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11 Bigfoot Hoax Body Sold on e-Bay 11 Bigfoot Hoax Body Sold on e-Bay California Group Sues Still seeking the Bigfoot Bigfoot hoax body sold Still seeking the Bigfoot California Group Sues Bigfoot hoax body sold Big Foot Lodge Owner for 250,000 dollars on exclusive Big Foot Lodge Owner exclusive for 250,000 dollars on eBay eBay By Karl Terry: Local columnist ANDY MEEK | The Daily News ANDY MEEK | The Daily News Washington, October 18 (ANI): The "Bigfoot discovered living on top floor hoax body of Bigfoot, which was found to be a of Lincoln Hall” A California-based restaurant ownership Halloween costume made of rubber, has been “Subsisted on discarded pizza and stale group has filed a trademark infringement sold for 250,000 dollars on eBay, an online beer” lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Western auction website. I’ve always wanted to write a Bigfoot District of Tennessee against two Memphis According to a report in Fox News, the headline. Those guys at the National Enquirer restaurant owners who operate a similar hoax came into being after two Georgia get all the fun assignments. restaurant concept here. residents, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, My wife is a fan of various radio and The lawsuit was filed Friday, according recently claimed that they had discovered the television programs that explore the to The Daily News Online, frozen corpse of a Bigfoot. unexplained — ghost sightings and haunted www.memphisdailynews.com. But, Tom Biscardi, owner of a Bigfoot houses and UFOs. Mysteries of all sorts show In the suit, the creators of The Bigfoot exploration website, decided to get under the up on the SciFi Channel and the Coast to Coast Lodge restaurant concept in California – which skin of things, and hired a self-described AM program. includes such interior features as a log cabin Sasquatch detective Steve Kulls to solve the I’m not too crazy about ghosts and design and a large Sasquatch statue – claim mystery. UFOs. I guess, unlike Dana Scully and Fox husband and wife Shawn and Lana Danko He sent Kulls to a secret location Mulder of X-Files fame, I just “don’t want to inappropriately used the restaurant name and apparently Muncie, Indiana to check out the believe.” similar design elements, among other things, for specimen. My wife is, however, under strict the Big Foot Lodge restaurant and bar they But, what Kulls found at the location instruction to inform me of any segments in her opened in Memphis in 2005. failed to impress him, and after elaborate regular programs featuring Bigfoot. An The Dankos’ Big Foot eatery likewise analysis, he declared the body to be a fake. undiscovered hairy ape-like man on the loose in includes a log cabin design and a large Paranormal entrepreneur Joshua P. the wilds of America is something that strikes Sasquatch statue, among other similarities. Warren, from North Carolina, put the original my fancy. It could be true. New species are “I don’t have a comment for you at this rubber Halloween costume on eBay for sale; discovered all the time and Sasquatch could just time,” Shawn Danko told The Daily News when complete with the basement freezer it was kept be very good at hiding. asked about the lawsuit Monday. “It just came in. While the Yeti of the Himalayas and over the wire today, so I couldn’t comment for The winning bidder put up 250,203 similar beasts in other parts of the world have you at this point.” dollars by the end of the auction, which closed been purported to exist for years, the craze BA2 LLC is the entity that in 1999 on October 17. really came to the United States in full force in opened The Bigfoot Lodge in California while Neither of them are going to make a 1967 in California when Roger Patterson and at the time operating under the name The penny off of this auction, said Warren, referring Robert Gimlin released home movie footage of Bigfoot Lodge LLC. In the suit filed against the to Whitton and Dyer. what they said was Sasquatch or Bigfoot. The Dankos by BA2 LLC, a copy of a June 2005 Warren also said that Tom Biscardi authenticity of the video has been debated for Memphis Business Journal article is attached in wouldnt get any of the auction money. decades with people still lining up on one side which Shawn Danko says the inspiration for his My arrangement is with the people who or the other on whether or not it is a hoax. own restaurant’s name came from the California control the body. Money from this auction is More recently two men put together an Bigfoot Lodge lounge and bar. going to hopefully resolve the legal conflicts, he elaborate hoax by releasing what they said was In an interview with The Daily News added. the body of a Bigfoot stuffed into an ice chest. last year, Danko said his Memphis restaurant Warrens eBay auction page explains that They set up a big press conference where they concept was developed over a period of several the animal parts have since been replaced with said they would turn the corpse over to years. He said the idea grew in large part out of non-organic materials. scientists. The heat surrounding the photos his fascination with the ape-like creature known The winner will get the rubber costume proved to be a little too much. The pair never as Big Foot. with non-organic parts replacing the roadkill showed up and later admitted they had used a “The Big Foot concept stems back to guts, the freezer, legal paperwork to prove its gorilla suit. seven years ago now, when I was working at the authenticity and a personal visit from Dyer and Some areas of our continent are very Hard Rock Café,” Danko said at the time. “It Whitton. vast and wild and Bigfoot could be out there was a concept that I was slowly working on As for the existence of the mythical somewhere. Over the years I’ve tramped some over time and it was a concept that I always Bigfoot, Warren said, I really do not believe that of the same areas where Bigfoot sightings or kind of had in the back of my head.” there is a physical, biological 800-pound ape- tracks have been reported. Reports have been Now the concept is at the center of a like organism running around out there in North made of the creatures in the Cloudcroft and legal dispute whose plaintiff sees an opportunity America. Ruidoso areas frequently and nearly every for confusion to exist on multiple fronts. One of There is no biological basis for that, he county (Roosevelt isn’t included) has sightings them involves a major Hollywood film added. logged on a tracking Web site I’ve perused. scheduled to be released next month. As for this particular hoax, Warren said, Eagle County in western Colorado is A full-sized replica of the Bigfoot Id be lying if I said I wasnt hoping it was real famous for some pretty impressive tracks made Lodge’s Los Angeles bar was built on a sound when I heard two guys had found a body. But along the Eagle River. In neighboring Sopris stage as the setting for some scenes in the film once again it was not to be true. (ANI) [] “Yes Man,” scheduled to be released next County where I lived a few years ago, legend month and starring Jim Carrey, according to the held that Sasquatch lived on the snowy slopes of lawsuit. The suit also includes a message thread THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO Mount Sopris, which I could see from my back taken from the local Internet message board run THE ‘X’ ZONE RADIO SHOW porch. by Goner Records. SHOW Lots of hiking, hunting and fishing has “As one post on the Memphis-based AND never turned up anything I felt was Bigfoot message board hosted by Goner Records asks, AND THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW evidence, but I’ll keep on looking. ‘Is this [Big Foot Lodge Memphis] associated THE ‘X’ ZONE TV SHOW Who knows, some day you may read the IS NOW headline in the local paper — “Columnist lands with the Bigfoot in (Los Angeles and San IS NOW AVAILABLE AT first interview with Sasquatch; Bigfoot beast Francisco)?? Anybody know?” reads the AVAILABLE AT reference to the Memphis message board iTUNES denies Britney Spears paternity accusations.”[] included with the suit. [] iTUNES