Hoaxer busted!!

With the aid of Bruce Kelley, a hoaxer was busted on YouTube.  A YouTube video was posted by a user named Paul Howard with the following comments:

"Published on Mar 3, 2017
I have put together a compilation of my grandfathers Bigfoot pics that my family found in his farmhouse and barn after his passing.

This includes 5 photos that were already posted plus 2 more that were recently found and not yet posted.

My grandfather lived in the house in New York state all his life and never mentioned he was having sightings of a Bigfoot. We believe he was afraid of what people would think of him if he talked about it. He was the local postmaster and everybody knew him and respected him.

My grandfather was a very serious man, not the type to pull a bigfoot hoax. I don't believe he even knew what a bigfoot was. He took these pictures in the early to mid 60's before bigfoot was popular.

I am planning a weekend backing-packing trip in April into the area where my grandfather used to hike and camp. I will have my video camera and hopefully will be able to tape somthing (foot prints,or enclosures) that will prove his Bigfoot pictures are real."

And with some reservations that by posting the video here, it just gives him more hits, I do it so people can see what we are talking about.


So what is the hoaxing part?

As soon as I seen the video, I recognized that it was a well known Bigfoot costume that is available for sale, in fact, it was the same type of suit used in the Georgia Bigfoot Hoax.

The screen capture of the "supposed" first photo stuck out like a sore thumb.  Why you ask?  Check out the photo below of that costume.  Notice anything?

The guy didn't even use the costume for the picture, he copied and paste the picture above into his photo and put it in the video.  Want to see all the matches to confirm this?

Thanks to Bruce Kelley for making the above graphic, if you take the costume and move it over to cover the "Bigfoot" in the video, guess what, it matches 110%.

The second photo then pops up in the video, and guess what?

It matches the same costume, just flipped over horizontal.

Points match the costume to the figure in the video.

Once again, thanks to Bruce Kelley for his graphic above.  Just moving an overlay of the costume over shows it's a perfect match.  Hmmm, two different pictures showing a Bigfoot in the same stance as a picture of a Bigfoot costume.

While there are three other pictures in this video, one also resembles a photo found on the Internet, complete with stance and easily matched up.

The YouTuber has hoaxed the entire thing.

Hoaxing, the worst side of the Bigfoot Community.

Recently it was brought to the attention of Bigfoot Hoaxers Exposed 2.0 on Facebook, of a group of individuals in Western Oklahoma who have been perpetrating hoaxes and posting it in Bigfoot groups.

This group thought that no one would call them out on it until they posted an obvious hoaxed photo, that not only was exposed as a log laying on the ground, but several other researchers who knew where the exact location is, come forward to confirm it was a log on the ground.

Here is the photo in question followed up by the two zooms the person that submitted them posted with it.

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Here is the original post, and it does include the person's name, we do not believe in protecting someone if they are legitimately trying to commit a hoax on people.

Several folks looked at the photo and concluded that it was the end of a log protruding out from the tree.  When Chris was asked for further clarification, here is how that conversation went.

As you can see, Chris got very belligerent when called out on taking comparison photos.  This led him to being removed from the Oklahoma Bigfooters: Research and Bigfoot Sightings group page on Facebook.

Here is what many saw, the second photo shows the red lines where the log is seen extending from behind the log.

It was a log, pure and simple.  But now the kicker, other researchers in Western Oklahoma who had dealt with this guy and knew all about him, know exactly the spot where he claimed this photo was taken, and they confirmed it was nothing more than a log on the ground.  

So about a week later, Chris posts what he claims are comparison photos that he took of the spot to quell the jealousy of those who claimed he didn't have a photo of a Bigfoot.  I'm posting them here for people to compare for themselves.

 Okay, so you ask yourself, well didn't he go back and take the comparison photos like you asked him to?  Not really, if you look closely at the photos compared to the original one, he conveniently didn't take pictures of the same spot, he moved about 75 feet over to the right and took photos of an entirely different spot.   Chris is hoaxing the entire story and the photos to fit into his story.  He fabricated this story, knew the photos if he took them of the same spot would show it was indeed a log, so he had to take photos of a different location.

For anyone who reads this blog, and you live in the Western Oklahoma area, please be aware of Chris and anyone that hangs with him, they have been caught hoaxing other incidents too.

A regurgitated hoax makes a return 2 years later.

Posted today on Cryptomundo Blog today was a video someone posted of a supposed Bigfoot that was captured on a car cam video in Anaheim Hills, California the morning of 8-28-2016.  It was immediately recognized by BGF staff as a regurgitated hoax from 2014 as shown from screen captures from the Bigfoot Evidence Blog.  Are we so desperate for anything new about Bigfoot that we are going to be falling for hoaxes brought back from the past?  Don't be fooled by this, it was nothing more than a person in a suit in 2014, and all this boils down to, is someone is trying to use it all over again like it's something new.

And a screen capture of the YouTube page that tried to pass it off again, the person who is responsible for this YouTube channel is guilty of perpetrating a hoax in our opinion.

Hoaxes 101

Courtesy of the MABRC

The following presentation was used by the MABRC at several Bigfoot Conferences to show the various more well-known hoaxes.  With their approval, we place it here for everyone to see.