By Aaron Littleton
Production Coordinator / TriCities.com
Published: August 13, 2008

Bigfoot websites have been thrown into a tizzy recently at the announcement of a possible bigfoot body being found in North Georgia.  Surprisingly clear photos (but with a touch of trademark Bigfoot blurriness) of the corpse have been circulating around, following a press release announcing the body’s finding and a subsequent press conference this Friday.
I’m not going to post the photos on the blog, due to some legal chest-beating by some groups over their exclusive ownership, but if one wants to see the photos, and one knows where to look, one will find them.
The press release states a few “facts” about the find, including:

• The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
• It weighs over five hundred pounds.
• The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
• It is male.
• It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
• It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and five toes on each foot.

And what about Bigfoot’s titular feet?  They measure up at 16 and three-quarters inches long, close to a whopping size 27 in men’s shoes.
Naturally we have to be a bit skeptical about this find, but the level of excitement it is generating in the Bigfoot community is palpable.  Whoever has taken control of the body before the press conference also seems to be taking this very seriously, as reports of armed guards around the creature accompany discussions online.
There’s not a lot of hard evidence around currently - I suppose we’ll have to wait for the Friday press conference for more of that, but there’s nothing to keep us from speculating.  I am naturally inclined towards skepticism here, and the “press conference” (why in California instead of Georgia?) along with the nature of the press release (why is Searching for Bigfood, Inc. claiming they own all rights regarding this creature?) do nothing to alleviate my fears along these lines.  Those who keep up with paranormal happenings may remember a previous post-dated “press conference” earlier this summer regarding an alien video in Denver.  Not surprisingly, very little came of this press conference, but it did manage to stir up quite a bit of interest for a few days.
Of course, the photos are fairly impressive, and the idea of a Bigfoot finding so close to home is exciting enough to keep an eye on this thing.  I’ll make sure to get some info from the press conference and post more information on Friday.
What do you think?  Bigfoot or no?