BIGFOOT Discovery ! | Press Conference Highlights
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- The two Georgia men who claim to have stumbled across a Bigfoot corpse didn't present more than a couple of inconclusive photos to a press conference Friday. ASSOCIATED PRESS : [ 15 August 2008 ] Sasquatch or no Sasquatch, a press conference Friday about a Bigfoot discovery felt like a zoo. A man holding a "Honk for Bigfoot!" sign greeted news vans that pulled up to Palo Alto's Crowne Plaza Hotel. Over 200 people - purportedly serious journalists despite one wearing a Bigfoot costume - packed into a sweaty conference room for the big announcement that the mythical creature had finally been found. Not only found, but stuffed into an ice-chest and its DNA sent off to the lab. At least that's what Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer claimed. The two say they stumbled upon the beast while hiking in a northern Georgia in June. "I didn't believe in Bigfoot at the time," said Whitton, who is now convinced that he's found one. This was no hoax, they insisted, despite the fake video interview they did with Whitton's brother - or as they pretended on YouTube, taxonomist Dr. Paul Van Buren. Still, they were having a hard time selling the story. Though the conference promised photo and DNA evidence, the former was blurry and the latter was less than convincing. In an interview with Scientific American, Jeffrey Meldrum, a Bigfoot researcher and Idaho State University professor, dismissed the photos. "It just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect," he said. As for the DNA evidence, the men presented a copy of an email from the University of Minnesota reporting of the three distinct DNA sequences that showed up, one was inconclusive, one was human, and the third was from a possum. Probably from a possum snack, opined the Bigfoot enthusiasts. The animal's body is currently in an undisclosed location and further DNA tests and a necropsy will be conducted, said Tom Biscardi, CEO of Menlo Park's Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. Whitton and Dyer said they found the 7-foot-7, 500 lbs. Bigfoot while hiking. Three oth
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