Rick Dyer comes clean about Bigfoot in freezer, claims government confiscated his Bigfoot

Did the government threaten Rick Dyer and take his Bigfoot creature away from him? Were there black helicopters involved? Was there a second freezer? Were they the first ones to shoot a Bigfoot? Mr. Rick Dyer tells all!

Maybe those government cover-up conspiracy stories are true after all?

From left, Matthew Whitton, Tom Biscardi and Rick Dyer next to the frozen creature.

Of course, we all know the story by now. The trio's claim of having an actual body of a Bigfoot in a freezer turned out to be a hoax. Or was it?

Here was the headline a few days before the unveiling:

August 14, 2008

A policeman and a former corrections officer say that on Friday they will unveil evidence of what they claim is their biggest find ever: the body of Bigfoot.

Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, a pair of Bigfoot-hunting hobbyists from north Georgia, say they found the creature's body in a wooded area and spotted several similar creatures that were still alive.

The carcass of the furry half-man, half-ape is 7 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs more than 500 pounds, they say. However, the two are not disclosing the exact location of their discovery to protect the remaining creatures.

The headline leading up to the unveiling:

August 19, 2008

The Bigfoot in the freezer is made of rubber, a Web posting asserted Tuesday.

The initial promoter of two hikers' claim that they found the body of Bigfoot in Georgia said he has determined that the discovery was a hoax.

The body turned out to be rubber, and the two men who claimed that they found it, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, have admitted that it was a costume, said a posting Tuesday on the Web sites of Searching for Bigfoot Inc. and Squatchdetective.

The posting purportedly was written by Steve Kulls, who maintains the Squatchdetective Web site and hosts a similarly named Internet radio program, where the find was announced weeks ago.

The headline after the confession:

August 20, 2008

Turns out Bigfoot was just a rubber suit. Two researchers on a quest to prove the existence of Bigfoot say that the carcass encased in a block of ice — handed over to them for an undisclosed sum by two men who claimed to have found it — was slowly thawed out, and discovered to be a rubber gorilla outfit.

...Steve Kulls, executive director of squatchdetective.com and host of Squatchdetective Radio, says in a posting on a Web site run by Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi that as the "evidence" was thawed, the claim began to unravel as a giant hoax.
First, the hair sample was burned and "melted into a ball uncharacteristic of hair," Kulls said in the posting.

The thawing process was sped up and the exposed head was found to be "unusually hollow in one small section." An hour of thawing later and the feet were exposed — and they were found to be made of rubber.

Photo of the Bigfoot 'corpse' released by the two 'trackers' Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer