I can hardly believe it. Just the other day the news media (including CNN) justified the lack of coverage of the John Edwards story on the basis that it would be irresponsible to cover sufficiently unsubstantiated story claims. O.k, a 7 foot something giant with a heat signature that would easily detectable by homeland security? What am I missing???

It seems strange to me that we can put someone away or in some cases to death on the basis of eyewitness accounts. But when thousands come forward and say they’ve seen ‘Bigfoot’ it is not used as ‘evidence’. I don’t know if Bigfoort exists or not but I wouldn’t be so quick to ignore the eyewitness because it makes that person seemed biased before they ‘know’ what true or false. Science is suppose to be a neutral party and examine the evidence not make a judgement before you’ve seen it.

If anything shows the failure of public education in the United States, it is your polling results that 43 percent of people believe “creatures” like “bigfoot” exist. Even rudimentary knowledge of genetics would show there is no way that a viable, reproducing population of ape-like creatures, could exist in a country whose forests, etc., have been trampled by professional biologists, sportsmen, and hikers alike without discovery sometime in the 19th century, if not earlier.

It is still a joke that you waste time on this, though. Oh, right, just giving us what we want. Ha.

My inclination is that its true…however..I am disappointed in the games of not releasing a bunch of photos and information…my fear is that the evolutionists and the clique of scientists that will destroy evidence before ever admitting they could be wrong…..about ANYTHING! is looming its ugly head……this is not the first time our illustrious govt or smithsonian has buried evidence…….take the time to do some research on the hundreds and hundreds of giants skeletons that have been found, yet….why does no one report this, what happened to the skeletons that were confiscated? Also the same problem with the immense amount of UFO sightings…face it, not everyone that reports such is a nutcase! Afraid bigfoot, if real, is going the same route!

I am so glad CNN ran with the story whether it is true or not. The public has to be aware of all that is going on. I’m sick of who is going to be president and all the war crap. In a way the Bigfoot coverage is refreshing.
I went into Websters Dictionary and looked up the definition of 2 words.
The first one is Fraud and the second is Joke.Here are the results:
FRAUD: (1) Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person
(2) A person who makes deceitful pretenses
(3) Something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage.
JOKE: (1) A humerous anecdote or remark.
(2) Activity characterized by good humor.
(3) A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and anusement.
I am a person who likes a good joke but on the other hand I hate being tricked. The problem with this issue is the very fine line between the two. Personally,I believe it to be a hoax. There are to many
inconsistencies in the story.

Ok, yes, I believe this could be real, but everyone is entitled to their opinion. I don’t want to argue the facts either way here, but I would like to thank CNN for covering the story with as little bias as possible. I was watching FoxNews (which was probably my main problem in the first place) the day of the press conference, and the anchor, blatantly and sarcastically wrote the entire thing off, stating, and I quote, “we have REAL news to report on.” I’m sorry, but on the off chance this is real, wouldn’t this be one of the biggest scientific finds in this decade? Now, I just really want this to be real so Fox can eat their words. Thank you for reporting the news CNN, which is what your SUPPOSED to be doing. Thus why you guys are my homepage. Keep it up!

-M-

Actually, I would think that CNN’s editorial board should spend more time explaining why the basic proper use of language has gone down the toilet on the copy you publish.

Before you rise to your own editorial defense — the excuse “we run under tight deadlines” is just that: an excuse; “we simply transfer text from the news wires” is another excuse for laziness. It is called Spell Check. Microsoft Word’s spellchecker may be annoying but even Bill Gates’s employees still know how to spell the possessive of IT.

Then again, I don’t know why I worry about it… it’s not like anyone cares about grammar or spelling anymore.

God bless the Internet & TXT MSGS.

The coverage by CNN has been outstanding. They were careful to not get in early and feed the hype, but stepped in when the story became huge, worldwide. It appears that the Bigfoot is a widely available costume used in a hoax, but it was very interesting and newsworthy.

Over 40% of the CNN users polled believe that Bigfoot exists and a large community of scientists and researchers has compiled impressive evidence (such as amazing footprints collected by Dr. Meldrum.) According to Jane Goodall and many others, this evidence highly compels science to continue the search.

I would expect this kind of “defense” editorial concerning’s CNN’s coverage of say, the prelude to war in Iraq. But a bigfoot story?

The bottom line is that CNN dropped the ball by not referring this story to Nancy Grace, who could have had relatives on her show to recount their memories of “the victim” (the fur suit in the fridge).

Now if you don’t mind, I’m going to go back to today’s “top stories” according to CNN), like how a mom somewhere is shocked by her teen’s modest clothing. Go get ‘em CNN!

Bigfoot, global warming, vast right wing conspiracies, these are all legitimate pop culture topics with no evidence, scientific or otherwise for their existence. I only wish that these other topics would be reported as honestly as the bigfoot articles where the reporters acknowledge that they really don’t believe what they are writing about.

Where are the pictures they showed at the press conference? Surely the technology exists to put them online so we can see them.

As a news organization, I would hope/expect CNN to disregard its profit margin to make news sensational. This is a shame that you are reporting on news to attract people, and make more money. This is a good example when news corporations should be a not for profit organzation, such as NPR.

News drive people’s opinion, people’s opinion most of the time drive Politician… so does that leave us. News should just be objective, why does the big foot story is shown on the front page of CNN.com? Does it deserve it? no! Does this bring CNN money? Yes indeed!.

With an a quagmire in Iraq, politicians lying to the public, news has become a big joke to me. It is time for news organization to clean up,

I’m impressed that you can know so little and say so much about this topic.

You said, “None have mentioned that anyone, anywhere, has produced a single Bigfoot bone, or shred of flesh. Elvis sightings have as much forensic evidence. That’s where the evidence starts. For all practical purposes, including the legacy of proven hoaxes, the evidence, or lack thereof, pretty much doesn’t end.”

There is actually a lot of forensic evidence out there to support the existence of a new primate. There is hair, scat, audio recordings, DNA evidence indicating a nun-human/unknown primate, and footprints containing dermal ridges and bone structure that would be virtually impossible to recreate. Not to mention the hundreds of sightings. To be honest, there is much more evidence than when the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was “rediscovered”.

You also mentioned that no one has found, “a single Bigfoot bone, or shred of flesh”. Do you have any idea how difficult a prospect that is? You should interview park rangers around the country and ask them how many bears, bobcats, and mountain lions they find identifiable remains from that have died of natural causes. They are extremely rare because the bodies are eaten and/or break down and are scattered quickly. It is also know that many injured or ill animals travel to very remote locations to die. With population density and habitat taken into consideration, it isn’t all surprising that a body or bones have not been found.

