Hoax, Lies and Bigfoot: Famed / Infamous Bigfoot Tracker Rick Dyer Breaks his silence
I started out with the intention of doing a story about the hit TV show "Finding Bigfoot" but when I started doing research about the mythical creature one name kept popping up, "Rick Dyer." Rick Dyer is, without a doubt, the most controversial figure in the Bigfoot community. Love him or hate him, he has a knack for getting under people’s skin.
Believe it or not, there are people out there who eat, sleep, and breath Rick Dyer. Dyer is best known for his hoaxing antics that make the Bigfoot community’s blood boil! The 2008 “Bigfoot Hoax” press conference was covered live on CNN and FOX News just to name a couple of networks. Six years later it would happen again on a much bigger scale. Dyer claimed that on September 6, 2012 while filming with a BBC film crew that he shot and killed the mythical beast behind a Home Depot store outside of San Antonio, Texas.
The story received international media coverage, but Rick didn't stop there. In late 2013 Dyer, along with Andrew Clacy and Lynk Paul, agreed to make a fake Bigfoot body so they could take it on a tour. In late January 2014 they set off on a tour of the United States. The “Bigfoot Body Tour” took the media by storm and was the number one news story across the world. The tour ended on March 8th in Daytona Beach, Florida during Bike
Week 2014. A dispute about money ended the events and everyone involved tried to blame it all on Dyer to cover their own backsides. That's where the story should've ended, but there is one thing that Rick never strayed from; he still claims that on September 6, 2012 he did indeed shoot and kill the mythical beast outside of San Antonio, Texas and a British film crew
Week 2014. A dispute about money ended the events and everyone involved tried to blame it all on Dyer to cover their own backsides. That's where the story should've ended, but there is one thing that Rick never strayed from; he still claims that on September 6, 2012 he did indeed shoot and kill the mythical beast outside of San Antonio, Texas and a British film crew