View Full Version : Bigfoot just a hoax
Brian 12-07-2002, 06:18 PM I can't post the article but I went on AOL and I read that the guy who created the Big Foot legend has died at age 84. AOL does not have a URL address so I can't put a link here. If you have AOL 8.0, you can find the article easily.
Chocoholic 12-07-2002, 06:19 PM Bigfoot isn't real? :eek: :eek: :eek:
Next, you'll be telling me there's no Santa Claus...
fr00ti 12-07-2002, 06:26 PM Originally posted by WingsFan
Bigfoot isn't real? :eek: :eek: :eek:
Next, you'll be telling me there's no Santa Claus...
:lol:
TV Favorites 12-07-2002, 06:58 PM :lol:
Stormtracker TF 12-07-2002, 07:00 PM Originally posted by WingsFan
Bigfoot isn't real? :eek: :eek: :eek:
Next, you'll be telling me there's no Santa Claus...
Everyone knows BOTH are real! Right guys? :confused:
Truth 12-07-2002, 08:14 PM Originally posted by TheFonz
Everyone knows BOTH are real! Right guys? :confused:
Of course they are! Aren't they?
Central Perk 12-07-2002, 08:28 PM Originally posted by AAOT
Of course they are! Aren't they?
Santa Claus of course is real...
Penny Lane 12-07-2002, 08:32 PM [QUOTE]Originally posted by TheFonz
Everyone knows BOTH are real! Right guys? :confused: [/QUOTE
I believe in Santa Claus!
:santa2: :santa2: :santa2: :santa2: :santa2:
Fleet 12-07-2002, 10:00 PM I'll have to look for that article. I am very interested in the Bigfoot creature. Who is this man who "created" Bigfoot? Of the 5 or 6 books I have on the subject, no one person discovered him. What happened is that many sightings were coming in from mostly Washington, Oregon and Northern California. The famous footage of a Bigfoot walking along a creek was shot by Roger Patterson, who died in Jan., 1972. The other man with him was Bob Gimlin who is still alive.
Anyway, after reading about Bigfoot (Sasquatch), I think they exist. Consider the fact that those strange footprints have been seen since the 1800s. If they're fake, this means that there must be some secret organization that makes these footprints for decades and decades. Also, the footage of a Bigfoot mentioned above (from Oct., 1967) has yet to be proven fake. It's not been proven real, either, but still has not been proven fake. I hope someday a good video is taken of this thing (the '67 film is blurred). Or, one is captured. Not killed, just captured.
Titania 12-07-2002, 10:37 PM Originally posted by Dr. Frasier Crane
Santa Claus of course is real...
hes real, just like the easter bunny!!!!
the tooth fairy on the other hand turned out to be a fraud.... :(
Stormtracker TF 12-07-2002, 11:14 PM Originally posted by Titania
hes real, just like the easter bunny!!!!
the tooth fairy on the other hand turned out to be a fraud.... :(
Awww! :( Then who might I ask was putting money under my pillow all those years?!? :confused:
#1_Nancy_McKeon 12-07-2002, 11:39 PM Originally posted by TheFonz
Awww! :( Then who might I ask was putting money under my pillow all those years?!? :confused:
Man, I know!! I got $20 bucks a pop for my first like 5 teeth. haha
¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ 12-08-2002, 12:42 AM Santa's real!! Even if his handwriting matches my mothers!!:lol:
I still leave out my milk & cookies though!:liplick:
Stormtracker TF 12-08-2002, 12:43 AM Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
Santa's real!! Even if his handwriting matches my mothers!!:lol:
I still leave out my milk & cookies though!:liplick:
Me too..But they always get eaten BEFORE santa comes..Actually they get eaten before I can get 'em on a plate! lol.
¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ 12-08-2002, 12:48 AM Originally posted by TheFonz
Me too..But they always get eaten BEFORE santa comes..Actually they get eaten before I can get 'em on a plate! lol.
:lol:. I swear though... one year I heard bells over my head from outside!!! But.. could have been my imagination!
Stormtracker TF 12-08-2002, 12:59 AM Originally posted by ¤MsConanOBrien¤
:lol:. I swear though... one year I heard bells over my head from outside!!! But.. could have been my imagination!
