Trackers stand by 'Bigfoot' body claim
A hairy corpse crammed in a US freezer is Bigfoot, say two men who have been tracking the legendary creature.
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of north Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim to see the man-ape.
They stood by their story at a news conference in Palo Alto, California, during which they offered an e-mail from a scientist as evidence and said they wouldn't mind making some money from the "find".
"Everyone who has talked down to us is going to eat their words," predicted Mr Whitton, a police officer on medical leave.
Expeditions
Mr Whitton and Mr Dyer, a former corrections officer, announced the discovery in July on YouTube videos and their website. They have since started offering weekend search expeditions for $499 (€338).
The specimen they bagged, the men say, was one of several apelike creatures they spotted cavorting in the woods.
As they faced a sceptical audience of journalists and Bigfoot fans that included one in a Chewbacca suit, the pair were joined by Tom Biscardi, head of a group called Searching for Bigfoot.
Mr Biscardi, Mr Whitton and Mr Dyer presented 'evidence' supporting the theory. It was an e-mail from a University of Minnesota scientist, but all it said was that of the three DNA samples sent in, one was human, one was likely a possum and the third could not be tested because of technical problems.