In all honesty, this so-called body runs a huge chance of being a hoax. However, there is a lot of evidence indicating that there is something out there that warrants SERIOUS research. It isn’t hard to find the evidence if you look in the right places. Any research involving Jeff Meldrum is a great place to start.

I agree that several respectable scientists need to have the opportunity to view and study the actual body, if indeed it is any kind of body. I also think that these men need to be very careful as to whom is allowed the opportunity, as well as the need for security.
I have a feeling that by the time anyone outside of this story is granted the privilege to see the body it will have mysteriously vanished and other “DNA evidence” will be offered instead.
Like many others that refuse to believe this as real, I want to be proven wrong. PROVEN wrong, not a bunch of heresay and bogus evidence.
These guys may have gotten in over their heads with this, did they really think that anyone with a general sense of logic would simply believe them just because they said so? I don’t know if they intended for anyone to actually touch and study the body but rather hoped that the pictures would be good enough evidence.
I eagerly await the date and time for the scientific community to witness for themselves, take some actual DNA evidence and study all of it.

Remember a long, long time ago when all the world, goverments and the church thought the world was FLAT, and killed anyone who made a different point of view. How far have we moved in our own thinking. Many extinct animals have been also found lately. Our knowledge is always changing and growing in this world we live in.

Peter,

After being in the broadcasting industry for over 24 years, I think it’s important to air different stories and let the public decide…That’s what I think good news coverarge is about. So much war, so many killings,
bad things in the world today, why not give the public something different to exercise their mind. If the bigfoot story is true great! what a good discovery and CNN had the insight to take a chance on it. If it’s not true, then…well, at least it was entertainment for the moment.

I think you and the rest of the staff there at CNN do an amazingly incredible job on all of your stories. I personaly thank you for covering this one in particular, I can remember when Walter Conkrite first covered the Bigfoot story back in the eary 70ies…Walter gave the story the same sound coverage as he did any other story he choose to cover. I think CNN does the same but with an open mind…Remember one thing…..”The World is Watching” Thanks for doing a great job.

Sincerely,
David Thomas Atlanta,Ga

Hi,
I would like to thank you for covering the bigfoot story,for those of us wishing to escape the political news. Logically speaking who is to rule out a new species being discovered.
Keep up the good work.

I can appreciate the justification you give for publishing the story in the first place. In a sense, the fact that people are reading the story retroactively makes the decision to run it look pretty good.

But in this case, I think there are other factors to consider. I personally read the story because I was surprised to see a story about bigfoot on a serious news site. I was pretty surprised to read the story and see that this is nothing new–a couple of guys say they found bigfoot, without any evidence worth mentioning.

If CNN.com ran a story “Man claims to have captured an alien”, everyone would read it. If the content of the story was some crackpot making wild unsubstantiated claims, then I would say it’s not newsworthy, even though people would read it.

Summed up: I’m surprised CNN ran the story. I don’t think a high number of page hits justifies this sort of content. The guys claiming to have found bigfoot haven’t earned any publicity yet, except maybe from the tabloids.

Peter we are glad you reported it, including what your personal beliefs are. And frankly it was a nice distraction from a stressful world.
I note that while all this was going on NBC did a poll of Americans asking should we take ‘In God We Trust ‘ off the dollar bill and I believe it was somewhere near or over 86% of the respondents said No-do not remove, and it was also noted this was the greatest response they had to any polls ever taken. That to me is newworthy. yet CNN did not, to my knowledge, mention this.
You know from my previous post I am a believer in Jesus Christ as the son of God. Many assume because they haven’t seen him he doesn’t exisit yet I and millions others know it to be true. With that said, I think it would be ignorant of any human to assume they have the full knowledge of what this planet does or does not hold. I am sure there is still much to learn. Though I am not sure if a BigFoot exist it wouldn’t surprise me if it were true..anything is possible. Wasn’t it your blog who recently posted that it was just recently realized that the octupus has two legs..when for years it was viewed as only arms?
My point is. Keep an open mind because thsi world is full of wonderful mysteries and truths that we have not seen yet they exisit.

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I will reserve judgement on this whole Sasquatch business until an investigation by credible biologists and anthropologists can be made…oh who am I kidding? This is such complete BS, I cant believe anyone with any kind of intelligence would believe such a creature could sustain itself in that environment, at the same time flying under the radar. Give me a break please! These “hunters” should be charged for wasting everybody’s time.

What truely dissapoints me is that CNN, a once reputable source, is opting to sell stories that are more profitable than relavent. If Bigfoot had been found, the relavancy would be huge, but this story proved little or no evidence of truth. I would consider that everyone from CNN to the New York Time’s coverage of this story is mere pandering and a lame attempt of getting people to ignore our failing governmental structure and with it, the economy.

Bigfeet? LOL!!!

I know there is alot of skeptisism about Bigfoot, and I was one at one time, until July of 1999. As a Native American, the story was passed down many generations about this creature. We call him the hairy man in our language ” Imu i tapi” But I thought it was just a legend carried down in oral history, My parents live near Glacier National Park, just on the edge of the park. Many times we heard strange screams, but could never identify what kind of animal made them, but our Native people have a strong belief not to bother them or hunt them, or even dress up like them. We consider them spiritual so we would never try to do a hoax of any kind with them. So in 1999 I was sitting looking out the dining room window, and I saw a tall black creature looking at our house, I took me less then 3 seconds to grab the binoculars and as I got focused on it, it was walking into the trees. but the distance away from the tree line was quite a distance and no human being could walk that fast and make the tree line in the time it took me to see it with the binoculars, my mother was there with me and witnessed the sighting also. We did not try to track it down, we accepted what we saw and went on with life. I think it’s a blessing to be able to see a bigfoot, how many people in the world would love to see one and I did! Thanks for letting me comment

The reason that I am wasting my time to post about this subject (BTW, I have never posted to any other CNN blog prior to this story coming out) is because I am unhappy that this hoax is happening and that the media are paying so much attention to it. As the author of the above blog says, no remains of bigfoot have ever been found (unless you count the gigantopithecus teeth found in China). However, whenever a serious researcher finds interesting new footprints, handprints, etc. (some of them showing the creases of actual skin) and a fingerprint expert confirms that the fingerprint does not belong to any known species of primate. Or when DNA evidence is un-covered at the location of a sighting and the results do not match with any known animal..the mainstream media does not pay any attention. It’s not incontrovertable evidence but it’s a lot more respectable than what is being presented in this hoax story. It’s a shame that this story is getting more attention than it deserves.

