BFRO - The kingpin hoaxer of the "Georgia bigfoot body" -- Carmine Thomas
Biscardi -- will, thankfully, never be taken seriously by the press
ever again. But today he's making another ludicrous attempt to regain
the media spotlight.

After he was publicly busted and humiliated in 2005 for a different
version of a bigfoot body hoax, he claimed he was "hoodwinked" by
some bad people who had deceived him (all the while he was raking
in money from a phony pay-per-view "surveillance" project).

As of today, August 20, 2008, Biscardi is trying to get back on
Fox News ... in emotionally declare that he was "hoodwinked
... again ...

Today Biscardi claims he is "planning to take legal action against
Whitton and Dyer" ... in a futile attempt to forestall legal action
against himself, by prosecutors, for fraud.


Story: http://www.bfro.net/hoax.asp


 


I also found this write up on a bigfoot board:



The Georgia Bigfoot Body Hoax all started with a web site created by
two guys in Georgia calling themselves the "Georgia Bigfoot Trackers."
Their site is www.bigfoottracker.com

Their full names are Matthew Gary Whitton and Ricky Traylor Chuck Dyer.

Whitton is a sheriff deputy of 6 years. Dyer is a transient, used car
salesman. Dyer has had 14 different residences in the past 6 six years.
He never worked as a prison guard, nor did he serve as an Army Ranger,
as he has been claiming.

No one in the bigfoot research community had ever heard of these two
guys before, and vice versa. But they put up a web site wherein they
claimed to be the "best bigfoot trackers in the world".

It was strange.

They obviously hadn't been following the subject for long, because, for example, they had never heard of Jeff Meldrum ... the prominent expert who had appeared on numerous TV shows talking about the subject.





In the beginning they did not claim to have a body. In fact, they made
it clear that they had nothing, but they said they would try to capture
one.

They put out clownish YouTube videos offering to take people on bigfoot
expeditions. They were obviously aware of the popularity of BFRO organized expeditions, some of which have taken place in Northern Georgia in the past.

Initially they claimed to be very well equipped and experienced at
organizing bigfoot expeditions, but they later admitted that they had
never previously participated in one.

Click here to see one of their first YouTube videos ... before they claimed to have a dead body.

Their YouTube videos were so foolish that many wondered whether
these videos were intended as a joke ... but they weren't. These guys
wanted to be taken seriously, and they wanted people to pay them $499
to attend their expeditions in Georgia. But no one was interested, and
no one signed up, and no expedition ever occurred. Their little scam
was a flop.

We ignored it, knowing they would never be taken seriously. We assumed these clowns would quickly fade away.

A week later Whitton was shown on the local TV news stations around
Atlanta ... He had shot himself in the wrist with his own weapon while
pursuing a suspect. This strange clown Whitton was indeed a Clayton County Sheriff deputy.

Various legitimate bigfoot researchers in Georgia were appalled by the
whole situation and challenged these two guys about their claims. It
was offensive that a sheriff deputy would be involved in such a
ludicrous fraud. One Georgia researcher pointed out that they didn't
have any experience or any evidence of anything. He sarcastically asked
Dyer by phone "So do you have corpse or something?"

That gave Dyer and idea. After that conversation these Georgia boys started claiming that they had a bigfoot body ...

Click here for the YouTube video where they first mentioned having a bigfoot body


As Whitton and Dyer touted their bogus "bigfoot body" story, they
noticed that some people were quick to believe them, or at least hold
out lots of hope. The hopeful reactions they received from a few people
led them to change tactics all together. Their whole game changed from
bogus claims of expeditions to bogus claims of having a "bigfoot body".

While recovering at home from his gunshot wound Whitton was visited by
family members. One family member was his brother from Texas -- Martin
Whitton. Matthew Whitton, the sheriff, coached his brother to pose as a
scientist from Texas who came to Georgia to examine the "body".

Click here for the YouTube video where Whitton introduces the phony scientist

Within a day or so of releasing that video "Dr. Paul Van Burren" was
outed as Whitton's own brother. Matt Whitton was forced to admit, on
YouTube, that he lied about the "scientist" but he continued with his
bogus claim about having a "bigfoot corpse".

Click here for the YouTube video where Whitton admits lying about the "scientist".

