for National Geographic News
Alas, the search for Bigfoot continues.
No evidence has emerged to support claims made last week by two men who said they found the corpse of a seven-foot-tall (two-meter-tall) Bigfoot—an apelike creature of North American legend—in the woods of northern Georgia.
Critics declared the men's story a bold hoax after the pair refused to show the body and following the disclosure that genetic tests from the alleged remains revealed only human and opossum DNA.
Discovery of a Lifetime
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer spoke to a packed room of reporters last Friday in Palo Alto, California, about their discovery. Joining them on stage was controversial Bigfoot hunter Tom Biscardi.
Whitton told a compelling story of how he and Dyer found the body of the dead Sasquatch—as the creature is also called—next to a stream while hiking in the Georgian woods in early June.
Whitton said he stood guard by the body for nine hours while Dyer went back to get a truck.
When Dyer returned, the pair dragged the hairy 500-pound (230-kilogram) corpse through the woods to the truck—all while being shadowed by three live Sasquatch.
"As we were bringing it out, they were paralleling us," said Whitton, a Georgia police officer on administrative leave.
Whitton said that after reaching their truck, they refrigerated the Bigfoot body and soon after contacted Biscardi.
Weak Evidence
At the press conference, the self-proclaimed "best Bigfoot hunters in the world" declined repeated requests to display the Sasquatch remains.
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