I’m glad you’ve covered it!

Wow, there sure are a lot of whiny readers out there. It’s your product, and you have chosen to mix some light-hearted pieces with the never-ending parade of somber stories from around the world. Many other news outlets do the same. It’s perfectly justifiable, and the hits tell you that people like it.

Don’t worry about those who feel the need to constitently complain about their free news coverage. I have no sympathy for these sad little people. Your headlines are not misleading. If those readers want to only see stories about war, dismemberment, and mudslingling, they only have to look at the links they click. Or they can go elsewhere for their free news.

Even so, thanks for taking the time to explain your approach. I found it interesting.

Thanks for taking the time to report on this story. I do believe that CNN writing a story on this topic gives the story a little more credibility. I am certainly more likely to take a CNN seriously then National Enquirer. Hoax or not, it’s been a blast to follow the reports. In this chaotic and pessimistic world, it’s a welcome refreshment to the negativity that is usually reported. It almost provides hope that there’s something else out there that we don’t know about. We can’t possibly know it all already, can we?

I think it’s a sad commentary on society when people who do not know anything more about a topic besides what they’ve seen in the enquirer and in films, make up their minds that something either is or isn’t true.

Yes, I saw the “press conference”, yes I was angered that they didn’t produce anything other than a couple of photos. Yes I am disturbed that or whatever reason, this may be complete BS. So, you all think “thats it” - “see it’s a hoax”. Well if you dig deeper into this, and look around the world at the amounts of sightings of these “wild men”, you’ll see that people have been seeing and interacting with these things since recorded time. The story of Gilgamesh (written thousands of years ago) describes Enkido a “wild man of the forest” depicted as a very hairy man. The Yeti, The Orang Pendek, wild men of Russia and Europe. Yes Sasquatch (which is a Native American name for the animal also thousands of years old), Skookum (another Native American word for the creatures). There are things in this world that we haven’t discovered yet, I’m not saying that this animal is real, but the evidence when you look at it ( not the Inquirer evidence, but scientificly collected evidence) does support the contention that a small number of Bipedal Ape-like animals can exist.

The one thing that that guy said in the press conference that he was correct on, is just how vast and yes, unexplored parts of this continent are. In the Northwest alone, 72 aircraft that have crashed over the past 30 years are still lost, never having found the wreckage, or the bodies. Up in Canada, a large herd of Bison were discovered in apparent isolation when science thought these animals were practically extinct. Funny thing about that is, they were found within 100 miles of Human habitation.
Over 150,000 Gorillas were just found in Africa, twice what was thought to be the current population by every scientist.

For this alone, yes it is possible, but there is so much more evidence. Footprints with Dermal ridges, sound recordings that have been analized and judged to be unlike any known animal call and outside the vocal range of a human voice. There have been hair samples that have been shown to belong to an unknown animal, and the list goes on.

If we allow for eye witness accounts, and why shouldn’t we? We convict criminals on the basis of eye-witnesses, but we can’t even look into the possibility of this species because everyone that see’s one is crazy or a publicity hound? Eye-witness accounts, and some video and film footage clearly shows something that doe not walk like us, or behave like us. The ones that I feel are real, do not look ike people in a ape costume. They walk like a large animal, the move in a very fluid, ape-like way. They don’t have their heads above their shoulders, as we do, and need to turn their upper body to look at something behind them. These are traits shared by the great apes, not people. This is not a “missing link” or “half-man- half-ape”. This if real in my opinion , is just another ape species that we will need to protect and examine.

I don’t “believe” in Sasquatch, Bigfoot or whatever you want to call them. I know that the possibility of their existance is real, and that it should be studied in depth to find out one way or the other.

Hey hey now, let’s not group leprechauns in with the sasquatch…as one could imagine it is not wise to irritate a 500 pound gorilla, just imagine what its like to irritate someone who is very small and suffers from “hard-core sundrome”…the shorter you are the angrier you are. After all, there’s a reason why the Irish are sometimes referred to as the “Fighting Irish”.

As for the reporting on Big Foot and his/her kin (skunk ape, yeti, and the Russian Almas), I personally would like to believe that they exist. That somehow, somewhere in our over populated, technologically advanced age where we have created an illusion of superiority over our domain, that somehow these things have elluded us, have tricked us into thinking that they do not exist. I am not debating the probability, I am doubtful that they exist, but I read the stories because a part of me hopes that one day they will step out in the middle of Time’s Square, point and laugh and say the Big Foot version of “Nanny Nanny Boo Boo”.

So, I say go ahead and report, it is not a waste of time. It helps distract us from the more gloomy things such as Georgia vs. Russia, and what is going to come out of the mouths of our potential presidential candidates. And to top it all off, at least if it comes from CNN I will take it more seriously than if I had read it on The Onion.

BigFoot-SmigFoot.

CNN is right to report it even if it is a crock.

I have very little doubt that this specific claim is a hoax. Given the recent discovery of 125,000 gorillas in the Congo and a new species of something different every week, it would be arrogant to suggest we know everything about what is living and what is not. Also given the number of sightings it would be foolish to completely ridicule the idea that an unknown species of great ape exists. It would also be foolish to take the word of a couple of guys from GA when they won’t even produce the body they claim to have. BTW Bob… Homeland security can’t find the people they are looking for, much less bigfoot. ; )

I think that you guys are doing the only responsible thing given the situation. And that is, to call them out. To say, we are here, we are listening, now show us the indisputable evidence to support your claim. And that also requires them to be held accountable in the event that this is nothing more than a hoax. These guys make the most incredible discovery since penicillin and the only evidence they have to show for it are three photos that are of less than stellar quality. My cell phone takes better pictures. And the questionable DNA inconclusiveness leads me to cry wolf.

By being open and not blacking out this story, perhaps future charlatans will think twice before trying to insult the intelligence of the American public.

damn, you mean leprechauns aren’t real?

i’m not buying that cnn has duty to “report” what it’s readers are interested in. but in any case, how do you know? what objective criteria for reader interest level are applied? i’m guessing that you’re guessing, which completely undermines this and makes it nothing more than the most transparent of rationalizations.

as it happens i have a friend who is a bigfoot researcher. he takes it quite seriously. his comment to me on the ga claims “these guys are well known hoaxers from way back.” would have been nice for this viewpoint from within the bf research community to be reflected in cnn’s “reporting.”

from Peter Dykstra: Thanks Alan. As this post says, the Bigfoot story ranks third among the 250 or so posts in the history of this blog, both in terms of page views and reader responses. I don’t think that leaves any doubt that the story has drawn a lot of interest. Our initial judgement is based on past experience. The numbers have validated that judgement, and they’re our “objective criteria for reader interest level.”