A week or so after Whitton was mentioned in the local news because of
his gunshot injury, various small newspapers around Georgia caught wind
of "BigfootTrackers.com," and Whitton's claims of having a bigfoot
body. A few articles appeared in small papers in Georgia.

The local media attention about their "bigfoot body" claims attracted
the attention of more bigfoot researchers, including Loren Coleman and
Steve Kulls.

Steve Kulls alerted his buddy, the notorious con-man and charlatan
Carmine Thomas Biscardi. Biscardi has a habit of chasing the media
spotlight in the style of Reverend Al Sharpton when a bigfoot-related
story starts grabbing headlines.

Biscardi heard the smug boasting bullshit of Dyer and Whitton on Kulls'
online radio show, which probably sounded, to Biscardi's ears, a lot
like ... Biscardi himself. It inspired him (as he mentioned in the
press conference). He envisioned an opportunity for another big, big
... bigfoot publicity scam.

Big media publicity had eluded Biscardi in recent years. His repeated
promises of an imminent discovery, in different parts of the country
... stopped getting him press attention. So he stooped to hiring
accommodating PR writers to write glorifying stories about him. These
writers wrote about his escapades as if they were present. In one story
from Texas he claimed that 35 people attended his expedition ... not
long after a newspaper story described a recent BFRO expedition with 35
people in attendance ... The accompanying video showed that the only
people who were present on the expedition (those who were not just
curious locals with kids and grannies, coming around to see what the
Hummer hubbub was all about), were the same handful of unemployed bums
who followed him around the country for several months.

Biscardi could use the PR articles to prove that he was the world's preeminent bigfoot hunter.

Before that period in his career as a charlatan, he had perpetrated a
bigfoot body hoax in 2005 on George Noory's "Coast to Coast AM" ("C2C")
radio talk show.

C2C is broadcast in the middle of the night across the US and Canada.
It has an audience of roughly 15 million people. Many, many people who
work the graveyard shift of lonely jobs will listen to George Noory's
nightly AM radio talk show concerning all things paranormal.

During this extraordinary radio hoax in the summer of 2005 Biscardi
claimed to have a bigfoot body. He held the massive C2C radio audience
in breathless suspense for a few nights, offering updates on "his
team's" progress with a bigfoot body, all while encouraging the
audience to subscribe (for $14.95 per month) to his remote web cam,
where they might possibly spot another bigfoot at a location in
Northern California ...

In other words, it was a scam.

Talk show host George Noory eventually smelled the hoax and demanded that Biscardi show his evidence or come clean.

Then Biscardi confessed, on the radio. There was no bigfoot body. He
claimed he was "hoodwinked" over the phone by the alleged captor ...
but his excuses and finger pointing fell on deaf ears. Noory was
fuming. He demanded that Biscardi refund all the money to all the
people who signed up for the pay-per-view "surveillance" project.

This radio hoax, and Biscardi's subsequent confession, were heard by
millions of people across North America. The affair had curious
parallels with Orson Wells' "Invasion from Mars" radio play in 1938, which held radio audiences in suspense and created a minor panic in New Jersey.

Orson Wells' unintentional hoax made him even more of a celebrity.

Roll forward to August 2008.

Once Biscardi got involved in the recent Georgia body hoax, he bumped
it up to a new level of media deception. Biscardi began scheming to get
lots of TV cameras in his face before it would become glaringly obvious
that it was just another bigfoot body hoax similar to the one Biscardi
pulled before on the radio in 2005.

Biscardi had an excellent hook for this carnation of his bigfoot body scam -- Whitton is a sheriff deputy.

Everyone knows sheriff deputies are totally respectable and would never tell lies.

The world press bought into the story, for a few days, but that was all
the time Biscardi needed for this scam, and to fulfill his narcissistic
fantasy of being a hero for solving one of the world's great mystery.
He could feel like a big shot for a little while, at least.

Biscardi and Whitton were birds of a feather: two shameless, dead-pan
liars, who had figured out that they could hold people in great
suspense if they claimed, with a very straight face, that they had a
bigfoot body, in their possession, somewhere.

For more details on how this ball bounced after that point, please wade
through the rest of this thread. Notice that there is more than one
page to this thread. At the bottom right corner of this page look for
the "Page 1, 2,3" and click 2, etc., to see the next pages of replies. 


Link to this well written article: http://s2.excoboard.com/exco/thread.php?forumid=124725&threadid=1900226


 

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