Here's the story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080815/ap_on_re_us/bigfoot_found

They're supposed to have a press conference today at noon. But it's in California, so maybe it's at noon PST.

Well, they had their press conference. I hate FOX News, but they're the only ones reporting on it, that I could find. Here's their report: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,404805,00.html

Seems the claimants failed to come through on their promise of DNA. And they still refuse to let anyone examine the "body" except for a small team (handpicked by the claimants).

No surprise, since the internet has already uncovered a costume that looks remarkably similar to the one in the freezer.

http://thehorrordome.com/HDSHOPPINGPROPS/SasquatchLARGE.htm

Are there any reports of any missing folks from Georgia whose last known credit card statement lists http://thehorrordome.com/ as one of their last purchases? Has anyone seen Bear Grylls around recently?

Try Holiday Inn.

Bigfoot is alive and well, living with Elvis...

"One of the two samples of DNA said to prove the existence of the Bigfoot came from a human and the other was 96 percent from an opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis."

On Yahoo.

"And they still refuse to let anyone examine the "body"

like suddenly discovered 'lost' Hitler diaries and cloned children. The fact they won't produce the one thing that would prove they exist is all you need to know. 'I've evidence I won't produce' yeah sure you have..
Rupert Murdoch made his papers continue to serialise the Hitler diaries after they were proven to be fake. That's all you need to know about his Fox news empire.
The Sock

Murdoch seems to be a bit of a closet Fortean- no biggy, they've actually been found to be right once or twice.

Until there had been an autopsy ro CAT/MRI battery, I wasn't going to hold my breath. Doesn't mean I don't think the big guy might exist, it's more logical than the various lake monsters, but I still want a body.

Can you provide the evidence that Fox has been found to be right when everyone else said the opposite?
The Sock

Actually that's an unfair test. You never said Fox was right and everyone else wrong. You probably did what I do when people say something stupid: ignore it :-)

But physical evidence is never produced is it? So many alien visits and not one gram of off world manufacture. So many abandoned wheelchairs and sticks at Lourdes, but not one glass eye or artificial hand. Only conditions that can be pyschological are ever cured.
Bigfoot, the yeti, leprachauns, elves etc never leave a spec of skin or hair.... The only evidence ever produced is 'sightings'.
It's a bit like the amazing coincidence that Uri Geller, John Edwards and co can only do what professional conjurers can do. Their powers just happen to be repeatable by stage magicians.
The Sock

Personally I'd purchase "THE BOOGEYMAN COSTUME" its $200 cheaper

This seems to confirm that it's a scam:

http://www.cbs46.com/news/17232407/detail.html#-

Fox news has a humorous post about the fraud, as it thawed it turned out to be a rubber Sasquatch Halloween costume. The two experts admitted the hoax then beat feet when the reporters came to their hotel.

Fox News

I actually want to believe there is a Bigfoot but this doesn't help the cause.

I think it is entirely possible that there is a solitary, unidentified animal out there. I mean, millions of people have never seen a polar bear in person but they accept that they exist. What's the difference?

But you're talking about really remote foreign jungles. There is no such place left in the United States. Sure, we have lots of wilderness areas, but it's all been thoroughly explored. There's not a square foot of land anywhere in this country that some hiker, or hunter, or fisherman, or park ranger hasn't been.

I would have to agree. Even in areas which are populated there are some unexpected creatures to be found. Here in Scotland there aren't meant to be any large cats, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. And if they aren't meant to exist then very few folks actually go looking.

I once saw a Caracal jump over a 6 foot tall bush on the way to the pub between Newport on Tay and Wormit whilst walking along the nature trail (the old disused railway line running behind the village). I suspect that there are even larger cats in the more remote areas of Scotland having come across tracks in the snow. Cat paw prints about 20cm across.

Just look at the effort it took to get some video of the Snow Leopard in Pakistan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp3KTK4kHII&feature=related

That's how I feel about long marriages now that I am twice divorced.

Yup, look Fraud .

Lee

I did hear of one chap who had actual photographic proof that Elvis was still alive.

He contacted a newspaper and they sent a journalist out. It was a remote cottage near a country trail. The chap told the story about how he was sitting outside and saw a stranger walk by, realised it was Elvis and called out to him, and chatted for a while before asking for the photograph. So the journo finally asks to see the picture. It showed the man, standing next to his cottage with a copy of a recent newspaper. "Where's Elvis?" asks the journo. "Who do you think took the photo?" says the chap.