There is more evidence of bigfoot than there is of god.

Whether or not Bigfoot is real, it inspires the imagination and provides a brief escape from grim reality. As the world seems to fall apart around us, stories like this provide relent. It doesn’t matter if Bigfoot is real or not. What matters is that we never lose our imagination and never forget that there is so much that we do not understand about this world.

“A special thanks goes out to the several people who took the time to write and complain that CNN was wasting their time.”

You’re not welcome for stating that you have been biased. I guess CNN should be used for blogging opinions than actual news.

I’m batman

It’s amazing how few people understand how science works. In general, someone comes up with an idea and gathers evidence to prove it. Then he or she presents the hypothesis to his or her peers. The peers do their best to destroy the hypothesis and the scientist and his allies does his or her best to defend it. If the scientist can sucessfully defend it, then it becomes a theory.

Scientists are not afraid of bigfoot, they just demand evidence. Sitings are extremely weak evidence. The biggest piece of evidence against bigfoot is that there have been sitings for hundreds of years but noone has ever shot one, or found a dead body or a piece of hair or anything else.

There have been very few new large land animals found in the last 100 years because they tend to be relatively easy to find. The few that have been found were well known by the locals but western scientists were unable to get samples because of their remote location or a location in a war zone. Good scientists don’t ignore the locals, they just take things with a grain of salt until there is more evidence.

Personally, I would like to say thank you for reporting on this. I am a Bigfoot believer and I just want the truth about this whole thing and you are the only news site to update your reports. If this truly IS a Sasquatch body, then this will prove to be a HUGE story and you can be proud that you reported it to people who really have an interest in the story.

It’s not likely real, and thanks a lot to these yoyos for making Georgia look like New Jersey. What would be hilarious is if this IS real, and they’ve gone straight to the biggest hoaxer they could find thinking he was an ‘expert.’ If there are Pithecanthropi still extant, you’ll find them in the kind of deep woods Georgia lacks; try out west or up north. Or in a beef jerky commercial . . .

I have to agree, people complaining about wasting their are wasting their own time. Nobody made them read it. I also agree that given the history of the presenters and the lack of evidence even now, it is mostly likely a crock. And I will have much enjoyment from anybody who continues to flame you over the matter. News is news and if you don’t like it, don’t read it. I have yet to see a link on CNN make me read anything nor do I think it will ever start.

It is important to report this story, if for no other reason, than to put this Tom Biscardi clown permanently out of business and get his hayseed cop associate out of a job as well. There was a time when parasitic morons like them were tarred and feathered.

I have to admit that the likelyhood of this being legit is a pinch above nil. I’m only giving it that much because these guys seem to be putting a hell of a lot on the line by taking it to this level…reputation and all. I wouldn’t want to be known as the guy who tried to trick the world with a fake bigfoot so it stands to reason that these guys believe they have the real thing.

I can’t help but be hopefull because the kid in me is enjoying the possibility of it all and the adult in me is enjoying reading about something exciting that doesn’t involve anything about oil costs or casualties of war.

I’m looking forward to seeing the autopsy results.

It’s odd that you report on Bigfoot, because, as you say, that’s your job. And yet, for the last 8 years, you haven’t reported on vote rigging in the last 2 presidential elections, though it has been proven by black box voting.org many times. Apparently that’s NOT your job. It’s good to know what’s important.

My only comment would be that CNN had a story several weeks back (and several other news agencies carried it also) about what I believe were Mountain Gorillas. There were supposedly 150,000 of these animals found in the Congo which doubled the size of the known population which were on the endangered species list I believe.

Now if we can find in 2008 approximately 150,000 apes bigger then me which doubles the population in the wink of an eye why would it be such a hard leap to imagine that a creature like Big Foot could elude us. The Native Americans have stories of this creature long before we set foot on the continent.

The Africans had legends of a “hairy creature” and in 1912 we found that this wasn’t just a legend but a real animal.

I don’t know for sure, but I certainly and not going to say it cannot be because we have explored it all and we know it all because I don’t believe we have, or we do.

The reporting on this story has been a ratings grab and a journalistic joke from the beginning.

There is a gorilla preserve in North Georgia off of Lowrey Road in Morganton. Even if they did find “something”, you’d think that someone somwhere in CNN’s reporting would have mentioned that fact at some point.

While CNN has been fast on the trigger with bigfoot, I’ve noticed terrible silence on the story of the folks in China caught bringing in Bibles who had them confiscated. You would think that story, which Fox is running prominently, would be more important, as it demonstrates that the largest nation on Earth is still a human rights abusing nightmare even while they host the Olympics.

But no, you ran the bigfoot story.

You can justify and rationalize all you want, but you aren’t journalists.

You’re capitalists. You always have been. I’ll take two CNN “Bigfoot Found” t-shirts and a mug, please. Screw freedom of religion - I want my pop stars and bigfoot stories!

I’m not saying that bigfoot is real by any means but this is just a clear symbol that the media has gotten away from reporting the facts. Over three times in this article it is stated that CNN has already declared this entire bigfoot story is a hoax with no real evidence showing for or against the creature being real. It is fine for the reporters and newscasters to have their own opinions off of the camera but for them spout off their own agenda on such a silly story makes me worried about how serious they look at the facts on other stories they report on. CNN as well as all the other ridiculous 24 hour news stations are telling us what we should think about each and every story. I think its time for news to get back to reporting news. Us humans tend to be able to think for ourselves and formulate our own opinions AFTER all the facts are in on a story. Thanks for the bias CNN!

Where are the two ‘witnesses’ they say helped them move this from the woods to the freezer?

Why no pictures or video of the ‘body’ where they found it?

This is a hoax and these guys should be thrown out of any scientific related issues…if you want a side-show…you got it!

I have no problem with CNN running stories like this on occassions. CNN saw hits on the article not because people thought it was real, but because people wanted a light story for a change. Now i don’t want to see CNN turning into a tabloid, 99% of their daily content should be the days real news. I don’t see why people are so upset that CNN covered the story, it’s an overreaction. if you don’t like it, don’t read it.

Now it’s clearly not a real bigfoot. UFO’s and Bigfoots do not exist. I really wish they did, but they don’t. There have been so many UFO sightings and bigfoot expeditions and even with all those sightings and expeditions, humans have never found any conclusive evidence of either. The probability of never finding any conclusive evidence with such frequent sightings and expeditions is almost zero. Don’t even get me start on government cover-ups, what would be the point of covering up a bigfoot discovery. I don’t believe in UFO’s but i could kind of see why a cover-up could happen, to prevent the nation from panicking, to secretly study their technology, etc. But the world would not go into a panic about bigfoots nor would there be any technology for us to study.

