Hunters Catch Bigfoot

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Time is my specialty.

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Well, it's one o'clock there now

[Alpha]

What time is the announcement supposed to be?

[Ck]

I don't know, I don't think they said - they just said today.

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Why would anyone have a body in the freezer, unless thay plan to have sex with it?

[Earl]

Two men claim they've bagged Bigfoot, and they say the have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer. Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim to see the man-ape.

Still, the Georgia men say DNA will prove once and for all that the frozen creature is Sasquatch. They plan to present DNA test results and photographs during a news conference Friday in Palo Alto, Calif.

They're not winning over any skeptics, though.

"What I've seen so far is not compelling in the least, and I think the pictures cast grave doubts on their claim," Jeffrey Meldrum, a Bigfoot researcher and Idaho State University professor, told the Scientific American. "It just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect."

Meldrum said the DNA test likely won't prove anything and, at best, might yield a gene sequence that doesn't match any other known primates.

Whitton, an officer on medical leave from the Clayton County Police Department, and Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in early July.

The picture they sent out in a news release and on their Web site — www.bigfoottracker.com — shows what appears to be a hairy corpse crammed into a chest freezer. The accompanying announcement describes the creature as a 7-foot-7 male, weighing 550 pounds with 16-inch human-like feet and reddish hair.

Messages left for Whitton and Dyer early Friday on their Bigfoot Tipline were not returned. They have so far offered three different tales so far about how they came to find the creature:

In one, the animal was shot by a former felon, and the men followed it into the woods. In a second version, they found a "family of Bigfoot" in North Georgia mountains. In the third, the two were hiking and stumbled upon the corpse with open wounds.

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Reserve spokesman Tom Mackenzie said officers also are not taking the claim seriously and will not investigate Bigfoot because it not a federal priority.

"It's not on endangered species on any list that we've got," Mackenzie said.


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Why would anyone have a body in the freezer, unless thay plan to have sex with it?

To preserve it?

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Two hunters from Georgia claim to have definitive evidence proving the existence of Bigfoot.

The men say they stumbled across a corpse of the legendary, ape-like beast in the woods of north Georgia near a remote region where sightings of the creature are often reported.

Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer said they froze the corpse and that claim that DNA tests will prove it is the American equivalent of the yeti. They were last night due to unveil their evidence at a press conference in Palo Alto, California.

Sceptics, however, said the presentation was just the latest in a long line of Bigfoot hoaxes.

"What I've seen so far is not compelling in the least, and I think the pictures cast grave doubts on their claim," Jeffery Meldrum, a Bigfoot researcher and Idaho State University professor, alleged in the Scientific American. "It just looks like a costume with some fake guys thrown on top for effect."

Mr Meldrum was referring to a picture and press release sent out by the men showing what appears to be a large, hairy corpse stuffed into a freezer. He said the DNA test was unlikely to prove anything and at best might yield a gene sequence that did not match any other known primates.

Mr Whitton, a police officer currently on leave after being shot in the arm, and Mr Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in early July on YouTube videos and their website www.bigfoottracker.com which yesterday would not load.

In a press release, the men described the creature as a 7-foot-7 male, weighing 550 pounds (nearly 40 stone) with 16-inch human-like feet and reddish hair.

A voice recording on the men's tip-line said they had expanded their search to look for leprechauns and the Loch Ness monster, the Associated Press reported, and were also offering weekend Bigfoot tracking expeditions for $499.

Mr Whitton and Mr Dyer, who have offered three different versions of how they found the corpse, said they would reveal the true story at the news conference.

Tom Mackenzie, a US Fish and Wildlife Reserve spokesman, said officers were not taking the claim seriously and would not investigate Bigfoot.

"It's not on endangered species on any list that we've got," he said.

An anonymous letter to the agency in July described the creature the hunters found as "the remains of a small gorilla or chimpanzee that may have undergone some taxidermy treatment."
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From the Searching for Bigfoot website>>>

DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be
presented in a press conference on Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press.

So that will be around about now for us!

[Alpha]

Is that Eastern Standard Time, Central Standard Time or Pacific Standard Time?