Unrest & Backstabbing in the
Bigfoot Community - A brief insight
By Lynk Paul Editor Team Tracker
Community
From
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The
term community has two distinct commutative meanings: 1) Community can
refer to a usually small, social unit of any size that shares common values. The
term can also refer to the national community or international community, and 2)
in biology, a community is a group of interacting living organisms sharing a
populated environment.
“In human communities, intent, belief,
resources, preferences, needs, risks, and a number of other conditions may be
present and common, affecting the identity of the participants and their degree
of cohesiveness”.
Since the advent of the
Internet, the concept of community has less geographical limitation, as people
can now gather virtually in an online community and share common interests
regardless of physical location. Prior to the internet, virtual communities
(like social or academic organizations) were far more limited by the constraints
of available communication and transportation technologies.
The word
"community" is derived from the Old French communité which is derived
from the Latin communitas (com, "with/together" + munus,
"gift"), a broad term for fellowship or organized society. Some examples of
community service are to help in church, tutoring, hospitals, etc.
Now, this leads me to the so called “Bigfoot Community”.
First thing, the only “Bigfoot
Community” there is, will be that of the actual Bigfoot’s themselves (as
mentioned above: fellowship or organized society).
OK, let me break it down for you. “It’s all
about the Benjamin’s”. It’s a rat race to the finish for most. The Prize;
Physical and Scientific proof of the existence of Bigfoot. The reward; eternal
fame and fortune. The winner takes it all and will be immortalized in the pages
of history.
What is commonly called the “Bigfoot Community” can be broken
down into three main groups which we will identify and delve a little more into.
First, there are the Researchers; secondly, there are the Trackers/Hunters; and
thirdly, there are the Habituators.
THE RESEARCHERS
Eye witnesses
These are the people who have had face to face or close
encounters with Bigfoot, which forever changed their lives and sent them
charging down the path of Bigfoot research. Mainly to have one question
answered, am I crazy? Or Did I really see that? Or what the hell was that? Or to
have all of them answered. Embracing curiosity and their thirst for adventure,
they venture out into the woods in almost all states in the US and in countries
like Russia, China, Australia, Indonesia, Canada, Africa, Vietnam and Nepal to name a few. Why? Because they seek
validation for their experiences and an understanding of their surrounding
environment, along with the truth. Proving Bigfoot to the world and main stream
science is not a priority for them.
The Scientific
Researcher
The scientific researcher is both believer and skeptic. Very
methodical and logical in their approach in the search for clues, evidence and
samples/specimen collection and handling, that can be tested and analyzed in a
laboratory. These researchers emanate from disciplines such as Biology,
Anthropology, Zoology, Cryptozoology and many other fields. Armed with the
latest technology in digital data recording devices, and sensing equipment, they
are very meticulous in their endeavor
to prove to main stream science that this creature does indeed exist. They have
notions of capturing one but don’t want to kill one in order to have a specimen
for testing and documenting.
Most are frustrated
after years of searching and finding absolutely nothing, then resorting to
fabricating false evidence, pictures, video and audio recordings. Some have
written books based on their personal theories and promote them as fact, while
profiting from it. They also have their eyes on the prize, which is their
priority. Some have gone to their grave as skeptics.
Haters, Hoaxers, Liars and
Backstabbers
These other groups of people, who number around 1000 or so
individuals, believe they have the exclusive information and rights to all
things Bigfoot. They also have followers who are keenly interested in the
subject but are not researchers. These are the vile, vicious, deceitful and
hateful people who don’t actually believe that Bigfoot exist but profit off of
the so called myth anyway. They saturate this field with false stories and
theories in order to gain notoriety so they can profiteer off the innocent
masses who find themselves drawn to the mystery of Bigfoot.
They are usually the scum of society and have absolutely no
regard or respect for anyone and will attack persons verbally even physically if
they disagree or don’t buy into their fallacies. They are monumental failures
intellectually and don’t have meaningful lives themselves, so they feel they
need to bully others from hidden and remote locations. In their warped minds,
this gives them the false illusion of power and security.
Don’t get me wrong, there are a handful of really genuine
Bigfoot hunters or researchers that have made phenomenal progress and achieved
what the others could not. I will not publish their names here. If I did, the people who think they’re
researchers won’t see their names on the list and will become jealous, hateful
and retaliate against the real researchers. This jealousy is the spawning ground
for all the hate permeating this particular field.
One man, whose name is famously synonymous with hoaxing, is
Rick Dyer. In 2008, he along with several people did part-take in a Bigfoot body
hoax. Despite claims from others, he was the only one who revealed and admitted
to the hoax, while the others retreated into the darkness from whence they came.
Only to re-emerge later like a dormant plague. Stigmatized and plagued by his
actions since 2008, Rick Dyer endeavored to redeem himself and conducted many
expeditions. With the help and support of his financial investors, his luck
struck and his tenacity paid off during his 89th expedition.
On the night of September 6th 2012, in San
Antonio, TX, Rick Dyer encountered, shot and killed a Bigfoot. Fortunately, his
investors moved rapidly to secure the specimen and remove the body to a secure
and unknown location to be housed while undergoing all the necessary scientific
tests to be documented, peer reviewed and published in the scientific journals
and the rest is history. When the news of this event broke and it was widely
known that Rick Dyer was the one who shot and killed the Bigfoot, it spawned a
new era and level of jealousy and hate toward Rick Dyer, his family, his
supporters and anyone who dared to associate themselves with him.
TRACKERS/HUNTERS
This group research heavily as well. They are fully aware of
the prize and what it means to them. Some tracker/hunters are on kill missions
to retrieve a specimen for science, some for sport to appease and to collect a
trophy for some wealthy tycoon. Others do it for the opportunity to gather
documented evidence of the elusive creature by capturing a photo, HD video or
audio recording of them and their habitat. There are people who are in this
category that are no-kill as well.
HABITUATORS
There are even the ones you don’t hear about much who go by
the title of Habituators. They interact with Bigfoot on a regular basis. They
attempt to feed and communicate with them. We eagerly wait, to see the
substantial evidence they have compiled so far, on the ecology and sociology of
these gentle giants. Many people claim to be habituators but with little or no
evidence to show.
There are even people who own large parcels of land with
families actively migrating or residing on their land. They are also frequently
visited or even harassed by their unwanted guests. But are the Bigfoot the
unwelcome inhabitants or are the humans invading the land that has belonged to
the hairy giants for many thousands of years?
But still, what’s with the uproar amongst this cacophony of
individuals and small groups that have a vested interest in the subject of
Bigfoot?...... Jealousy???..... After all, AT THE END OF THE DAY, there can only
be ONE WINNER!!!!!!.....And that is enough motive to justify such archaic
behavior, form allegedly intelligent people.
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 