The problem is not that you covered Bigfoot…the problem is that CNN has less and less news, more and more fluff…and the news they DO cover is usually about a missing blonde girl.

I can’t believe people would complain about a news team covering a story like this, which has a .001% chance of being important, but not complain about news teams covering celebrity news, which has no bearing on anyone’s daily lives.

The way I see this is that a news organization has a responsibility to report what is going on in the world and do it without prejudgment. Unfortunately, too often, with certain subjects, this is not true. You can hear the bias clearly from the anchor’s snickers and jokes. While some stories ultimately deserve exposure as hoaxes they never deserve derision. Investigative journalism is supposed to get to the bottom of a story through examination which is no less of a task than a scientist often has to go through. So, you at CNN can pretend to take the high road on your pretended unbiased reporting with things like Bigfoot, ghosts, Loch Ness, UFOs, etc., but one day perhaps you’ll all get caught with your big feet in your mouths.

Covering obvious garbage like this does damage to real science - no wonder why so many American’s have a hard time believing that global warming or evolution are real when CNN covers a bigfoot story so readily.

The impresario who ran the show has a track record of promoting at least one past proven hoax, and the two discoverers had, to put it very charitably, a very tough time accounting for themselves.

That info would have been helpful in the original story. had you put that in the original maybe there wouldnt be such an outpour of comments…bad writer. always make sure you source is credible.

Come on, Big Foots (Feet?) are make-believe, just like elves, gremlins, and eskimos

“this Bigfoot nonsense”? It’s funny, though also a bit sad, to see CNN put this twist on the story. When the story started, your writing was full of enthusiasm. You even headlined it on your homepage and posted the news conference as a live video stream. Hardly something that’s appropriate when you consider a story “nonsense”.

i dont know whether to believe the story or not. all i know, is that i REALLY want it to be true. which im sure is the case for many many people in the united states and across the world, who are in fact looking for an answer.
evolution is much more of a widespread belief than it used to be, and had become mainstream. its not so odd for someone to believe it. so if “bigfoot” is the real deal, or even if he isnt, i want to hear about it. i want to hear every little greusome detail.
Thank you CNN for running the story. we deserve to know whats going on AS HUMAN BEINGS. If this the real thing, it would ROCK the world of science, mythology (religion) and basically human understanding. in all honesty, isnt it harder to believe the ‘adam and eve’ story of creation than the simple fact of evolution?
for me it is. now, dont come shouting with your backles up. this is just my opinion…venting if you will.
believe it, or not, you should want to know the truth. the REAL truth.

I wish there was a 24-hour news network that would give me real news, not entertainment. Sadly, no such thing exists today.

I too was disappointed to see the CNN Science and Technology cover the Bigfoot story. While I accept that CNN has a journalistic duty as well as a (perfectly legitimate) profit motive in reporting on interesting stories, perhaps the story could have been covered under general news or even in the entertainment section.

If one takes the view that part of the journalistic duty of the science column is to educate, then perhaps it is time to consign Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, sightings of angels, apparitions of Jesus in a cat’s fur, “miracles” that occur every time there is an earthquake or hurricane, as well as the other examples of sheer myth you have cited to the “fascinating, but hardly science” sections of the paper.

A minimum level of “gatekeeping” (of the type that would prevent CNN from running a story alleging that a politician was having an affiar - in the absence of credible evidence, for example) in the science column would perhaps help an essentially scientifically illeterate public discern the difference between “mind candy” and real science.

Oh no! Someone killed Harry from Harry and the Hendersons!

Bastards

Funny. I wondered how these frauds were going to handle their press conference, especially considering they cannot possibly possess an animal that cannot possibly exist. And even after they showed up empty-handed at the new conference, people still want to believe their story.

Many of us wonder how the issue of man-made global warming got on the fast-track to dogmatism. Then we see the fanatical comments of those who believe that a giant hominid evolved out of nowhere and now lives unseen among legions of people.

I started this post with the word “funny.” It would have been more accurate to say “sad.”

Keep it coming. Its so much better then another child killed story. bahh there so many.

Think I’ll wait until they find some “real” evidence that can be not disclaimed say PRIMA FACIA type.

People like to complain just for the sake of complaining. My only interest left in this big foot hoax is seeing these morons admit they made the entire thing up to swindle believers out of $500, the price which coincidentally is the same price as the halloween costume they used in the photos.

Whatever the outcome it’s been fun. Bigfoot, UFO’S, vampires etc. It’s a nice break away from War, gas prices, murder and who is gonna run our country next or at least think there running it. I have not ruled it out yet ,for one thing if I found what I belived to be Bigfoot I would have $$$$ signs in my eyes for days, and would be very paranoid in what to do or who to trust, gov???? NOT. Who better than someone who’s life long dream was to find one or prove they exist. I’m not saying he isn’t a little shadey because from what I’ve read he has a track record, but I think I could trust him in what to do in this case.I also would’nt hand everything over all at once remember you have got to make as much $ as you can this does not happen everyday not to mention ever. First it’s the attention, then the hats and shirts, the book the movie the sponsors and then the highest bidder of the Bigfoot himself a fortune by itself. I will be dissapointed if this turns out to be a hoax I had plans to go camping in the north part of Georgia next month.

Now that somebody in the media seems to finally understand how to report on popular fairy tales, maybe CNN will take it one greatly needed step further and apply the same skepticism to the menagerie of religious devotees fouling up our society.

CNN, you have become a joke. You copy and paste fluff news stories from the AP and, as has been pointed out in the other comments, you often do not bother to spell-check or fact-check. You try to justify yourself by saying that this is the news in which your readers are interested, but that is hardly justification. Your job is to report the news…REAL NEWS. If high page hits are your concern, then why not pander completely to the lowest common denominator and turn into TMZ or The Weekly World News?

So, it’s all about web hits and money? Nice. You have stained your reputation in the eyes of millions….

I suggest considering that Bigfoot beings, which have been seen on numerous continents, are multi-dimensional. They have often been seen in association with UFOs. Many people who have encountered Bigfoot have had telepathic communication with them. I recommend reading Psychic Sasquatch by Kewaunee Lapseritis. The reason they have managed to evade capture, etc. could be because of their ability to go in and out of this dimension, like an alien or an angel. I would liken them more to Chewbacca than to an ape. They are the “keepers of the Earth” as they have told those they’ve encountered.

