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Bigfoot A Hoax?

Posted by timothy on from the well-sooprise-sooprize dept.

elzbal writes "The family of a Pacific Northwest prankster is coming clean. The Seattle Times is reporting that Bigfoot was just a creative figment of Ray L. Wallace's imagination. He orchestrated the prank that created Bigfoot in 1958. According to family members, he had asked a friend to carve a few pair of 16-inch-long feet. Then he and his brother Wilbur had slipped them on and created the footprints as a prank, family members said. He was also somehow involved in the famous walking Bigfoot film."

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  1. In other news.... by f64 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "upwards of 500 scientists, all having invested years of their life to researching bigfoot, often giving up their carreers, have pronounced a fatwah against the family of Ray L. Wallace.

    said one spokesperson: "the reward of $50.000 we offered for a captured bigfoot, will now be rewarded to those who bring us the heads of Mr Wallaces' family".

    f64: making crack remarks since 1978 (the year crack was invented).

  2. I'm coming clean too by succotash · · Score: 5, Funny

    I built the face on mars.. have to go now, Mike Wallace is on the line.

  3. When Harry met... by g(zerofunk.org) · · Score: 1, Funny

    So Harry and the Henderson's wasnt based on actual events?!?!?

    g

  4. So... by Dannon · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...it was all a hoax. Just like the government's secret UFOs were really weather balloons, swamp gas, and light reflecting from Venus.

    Or maybe they're "coming clean" because that's what They want us to believe!

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  5. D000d, M@gl( l$ r341!!!! by Randolpho · · Score: 3, Funny

    I saw David Blane take the head off a chicken one time, man, and it was off!!!!!!!1111!!!!! Totally gone! No camera tricks! Just headless chickens! There is no logical explaination for how that chicken lost its head and then got it back again, man! It can only be aliens! Er, Magic!

    And don't get me started on Jonathan Edwards! He so does not deserve Biggest Douche in the Universe, man! He's like in touch with God!

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  6. Dang. by Unknown+Poltroon · · Score: 4, Funny

    THis completely blows my theory that it was Sasquatch who killed kennedy.

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  7. Hey, about the Easter Bunny by NickFusion · · Score: 3, Funny

    What can I say, some tiny hippity-hop strap on bunny feet, some eggs and a bottle of Jack Daniel. Seemed like a funny idea at the time. My bad...

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