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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. Sasquatch -- by Tenacious D by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There were some scientists
    Try to figure out the Sasquatch riddle
    Then they figured out it was a missing link

    'In Search of Sasquatch'
    That was a kick-ass 'In Search Of'
    With Leonard Nimoy kicking out the jams

    He captured the imagination
    Of people all around the globe
    His name was Sasquatch so I'm told...

    --

    -- Don't Tase me, bro!

  2. Taken? by eMartin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the second episode of Taken on SciFi, the first guest star listed in the opening credits is James Kirk. What's up with that?

  3. Whoops! by eMartin · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wrong window.