Page 1 - 200808 - The 'X' Chronicles Newspaper - August 2008

THE THE ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER ‘X’ CHRONICLES NEWSPAPER Planet Earth’s ONLY Paranormal / Parapsychology Newspaper Vol. 13, No 08 ISSN - 1499-8599 (E-dition) / ISSN - 1499-8602 (CD-ROM) August 2008 4.95 (US) The Great Georgia The Great Georgia Bigfoot Hoax of 2008 Bigfoot Hoax of 2008 The Great Georgia the North Georgia mountains was a just little kind of payment, turned over the evidence, and The Great Georgia He said the two actually received some too hard to grasp. Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Bigfoot Hoax of maybe. Okeefeenokee Swamp or the subsequently admitted the whole thing was a Bigfoot Hoax of hoax and the supposed “body” was nothing Everglades, maybe. 2008 Cherokee Indians, yes. Bigfoot, not likely. more than a costume. But the Great Smokey Mountains? 2008 Then Wednesday night on one local Don’t count me among the absolute non- television station the two men who had claimed By Tom Kerlin believers, however. I’m just open-minded to have the Bigfoot body admitted it was all a By Tom Kerlin enough to believe that there are things out there hoax -- a hoax that started out as a joke. about which we know little or nothing about, Matthew Whitton, one of the men who What, no Bigfoot? Okay, there’s not really a Bigfoot body but which actually do exist. presented the claim through a news article in the being kept in a freezer somewhere in Clayton As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, I have Clayton News/Daily earlier this month, is, make County. Never was. seen some fairly convincing evidence and that “was,” a veteran police officer in Clayton Apparently we all know that now. research that tends to support a claim that County. There was a big press conference in Bigfoot is real, but as yet is scientifically Wounded on the job while attempting to California last week. There was DNA evidence undiscovered. apprehend a suspect in a shooting, he could presented, which matched DNA from an What I can’t understand about this entire easily have spent the rest of his working life as opossum and a human. episode is the motivation behind the men who a Clayton County police officer. And there was the announcement perpetrated this hoax, or at least the “why.” So, why would he get involved in a hoax Tuesday that the whole thing was a hoax. Speculation centered on the business that the that smelled to high heaven like a con game? Imagine that. two men were associated with, a company that Who knows. (Continued on Page 2) I suppose it had to be. After all, people promised excursions into the North Georgia The ‘X’ Zone Radio have been searching for Bigfoot for many years mountains where participants could observe a The ‘X’ Zone Radio Show and The ‘X’ without very much success. Unless, that is, you Bigfoot family in the wild. Show and The ‘X’ count the many plaster casts of footprints, the Then just this week a so-called Bigfoot Chronicles Newspaper several photographs and film clips, and the hunter in California revealed that the two men Chronicles Newspaper experts who say that some of the evidence can’t had "requested an undisclosed sum of money as are now available at are now available at be tied to existing animals. an advance, expected from the marketing and But the idea that a family of such promotion” that would naturally follow the The APP tore! The APP S Store! creatures was living and hiding somewhere in discovery of a Bigfoot body.