Bigfoot is Dead

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Lovable trickster created a monster with Bigfoot hoax

By Bob Young Seattle Times staff reporter

Bigfoot is dead. Really.

"Ray L. Wallace was Bigfoot. The reality is, Bigfoot just died," said Michael Wallace about his father, who died of heart failure Nov. 26 in a Centralia nursing facility. He was 84.

The truth can finally be told, according to Mr. Wallace's family members. He orchestrated the prank that created Bigfoot in 1958.

Some experts suspected Mr. Wallace had planted the footprints that launched the term "Bigfoot." But Mr. Wallace and his family had never publicly admitted the 1958 deed until now.

"The fact is there was no Bigfoot in popular consciousness before 1958. America got its own monster, its own Abominable Snowman thanks to Ray Wallace," said Mark Chorvinsky, editor of Strange magazine and one of the leading proponents of the theory that Mr. Wallace fathered Bigfoot.

Pranks and hoaxes were just part of Mr. Wallace's nature.

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-- Anonymous, December 05, 2002

Answers

Gosh this is terrible news!! I was sooo sure.....Well someones been eating my damn bananas I leave out at night!!!!!.....kirk

-- Anonymous, December 05, 2002

Awww gee, EM! Next thing you'll be telling us is that there's no Santa :-(!!

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2002

I wonder if Agent Mulder went to the funeral? :)

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2002

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