Opps that was me! I was trying to sneek Conan in..But I couldn't get him thru the chimney..and then you woke up, Too bad I had him all rapped and everything :(
Okay, once and for all...
Real - Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, UFO's, Sewer Alligators.
Not Real - The Tooth Fairy, The Jersey Devil, 74% of Cher, and Leprechans.
Hope that clears things up. Back to work, you scamps...
;)
¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ 12-08-2002, 01:10 AM Originally posted by TheFonz
Opps that was me! I was trying to sneek Conan in..But I couldn't get him thru the chimney..and then you woke up, Too bad I had him all rapped and everything :(
:D But but but... just fold him!! I know hes 6 '4, but I mean.. its for ME!!! LOl. This year!!
Only 74% TJL?? LOl
Janice 12-08-2002, 01:20 AM SEATTLE (Dec. 7) - The man who used 16-inch feet-shaped carvings to create tracks that ignited the ``Bigfoot'' legend has died. He was 84.
Ray L. Wallace's family admitted his role in the creature myth after his death Nov. 26 from heart failure.
``The reality is, Bigfoot just died,'' his son, Michael, said.
In August 1958, a bulldozer operator who worked for Wallace's construction company in Humboldt County, California, found huge footprints circling and then leading away from his rig.
The Humboldt Times in Eureka, California, coined the term ``Bigfoot'' in a front-page story about the phenomenon.
Family members said Wallace asked a friend to carve the wooden feet that he and his brother Wilbur wore to create the tracks.
The nation - fascinated by tales of the Himalayan Abominable Snowman - quickly bought into the notion of a homegrown version.
``The fact is there was no Bigfoot in popular consciousness before 1958. America got its own monster, its own Abominable Snowman, thanks to Ray Wallace,'' Mark Chorvinsky, editor of Strange magazine, told The Seattle Times.
Wallace cut a record of supposed Bigfoot sounds, printed posters of a Bigfoot sitting with other animals and provided films and photos that purported to show the creature eating elk and frogs, Chorvinsky said.
Chorvinsky believes the family's admission raises serious doubts about key ``proof'' of Bigfoot's existence: the so-called Patterson film, with its grainy images of an erect apelike creature striding away from the camera operated by rodeo rider Roger Patterson in 1967.
Wallace said he told Patterson where to spot a Bigfoot near Bluff Creek, California, Chorvinsky recalled. ``Ray told me that the Patterson film was a hoax, and he knew who was in the suit.''
Michael Wallace said his father called the Patterson film ``a fake'' but claimed he'd had nothing to do with it. But he said his mother admitted she had been photographed in a Bigfoot suit, and that his father ``had several people he used in his movies.''
The disclosure is not fazing others who study such creatures.
Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, says he has casts of 40 to 50 footprints he believes were made by authentic unknown primates.
``To suggest all these are explained by simple carved feet strapped to boots just doesn't wash,'' Meldrum said, noting 19th century accounts of such a creature.
Chorvinsky says those early reports were mistakes, myths or hoaxes.
12/05/02 22:18 EST
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
Cactus Jack 12-08-2002, 01:22 AM Originally posted by TJL
74% of Cher
;)
:rotflmao:
Brian 12-08-2002, 01:29 AM Originally posted by Janice
SEATTLE (Dec. 7) - The man who used 16-inch feet-shaped carvings to create tracks that ignited the ``Bigfoot'' legend has died. He was 84.
Ray L. Wallace's family admitted his role in the creature myth after his death Nov. 26 from heart failure.
``The reality is, Bigfoot just died,'' his son, Michael, said.
In August 1958, a bulldozer operator who worked for Wallace's construction company in Humboldt County, California, found huge footprints circling and then leading away from his rig.
The Humboldt Times in Eureka, California, coined the term ``Bigfoot'' in a front-page story about the phenomenon.
Family members said Wallace asked a friend to carve the wooden feet that he and his brother Wilbur wore to create the tracks.
The nation - fascinated by tales of the Himalayan Abominable Snowman - quickly bought into the notion of a homegrown version.
``The fact is there was no Bigfoot in popular consciousness before 1958. America got its own monster, its own Abominable Snowman, thanks to Ray Wallace,'' Mark Chorvinsky, editor of Strange magazine, told The Seattle Times.