I like reading the stories because they appeal to the 12 year old boy that still lives inside me somewhere that wants so badly to believe in things like Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the loch ness monster. I also like someone else above stated, enjoy the break from wars and politics and abused children and yada yada yada. The real question of course is if bigfoot is real and we can establish a dialogue with their leader, will they play in the NFL and/or NBA, and will Drew Rosenthaus be representing them?

I agree with Simon (3 previous). Those of us working in the field of science work hard to convey global warming and evolution to a population willing to listen, but still doubtful of what they see or hear. Stories like Bigfoot kick us back a few steps each time. CNN needs to focus on real science with in-your-hand proof.

“J” makes a good point about fluff in CNN. You sound pretty pretentious coming off all high and mighty about how you think bigfoot is crap, but golly-gee, you have to report it anyway.

You should apologize for all the coverage you’ve given Angelina and Brad in the past. I’d rather read about crop circles than those two idiots, and nobody covers them like CNN.

i trust cnn to tell it like it is and they did. they let you know that big foot probably wasnt true.they were reporting every angle.it was up to us to have since enough to beleive or not and read between the lines.thank you cnn.

I want to thank you at CNN for covering this “story” and to let you guys know that the people who research “bigfoot” and even believers of bigfoot do not buy into this hoax.

Personally, I hope that “he” is real. I’m not a skeptic nor am I a believer. I am simply a person that believes that everyone has the right to make their own decisions. If you believe that “Bigfoot” is real, that is your decision to make. If you believe it is a hoax, that is your decision to make. But again, I hope he is real just for the skeptics out there.

I also agree with the people that say the “Bigfoot” story is a nice break. I’m tired of seeing the same old thing day in and day out. “Another Child is Missing” “Another American Killed in Iraq”, It’s nice to have a change of pace.

I’m upset that you’ve failed to cover the most important story of the year–the mysterious disappearance of the American public’s sense of humor. Get on that.

At the news conference it was presented that they had a corpse and preliminary DNA results came back as “human”. Why has law enforcement not jumped all over this statement and demanded their own inquiry?

You’ve gotten more interest and views because people would think CNN would have more decency than to report such an absurd story if there weren’t some truth to it. Your comment about how you report what gets attention is exactly what the National Enquirer does.

personally I think Bigfoot lives next door to me. It is a hairy smelly beast that likes to be reclusive but come out at night and throw feces on my lawn.

If this was a sex scandal you guys would be getting all the angles on it. They say that scientists are looking at this. You should have people working on finding out who they are and their backgrounds.

This is a blog…one should expect opinion tossed in. But when talking about the main page of CNN website…

News 101
Just the facts please.

Why report on Bigfoot? It is certainly more interesting than the thousands of hours and words devoted to Britney, Lindsay, Angelina and babies etc. Way more fun too! Maybe it is a hoax, so what, it’s still news.

the newspapers have comic strips, cnn has bigfoot,

face it, a lot of us think that is is possible for bigfoot to be out there, so it is news, if it was real and they did give hard proof that it is in the icebox and cnn didnt at least talk about it then everyone would say that cnn is part of some consperacy to cover it up, cnn , good job, and sorry that you cant win, we americans are a people who like to (lady dog in heat) about everything, they are mad that you wrote about it but they cant get thier noses out of your blog about it.

Oh yeah, give the sheeple what they want.

I can see it now - Bigfoot, astride a gleaming white unicorn, does battle with chupracobras to rescue the Holy Symbol of Christ (i.e. Jesus’ face in toast or some other sundry thing). Somehow, Brad and Angelina will figure in the story as well - perhaps they’re there to adopt the orphaned chupracobra young after their parents met with the mounted Bigfoot. And hey! Maybe we can even plug some Oprah “stuff” (used euphemistically) at the end!

Certainly you guys have the right to say what you want and even an obligation to turn a profit. But by catering to the lowest common denominator (and people who sat in anticipation of a Bigfoot discovery, especially after the hoax was made abundantly clear, are certainly that) you’ve abrogated the purpose of news media in an open society - to inform the public of important events and people so as to increase their ability to reason their own interests. As one noted journalist said, “If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”

Wholly crap, I just had an epiphany!

These guys were trying to incase this thing in ice so that they could sell tickets to see it and being incased in ice nobody could reach over and pull out a handful of fun fur or carpet fibers. But the freezer they bought was a frost free one so they were not able to incase it in ice, like the Minnesota ice man and sell tickets at the fair. They wanted to be carnies. Now that is having high aspirations in life. And because that failed they went to plan # 2 sell $1,000 tickets to the big foot safari. And I don’t think there will be many fish biting that hook so now they are stuck behind the 8 ball and they are going to have to come up with a conspiracy of how they got robbed. And the government took it to the moon base or area 51.

I agree that CNN should cover extremely popular hoaxes, just as it would have been wrong not to do a news story on something like the hubbub over H.G. Wells famous War of the Worlds broadcast. (Not really meant as a hoax that time, but it unintentionally had the effect of one.)

But because the news media should be trying to enlighten and inform the public, rather than just pander to what they WANT to be told, I strongly feel that the HEADLINE of any such story should contain the word “Hoax” right in it. Many people will only glance at the headline and not read the story, and to reinforce any foolish tendency to believe in such nonsense - or contribute credibility to the perpetrators of the hoax and increase their ability to make money from such bull, by increasing the number of people whose only change in perception from glimpsing your headline is “Gee, seems like this one actually got reported on by major respectable media sources” - that’s bad journalism in my view.

Keep putting out as good a story as you can every time you run into this kind of thing - but make sure the headline is not only “not misleading”, but also shines a little light on the nature of the incident. “Latest Bigfoot Hoax Announced” would make me happy. But for “journalistic neutrality” I’d even put up with “Bigfoot Announcement: Another Hoax?” Anything that makes it clearer to the morons who’re too feebleminded to read a whole paragraph most of the time anyway. And fails to play as much into the hands of the scammers who count on you to help them make another dishonest buck off the gullible.

Oh, and to the guy who said it’s hard to find remains from other animals, like bears… Check with the people who take care of animal remains in the state of New Hampshire, where I lived for a year. Every bear that’s found dead from disease, being hit by a vehicle, shot somewhere, old age, etc. is hauled off and stored in a freezer. Once a year, New Hampshire holds a dead bear auction. The ones in better shape are sold to people who want to use them for taxidermy. The ones in worse condition are often sold for use as meat. Check your facts before you spout off about how “hard” it is to find animal remains in the wild.

