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Bigfoot’s
hoax ‘body’ up for sale on ebay - 20081107
The hoax ‘body’ of
Bigfoot, which was found to be a Halloween costume made of
rubber, has been put on sale by eBay, complete with the basement
freezer it was kept in.
According to a report by Fox News, the hoax
came into being after two Georgia residents, Matthew Whitton
and Rick Dyer, recently claimed that they had discovered the
frozen corpse of a Bigfoot.
But, Tom Biscardi, owner of a Bigfoot exploration website,
decided to get under the skin of things, and hired a self-described
“Sasquatch detective” Steve Kulls to solve the mystery.
He sent Kulls to a secret location - apparently Muncie, Indiana
- to check out the specimen. But, what Kulls found at the
location failed to impress him, and after elaborate analysis,
he declared the body to be a fake.
Now, paranormal entrepreneur Joshua P. Warren,
from North Carolina, claims to be selling the original rubber
Halloween costume on eBay, complete with the basement freezer
it was kept in.
According to Warren, he’s working with
Dyer and Whitton, who claimed, for a while at least, to have
shot and/or found the “corpse” in the forest.
Warren, who e-mailed FoxNews.com directly
with news of the auction, claims on the eBay page that the
costume’s being sold to “settle financial problems
created by the hoax.”
With bids currently around 55,000 US dollars,
the highest bidder will get the rubber costume with “non-organic”
parts replacing the roadkill guts, the freezer, “legal
paperwork to prove its authenticity” and a “personal
visit” from Dyer and Whitton.
For 450 dollars, one can simply buy the same
costume Dyer and Whitton used, minus the entrails, paperwork,
freezer and personal appearance.
It’s not the first time someone’s
made money from an eBay auction related to the hoax. Someone
in California sold a duplicate head for 600 dollars in late
August. (ANI)
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