A Big Foot Sasquatch in Georgia?

Some guys in Georgia, the state, not the country being invaded by Russia, claim they found a Bigfoot in a wooded area in northern Georgia.

They stuck the supposed Sasquatch in a freezer. That's it in the photo. There will be a news conference in California this coming Friday to present DNA and photo evidence.

Now, growing up in the Pacific Northwest I've been witness to Sasquatch/Big Foot hoaxes all my life. Some have been pretty convincing. The modern era Big Foot sightings began in 1924 with a series of sightings in Washington at a location later dubbed Ape Canyon. The Sasquatch phenomenon went worldwide when road workers in northern California discovered huge foot prints, hence Big Foot.

And now some Goobers in Georgia have moved the Big Foot/Sasquatch myth to the east coast with some interesting evidence in a freezer.

The Pacific Northwest Native American tribes had Sasquatch legends that pre-dated the arrival of the White Man. In 1840 a preacher named Elkanah Walker reported Indian myths about hairy giants who stole their salmon and smelled bad.

The 1924 Sasquatch encounters involved 4 miners claiming to having been attacked by a gang of Sasquatches hurling big rocks at their cabin.

In 1941 a Canadian named Jeannie Chapman, and her kids, claimed to have escaped a 7 foot tall Sasquatch trying to get in their house in Ruby Creek, British Columbia.

Starting in the 1940s people in Fouke, Arkansas, in the Boggy Creek area, started seeing a Sasquatch-like creature. These reports became the basis of the movie The Legend of Boggy Creek.

In 1955 another Canadian, this one William Roe, was in a hidden spot near Mica Mountain in B.C. when he claimed to have gotten a real close-up view of a female Sasquatch. (How he determined it was a girl, I do not know. Breast? Lack of male equipment?)

In 1958 two construction workers, Leslie Breazale and Ray Kerr, 45 miles northeast of Eureka, California claimed to have seen a Sasquatch. 16 inch tracks were found.

In 1967, once more in northern California, Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin filmed a supposed Sasquatch at Bluff Creek, CA in what would become the most famous or infamous images of a Sasquatch.

In 1970 a family of Sasquatches was seen on several occasions by a San Diego shrink named Dr. Baddour and his family near their home in Alpine, California.

In 1995 a TV film crew filmed what they believed was a Sasquatch at Jedediah Smith State Park in California.

In 2005 2 minutes and forty seconds of supposed Sasquatch footage was taken by a ferry operator named Bobby Clarke on the banks of the Nelson River in Norway House, Manitoba.

In 2006 a woman from Dechambault Lake in Saskatchewan was driving to Prince Albert, in the same province, and claimed to see a Sasquatch on the side of the highway at Torch River. Several men from the nearby village searched near the sighting and found Big Footprints and a Big Tuft of brown hair. Photos were taken.

In 2007 a hunter named Rick Jacobs caught an image on an automatically triggered camera near Ridgway, Pennsylvania of what he thought was a Sasquatch. A spokesman for the Pennsylvania Game Commission said the creature in the photo appeared to be a bear with a bad case of mange.

In July of 2008 some berry-pickers in northern Ontario reported seeing a Sasquatch.

And now in August of 2008 we have those Georgians who claim to have found a dead Sasquatch in the woods in northern Georgia, somehow drug it out of the woods and stuck it in a freezer, finally providing definitive evidence, after all these years, that there really are Big Foot Sasquatches. All to be revealed at a press conference this Friday in California.

I can hardly wait.