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Man Admits to Bigfoot Hoax
JCMay writes "You know that film we've all seen on TV where a large, hairy creature is walking through the woods, looks back over his right shoulder at the camera, and continues walking on? WorldNetDaily is reporting that a man has admitted to a 1967 bigfoot hoax where he was filmed walking through the woods wearing a gorilla suit."
It is called the True-believer syndrome.
If bigfoot does not exist then that does not make the film a hoax. The filmer could have believed what he saw was real. Most people who see the Lochness monster ain't lying they just thought they saw something wich looked like the monster in their mind. A hoax is deliberate misleading.
And if the movie is a hoax or a honest mistake then this proves nothing about bigfoot. Sad thing is that it is really hard to prove a negative. Those who believe will simply say we haven't found it yet. Those who don't will be hard pressed to prove their is nothing to be found. In a way I think bigfoot is charming. It certainly is one of the less harmfull conspiracy theories you can follow.
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I could have predicted that the true belivers who had no problem believing the original Bigfoot film clip was real with little evidence would immediately say there was not enough evidence the hoax story is true. They will dig for minor nits to invalidate the hoaxter's story when they gloss over a hundred problems with the original story.
The same thing happened when it was revealed that the Loch Ness Monster picture was actually a toy submarine and when the Air Force released the true information on the formerly Top Secret Project Mogul which is what really happened at Roswell.
"It can't be true! Why did they lie all this time? What were they covering up?"
Maybe it was because the project was Top Secret, get it?
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Bigfoot is a possibility I suppose but that video was obviously fake, interesting but not real.
As for crop circles though, sure those British gents admitted to the hoax but it doesn't explain that it has been happening for hundreds of years all over the world. Maybe not in the crazy detail they created, but nevertheless...
Just like the golden Egyptian space shuttle replica, or the cave paintings of typical Alien beings, some things are our history and we'll probably never really understand it.
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Don't you think that real scientists would be maybe a little curious about this "new primate" if it really existed, rather than just a lot of kooks with no scientific training? Ooh, maybe there's a *conspiracy* against studying it! Yeah, that's it!
Face facts. You believed in this bullshit for some reason, and now that it's been revealed to be a hoax, like every thinking person always knew it was, you just can't bear the thought that you were fooled. Well, guess what? YOU WERE FOOLED.
This film is NOT evidence of anything, because it's FAKE! Understand now? The guy who made the film - try to comprehend this - has ADMITTED that it's fake.
Gorillas, bonobos, etc. were thought to be myths by stubborn people *before the dawn of modern science and taxonomy.* And guess what? Mountain gorillas and bonobos don't stay in one spot. Far from it, actually. They are wide-ranging animals. Look it up.
Some of those same stubborn people who didn't believe in gorillas and bonobos continued to disbelieve even after they had plenty of evidence to convince them. Nowadays, people like you have taken their place. Science and reality have taken a different path, but you continue to insist that *you* are the one who's going the right way.
Are you a biologist? No? Naturalist? No? What kind of scientist are you?
Oh. I didn't think so.
A rather famous example of this happened between Arthur Conan Doyle and Erich Weiss aka Harry Houdini. Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes stories was an ardent spiritualist. Houdini, as a magician, knew the tricks mediums played on the gullible and had Doyle write a message in private which Houdini then reproduced by having a paint-covered ball "write" the message.
Houdini would not explain the trick, and Doyle insisted that Houdini must be using supernatural powers. Despite their disagreements, the two men remained friends for some time.
This site tells about the friendship between Doyle and Houdini.
but it doesn't explain that it has been happening for hundreds of years all over the world.
Of course it doesn't explain it. It can't, because it hasn't been happening for hundreds of years all over the world.
Irregular unpatterned crop "circles" can be formed by normal weather. I've seen it *happen* myself. But no one today calls these evidence of UFOs, aliens or other twaddle. But in the past it might have been different, and there may have been some silly reports of "strange devilish circles in me barley." Similar reports were made of unnatural fairy rings.
However, instances of regular patterned crop circles are recent history, and have an unusual propensity to being within twenty miles of universities populated by bored students.
Do not underestimate the power of the bored imagination, or the bored practical joker. Before 1945, all UFO "sightings" were cigar shaped. After that they were all saucer shaped. Crop circles didn't become fashionable until after the public grew weary of hearing about cattle mutilations. The trends are obvious.
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This information on crop circles is correct - the effect has been happening for hundreds (if not thousands of years). Just because someone goes on TV/book/media and says that they're the 'culprit' does not make them the origin of all phenomenon. (it's almost the equivalent people wondering where the Earth came from, and the I go on TV and telling everyone I made the Earth. Doesn't mean I did it...)
the truly scientifically unexplained crop circles are formed within an hour, have high levels of radiation in the soil of their patterns, and the plants involved have unbroken stem sheaths. These plants continue to grow healthily after the circle has formed. Artificial Crop Circles have been made by breaking the stalks, pushing the plants to the ground. Most of these plant die afterward. Quite sad.
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Other interesting sites are CSICOP and Skeptic Magazine.
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