This story was blown up consquently w/ Russia’s push into ‘Georgia’. It was necessary to have the usa Georgian’s focused on something else, because otherwise they would have been concerned about being invaded.

I can’t believe how closed minded alot of people are. They only believe what is right in front of them. I call these people “Bobbleheads” besause they can only comprehend what they have been programed over thier lifetime, to believe. Jusy wait until the news of Planet “X” finally gets on mainstream TV, or the fact that there are wide open areas within the earth the size of Rhode Island that we have no idea what species lives down there. The “Bobbleheads” heads are going to eplode from information overload.
WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! don’t be so arrogent in thinking you are the only thing in this Universe. I feel sorry for these people living in thier litte 9 - 5, go home and have dinner, go to bed world.
Keep up the good work CNN, maybe some of these people will wake up and realize………”we are not alone!”

I have seen things that would make them cr@p thier pants.

The proper plural form of Bigfoot is Bigfoots, as in, “Didja see those Bigfoots comin’ down the trail??” You wouldn’t say Sasqueetch, would you?

What I would like from CNN after this is “payback” I want you to villanize these men for this, if it turns out to be a hoax ! I have no idea why someone would do this, I don’t get the joke, and I don’t see how the time and effort to pull the wool over our collective eyes, can be more lucritive than other ventures with much less effort involved.
My wife just keeps saying “I’m cute” for thinking there was ever a shred of truth in this story. While I like the idea of being cute, there is something in the tone when she says it, that makes me believe it’s something less than a compliment. I fear there would be a tiny hidden place in my heart, that would stay angry forever if I thought these guys profitted in any way from this. So If this turns out to be a hoax, I want you to sick ‘em !

I think it’s imperative we destroy these Bigfeet where they live before they invade and take our oil.

Be it truth or hoax, thanks for covering the story. One never knows when myth might turn into fact. I have seen it happen before. For those who would be guilty of perpetrating a hoax, liars never win. The price for lying can sometimes be more than one is able to pay. A lifetime of guilt is not so funny.

If It Is possible, It should be reported!

If a Big Asteroid had 1 in a billion chance of hiting the Earth next year, You would report it!!!! “And Yes Apples And Apples”

Come on people, first you do not believe in the cave man and then they are all over TV. Now you do not believe in Big Foot? Also, someone made a comment about Big Foot’s teeth, what gives? As a member of Big Foots around Georgia and the US let me tell you that this blog is so easy a Big Foot can do it.

Chris (Big) Foot

Its a sad day when you can confidently defend such poor news! After the first news bulleting on this subject, I search the Interent in five minutes and realize this bigfoot story was a hoax. But you couldnt resist the ratings which shows your motivation. Your not newscasters, your a step above Ron Burgundy. Ratings are all well and good but see where they are when you have lost all your credibility!

I appreciate CNN having an open mind about such matters as Big Foot and reporting something fun to think about. Not everything in this world is simply cut. There are many mysteries in the world and whether this BigFoot turns out to be real or not it was fun going for the ride.

Dear CNN,

Please keep your America informed over the next few days, weeks, what develops with this story….don’t let it get pushed back into files.

Thanks!

I’m not sure that these Georgian boys are honest or not. However, at the very least, I think between the sightings, footprints, and photographic evidence, that it at least deserves more attention than the scientific community has given it.

The scientific community has said that cougars no longer live in the wild on the East Coast, when I know people who have seen courages in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and I saw one in Virginia. Further, two cougar sightings have been seen in the past few years around the University of Maryland College Park campus, just outside of Washington D.C.

I don’t know if Bigfoot is real. But I know that courages live on the East Coast. Mainstream science disagrees.

My hat is off to you and your above comments by the editor.
If you (all media) used that yardstick to measure (all) your reporting we would still live in a free country.

A pair of rednecks claim to have discovered the rotting remains of Santa Claus in a remote area of the Ozarks. Producing a box containing a tattered red suit, white beard, gold-rimmed glasses, and a pile of stinking mammalian entrails, Randall “Tater Jo” Cambell says he has video of Santa’s sleigh crashing into the woods.

Carrie Jackson’s sighting, most keep secret, not to be ridiculed.
Common hallucination, misindefication, or unusual creature ?
I have heard all kinds of stories. In addition, looked at GoogleEarth sightings.

Before Christmass, last year, I was at the wilderness edge.
One night, sounded like very loud chickens (not Space Chicken Invaders)
I thought Cyotes, with a sense of humor. Knowlegable person said sometimes.
Another night, like a young boy bawling, very loud, chased by dogs.
Next night, like a high pitched horse neighing. Outran the dogs.
Sounds moved into the distance, very fast. It was dark, did not press my luck

Between dogs, cyotes, bears, cougars, wolves, bones are recycled.
Maybe the SasQuatch are omnivore cannibals ?
Indian tribes avoid, cover their tracks, not to die civilized.
If a Bear, in a circus, could do it over, cloak presence, a life not to get.
SasQuatch, may have figured it out, live wild, or die as a trophy prize.

For all you you closed minded people , you should really let cnn do what they do there job , how do you know that Bigfoot is’nt real what makes you so right , you people probably have never even when into the woods because you are too scared. People have been trying to get evidence since at least forty years. That I can recall. I have hope and beleive they will finally put all this to rest, and hopefully this real deal finally, and leave the animals be!!!

It makes no real difference whether the Bigfoot phenomenon is legitimate or not: It is your responsibility to report the news. What the discerning reader DOES NOT WANT is your opinion about what you write. That’s called “yellow journalism,” so leave it our of your reporting. Believe it or not, we are now smart enough to draw our own conclusions about the stories we read—if you do your job well enough.

The writer of this blog willingly admits that CNN makes decisions on news coverage based on ‘page views’. Let me rephrase that. CNN bases news decisions on what the audience wants to hear. This should not be a great revelation to those of us who have noticed an entropic spiral in the quality of news presented to us. CNN just does not get it. Oh, sorry. I guess they DO get it. Indeed, they know very much what they are doing. The news that CNN gives us is determined by the almighty dollar. Hey CNN - here’s a newsflash - your reporting increasingly sucks. I suggest you know not what you do.

From Peter Dykstra: Thanks Paul, and the many others who have criticized my reasoning — some civil, some a bit blindly angry like yours. News organizations routinely get criticized for arrogance when they self-select what’s important and what’s not. Neither CNN nor I get paid based on the pageviews generated by this story, and I could not have possibly been more clear in expressing the perspective that this is a hoax. Raising questions about the hoax, and giving voice to people’s views on all sides — whether you approve of them or not — are valid uses of this blog. We’ve got nothing to apologize for.

