Cryptomundo
for Bigfoot, Lake Monsters, Sea Serpents and More

Last week, we all saw the demise of Rick Dyer’s hoax finally come to an end. Everyone knew that once Dyer had hit the road with his phony “body” named “Hank,” that the clock was ticking for it to come to a close. What we didn’t expect is the manner in which they came to and end.

What is known is that Dyer has no evidence of shooting anything in September 2012, in fact the very vehicle shown in the documentary, “Shooting Bigfoot,” while he was on his jaunt with Matthews he had gotten rid of by the end of 2011. Dyer was living in San Antonio in 2011 as well as he was picked up on charges, that were later dropped, for EBay fraud.

Although, Dyer would like to think he brought the hoax to an end,  he knows that as early as the second week of February, people were in contact with Washington, prop maker Chris Russell asking him about, “Hank.” Someone had taken the time to plot Dyer’s movements when “Hank” was first unveiled at a gas station in Washington, and played a hunch which eventually led to an admission that Russell indeed was the prop maker.

Then came the defection of the tour ”employees.”  With the impeding showing of “Shooting Bigfoot,” on the BBC which totally destroys events as Dyer claimed they occurred, there wasn’t much for Dyer to do but throw in the towel.

Calls for prosecution of Dyer ranging from interstate commerce fraud to theft by deception has been called on by several petitions online and a Twitter campaign to San Antonio officials.

One such petition can be found here at Change.org.

Is hoaxing a crime? No. Is taking someone’s money by falsely advertising something as real when it’s fake? Yes. And with the news finally picking up on Dyer being a hoaxer, again, nationally, it may prove to be an interesting end. So time will tell what happens.

In the media the story began to break with this article, which later included an audio interview with prop maker and “Hank” creator, Chris Russell:

EXCLUSIVE: Former Employee Reveals Bigfoot Body is a Hoax

[display_podcast]

If you read the first interview with Russell here, you can see that it matches what former “Team Tracker” employee and “Hank” tour guide,  Andrew Clacy is saying despite what Dyer is stating in later interviews.

It eventually update their site with yet another story, when Dyer decided to admit publicly that “Hank,” was nothing but “hanky-panky.”

Bigfoot Hunter Admits ‘Hank’ Body is Fake

There were numerous other outlets, including this one in the  New York Daily News which covered the story as well.

In the a last sad attempt at some sort of relevance, Dyer posted a video of “Hank,” and himself, calling himself more honest than the Bigfoot Community yet still claiming to have shot a Sasquatch in San Antonio.

If people still are claiming any truth to Dyer’s story at this point I have no rational explanation for it.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 at 8:53 am and is filed under Bigfoot, Hoaxes, Pop Culture, Sasquatch, SquatchDetective, Videos. You can follow responses via our RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.