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IMO This is a real bigfoot or yeti or sasquatch. The anatomical structure is sound along with the face and hair. It would be quite the elaborate hoax if not real. your thoughts?
Originally posted by dave420
Until a DNA sample is provided and the body recovered, it's just a photo of something hairy, that does look like a bigfoot. That's it.
The item was exposed by Ammanuel Janssens Casteels as a hoax. I though he created it, but he did not. Here's the story from Michel reynal's Virtual Institute of Cryptozoology site:
The frozen mannikin (sic) of Bourganeuf
In 1997, what looked like a new version of the affair of the frozen man (this cadaver of a frozen hairy man shown in the US fairs, which Bernard Heuvelmans was able to study in 1968) occurred... in France !
It was indeed a hoax, and amusingly, our Belgish friends of the ABEPAR (which publishes the journal Cryptozoologia) are (involontarily) responsible. Emmanuel Janssens Casteels, animal sculptor and a collaborator of the magazine, relates in the June to August 1998 issue of Cryptozoologia that two friends of his have helped people who wanted to make a giant copy of Bernard Heuvelmans's frozen man :
"In fact, it was a sculpture made with sponge rubber on which hairs of horse tail have been pasted. The eyes have been simply bought from a provider specialized in taxidermy."
Of course, a crazy story was associated with the "show" of Bourganeuf, whose creator had obviously read Bernard Heuvelmans's book.
Quote from InfaRedMan
I think it's a great picture and probably looks good in real life too. However the waxiness of the face is the first thing that caught my attention. It doesn't look quite real but maybe that's the embalming process?
Originally posted by dave420
reply to post by MrsEsterhouse
A photo is never enough to say whether the subject is a real bigfoot/yeti/whatever. Saying it is shows a willingness to believe over a willingness to find out the facts.
Until a DNA sample is provided and the body recovered, it's just a photo of something hairy, that does look like a bigfoot. That's it.
And don't get me started on those bloody electric aliens.
Originally posted by jbondo
Hey, did you get that link I posted on page 1?
I hope you didn't search too hard on the BFRO.