Bigfoot Researchers In Daniel Boone National Forest Making Accusations of "Planting Evidence"

Everyday year, three times a year, researchers in Morehead, KY come together for their Ghost Hunt Weekends, which includes Bigfoot hunting in the Daniel Boone National Forest -- one of the hottest spots for Bigfoot activity. Last September, a woman and her group witnessed a Bigfoot hunting a deer. Unfortunately, the creature got away before she could talk to it she says. This place is such a hotbed that some researchers are starting to wonder if different groups are "planting evidence".

Ron Coffey, a cryptozoologist who led the first Bigfoot hunt in Morehead thinks the last Bigfoot hunts may have been set up. Coffey told TheMoreheadNews.com he now refuses to be associated with Chad Morin's group because he believes the group plants evidence in the forest. Morin denies it:

“I think it's a publicity stunt, plain and simple,” Coffey said. “The Daniel Boone National Forest is a hotbed for activity and it's a good place to look and they're making money at it. It's a good show.”

Morin said his group takes its research very seriously and Coffey is just upset because he is not getting more publicity.

“There's two guys,” Morin said, “and they're trying to say that we had a guy in a gorilla suit, and I'm like, are you crazy? There were people with firearms so that would have been the dumbest thing in the world to have somebody in a Bigfoot suit in the woods with people with firearms.”

Morin said his group has never planted evidence.

“We're interested in serious research,” he said. “We're not interested in self-promotion and people acting that way, saying bad things about us for no reason.”

Coffey said he is fighting against foolishness and Morin's group is giving cryptozoologists a bad name.

“A handful of people and I have worked hard to try to prove the existence of such a creature,” Coffey said. “Then to have these promoters come on and make a sham of it, it just kind of hurts.”

Lectures and presentations include DNA evidence of a Bigfoot, along with Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reports, Morin said.

Coffey said he is skeptical of the group's artifacts, as well as its knowledge of exactly where to find a Bigfoot.

“They just get out there and run around with flashlights and yell, 'Here, Bigfoot, here, Bigfoot,'” Coffey said. “It just doesn't work that way.”

Morin said he is associated with the largest paranormal event company in the United States.

“It's not a sideshow,” he said.

[via TheMoreheadNews.com]