Skeptic Check: Bigfoot Press Conference

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2008

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Finally, Bigfoot meets habeus corpus: three men claim they have the body of the elusive hirsute creature on ice, and throw a big press conference to prove it. Lots of journalists show up, as do the Bigfoot baggers. Days later the purported historic discovery turned out to be - gasp! - a hairy hoax. How did these men perpetuate the con - and why did the media, including Are We Alone?, bother to cover it? Join us front row and center at this peculiar press event and for the post-mortem (sans body) of the latest chapter in the ongoing mythology that is Bigfoot. Guests: Lori Marino - Behavioral Biologist at Emory University Jeff Meldrum - Professor of Anatomy at Boise State University, and author of Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science Jerry Parrino - Owner of costume maker thehorrordome.com James Underdown - Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry West in Los Angeles Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.6	for all ages. Somewhere in an undisclosed Georgia forest, two hunters armed with a powerful
1:10.2	video camera sight a mysterious furry form
1:13.4	far in the distance, lying among the leaves.
1:17.6	What's that there, Rick?
1:18.6	Looks like a body, Matt, of some kind.
1:21.6	Let's take it out.
1:23.6	Has all the appearances there of some animal, a big hairy animal.
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