If you haven’t been living in a cave, you’ll have heard about Tom Biscardi, CEO of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., and his Palo Alto press conference announcing the discovery of a dead Bigfoot in the mountains of northern Georgia. Backgrounder from the Discovery Channel.

According to Biscardi, it was roughly three weeks ago when Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, two men who reportedly operate a Bigfoot tracking business, announced the find on Sasquatch Detective Radio. The following day, the radio host contacted Biscardi and told him about the find, as well as Whitton and Dyer’s request that he verify it. Biscardi agreed and flew to Georgia two weeks later to investigate the situation.  - David Lohr, Investigation Discovery, Discovery Channel, August 15 2008

And now we nove to the Palo Alto press-fest at the Crowne Plaza hotel. Details from the San Jose Mercury News. Though the conference promised photo and DNA evidence, the former was blurry and the latter was less than convincing. As for the DNA evidence, the men presented a copy of an email from the University of Minnesota reporting of the three distinct DNA sequences that showed up, one was inconclusive, one was human, and the third was from a possum. Whitton and Dyer said they found the 7-foot-7, 500 lbs. Bigfoot while hiking. Three other Bigfoots watched from the trees. Are there a lot of psychos in the Bigfoot community?” a reporter asked. Yes, said Whitton. “It seems like there are lot of people in the Bigfoot world who are a little delusional.”

You think? I’d say delusional and oppurtunistic. This is a shining example of how to market your Bigfoot website on the internet. Whitton and Dyer are co-owners of bigfoottracker.com and Bigfoot Global LLC., a company that offers Bigfoot vacations. Can you think of a better way to publicize the tours than to announce a find and then let it sizzle in the media. All I can say is this - They’re good at the marketing stuff. I’m surprised they didn’t bring a walkin-talking Bigfoot to the press conference.

Posted on August 16th, 2008 by Thomas
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