This has been on the news all morning with a press conference & they are releasing DNA & photographic evidence to the press. These guys say they found this "bigfoot" dead while hiking in Georgia. They brought it back and put it in a freezer. It was 7 foot 7 inches tall and over 500 pounds. They say there were 3 other "bigfoot creatures" walking around the area trying not to be seen. They are having it analyzed to find out what it is. If its genuine, if its a type of ape or just a hoax. So what do you guys think? Real, misidentified or just a hoax.

Bigfoot Found

Why is it that all flying saucers, aliens, ghosts, yetis and the like are only captured on grainy film, as mummified remains etc etc. Cos they don't exist is why. The DNA will come back ape, just like the 'Humanzee' came back chimp and the Russian peasant woman with a Neanderthal mother came back human - albeit an unfortunately strange looking one.

Its all, as we Brits say, bollocks. Symptomatic of a need to have mystery and just a little bit more than you can see in everyday life. It's been said that extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and proof is the difference between established fact and myth. When the DNA on this comes back as ape they will say its been contaminated or something, keeping the myth alive in the process.

I would love this stuff to exist, it would make a world we increasingly understand only too well a bit more fun, but I'm not holding my breath. If the spooky things were real they wouldn't be so elusive.

I bet the Discovery channel are in this somewhere...

Oh I know, and agree that there's stuff we don't know and take your point entirely - it's possible, but I still think it's wishful thinking until someone comes up with the goods. I think there is a difference between finding new species of shark and monkeys - they are variations of what we already know and the differences are subtle, but moreover they were found, not postulated about for generations in folk stories. The point is that we never find the other stuff, it's always third hand reports, grainy film and the rest.

I base most of my thoughts on this type of issue simply on precedent - when they look for the most elusive snow tiger or whatever to film, it might take an age, but they find it because it's there to be found. Whenever anyone looks for the spooky stuff, they never find it. I saw a documentary about a British guy who went off searching for the yeti, followed all the local lore and tracked down a wiseman who gave directions to the yetis cave - nothing there, just myth, and the mummified yeti in a monastry was a monkey. We often have a default view that folklore is accurate - which is ultimately where Bigfoot and his various buddies across the globe started - but our great, great, great granfathers also told stories for the fun of it as well, and a lot have grown courtesy of our selves.

I would still love for it to be true though, although I would not trust big money not to capture the poor old guy and put him om display in Time Square.

Nice Gigantopithecus. No one would hussle him at pool and he could probably get away with taling about fags in SF. Then again, I'm judging him on looks..he might be very....sensitive?

The experts aren't convinced...

Jeffery Meldrum, a Bigfoot researcher and Idaho State University professor said:

"What I've seen so far is not compelling in the least, and I think the pictures cast grave doubts on their claim, It just looks like a costume with some fake guts thrown on top for effect"

Which is exactly what I think too...Its just the same as all the other hoaxes we've been exposed to over the years. Area 51, the Loch Ness Monster. As Snuffster aready said we just love mystery.

London has a very large population of foxes denser then the english country side.

I've never seen them fight except for some pups wrestling when I found a den near my parents house. I thought it was a barn cat at first so I snuck up on them.

Reminds me of another strange animal the tanuki. They've been traced well into germany yet few germans even know they exsist.

Grey & Red foxes are one thing I do see a lot of day and night. Here in the mountains there is a pretty good population. Foxes, coyote, deer, cougars, bobcats, bears, turkey, raccoons, opossums, are what's seen on a pretty regular occasion around here and the occasional porcupine. No chupacabra's though.

I have been interested in cryptozoology since I was a kid - love the idea of something out there that managed to slip its way past man kinds ever widening nets. Looks like the DNA 'evidence' on this chap has come up as... questionable.

Sure you would if it was on dry land maybe.

Aah, one of them.

Of course bigfoot is real nightcap. Don't you remember the movie "Harry & the Hendersons". Aliens are real too. I remember the movie "Howard the Duck" & the tv show ALF.

Sorry couldn't attach picture. I'll try to figure out why.

Here you go bigblue1 I loaded the picture for you, tell your brother-in-law well done.

I'll try now. Thanks once again buddy..