So, I am apparently quite gullible because the moment that segment aired on Fox about Bigfoot’s body being found by some guys in Georgia I got a huge adrenaline rush and was completely over-the-moon excited. Then I looked more carefully at the photo of the body in the icebox, read a few blogs and news articles (it even got so far as CNN) and my heart began to sink. My heart was officially sunk when I read that the press conference held on Friday was basically pointless – the dna evidence inconclusive (could have predicted that), and the gentlemen who “found” the “corpse” still vague about all of it. This article from Scientific American put the nail in the coffin for me. Really, if you think about it, any self respecting hoaxer would have done a heck of a lot better of a job than these guys. They could have at least provided the SAME story for how the body was found! I don’t care what the point of the hoax is (some folks say it’s hype for a new game or a new series on television), in fact, I think it is brilliant (and a little scary) that these people were able to generate such an instant and huge buzz with so little finesse or effort. Mostly however, I am irritated that I believed it for half a day at least. That just goes to show how much I wish Bigfoot was really out there…

Hmmmm. Maybe, just maybe, it isn’t a hoax?

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