Well, we now know why those guys we’ve been posting about who claimed to have Bigfoot’s body never brought the corpse to their much ballyhooed news conference last week.

It turns out the “Bigfoot” was just a big rubber suit….

Now, Bigfoot hoaxers Rick Dyer and Matt Whitton are in big trouble…

Former corrections officer Dyer might find himself back in familiar surroundings— except he’ll be on the other side of the bars if fraud charges are upheld….

And Whitton—who had been a Clayton County, Georgia Police officer— is now out of a job for what his boss calls “violating his duty as a police officer.”

Chief Jeff Turner says once Whitton “perpetrated fraud, that goes to his credibility and integrity”

Plus, the owners of a Bigfoot website says they’re taking legal action against the pair…

Seems Searching for Bigfoot.Com paid the deceptive duo an undisclosed amount of money for the rights to the “body.”

You can read the eyewitness account here of how the site’s owner watched his hopes of discovering a new species evaporate away as the ice around the rubber costume melted…

When the Searching For Bigfoot.com web guy went searching for Whitton and Dyer, he discovered they were nowhere to be found—much like the elusive Bigfoot itself…

About the only good news in all of this is that if there IS a Bigfoot—it’s still out there—waiting for you or I to find him…

So—with that in mind—how much do you think I can get for this Bigfoot photo I snapped in the woods behind my North Carolina home last night?

—Steve

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Word that a Bigfoot body had been found created tremendous buzz across the ‘net last week.

An indication of the huge interest was the way readership of this little blog exploded with-in hours of our post last Tuesday..

We charted thousand and thousands of extra readers.

Other websites that specialize in Bigfoot and Cryptozoology were so overwhelmed, they crashed..

Everyone wanted to know about the body—and evidence that were promised to be revealed at a big, California-based press briefing..

But alas—when Friday’s news conference rolled around—all we got was a lot of talk like this:

Yeah, Matthew Whitton sounds like a nice guy— But, Matt buddy— if you’ve got one of the greatest scientific discoveries of the age—you’d best show me the evidence.

I’m sure Matt knows all about evidence—because in real life—he’s a full-time cop.

Cops know that you’ve gotta prove your case..

And, Officer Matt, in the court of public opinion—we have thrown your case out.

When Matt and company announced their find, they issued a press release that talked of a 7 foot tall, 500 pound body.

The DNA results they presented showed their samples contained both human and possum DNA, as well as one result that was inconclusive.

Hardly convincing.

BUT, if they’d had the purported creature’s corpse there on display—well, it would go a long way towards discounting the DNA..

With an unknown species there for all to see, we might have bought the conclusion the DNA samples were contaminated.

All we got were a few ambiguous photographs…

And with a 7-foot body, they certainly could have spared a few dozen swatches of skin, as well as hair, or fur to hand out to reporters who could have had that stuff tested independently IF the Bigfoot hunters REALLY had the goods..

But I’m afraid they only “goods” they have was a good laugh on the rest of the world.

As for me— I’m not gonna believe they’ve got Bigfoot unless he shows up at the Democratic Convention in Denver.

I hear tell—-that’s a REAL possibility.

—Steve

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As I go through life, the depths of my ignorance never cease to amaze me.

For example—-as kids often do—mine will fight with each other on road trips…. As I try my best to keep them separated—I’ll often hear “Dad, MacKenzie is looking at me!!!”

I’ll reply with something like, “Looks don’t hurt—now keep quiet and let me drive!”

Well—turns out I was wrong. Really, really wrong.

Apparently—looks not only can hurt—they can destroy objects!

This story linked here says cosmologists believe “by observing dark energy the universe has been nudged closer to its death .”

It all gets rather complicated—and involves quantum mechanics and physics that require calculations too complicated for me to do on my fingers.

The bottom line is that we apparently are sucking the life out of the universe by using telescopes and such to observe things like dark matter.

As best as I can understand it—it’s kind of like water spilled on a counter top and a paper towel.

The spill stays there until we lay the paper towel on it. The water still exists—but it’s now sucked into the paper towel instead of being on the counter top.

The same thing is apparently happening in space when we look at objects. We suck up their photons—slowly draining them of their existance in their present state…

Now— the good news is that we’re not going to kill the universe tomorrow.

We’ve got a couple of YAZILLION epochs before it occurs.

(In case you’ve run out of fingers, that’s more than a milliondy-trilliondy-gazilliondy years)

So, we’ve got enough time left to accomplish what needs to be done in our lives.

In my case—that means finding a way to get the kids to ride quietly in the back of the van so I won’t miss that turn we were supposed to make 2 miles back….

—Steve