BFRO Commentary:
Journalists, beware!

Tom Biscardi is not one of the “leading bigfoot researchers”, but rather a well-known scam artist on the American bigfoot scene who seeks media attention relentlessly to futher his scams.

In the 1980’s Biscardi was involved in the marketing of a collection of fake bigfoot footage made by in the infamous hoaxer Ivan Marx (see John Green’s “The Apes Among Us”).

Then in 2005 he orchestrated the infamous “Coast-to-Coast AM” radio show scam, regarding a supposed “captured bigfoot” in California. His claims about an imminent capture of a bigfoot in Northern California dominated the popular late night radio shows for several days, like an extended Orson Wells hoax. All the while he was claiming that he would soon show the captured bigfoot to the public via a $14 web-cam subscription. Lots of people, from coast to coast, signed up to see it, assuming that it must be true if it was being talked about on the radio. On the day of reckoning (after receiving an ultimatum from the talk show host) Biscardi claimed he was “hoodwinked” by his team, and there was no captured bigfoot afterall. When the radio host, George Noory, realized the whole story was a fraud on the part of Biscardi, he demanded that Biscardi refund all the money to those who signed up for the web cam service. No one knows if those people ever got their money back. The Coast-to-Coast AM radio show is listened to by millions of people across the US and Canada.

Biscardi made minor newspaper headlines again recently when he claimed to have a preserved “baby bigfoot hand” in a jar. The “hand” has been shown to several people, including reporters. It has no thumb, and the fingertips have been cut off. An experienced hunting guide recently examined the specimen in Wisconsin and said it is the paw of a bear, or possibly a mountain lion. The fingertips have been cut off to conceal the fact that they had claws.

The skeleton of a bear paw or mountain lion paw might be mistaken for the skeleton of a human hand, but for the lack of a thumb, and the presence of claws on the fingertips.

Biscardi said recently that people had paid as much as $1000 for a look at this “bigfoot hand”.

In recent years Biscardi’s media blitzing was apparently inspired by the BFRO. Shortly after the BFRO first announced the scheduling of open-invitation bigfoot expeditions in 2003, Biscardi and his sometimes partners created a business entity called the “Great American Bigfoot Research Organization” (GABRO) in order to capitalize on the apparent popularity of the BFRO expeditions. Biscardi, a former Las Vegas promoter, tried to license the knock-off expedition company (GABRO), but it now seems that he is having trouble getting paid for it.

Biscardi has, however, succeeded in getting more media attention this time around. The wire stories are once again (sadly), bundled with frame 352 of the Patterson-Gimlin footage , which is completely unassociated with Biscardi.

As for Biscardi, giving him the respect that he deserves is precisely what most of us are doing.

unless you are a pay per hoax kinda guy in disguise. if that’s true, I gotta say get some self respect tom.

most people dont realise az is 2/3 forest and higher elevations. there are even ski area and forest in southern az near tucson. the area around patagonia has had many historic reports.

the reservations in the story is in forest that goes into new mexico and on into colorado. the northern and western mountians of new mexico are a historic hotspot. much of it is also reservation and thus the reports dont trickle out.

i am sad biscardi has rode the coattails once again of a recent hot spot.

az has much in the way of history with bigfoot. there are famous reports of boy scout encounters north of payson in the 40s.

being in az since birth and having family in the rim area i hear little bits of bigfoot stories all the time. my family have a good relationship with the rangers in the area. i heard my scream in the mid 90’s on this reservation south of hannigan meadow. that day i also had elk run from me while on a trail only to get spooked on the top of the hill turn around and almost run me over running from something on the hill.

to say the least, az is an area that should not be excluded from the area of study.

i just wish biscardi would go home!