Ya he perdido la cuenta de las veces que he leído un titular similar. Revistas y programas de televisión con nombres como Lo Desconocido han alimentado la leyenda durante mucho tiempo, basándose en fotografía borrosas y videos, trucados en su mayoría.
Cuando ya había aceptado la idea de que Pie Grande era un exiliado del universo paralelo que aparece en Monsters Inc (al igual que el Yeti), dos Big Foot hunters declaran tener fotos y evidencia DNA, las cuales planean presentar mañana en una conferencia de prensa que se llevará a cabo en Palo Alto, California.
“Pie Grande” habría sido encontrado en el bosque del norte de Georgia por Matthew Whitton y Rick Dyer. Los sitios de internet que incluyen las primeras fotos -Searchforbigfoot.com y Cryptomundo- están caídos en este momento. Este es el comunicado de prensa original:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 12, 2008
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND
DNA evidence and photo evidence to be presented at a
PRESS CONFERENCE
to be held on
Date: Friday, August 15, 2008
Time: From 12Noon-1:00pm
Place: Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto (A Crown Plaza Resort) 4290 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94306
Searching for Bigfoot, Inc. Menlo Park, California
Tom Biscardi, CEO
BIGFOOT BODY FOUND – EVIDENCE AND DNA DETAILS TO BE PRESENTED AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON FRIDAY, AUGUST 15th
FROM 12 N00N TO 1:00PM AT THE CABANA HOTEL-PALO ALTO IN PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as “Bigfoot” has been found in the woods in northern Georgia.
DNA evidence and photo evidence of the creature will be presented in a press conference on Friday, August 15th from 12 Noon to 1:00pm at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto at 4290 El Camino Real in Palo Alto, California, 94306. The press conference will not be open to the public. It will only be open to credentialed members of the press.
Here are some of the vital statistics on the “Bigfoot” body:
*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
five toes on each foot.
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five and three-quarters inches wide at the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its hands are
eleven and three-quarters inches long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo evidence will be presented at the press conference on Friday, August 15th.
Una de las pocas fotos que se han filtrado:
Real o fake? Mañana se sabrá.
Fuente: Has Big Foot been found? (The Inquistr)
Actualización 17-08-2008: Las pruebas de ADN sólo demostraron que una de las muestras pertenecen a una zarigüeya y la otra a un ser humano. Todo el montaje no fue mas que un hoax.
