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Bigfoot With "Legs Like Tree Trunks" Turns Out To Be 16-Year-Old Boy
By Robert Paul Reyes
"A Connecticut woman's close encounter with the mythical beast, Sasquatch or Big Foot, turned out to be nothing more than a boy in a costume. Fairfield police said a woman driving last Tuesday night called police to report that she 'almost hit Sasquatch,' which was standing in the middle of the road.
Police said they searched and found a 16-year-old boy dressed in a gorilla-like costume." Associated Press (AP)
Bigfoot is a mythological (read:fake as hell) beast who lives in the fevered imaginations of idiots, drunks, and pranksters.
Many Sasquatch sightings are the results of city slickers who go hiking, and see a bear and think it's a Bigfoot. If you go into the woods you are as likely to see Oprah Winfrey munching of blackberries as you are to run across a Bigfoot.
This AP article shows how rumors of Bigfoot sightings get started. A woman sees a 16-year-old kid and she describes him to the cops as a "hairy beast 8 feet tall with legs like tree trunks."
If the cops hadn't found the 16-year-old prankster, this foolish (possibly drunk) woman would be doing the paranormal circuit giving lectures about her epic confrontation with Bigfoot.
Robert Paul Reyes is a NewsBlaze writer on Politics, Pop Culture and Pointless Pontificating. Contact him by writing to NewsBlaze.
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