There is a picture on the website of it. You really can't make out what it is.

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BY MIKE WENDLAND - FREE PRESS TECHNOLOGY COLUMNIST


Talk about Internet buzz! The Web site SearchingForBigfoot.com claims it has found the carcass of a Bigfoot in the woods of northern Georgia and it's even showing a picture of what they purport is the body of the "creature" stuffed into a white container and frozen on ice.

As blogs and news stories have been reporting the posting, the site has received so much traffic that it has crashed, unable to keep up with the bandwidth demands.

The Bigfoot searchers have promised an official announcement with "DNA evidence and photo evidence" at a 3 p.m. news conference in California today.

They claim other, living Bigfoot-like creatures were seen in the vicinity of where the supposed carcass was located and that an expedition is being mounted to capture one of them alive.

The site does not explain how the reputed dead Bigfoot ended up that way or give exact location details.

The searchers -- Mathew Whitton, Tom Biscardi and Rick Dyer -- claim the body is 7 feet, 7 inches tall, weighs more than 500 pounds and "looks like it is part human and part ape-like."

It is said to have reddish hair and blackish-gray eyes and a footprint that measures 26-and-three-quarter inches long and five and three-quarter inches across.

Don't hold your breath that this is for real. Biscardi has been linked to Bigfoot hoaxes before. In 1995, according to the LiveScience.com Web site, he claimed his group had captured a 400-pound Bigfoot and that he would submit proof a few days later.

Such proof never came.

Then, a decade later, says LiveScience: "Biscardi promoted a pay-per-view cable TV show in which he offered viewers the chance to see a Bigfoot captured on live television for only $59.95. That never happened."

Most recently, Biscardi is behind a documentary he's trying to sell called "Bigfoot Lives."

Pardon my skepticism, but it seems the news conference and huge buzz surrounding this supposed claim -- given Biscardi's track record as a hypester -- seem to point to a huge publicity stunt aimed at boosting sales of his movie.

If this is the real deal, the real creature carcass would have to be shown, not just photos. It would also have to be open for examination by real scientists not associated with these amateur Bigfoot hunting groups.

Unfortunately Tom Biscardi does not have the best reputation in the paranormal community. He will have produce an actual body, not just photos for anyone to believe it. This will be an incredible find if it is real. If it is not, then the cryptozoology community is going to take a serious hit for it.

By Erik Eckholm and Olga Pierce


Results from tests on genetic mate­rial from alleged remains of one of the mythical half-ape and half-human creatures, made public at a news conference Friday, failed to prove its existence, according to Reuters. One of the two DNA samples recovered is human, and the other was found to be opossum, according to Curt Nelson, a scientist at the University of Minnesota who performed the DNA analysis. Next up is an autopsy of the corpse, which looks like a gorilla costume with some entrails thrown on top. Bigfoot remains in a freezer at an undisclosed location. Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer say they found the corpse while hiking in northern Georgia. They also are co-owners of a company that offers Bigfoot mer­chandise. Hmm. Can we say publicity stunt?

SOURCE: Tampa Bay Times

And once again Biscardi makes cryptozoology look like a joke instead of a science. 

Now he is being sued by some organization over the whole thing.