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Friday is the big day for Bigfoot believers

Scott Canon - Kansas City Star

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August 14, 2008 04:19 PM

Admit it. You want to believe.

The same way you want to someday comb a unicorn's mane, chat with a leprechaun and sit behind the plate at a Royals-Cubs World Series, you'd like to think these guys claiming they will unveil a real Bigfoot on Friday aren't full of Sasquatch dung.

Yet (or is it Yeti?) the chances don’t look good. We — the 13-year-olds in all of us who pine for better video of the Loch Ness Monster and for a look at the water-powered car the auto executives killed — have been pulled in before. And we haven't got so much as a tuft of genuine Gigantopithecus blacki fur to show for it.

There's that 1960s video of the big guy strolling through the woods in a bad gorilla suit. The various footprints. The Bigfoot blood that turned out to be transmission fluid. The hair that was just carpet.

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Now come at least three men — coincidentally all in the Bigfoot business — promising evidence at a Friday news conference in Palo Alto, Calif., that the elusive creature has been found at long last.

"A body that may very well be the body of the creature commonly known as 'Bigfoot' has been found in the woods in northern Georgia," says a news release. It describes the carcass as that of an animal 7 feet 7 inches tall, weighing more than 500 pounds that "looks like it is part human and part apelike."

The two who claim to have found the mysterious beast in north Georgia — a former cop and a former prison guard — offer Bigfoot expeditions. They've teamed up with Tom Biscardi, who's been searching for and making movies about Bigfoot since 1971.

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