August 20, 2008
Hoaxers’ Video Confession & Apology
Bigfoot Trackers Apologize to Loren Coleman
Watch this video before it vanishes. [Actually, the original YouTube posting from Dyer reportedly vanished later on Wednesday, August 20th. This archived copy is thanks to the quick work of Autumn Williams who listened to the advice to save it. Thanks to her, this is shared here as a historical document.]
Rick Dyer appears to have [originally] uploaded this video explaining, confessing, revealing, and pointing fingers at other alleged co-conspirators in this hoax.
Dyer or others also include an apology at the very end to L.C. (Loren Coleman of Cryptomundo), M.M. (Matt Moneymaker of the BFRO), and C.H. (a Gulf Coast Bigfoot Research Organization member from Georgia, who was initially in contact with Dyer and Whitton).
Both Coleman and Moneymaker were criticized heavily for early skepticism of the Georgia claims, via Dyer produced book-burning, effigy-burning, and homophobic-laden YouTube videos. Coleman and Moneymaker, separately, have claimed this was a hoax based on a costume since the initial photo of the “body in the box” was released first at Cryptomundo, then analyzed by Cryptomundo and the BFRO.
If anyone has an archived copy of the book and effigy video, please contact me.
Disclaimer: Cryptomundo shares the following reply to the Dyer video from Steve Kulls as news, but cannot verify as factual any statements or comments by Rick Dyer in his video or by Steve Kulls in his statement. The opinions expressed in both documents do not reflect any position held by Cryptomundo.
I’d like to make an official statement on those items:
1. At no time did I have contact with Dyer after the 29th of July, except briefly after the contract signing, and spoke briefly to Whitton.
2. I spoke with Whitton, this Saturday was to attempt him to return the cash. He expressed implicitly that he only wanted to deal with Biscardi.
3. I have never met either in person. I haven’t been to the state this year.
4. From what I saw including video of the team picking up the body, it was frozen.
5. When I left the scene Tuesday morning, there was still considerable ice (50%). It would have taken a lot longer for that to freeze.
6. They are attacking me because there plan was to convince Biscardi to cover it up, and run with the evidence and cash, I would not let that stand.
7. I have on good sources that the initial DNA report to me from Biscardi, was altered to read human/ape, previous to sequencing.
8. Given their track record of statements…why start believing them, they are facing criminal charges.
At this time they have retracted the video, as it is now unavailable. Why?
I can only surmise to get them in further legal difficulties.
From the onset, I believed this was a huge hoax. I was looking at cracking them. When they wanted to speak with Tom I facilitated such. From the point that He had entered contract with them, I was fed a series of lies. Then the altered DNA letter. Which makes me now believe at some point Biscardi may have figured it out but rolled with it anyway, BEFORE the press conference.
Now knowing as my reputation before this matter, ask yourselves whom do you believe?
I have never spoke the untruth in this matter. I needed time away from the camp I was in to look at the facts. I can also say factually that the crew had nothing to do with this at all. They were fed the same deceptions by Biscardi. Not to mention keeping a time line of events, when the team left California (Tuesday) there is no way that was physically possible to freeze the amount of water that solid in that amount of time.
Again my only involvement in this was introducing the parties, and flying out to Indiana for the thaw.
I have enough witnesses to back that up.
They are lying. They are liars and criminals. Thats not my opinion…fact.
And I would be willing, for any polygraph examiners out there to volunteer their services to give me a lie detector test. I’d pass 100% on all these matters.
Steve Kulls
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.
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