Anyway turns out it was all a hoax, I’m a little late to the party, surprise. Below is a video about how it was all done. Like the Morristown Hoax this was actually pretty high profile as well. Seems like there’s enough people with the will out there to teach us how not to be gullible… what are we on the internet or something.

Early on in my paranormal blogging I thought about releasing balloons into the sky and filming them, for research purposes only and not to fool anyone, but after a little more thinking quite a few unknowns bugged me, what if the balloons interfered with air traffic, what if the balloons gained to much attention, what if my act created a life long false UFO story for someone. It was just to reckless and I gave up the idea.

Now the Morristown Hoaxers Chris Russo and Joe Rudy I feel have been very reckless, it’s wasted a few peoples time and money, interfered with emergency services, but I do like some of what they have to say about gullibility and the UFO community, but I hate the way they tried to teach us a lesson.

So why ask if the Morristown Hoax is a Good Thing? Well, I think it is but not in the way they intended it to be. Along with the Georgia Bigfoot hoax, the Morristown hoax is a good example of why NOT to create a hoax, come forward or get caught and you get punished in some way. Hopefully these two examples is enough to make wannabe hoaxers think twice about trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public.

Got nothing against religion, but my dad once told me “whatever you believe in will be true” and I feel that’s true of anyone with faith no matter what belief it is, it will be true.

I had high hopes for the Georgia Bigfoot, it would have been world shattering evidence, may have even changed belief systems, hell the crypto world would have been seen in a better light and that may have bled into other areas of the mysterious. It still seemed to make people stand up and take notice, crap about the outcome though.

As it stands, a Bigfoot body will still be the ultimate evidence, so would an alien craft crashed into some inner city environment. The ultimate evidence is something that can be held, passed around, studied and isn’t gone in the blink of an eye.

Hard evidence aside, what about photos and video? In my time blogging about the paranormal I can count on one hand the videos and photos that are remarkable and I think are totally genuine, not a lot out of 600 odd blog posts is it. Vids and pics keep things moving and interesting but the amount of fakes out there is becoming a little overwhelming and it’s only going to get harder.

I don’t deal with photos a lot on my blogs as you may have noticed, mostly due to copyright issues (if they came with embed codes I’d post a lot more) and partly because they’re so easy to fake, videos on the other hand had been a lot harder to fake and there wasn’t much use for faking them. With the Internet in its video age, software becoming easier and cheaper to use, it’s pretty much a matter of if one has time on their hands and a hunger for attention, the result being that video fakes are a dime a dozen and it’s to much to investigate.

Just take a look of some cutting edge software headed our way.

Frightening isn’t it, just imagine what our governments and media could do with those, well, that’s if they don’t already have these capabilities.

What about stories and experiences they can be investigated and what not, but with out hard evidence or the experience, on an individual basis they become a case of he said, she said, but compiled together they can be a great source of evidence.

Hard evidence will remain supreme (if it’s not a hoax that is), as for vids and pics, well, it’s healthy to be skeptical, which doesn’t mean dismissive.

Hope that made sense, I also have a habit of not entirely explaining myself entirely, so please don’t take offense.

Where to from here them, really?

There’s lot’s of info presented in the Georgia Bigfoot Press Conference, the back story, what’s going to happen next, D.N.A results and a couple pictures, sadly none of it presents what we really want. It’s my opinion that the press conference was in aid of fishing for the best offer, Biscardi even mentions that they’re hoping to have someone film it “maybe even one of you. Directed towards the reporters“. Is this a hoax? there’s a lot of opinions online and it really does look like that bigfoot mask, but this story looks to have a long road ahead of it, most think it’s a proven hoax but I’m inclined to see it through whatever the outcome.

Georgia Bigfoot Press Conference Video (may not be up for long)

By the way here’s that video…

The earliest news report I could find is from Fayette Daily News, which should give you the low down of who they are and what they got.

After watching the above video I stopped following the story up until a few days ago when I saw a clip of Tom Biscardi on Fox News talking about the whole thing which peaked my interest again.

Turns out they’re holding a press release today or tomorrow or something (the whole I’m from NZ things confusing me about the dates) where new evidence will be revealed, there’s also been quite an amount of mainstream media coverage of late.

There’s also a photo of the supposed creature floating around the net, though it has been quickly likened to a costume that’s actually available for purchase, some where. From the comparison picture at that link it’s not looking to good.

Well, that’s enough mess from me, I’ve got a little case of information overload. The Blogsquatcher’s doing a nice job of keeping track of all the latest developments, I caught up with most of them there, great work mate.

I’ve really got to catch up on this story from start to finish, so my next post will be all about that.

Here’s the Fox news video below, it also shows a photo of the body in a freezer.