Aug. 15, 2008 -- Although I typically cover true crime and missing person cases, I wanted to do something a little different today. Therefore, I decided to look into recent rumors regarding the discovery of a dead Bigfoot creature in Georgia. During my own investigation into the case, I was able to obtain an exclusive interview with one of the key figures involved in the case. This individual also granted me permission to post a photograph of the alleged creature. You might be asking yourself whether this is a hoax. Read on and decide for yourself.

Tom Biscardi, Chief Executive Officer of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., states that he is convinced that a dead creature allegedly found in the mountains of northern Georgia is the elusive Bigfoot.

In an interview with Investigation Discovery this afternoon, Biscardi provided exclusive details about the discovery of the creature and shared what it was like to see it firsthand. According to Biscardi, it was roughly three weeks ago when Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, two men who reportedly operate a Bigfoot tracking business, announced the find on Squatch Detective Radio.

"The commentator said, "Can we come down and verify your discovery?" and they said, "No." The person they said they wanted was the real big foot hunter," Biscardi said. "They wanted me."

The following day, the radio host contacted Biscardi and told him about the find, as well as Whitton and Dyer's request that he verify it. Biscardi agreed and flew to Georgia two weeks later to investigate the situation.

"All this crap was going through my mind," Biscardi reported. "Will they all be there? Was this all bologna? Will I call and the phone is disconnected, you know? Well, I get there, and my God, there they were waiting for me. They were two respectful gentlemen. One was a cop that was wounded, so he is on administrative paid leave right now, and the other was an ex-corrections officer. They made sure that I got in a decent hotel, and we talked for about an hour and a half. There was a big storm that night, and we agreed to meet the next morning. Then, they gave me the [creature's] DNA and they said, 'Here, we want you to take this and run it through.' They didn't want to show me the body yet. At that point, we were pretty much just breaking bread."

Biscardi flew back home, but returned to Georgia last Saturday. At that time, he was given the opportunity to see the body for the first time.

"I have to tell you, I was in shock," Biscardi stated as he described the moment he laid eyes upon the creature. "It was a euphoric experience for me. After 35 years of searching for this thing, it just blew me away. There I was face-to-face with this thing. It was about 7 feet tall and it weighs over 500 pounds. It had five fingers and five toes, very much like a human. His feet were in excess of 16 inches, and his hands from the palm to the middle finger were in excess of 11 inches. The teeth were protruding because rigor mortis had set in, and the tongue was out. Its guts were also out of its stomach, and it looked like the gasses in the body caused this because they had this thing since June 10 or 12. I don’t remember exactly, but [they had it] for about two months. They were afraid. They didn't know what to think about what they had."

According to Biscardi, Whitton and Dyer took him to the area where they allegedly found the creature. He described it as a rugged mountainous area that was approximately 7 1/2 miles into the woods. Once there, the men reportedly described to Biscardi how they found the creature.

"They found it by a stream," Biscardi said. "One of them stayed with the body for nine hours, while the other one went to go get help and the truck. They had to get this thing out by hand, and it took a total of four guys a day and a half to do it. While they were doing that, they were hearing something. One of them took video of another [creature] that was following them, and they said they saw three of them in the course of a day and a half."

Biscardi stated that both DNA and photographic evidence will be presented during a press conference tomorrow afternoon at the Cabana Hotel-Palo Alto in Palo Alto, Calif. Following the press conference, the creature will be examined by a team of scientists. According to Biscardi, they will release their findings to the world.

When asked why one of the creatures has not been found before now, Biscardi replied that they live in secluded areas to which humans do not frequently travel.

"There is a minimum of 3,500 of these things, a maximum of 7000 in North America alone," Biscardi said." Their habitat is so dense and rural that GPS and cell phones will not even work. It is unexplored territory. Not only that, but I can prove to you that from Sacramento to Anchorage, some 72 planes have crashed, and nobody has ever found the wreckage or their bodies. Think about that and the fact that we have all this high-tech equipment and satellite imagery, and yet these things go undiscovered."

Biscardi said his interest in the creature began 41 years ago when he first saw the Bigfoot footage that Roger Patterson took in the 1960s. However, Biscardi admits that he was not fully convinced until he experienced a Bigfoot sighting first-hand.

"I was the biggest skeptic in the world until I had my first encounter," Biscardi reported. "There was one sitting up on a rock that we saw with inferred binoculars, and it was cleaning itself on limestone. I thought, my God, there really is such an animal, such a creature. I was in hook, line and sinker. I have had 6 other sightings over the last 35 years."

As the interview came to an end, Biscardi had this to say:

"There are a lot of skeptics and naysayers out there and rightfully so. Until they get to see it, until they get to touch it, they got minds of their own. But, I am telling you right now, what I saw was real, and what I touched was real."

Until scientific studies are conducted, there is no way of knowing if the creature that was allegedly found is truly a Bigfoot. Nevertheless, it does make for a fascinating story, one which Investigation Discovery will continue to follow closely.

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What are your thoughts?

If it's really true, I'll be damned.

I'm on mixed emotions on this one, cause I don't know if it's a hoax or is real.

So far the story is being declared a hoax, which shouldn't really be surprising seeing Tom Biscardi involved..

Yeah. I saw something like this on the Discovery Channel. Only it supposedly wasn't dead. The only remotely believable footage they had was that there were rocks being thrown at their cabin from the woods. But that's completely stupid. Any one of them could have gone out into the woods and started tossing rocks. People lie for money on a regular basis. This is no different.

I feel sorry for the putz who brought the gorrilla suit for 50K.

I have a feeling that the people who sold it might have known it was a hoax, otherwsie they would have asked for more money.

Even though this particular story turned out to be a hoax (or so they would have us believe.. I wouldn't put it past them, since most people can't handle the truth, and just prefer to be sheep..) I remain open to the possibility that Bigfoot (or some creature like it) could exist.

Yeah, it was a hoax. They bought the body and the guys took the money and ran. Now they're having charges placed against them, but that's what you get when you take a story too far.

People are just sad, trying to lie to people like that.