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."

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the funny part

[termos]

Ok, now the funny part of this is that it's under the science section ;)

Already known

[Uma Thurman]

That piece of film was exposed as a hoax long ago, but it didn't affect the true believers. This is a bit similar to the crop circle believers. The people who invented the crop circle came forward and explained how it was done. The true believers think they are lying, and that crop circles are really made by aliens.

And, I read a book by James Randi a couple years ago where he talks about a cold reader that he trained (like John Edwards). The cold reader did his little tricks, and even after the hoax was exposed, his marks still thought he had some psychic abilities.

Therefore, I predict Bigfoot believers still have a long and profitable future ahead.

Re:Already known

[Anonymous Coward]

Absolutely. Another example, probably closer in circumstances to the Bigfoot hoax, is the Loch Ness Monster. Again, the person who took the photograph admitted it and showed how it was made, but belief in the monster is still high enough to attract thousands of people per year to the lake with cameras, video cameras, SCUBA gear, boats and God knows what else.

Re:Already known

[blamanj]

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.

Oh no!

[Anonymous Coward]

Next thing I know, they'll also tell me Santa doesn't exist!

Does it matter?

[AtariAmarok]

Does the truth matter? The Bigfoot kooks will still insist that the footage is real. Likely, they will claim some sort of conspiracy that caused the man to deny that his real footage was real.

Ever hear of the "Viking explorers went to Minnesota" theory? I bet you haven't heard that the guy who made this one up admitted it was fake years ago.

The same thing with crop circles. The guy who started this admitted it years ago, but the mistique and belief (mistaken belief?) remains.

No, he's real....

[Scaba]

How do I know? In 1976, Steve Austin - the Six Million Dollar Man - revealed to us that Bigfoot was an experiment by aliens.

They got to him first!

[Anonymous Coward]

They got to him and made him tell everyone it was a hoax! Who? The government, probably. Likely, when its useful purpose (to distract Americans from bigger, scarier happenings) was served, they decided it was time to say it was a "hoax."

Me real

[gRa]

Me is real, just hinding. Silent, not like cameras, big foot not big mouth.

Hoax claim a hoax

[JMax]

So this guy claims it was him all along; that it was a hoax. Why should we believe him? There is no more evidence to support his claim than the claim that it was really BigFoot out there. Maybe it was somebody *else* in a suit. This claim is meaningless, just like the guy that claimed to be responsible for the classis nessie shot. No proof, not supporting evidence; just a claim.