Bigfoot for President

If you haven't made up you mind yet, these two guys want you to consider hanging a chad for Sasquatch. Yesterday Eric had a face-to-face with the two guys who were behind the big Bigfoot hoax that went down over the summer.

I don't want to get all X-files on you but covering this story has got us all kind of edgy.

A few months ago, Rick Dyer and Matt Whitton claimed to have found a dead Bigfoot. They created a website called bigfoottracker.com, stuffed a bigfoot costume full of animal parts and froze it solid. Then they posted a video on YouTube saying they'd found the body of an actual Sasquatch.

That much we know for sure... everything that happens after that is less certain, and that's what's got us questioning just about everything anyone tells us about this story now.

Dyer and Whitton say that once their video started making news, another man entered the picture and basically took over the hoax. He allegedly promised the guys a multimillion dollar cable TV movie project, a network special made by the same guys who brought you "Alien Autopsy," a book deal and even a meeting with the New Kids on the Block (Dyer is a big fan). Here's the twist... the man that Dyer and Whitton say encouraged and even partially orchestrated their "joke" is none other than Tom Biscardi, a man who has built an empire around the assertion that Bigfoot is REAL!

Biscardi denies he had anything to do with creating the hoax. He says he was duped just like the rest of us. "News To Me" reached out to Mr. Biscardi yesterday after our interview with Dyer and Whitton to see if he would like to respond to some of their claims. He made it very clear that he was not happy with the guys, and is considering coming on camera to talk about the whole deal. We hope he will.

What started out as a story about viral videos gone wrong is quickly becoming something bigger and far more interesting than we could have imagined. Well keep you posted on our progress here on the blog, and hopefully have the complete story on the air by the end of next month!