From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Bigfoot's body a hoax, California site reveals

By Bob Keefe
Cox News Service

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Can you believe it? Georgia's "Bigfoot" was just a big hoax.

The body of a supposed ape-man found in the North Georgia mountains was nothing but an empty rubber monkey suit embedded in ice, according to California Bigfoot enthusiasts who finally got a chance to examine it last weekend.

The two Atlanta men who stood up at a news conference in California last week and tried to convince the world they had found Bigfoot now apparently can't be located - just like the real Bigfoot.

Calls to Matthew Whitton, a Clayton County police officer--make that former police officer--and his car salesman buddy Rick Dyer weren't returned Tuesday... .
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As a native Georgian with a long, serious, and legitimate interest in cryptozoology and exobiology, I cannot begin to convey the disgust and contempt I feel for Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer.

It is men of their caliber who provide philosophical and professional naysayers endless grist for debunking and mocking real and earnest scientific endeavors to find answers we need in cryptozoology and exobiology. (Yes, small-minded morons from the hills of North Georgia--I accept the likely reality of "little green men" and a few other phenomena from the edge of scientific certainty.  Now, pop another top and snicker.)

What Whitton and Dyer have done is not remotely amusing. If there isn't a law against a hoax of this nature, there should be.

These ole' boys are a disgrace and an embarrassment to all Georgians of good will and reasonable intelligence.

D. Grant Haynes