They’re offering expeditions to a spot near where the body was found so anyone could have the chance to see a live bigfoot:

ARE YOU READY FOR A NORTH GA EXPEDITION,WE WILL TAKE YOU CLOSE TO THE SIGHT WHERE THE BODY WAS FOUND,, ONLY $499

If you think it’s plausible that at least 5,000 people have signed up as a result of this stunt, then do the math and you have your answer. More than double what Bushnell was offering.

So that’s why it could be a hoax. There’s plenty to gain financially. And if this body mysteriously disappears next week, then there is no evidence to challenge them with.

I’m still on the fence. I’d like to follow Loren’s lead and distract myself with other crypto news (that Japanese expedition is pretty exciting) but I can’t clear my head until this press conference happens.

I have to say, I suspected a hoax from the very start, just on account of the fact that Tom Biscardi was directly involved with releasing the story to the media. After all, this isn’t the first time he’s clamored for media attention with promises of revealing Bigfoot once and for all, then backpedaled with some pretty lame excuses when he failed to deliver the goods.

When the photos of the alleged body were leaked on the Net, I almost burst out laughing, because I immediately recognized it as the $499 Sasquatch costume available from Terror Dome.com with more fur added to the face. Not stopping there, it appears that our intrepid Georgia Bigfoot hunters pilfered Grandma or someone else’s false teeth (I’m sure they don’t mind at all…) and stuck them inside the costume’s mask along with a fake tongue.

The other thing that struck me as unusual; how did they cram this thing into an average size chest freezer if it was over 7 foot tall and weighed 500 pounds? Given those figures, you would expect to see a body built like a silverback gorilla or…dare I say?….’Patty’ from the infamous Patterson Bigfoot footage.

We shouldn’t let this fiasco set the legitimate search for Sasquatch back in any way. If anything, Biscardi is just digging himself a deeper hole. With all the lies he’s told to try and cover all the hoaxes he’s had a hand in, it must be getting pretty darn hard to keep his stories straight now.

Then I see the picture of the mask. Right-o. Looks like a fake to me.

People say, “But what about the extra touches?” Anyone who has seen a horror movie can do some of them; someone who has worked with dead bodies (maybe someone who is a cop?) would think of others. Not too difficult to fake.