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  • Bigfoot Killed, Corpse on Tour in Texas

    Bigfoot Killed, Corpse on Tour in Texas

    Bigfoot’s corpse is on tour. The tour is called the “I Told You So Tour.” The reason it’s called the “I Told You So Tour” is because its creator, promoter, and emcee is Rick Dyer, who last put a bigfoot corpse on tour in 2008 only to later be forced into admitting that that bigfoot was just a rubber suit.

    This one’s not a hoax, though. No, siree. According to self-described “master tracker” Dyer, “we want to show as many people as possible . . . Bigfoot is not the Tooth Fairy. Bigfoot is real.” This bigfoot, which Dyer has dubbed “Hank,” was allegedly shot and killed outside of San Antonio. Dyer claims to have lured it with ribs he bought at Wal-Mart. Also, it should be noted, this time as good as any, that Dyer’s day job (because master bigfoot trackers need days jobs in this economy) is selling used cars. Kid you not.

    Dyer’s aware of the skepticism stemming from his previous shenanigans, but he claims that the 2008 hoax “didn’t start out as a hoax and that’s what people don’t understand. This is about redeeming myself. I don’t want to go down as a hoaxer. I want to go down as the best Bigfoot tracker in the world.” For what it’s worth, Dyer’s website claims that he and his team are the “only real bigfoot trackers in the world,” so I guess that means he’d have to be the best by default.

    The body of the creature, currently under a glass coffin adorned with camouflage baseball hats, was supposed to go on display a week and a half ago at the International UFO Congress and Film Festival in Phoenix, but Dyer was forced out of that event after Maureen Elsberry, co-organizer of the event and investigator on the Science Channel’s show “Uncovering Aliens,” denied him exhibition space due to his past hoaxery.

    “It was like a bunch of confusion. I don’t know what happened in Phoenix,” Dyer said. “I wanted to go to Phoenix. If we get a venue in Phoenix, we will be happy to go back there. We love Phoenix. The only reason we’re doing this tour is for me to bring Hank to the people, and that’s it. I just hate to disappoint the people that I’m trying to show it to.”

    The body is currently on tour in Texas, tickets priced at $20. But for those who don’t want to shell out, Dyer’s got a sneak peek in the following video (this footage is a bit NSFW—the bigfoot on display is anatomically correct):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiUa3vFAapQ

    By the way, I’m thinking of starting a band called Bigfoot’s Corpse and trying to book shows on the “I Told You So” tour. Anybody want to jam?

    Image via YouTube

  • Yeti, Abominable Snowman, or…Polar Bear?

    Yeti, Abominable Snowman, or…polar bear? Yep, that’s right – the Yeti myth has finally been put to rest, at least for us skeptics. Bryan Sykes, a genetics professor at the University of Oxford, says that he now has the DNA evidence to prove that the elusive ‘Yeti,’ or, ‘Abominable Snowman,’ is merely the descendant of an ancient Norwegian polar bear.

    Sykes recently told NBC that he began his quest for evidence of the world’s most famous mythical creatures because of the lack of scientific research that had been done previously on the fantastical subject – and, he added, “I am in a position to actually do something to answer the questions.”

    In 2012 Sykes began his journey on ‘the Yeti project’ by contacting scientists and museums worldwide, asking for hair samples obtained from purported Yetis, Bigfoots, or Sasquatches. Flooded with responses, he chose two samples to use for his analyses. Sykes said, “Of the samples in this study, one came from a Yeti mummy in Ladakh. It was from the mummified body that was shot 40 years ago by a local hunter. He kept it because he did not think it was a bear from its behavior. To him it was a Yeti.”

    The second sample used for comparison came from a Himalayan region 800 miles east of Ladakh, the Kingdom of Bhutan. According to the professor, this sample, obtained a decade ago, was “a single hair, found by the king’s own Yeti guards.”

    Upon extensive DNA testing of the hair, Sykes compared the results to other animal genome data stored in the GenBank database, and the final analysis was surprising – the relation between the jawbone of an ancient Norwegian polar bear and the two hair samples from the mysterious creatures in Ladakh and Bhutan were 100% matches.

    The ancient polar bear Sykes matched the two samples with was a bear that is thought to have lived about 40,000 years ago in the Norwegian Arctic.

    Sykes told the Associated Press that he believes the most viable explanation for the beings long theorized to be Yetis is that the creatures “…may be a new species…may be a hybrid.” (Between brown bears and Himalayan polar bears.) However, his analysis did not support a link between modern bears in the Himalayas, but prehistoric polar bears.