Wallace cut a record of supposed Bigfoot sounds, printed posters of a Bigfoot sitting with other animals and provided films and photos that purported to show the creature eating elk and frogs, Chorvinsky said.
Chorvinsky believes the family's admission raises serious doubts about key ``proof'' of Bigfoot's existence: the so-called Patterson film, with its grainy images of an erect apelike creature striding away from the camera operated by rodeo rider Roger Patterson in 1967.
Wallace said he told Patterson where to spot a Bigfoot near Bluff Creek, California, Chorvinsky recalled. ``Ray told me that the Patterson film was a hoax, and he knew who was in the suit.''
Michael Wallace said his father called the Patterson film ``a fake'' but claimed he'd had nothing to do with it. But he said his mother admitted she had been photographed in a Bigfoot suit, and that his father ``had several people he used in his movies.''
The disclosure is not fazing others who study such creatures.
Jeff Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, says he has casts of 40 to 50 footprints he believes were made by authentic unknown primates.
``To suggest all these are explained by simple carved feet strapped to boots just doesn't wash,'' Meldrum said, noting 19th century accounts of such a creature.
Chorvinsky says those early reports were mistakes, myths or hoaxes.
12/05/02 22:18 EST
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press. All active hyperlinks have been inserted by AOL.
That was the article I was talking about.
fr00ti 12-08-2002, 01:41 AM LOL funny story about the Tooth Fairy. One time under my pillow next to my tooth I put a piece of paper that said "Tooth Fairy-- Sign here X ________ " LOL my mom thought that was really funny. I was always a little kid that wanted the REAL thing. I guess I wanted to know if the tooth fairy was real and not my MOM. LOL I still wonder how they managed to lift my head up and slip a dollar under there without waking me up!!:lol:
Moonlight Lady 12-08-2002, 03:05 AM Originally posted by TJL
Okay, once and for all...
Real - Santa Claus, The Easter Bunny, The Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, UFO's, Sewer Alligators.
Not Real - The Tooth Fairy, The Jersey Devil, 74% of Cher, and Leprechans.
Hope that clears things up. Back to work, you scamps...
;) :lol:
Don't forget Michael Jackson's nose, that ain't real either.
LucyFan 12-08-2002, 03:19 AM OMG. As lame as it sounds, I actually believed that there was such a thing as a bigfoot. I remember one time on a boyscout retreat that us boyscouts and the scout master were telling these scary stories around the camp fire and the subject some how changed to the legendary bigfoot. They were saying stuff like how bigfoot roamed around the earth, when he attacked people at night, making loud foot steps, ect. Anyways, that night I couldn't go to sleep because every now and then I would hear these loud footsteps and I would automatically think it was bigfoot. I dreaded that night so much, man I scared.
Janice 12-08-2002, 11:20 AM Originally posted by Lil Kelso
:lol:
Don't forget Michael Jackson's nose, that ain't real either.
What nose? That thing was chipped away at so many times, that I don't think it's there anymore.
Cactus Jack 12-08-2002, 12:55 PM Originally posted by Lil Kelso
:lol:
Don't forget Michael Jackson's nose, that ain't real either.
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
What would happen if MJ's nose got hit by a football?, itd porbbaly come off:lol: ( imitating Michael ) OW MY NOSE!!!!!!! ( nose falls off )
~Teddybear~ 12-08-2002, 03:49 PM :::immitating michael jackson::: "Im a lover, not a fighter...(screams)HHEEEHEEE!!!!!! (gets punched in the nose, then his nose falls off) While song "Beat it" plays in the background..
Chocoholic 12-08-2002, 03:58 PM Michael Jackson scares the crap outta me! :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:
Fleet 12-08-2002, 08:08 PM Originally posted by WingsFan
Michael Jackson scares the crap outta me! :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2:
Me, too. I think I'd rather encounter a bigfoot than a Michael Jackson. :eek:
iliveforjayandnancy2 12-09-2002, 06:31 AM All I know about Micheal Jackson, is that I lost all respect I ever had for him when he forever dangled that child over that balcony. I never expected this out of him, of ALL people. He let me down big time.
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