No Body, No Más
Posted by: Loren Coleman on August 15th, 2008
He’s a Bigfoot dressed up as a Bigfoot, playing another Bigfoot. ~ So said a wag on the internet, paraphrasing the Robert Downy Jr. character in the new movie, Tropic Thunder.
Fox News said it immediately: Bigfoot Press Conference Reveals…Little.
It was you typical California Tom Biscardi news conference: More was promised than delivered, come back for more later was the theme, Jeff Meldrum was slammed (“He’s not an anthropologist”), one half “face” photo was shared, and one blobsquatch in the woods picture was shown.
No body was rolled out, no angles and multiple photographs of the body were shared with the media, and the DNA results were unremarkable. One DNA test came back inconclusive, another series shown “human” and the intestines registered as “possum” (i.e. Virginia Opossum, Didelphis virginiana). The tissue sample was reportedly handed to Tom Biscardi in the lobby of a hotel in Atlanta.
The past stories changed, the timing of when the intestines appeared on the body shifted, and the landscape of the tale quaked.
The true motive of this whole exercise in tomfoolery may be revealed covertly in this segment. This is quite an interesting selection. Matt Whitton refers to the doctor impersonation stunt as “something to give the psychos something to do.” Is this all some kind of act of revenge?
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
You were right all along Loren.
Researcher says bigfoot just a rubber gorilla suit
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080819/D92LKD300.html
I really hope this doesn’t set back true reseachers…
I never understood the whole “give psychos something to do” statement…