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Bigfoot Hoaxes

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Bigfoot captured in Pennsylvania (1985)
Residents of Enola, Pa. reported seeing a "hairy
creature" in the woods of nearby East
Pennsboro Township. One man described the
creature as being hairy, 6 ½-feet tall and with
arms that extended below the knees. The report
created an air of panic in the town. Residents
locked their windows and many took up
weapons. But the panic settled after police
identified 24-year-old Craig A. Brashear as the
creature. He had bought an ape-suit and mask
with fangs then stood in an area where his furry
body would be illuminated by headlights. He
did so, the police chief said, in order to "stir up
more activity, to make it seem like there was a
creature out there."

Bigfoot in a Freezer (2008)
Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton claimed they
had stumbled upon the dead body of a Bigfoot
while hiking in the Georgia woods. The creature
was large, measuring 7 feet 7 inches tall and
weighing over 500 pounds. Nevertheless, they
managed to haul it out of the woods and store it Hank (2014)
in a freezer. Their claim was met with Rick Dyer (the same Rick Dyer responsible for
widespread skepticism, even from Bigfoot the 2008 Bigfoot in a Freezer Hoax) announced
believers, but during a press conference in Palo he had killed an 8-foot Bigfoot in Texas. He
Alto they indignantly stood by their story. called it Hank. After declaring that a university
However, when the body in the freezer was had DNA-tested the creature and found it to be
finally examined, it turned out to be a halloween an unknown species, Dyer took the body of the
costume with roadkill remains dumped on top creature on tour in early 2014, charging people
of it. [Bigfoot Encounters] to see it. But after a few months his tour

encountered problems, and he posted a
Bigfoot Run Over (Aug 2012) rambling confession on Facebook, revealing
On the night of Sunday, August 26, 2012, 44- that Hank's body was a prop made of latex,
year-old Randy Lee Tenley stepped out onto foam, and camel hair. []
U.S. Highway 93, just south of Kalispell,
Montana, wearing a "Ghillie" suit (the kind used DID YOU KNOW...
by snipers for camouflage). He was promptly TRASH TALK
hit by a car in the southbound lane, and then was
hit again by a second car. Tenley died from his The average American throws away about 10
injuries. His friends told the Highway Patrol pounds of trash per day.
that he was wearing the suit in order to "incite a A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
sighting of Bigfoot, to make people think they Printed newspapers take up the most space in with KEVIN RANDLE
had seen a Sasquatch." It's not known if this was landfills - and that is why The ‘X’ Chronicles www.XZBN.net
Tenley's first attempt at a Bigfoot hoax. Newspaper is available by digital download.
However, dispatchers said they had received no
recent reports of Bigfoot sightings. Almost 7 million tons of clothing and fabric
[nbcmontana.com] are thrown away every year. Just 12 percent of

that is reused or recycled.
Melba Ketchum’s Sasquatch DNA Project
(Nov 2012) It takes 80 to 100 years for an aluminum can
Melba Ketchum, owner of a Texas veterinary to degrade.
laboratory, announced on Nov 24, 2012 that,
after a 5-year study of purported Sasquatch In 2007, Americans threw out twice as much
tissue samples, she had determined that trash as they did in 1960 - and as the
Sasquatch was a human hybrid species that population increases due to births and
arose approximately 15,000 years ago. But immigration, that number will continue to
when the article with her data appeared 3 increase!
months later, it was underwhelming. Her article
appeared in the Denovo Journal of Science By the year 2020, the City of San Francisco
which, it turned out, was owned by Ketchum. In plans to recycle all of its trash.
fact, her article was the one and only paper ever
published by the journal. Skeptics noted that it The most common litter: cigarette butts.
appeared Ketchum had simply analyzed Smokers toss 4.5 trillion butts a year.
contaminated samples of human DNA.
[Skeptical Briefs] DID YOU KNOW by Rob McConnell CONNECTING WITH COINCIDENCE
with DR. BERNARD BEITMAN, MD
is available at
www.XZBN.net
www.rel-mar.com/didyouknow