Bigfoot May Have Been Fake, After All

Via ObscureStore, an obituary article of Ray Wallace mentions that he faked some occurances of Bigfoot.

“He’d been a kid all his life. He did it just for the joke and then he was afraid to tell anybody because they’d be so mad at him,” said nephew Dale Lee Wallace, who said he has the alder-wood carvings of the giant humanoid feet that gave life to a worldwide phenomenon. […]

Apparently, even the Patterson film may have been faked:

Chorvinsky believes the Wallace family’s admission creates profound doubts about leading evidence of Bigfoot's existence: the so-called Patterson film, the grainy celluloid images of an erect apelike creature striding away from the movie camera of rodeo rider Roger Patterson in 1967. Mr. Wallace said he told Patterson where to go — near Bluff Creek, Calif. — to spot a Bigfoot, Chorvinsky said.

“Ray told me that the Patterson film was a hoax, and he knew who was in the suit,” Chorvinsky said. […]

Well, I’m not sure whether I ever believed in Bigfoot in the first place, but I find this interesting nonetheless.