All my life I have listened to people older than myself telling tales of how life was for them before something new was discovered, or invented. I have learned to live my life with an open mind and I find it much more interesting that way. Whether or not Mr. Bigfoot is real, I could not say. I do not believe one way or the other. I just know it is more interesting wondering if it exists or not. Science finds new species every day. Who knows what is yet to be discovered.

Guys like you are the same group that used to report the lack of evidence for the world being round !

The evidence is there. You and those like you choose to not believe it, dismiss it, blow it off, making up excuses and leaps of faithlike reasoning that are more ridiculous than the possibility of what you are trying to dismiss. Being in science myself the sad truth is science is still that way today. Little to do with fact and everything to do with popular opinion which gets labeled as scientific fact and passed to a public that has no idea this is the case cause they hold science with such awe due to their own lack of understanding.

Heck science is filled everyday with the “evidence” for dark matter. No one has seen it, produced it, touched it, and sure haven’t shown it off at a news conference which seems to be a problem for you. Unlike the bigfoot guys, they can’t even produce pictures. All they show up with with is numbers and graphs and say we can infer it’s existence from it’s influence on other things. HMMMM isn’t that the same as we can infer the existence of bigfoot from it’s inlfuence on other things by leaving tracks? But see popular opinion called science fact by some is in favor of one and not the other despite the latter having more evidence in fact. I don’t know of thousands of people having seen dark matter, produced a picture, a video, a track, or hundreds of ancient tribes geographically disconnected who had no way of talking to each other describing dark matter and going so far as to include it in pictograms on ancient indian sites along with other native animals which curiously enough contained NO mythological beasts from their tales but only the wild game we know existed.

[...] They should hang it up in shame. All this crap about bigfoot, and they say that they’re justified? [...]

Compared to the CNN international site, most of what is reported on this specific site is ridiculous and filler. So, I am not surprised to see topics such as Bigfoot on this site. What makes me sad, is to see how you (CNN) utilize it to attract people, rather than coming up with creative and intellectual ways to get people both to view your site and to educate them.

so you need forensic evidence to take a story seriously, but every three days you have a story about christianity and god. Why are those believers any more credible than the ones who believe in bigfoot, elvis or space aliens?

Is the manipulation of public concern through hoax considered fraud?

I hope these guys go to Prison.

A truly interesting story and subsequent coverage. This is what journalism is all about. I have always found Bigfoot stories captivating throughout the years. I find it even more interesting that those who are so fast to announce their skepticism and denounce the possibilities,took the time to follow the story, read associated articles and voice their opinions in the first place. There it is, the human sense of curiosity once again .A major “driving force” in journalism and ratings. Take that aspect away from the business and there wouldn’t be a tabloid or news industry. Personally, I hope it is a hoax. Surely human intervention would prove fatal. Had I found the carcass, I would have buried it and kept my mouth shut. I think I am going to go watch King Kong again.

get over it people…IT REALLY DOES EXIST…..

just ask me…i’ve got a big foot.

and if you don’t get off of Sasquatch’s back, i’ll stick my big foot right up your little hole.

just because you think you know everything and have seen all there is to see, does not mean you are not a retarded fool with a narrowminded outlook on reality and the billions of things in this universe you can’t even imagine, let alone believe.

you small minded fools are pathetic. there are so many more things so much bigger than you and your little pathetic lives out there that it makes you scared to the point you insist on denying them!!

Someone said there’s no evidence for bigfoot.

That is not entirely true. There’re cases with hair samples, but they’re rare and the ones we know of are inconclusive. Footprints are possibly the best instance of evidence available. There’re some audio recordings.

Google Jeff Meldrum to find out more about footprints and bigfoot research. Although his field doens’t agree with him, it’s worth doing.

The sightings are probably the most controversial. One of them I was lucky enough to see on our local news channel. It was the case in 2000 in the oregon caves. Google “Dr. Matthew A. Johnson” and “bigfoot” to research it. There’re others worth looking at, but that is easy enough to do simply by using the all powerfull google.

I think that bigfoot is probably misidentification of natural animals and events, but one cannot be entirely too sure. From my perspective, there’re vast areas of the wild mostly left alone. Stray hunters will venture into the deep woods, but there’re many places that remain very isolated even today. Most people I konw haven’t ventured more than a mile from any road and most don’t live in the deep forest. If bigfoot existed, we’d expect there to be sightings. We have that. We’d expect there to be dead bodies as well. We don’t have that. One must ask why we don’t have dead baddies? We can’t say that witnesses are lying without evidence. We can’t say that witnesses are misidentifying without evidence either. The only real conlusion is inconclusive.

Hmm….an individual revealing a story with no scientific proof isn’t nearly the same as CNN reporting a story that is merely heresay…kinda like Entertainment weekly. I wonder how long before you hire this bigfoot fella to start reporting from overseas say, in Iraq or Georgia…to get the plain truth that CNN so fervently strives for. Pots and Kettles are calling each other names again cause..the story wasn’t released through CNN. Hence the anger(jealousy) of the CNN reporters. I’m sure this won’t be posted cause..it’s CNN moderated…all the news, all the time…if we deem it news.

If anything is possible, all is possible.

Is CNN comfortable covering every hoax that comes its way? Most of CNN coverage is not news but a rehash of “true crime adventures”, celebrity gossip and trashy myths and monsters reports. CNN can’t be the National Inquirer and the NY Times at the same time. I guess the trailer trash stories get better ratings.

I want to congratulate you and CNN for reporting this. I think that we (the readers) regarless of our thinking or believes should get these news as the come. Who knows, it may be real…..

This was a long, long way to say: It comes down to money (clicks).

I also have a story that I guarantee will generate more hits than ANY of your previous stories. I promise that the public will be interested. I have been looking for an outlet for this story for a long time, but the Enquirer and the Weekly World News have both turned me down.

Some time ago, I was taking a walk in the park and came across a horse giving birth to a space alien. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were standing guard while this happened. Luckily, I had my video camera and captured everything, in clear detail on tape. I have this tape in a secure location, locked up safely somewhere in the mountains of Georgia. Could you please help me get the word out on what will be one of the most shocking discoveries in the history of mankind?

I have to say, that I have read all these posts by people on here, and what I hear is disturbing. It would seem that most people have no idea of how big this world we live in truly is, and how in just the past few years, we have “discovered” many new species around the world. Some have never even been known to science. We have the “lost world” in New Guinea, Parts of the Congo in Africa as well as Islands in the Pacific. What about the “hobbits” found in Malay