Bogus Bigfoot Match?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on January 3rd, 2010
Number 10 in the “Top Ten Worst Bigfoot Stories of 2009” was this one:
10. Bemidji’s Bogus Bigfoot Booed
The year ended with ABC News and other media online outlets falling all over themselves about a photo of what appeared to be a person walking through the rain in front of a trailcam near Bemidji, Minnesota. The “bogus Bigfoot” was taken at 7:20 pm, on October 24, 2009, on a rainy night, by a game trail camera in woods north of Remer, Minnesota, according to the hunters who set up the camera. They did not seem to be responsible for the prank or mistake that caused this one.
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I wonder if the following is a near-match to the costume that was worn in Minnesota?
See below,
Hoaxster Chayse Pirello, 17, dressed in his gorilla suit, demonstrates the Bigfoot walk he used on Stevens County [Washington State] drivers. Pirello and his friends were causing a rash of Bigfoot sightings until the long arm of the law put a stop to all the fun. (Colin Mulvany/The Spokesman-Review, article by Doug Clark, The Spokesman-Review, August 5, 2004)
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Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
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Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
The guy with the suit could be a great hit in children’s birthday parties!!!
It depends on the age of the kids, Adam. I wore a gorilla costume — really just the head and hands, otherwise I was wearing normal clothes — while handing out candy at Halloween a year ago, and the youngest kids were distinctly unsure about the ape!
HEY!! A Bigfoot in the daylight get the gun and shoot him.
I see the point, Fhqwhgads. I think the suit can be even funny for young kids (of course, if you are comical and maybe you are accompanied by other costumed figures) but for toddlers, they can get scared.
Greetings and happy new year!
Pirillo needs to be careful—somebody might get ideas about shooting Bigfoot. THEN we’ll have something to argue about.
Sheesh………..The youth of today. 🙂
Apparently when Spielberg shot the scene in Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the little boy encounters the aliens prior to his being whisked away in a red haze, in order to get the “right” reactions from the young actor Spielberg rolled cameras and brought out someone in a gorilla costume. This is the kid’s first reaction, where he takes a step backward and appears hesitant and unsettled. Spielberg then produced in a man dressed as a clown, which prompted the boy to break into a smile and relax. The moral of the story: gorilla suits = scary.
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Gorillas are scarier than clowns? I think that would depend on who you ask.
Do you think Ann Darrow would feel more comfortable if a giant clown had carried her up the Empire State Building?