Here is my statement on the recent purported killing of a Bigfoot in Pennsylvania by Rick Dyer.
Statement on the recent Bigfoot shooting:
A friend asks: Any new Bigfoot news? What’s your opinion on Dyer’s latest claim on killing another Bigfoot?
My response: Not much in the way of new Bigfoot news. I do not know what to think about it.
A good friend of mine named Walter Shrum is said to have seen it, and he reportedly drove four hours to go look at it, and he swears to God it is real. For the life of me I do not understand why he would lie, but maybe I don’t know him as well as I think I do. From what I know of him, he seems to be a very decent, straight up, rather conservative “redneck” rural American with strong Protestant Christian beliefs. He does indeed reside in Southwest Pennsylvania where this Bigfoot was supposedly shot.
Another good friend of mine, Rex Duncan, saw a photo of it via some photo share program that Rick showed him and issued a description of it. Here is Rex’s description along with what seems to be a statement by one or two other parties:
I saw a creature laying on the ground, and then 45 minutes later tied upside down between two trees. That creature was totally covered in brown or reddish brown hair. Only his feet, hands and face were partially not covered in hair. The hands were large and blackish, and so were the feet. But his humanoid face was bluish looking. Both Rick and I spoke about how blue his face was. Mr Dyer allowed me to see this by iPhone FaceTime…
Very broad shoulders…
Earlier Rick mentioned height and weight at 5′ 10” & 350 to 400 lb, so my guesstimation is I’d say he’s a Shorty Sasquatch.
Rick said anyone could come and see it. I’m in Maryland, so I’d love to see it :). Walter Shrum drove for hours at Mr Dyer’s invitation and saw the body with his wife. So proud for Walter. “Searching For Bigfoot” is a great song!
The nose is wide at the nostrils, yet skinny on the bridge. Weirdest thing is the facial skin not covered in hair is blue. But the eyes are huge and alien looking. Does not look human and does not look like an ape. Oh, and the back of the hand is not hairy, but leathery. It almost looks like an armored glove? Just thought you guys would be interested. They started taking precautions against parasites and diseases, as you saw, and it smelled bad. I think that about sums up about all I know that I am allowed to share. Official confirmation tomorrow. Then wow!
The problem here is that the promised official confirmation never took place, as with so many things Dyer. Rick Dyer and broken promises go together like peanut butter and jelly.
Now maybe Rex saw a real Bigfoot or maybe he saw a dummy, but he saw something for sure because I know for a fact that Rex doesn’t lie. Then again, I do not think Walter lies either, but I don’t know Walter as well as I know Rex.
But Rick has not provided us with any evidence that this Bigfoot exists other than his word, so at the moment, we know nothing.
I know that it was said to be a young Bigfoot, possibly an adolescent, and the sex was not given. It was supposedly shot in Southwest Pennsylvania by the four guys and they all shot at once, so we don’t know who killed it. The Bigfoot was shot at some locale where the residents had been feeling it regularly, so it was semi-habituated to humans, similar to the Bigfoot “Hank” rumored but never proven to have been killed also by Dyer in San Antonio in 2012.
Rick released a photo said to be of the Bigfoot. A friend of mine sent it to me and said it definitely shows the dead Bigfoot, but honestly I could not make out much of anything in the photo. The photo shows Rick and Biff pointing at some furry object lying on the ground with sticks. So that photo is definitely inconclusive.
Rick then released a photo of Rick and Biff standing in front of two trees and what looks like a Bigfoot hanging from the tree in between them. But the Bigfoot’s features are blurred out with a blur tool, so we do not know what it is. Maybe it is a Bigfoot, maybe it’s a dummy, who knows?
But Rick made some big promises about this thing, and then it seems to have vanished off the face of the Earth. He did not fulfill even one of his grandiose early promises including scientific confirmation which adds a layer of dubiousness to the story.
At the moment, there is no good, hard, conclusive scientific evidence whatsoever that Rick has killed a Bigfoot in Pennsylvania or for that matter that he has killed a Bigfoot anywhere ever at any time.
On the other hand, as with the Hank story, no one has ever proven that Rick did not kill a Bigfoot that night in Texas either, and this story is the same: the naysayers are insisting that this is another hoax, but they have not proven that either. To sum it up, there is no proof that Rick killed this Bigfoot, but on the other hand, there is no proof that this is a big hoax either. The matter, as with so many things Bigfoot, remains frustratingly inconclusive.
Bottom line as with all his claims, is “Prove it, Rick.”
A very in depth and excellent treatment of the matter, including all of the relevant statements and photos, can be found at Randy’s blog here and here.
Sorry this is so brief but I am too tired to write much more and also my back hurts.
