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August 20, 2008 11:45 AM

This is my version of “gone fishin’” I guess..

I have things to do today, so I won’t be online obsessively. At least, I’m making that declaration now; who knows whether the ebb and flow of this noxious tide we findourselves in will drag me back under.

I have had a couple of thoughts as I scan the responses to the aftermath of the big hoax revelation: Hell hath no fury like a bigfoot believer scorned. It boiled red hot over the last two days. It may have cooled somewhat over the last 12 hours or so, but it’s still simmering. There isn’t going to be any return for Tom Biscardi, and I think it’d be pretty hard for Steve Kulls to get his reputation back intact at this point too.

As a warning to any more hoaxers — and there are some out there right now getting ready to try to replicate the “success” of these events: Detecting hoaxes is the blood sport of bigfooting. The situation will spin out of your control faster than you think it will. There are too many eyes, too many minds with access to every little nook and cranny of possible bigfoot knowledge, and too many outlets for their observations. No hoax, unless it involves the creation of a brand new costume of Hollywood quality, or Hollywood quality digital images, is going to survive very long.

But don’t think THAT can’t happen either, folks. It won’t have gone unnoticed that this feeble hoax captured the attention of the world EVEN DURING the Olympics. People are hungry for something like this now, for whatever reason. Unscrupulous people are already plotting how to make a fortune on that fact right this minute. Count on it.

As for me, I’m staining my porch. Well, with half an eye on the inbox, so if something happens, leave a comment or shoot me an email, addy over to the right.

UPDATE: Of course, as soon as I post something like that.. Now here’s something I just received from Billy Willard.

This is Billy Willard and I would like to make the following announcement:

I have severed my ties from Steve Kulls and Squatchdetective as well as from Squatchdetective Radio effective immediately. I spoke to Steve a few minutes ago and informed him of this decision. Although many of you may not understand, this was extremely hard for me to do. I have been helping Steve with the radio show for a while now and have really enjoyed it and enjoyed his friendship. I am not and will not bad mouth Steve; Iʼm keeping it simple and just leaving his group, organization and radio show. I wish Steve and Squatchdetective all the best. I feel that stretching this news out any further than what it is has already gone would be counterproductive. The supposed Bigfoot body was a fake, TB said he touched it, poked it, prodded it, so on and so forth, he was involved and he has been caught red handed.

As you all have heard from me from the beginning, I donʼt completely agree and have differing opinions as to how this all went down. In my opinion, TB and his group are just as involved in this latest fiasco as the GA boys are. In my eyes, they are on an equal scale. I voiced my opinion to Steve many times that TB should not be made to look like he smells like a bed of roses, but I feel that is not how things have come across. TB and the team should NOT be clear of any wrong doing in this latest mess.

Iʼm not going to lie to anyone about anything I have been told, never have, never will. If you have questions, please let me know. All I ask is that you give me some time to answer as my work has greatly suffered during all this. As you all know, if you donʼt do any work, you donʼt get paid.

As for my future, I will continue to operate Sasquatch Watch of Virginia. Iʼve met a lot of great folks and Iʼm not going to let a set back like this stop me from my purpose, that being to research this creature we all call Bigfoot. I greatly enjoyed doing the radio show and I met a lot of great folks there also, including many eyewitnesses of the creature. There is nothing I love more than listening to folks who have had their own encounters. Therefore; we will be starting a new radio show called the Sasquatch Watch Radio Show in the near future. We will likely keep it on the BlogTalk Radio network. I will make a future announcement concerning what, when, where and all that stuff at a later date. For right now, I want to step back, take a deep breath, get some work done and get some long, needed sleep.

Thank you all for your attention and remember, I will answer questions as I have available time to do so.

Billy Willard

Sasquatch Watch of Virginia

SPECIAL EDITORIAL COMMENT: As you know, I know Billy pretty well and I can appreciate how hard this was for him to do. But I think he did the right thing, no matter what the truth is concerning Steve Kulls’ involvement in the Bigfoot Body Fiasco. It may well be the case that Steve got burned, but he had to know he was standing in the fire.

THOSE INTERESTED in UFO/Bigfoot connections might enjoy this post by Brad Steiger. Here’s a teaser:

Some years ago, James C. Wyatt of Memphis, Tennessee, sent me a copy of his grandfather’s journal which contained fascinating and startling entries, written in straightforward fashion, which, if interpreted literally, may indicate that an association between Bigfoot-type creatures and UFOs has existed for quite some time.

SINCE READING Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a  Thousand Faces I’ve had adeep and abiding interest in mythology. Here’s a Christian Science Monitor blog post that touches on the mythological roots of the “man beast” that is known to every culture:

So maybe the yeti and Bigfoot represent for us a connection to the previous epoch. Americans and Himalayan people are not the only ones to have imagined an elusive, reddish-brown man-ape that lives in the wild. In China they call it the yeren; in Australia, itʼs the yowie; in Malaysia, itʼs the sejarang gigi; and in Brazil, they call it the mapinguari.

The prevalence of these legends suggests something primitive. Perhaps they reflect an ancient memory of a time when our ancestors coexisted with their hairy hominid relatives.

A similar figure even appears in the Bible. In Genesis, Esau is described as coming out of the womb covered in red hair, with his brother, Jacob, grasping at his heel. Unlike his gentle, studious brother, Esau is a hunter who prefers the outdoors. One day, Esau, returning from a hunt faint with hunger, agrees to exchange his birthright with his twin for some food. At that point Esau, and all his descendants, became forever separate from the chosen people.

Perhaps our desire to find the Bigfoots of the world represents an ancient longing for the wild twin who helped bring us into the world, whom we then abandoned along the way to creating a civilization.

Via Matt Bille’s Sci/Tech blog.

AND NOW this bit just came over my virtual-transome. A post on Scripps-Howard that says much the same thing, but without the mythological trappings:

Admit it. Intellectually, you knew that the supposed discovery of Bigfoot was hoax, but deep down a small part of you hoped that this time it might be for real.

Grainy videos, blurry photos and breathless eyewitness accounts of Bigfoot or Sasquatch or its Himalayan cousin, the yeti or abominable snowman, occur regularly and with such similar details — a towering, ape-like figure walking erect that quickly disappears into the forest — that people believe, well, there has to be something to it.

You can read the rest of the editorial here. Somehow, we do yearn for our wild brother to be out there, don’t we?

BIGFOOT BODY HOAX could have netted millions?

“Using a proper blend of CPM traffic, Google Adsense, in-text publishing, and even a few affiliate programs, Bigfoot traffic should have generated them $2.5 at a minimum per 1,000 web visitors. Since they were linked from so many web pages, they could easily have hit the target figure of the 800,000 unique visitors or so it would require to generate that dollar amount. 800,000 unique visitors who visited an average of 2.5 pages on their website that were paying evn $1 CPM would accomplish the $2 million figure. If they were more skilled, the amount could have been much higher.” Via the BFF (BigRump).

WHITTON AND DYER have started making media appearances again. Here’s a bitof one of the latest:

“It’s just a big hoax, a big joke,” said car salesman Rick Dyer. Dyer told Channel 2 he never intended to put it across as the real deal. “It’s bigfoot. Bigfoot doesn’t exist,” he said.”All this was a big joke. It got into something way bigger than it was supposed to be,” said former police officer Matt Whitton.Whitton and Dyer said when they concocted their bigfoot hoax, they had no idea bigfoot would get legs like it did. “It got legs and ran. It’s crazy now,” said Dyer.”It started off as some YouTube videosand a website,” said Whitton. “We’re all about having fun.”

I hope these guys spill all in the coming days. Via the BFF again (BigRump)

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