remarkable discovery. A slightly different chimp or monkey isn't really.

 

[Exophase]

that has happened fairly recently...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bili_ape

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesula

Maybe would be more interestingly to discover a new species of ape. Bili Ape is really just a group Eastern Chimpanzee, an already discovered subspecies.

 

[Fern]

Many dumb people believe the Abominable Snowman and Loch Ness Monster are real.

I recently saw a show re: the Abominable Snowman (or yeti etc.) IIRC it was on the Science Channel.

They went through the history yeti sightings in the
Himalayan region and worked done to prove/disprove the existence of the yeti.

But the primary focus was on work done by scientists. One earlier effort involved taking samples of DNA from a claimed yeti lair. At that time the DNA sample was found to be insufficient. In this show the scientists returned to retest the DNA using modern techniques. The DNA samples gathered in the Himalayan were found to be an exact match to a polar bear thought to be extinct about 40,000 yrs ago. Polar bears are known to procreate with brown bears (they are similar to grizzles). The scientists on the TV show hypothesized that the yeti was a cross breed of the extinct polar bear and brown bear that migrated to the Himalayans thousands of years ago. I.e. it exists but is not ape, but instead bear-like.

From wiki:

Analysis of samples associated with claimed yetis found a sequence of mitochondrial DNA that matched a sample from an ancient polar bear jawbone found in Norway, that dates back to between 40,000 and 120,000 years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeti

Fern

 

[mizzou]

it's still more evidence then we have that God exists, but we don't get all up in arms about that do we?

edit: i always go here for bigfoot info http://www.bfro.net/

 

[AMDZen]

it's still more evidence then we have that God exists, but we don't get all up in arms about that do we?

This

 

[JumBie]

As someone who researches stupid shit like this in his free time, I can openly state that Rick Dyer is a liar and has been proven so and no big foot "enthusiast" will ever take him seriously.

Anyways, I don't know whether big foot is fact or fiction but the mythology behind it is interesting to say the least.

EDIT: Btw this is really old news, he made a film about killing big foot and everything was hoaxed this image is from that video. Almost everyone involved in the film has openly stated that it was fake.

 

[HumblePie]

So this poker game the other night had a bigfoot, yeti, chupacabra, moses, and santa clause....