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Will the "Rickmat" Bigfoot body be a hoax?

Settled as Yes

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bigfoot;_ylt=AvW.i1NDjXrslFQ8xzwpeJftiBIF

DNA evidence proves that body which DNA evidence was taken from was not "bigfoot" but was a known creature.

Background:

Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton are claiming they've finally nabbed "Bigfoot." This week the internet has been abuzz with speculation surrounding the grainy photos the hunters released to the media. A press conference is scheduled for Friday where their "evidence" will shown for all to see.

So what's the claim: The corpse of a "male" bigfoot weighs in at 500lb. In the photos released by Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton it appears the creature has been decapitated. It's said to be seven feet seven inches, red-haired and flat-footed. Not only did the hunters drag a body back, but apparently they've got video tape footage of Rickmat's friends in the woods and "DNA" evidence....

Don't get your hopes up though most "experts" on Bigfoot aren't holding their breath. For one, Rick Dyer and Matthew Whitton have a website selling Rickmat merchandise which suspiciously appeared right after they announced their find. The public can also take a guided tours in the footsteps of Rickmat for only $499 a time!

Some have suggested the body in the photograph is just a Halloween costume, and one press official said “It’s smelling to high heaven like a hoax.”

All we can do now is anxiously await the "press conference...."
Rickmat Website
Best article on Rickmat so far


Settlement details: As reported by a major mainstream news source. If the media reports the Rickmat body as a hoax we settle as yes.

 
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Settled

Yes
94%
No
6%
Activity: H$46,293
Settled as Yes on Mon 18th Aug 6:28pm PDT

Suspend date: Fri 15th Aug 12pm PDT Settlement date: Mon 18th Aug 6:28pm PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Fri 15th Aug 12pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled

Initial likelihoods: Yes: 80%

Action history:

Created Thu 14th Aug 11:39am PDT by ryanj[Admin]
Suspended Fri 15th Aug 5am PDT : Suspend date reached
Unsuspended Fri 15th Aug 6:51am PDT by ryanj[Admin]: The Press Conference Has Been Scheduled For 12 PM PDT
Suspended Fri 15th Aug 12pm PDT : Suspend date reached
Settlement requested Fri 15th Aug 4:38pm PDT by jenniandboys[Admin]: Well. um.. I have no idea how you're going to settle this. But here's an article about it.

http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/366044410/bigfoot-hunters.html
Settlement requested Mon 18th Aug 10:54am PDT by chull: Hoax- 'Bigfoot' fails DNA tests- 96% chance from an opossum.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26244241/
Settlement requested Mon 18th Aug 5:53pm PDT by letmewinplees[Power User]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bigfoot;_ylt=AvW.i1NDjXrslFQ8xzwpeJftiBIF
Settled as 'Yes' Mon 18th Aug 6:28pm PDT by ryanj[Admin]: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080815/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bigfoot;_ylt=AvW.i1NDjXrslFQ8xzwpeJftiBIF

DNA evidence proves that body which DNA evidence was taken from was not "bigfoot" but was a known creature.

Suspend date: Fri 15th Aug 12pm PDT Settlement date: Mon 18th Aug 6:28pm PDTPrediction cut-off: Predictions on this question after Fri 15th Aug 12pm PDT have been voided because they were made after the question could be settled
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Comments (11)

  1 ryanj[Admin]
This is so a hoax. The entire story is more likely to disprove "intelligent design than it is to prove bigfoot exists.

Ryan
posted 15 weeks ago
  2 ryanj[Admin]
I'm looking for a exact time of the press conference, will post when I find it!
posted 15 weeks ago
  3 dieseldog
@ryan..got this invite from another admin.
posted 15 weeks ago
  4 markc
The scam artist "bigfoot hunter" on TV is already claiming the hunters moved the body somewhere and he doesn't know where it is. Gee, what are the odds it never actually turns up?
posted 15 weeks ago
Maybe it's in a safe and Geraldo Rivera will open it on live TV.
posted 15 weeks ago
  6 donal
you lot are so cynical...;-)
posted 15 weeks ago
Hey what if it isn't Bigfoot but he didnt know that? Then it wouldnt be a hoax. Would that settle as no?
posted 15 weeks ago
  8 tisha[Admin]
See this related market. I seem to be one of the only dorks with money on Yes!!

http://www.hubdub.com/m9109/Will_the_existence_of_Bigfoot_be_confirmed_by_science_in_2008
posted 15 weeks ago
  9 frank2877
OMG! It's Whitey Bulger.
posted 15 weeks ago
Does Bigfoot exist? These men have evidence

San Francisco Chronicle

(08-15) 15:25 PDT Palo Alto -- Irrefutable evidence came to Palo Alto on Friday.

"It was brown and fuzzy and looked very much like irrefutable evidence of a man in a gorilla suit.

"But it wasn't, said two Georgia hikers in baseball caps who rented a hotel meeting room to tell the world that they had found the dead body of the creature known as Bigfoot...

"But the hikers did present three photographs of their find. The clearest one looked like a man in a gorilla suit.

"The fuzziest one - the one that looked like a banana inside a tortilla - depicted what Whitton said was Bigfoot's jaw. That photograph was airtight proof of the existence of something that looked like a banana inside a tortilla. ..."

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/15/BAFN12C0SB.DTL>
posted 15 weeks ago
Whats with the sudden fascination with creatures that are so clearly fake and evidence that is so absurdly ridiculous. First it was the yeti hair, now this.
posted 15 weeks ago

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