Blairsville

North Georgia and the Bigfoot in the Freezer

In the summer of 2008 the police officer Matt Whitton and his friend Rick Dyer announced they had found the body of a Bigfoot in the woods of north Georgia — five hundred pounds, over seven feet — and were keeping it in a freezer. A press conference was called in Palo Alto on 15 August and the story ran worldwide. Three days later the investigator Steve Kulls thawed the contents: a rubber costume stuffed with offal bought from a butcher, with moulded rubber feet. Whitton was sacked by the Clayton County police, and Dyer ran the same trick a few years later with a dummy he called Hank.