    Despite centuries of “sightings,” the Yeti mystery may now be put to bed for good. Hopefully, Sykes’ research on the quest for Bigfoot and Sasquatch will be just as conclusive. As the British scientist recently said, “Bigfootologists and other enthusiasts seem to think that they’ve been rejected by science. Science doesn’t accept or reject anything, all it does is examine the evidence and that is what I’m doing.”

    If you’re lucky enough to be in the UK, you can catch Bryan Sykes on a new documentary series, “Bigfoot Files.” The series will devote its first episodes to the 3-part special on Bigfoot, featuring Sykes – the documentary will premiere on Sunday on Britain’s Channel 4.

    Image courtesy Jerzy Strzelecki via Wikimedia Commons.

  • Bigfoot Gets Caught on Camera Again

    Bigfoot Gets Caught on Camera Again

    Well, it looks like old Bigfoot is at it again, walking around and parading himself like some animal.

    In case you don’t know who Bigfoot is, he’s a big bi-pedal hairy ape-like creature made famous by a short video filmed by Robert Gimlin and Roger Patterson back in October 20th, 1967. Bigfoot also goes by the name “Yeti”, or “Sasquatch”, and has been marketed as a subject for humiliation in beef jerky commercials.

    Some say he’s a legend, some say he’s a misidentified animal, and some say he’s just a guy in an ape suit running around and causing mischief for the past five decades.

    Last Tuesday in a conference in Dallas, Texas, a group of Bigfoot researchers who call themselves the Sasquatch Genome Project, screened an 8-year-old “never before seen HD video” of the great beast walking around through some Kentucky forest.

    According to Dr. Melba Ketchum (not to be confused with Ash Ketchum), a genetics scientist and the leader of the Sasquatch Genome Project, a majority of the $500,000 funded into the group’s study of Bigfoot came from Wally Hersom and Adrian Erickson, both entrepreneurs interested in the “subject matter”.

    A total of 111 specimens of purported Bigfoot samples, including everything from hair to skin, came from 34 different hominine research facilities, and have been examined over the past five years by The Sasquatch Genome Project.

    The group is hell bent on proving the existence of the Sasquatch, even extracting DNA from their collected samples.

    Not to be confused with an old piece Jack Link’s Beef Jerky, this picture shows a sample of Bigfoot’s skin tissue.

    “We want people to understand that this is a serious study,” Dr. Ketchum told CBS Dallas.

    Dr. Ketchum mentioned in February that, “We soon discovered that certain hair samples — which we would later identify as purported Sasquatch samples — had unique morphology distinguishing them from typical human and animal samples.”

    “They’re a type of people, they’re a human-hybrid, we believe. And all of the DNA evidence points to that. And they can elude us, so if you get [footage] at all, it can be fleeting,” Ketchum told ABC affiliate WFAA.

    Yet, some believe this whole Bigfoot fiasco to be hogwash.

    “It’s just a joke. She, [Dr. Melba Ketchum] is a laughing stock of people that are of a community that are already kind of wacko.” Todd R. Disotell, a professor at the Department of Anthropology at New York, told ABC news.

    “This was not reported in any scientific way whatsoever. It’s complete junk science, and then she misinterprets it. She hasn’t published in peer-reviewed papers on this stuff. I don’t know how this got put together.”

    (Pictures via WikiCommons, Sasquatch Genome Project)

  • Sasquatch Genome Project Presents Evidence

    When it comes to believing in Bigfoot or Sasquatch, it seems like you are either a die hard believer or a complete skeptic. If you happened to be torn between believer and skeptic, you may want to consider the evidence brought force by the Sasquatch Genome Project researchers. This group of scientists recently released footage and DNA evidence that they said would prove the existence of Sasquatch.

    The evidence was presented at a news conference held in Dallas on Tuesday. The researchers claim that they have been sequencing DNA from 3 different sasquatch genomes and have spent over 5 years on the project. The results of the study show that sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 13,000 years ago and is a hybrid cross between a primate and Homo sapiens.

    “While the three Sasquatch nuclear genomes aligned well with one another and showed significant homology to human chromosome 11, the Sasquatch genomes were novel and fell well outside of known ancient hominin as well as ape sequences,” explains Melba Ketchum. “Because some of the mtDNA haplogroups found in our Sasquatch samples originated as late as 13,000 years ago, we are hypothesizing that the Sasquatch are human hybrids, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens.”

    While many people say their presentation is bologna, many other were excited to see the film evidence and believe it to be authentic. The team says they are not finished with their work and are still collecting evidence and working on DNA evidence. They plan to use the evidence to film a documentary in the near future.

    Image from Wikimedia Commons.