Source : Perth Now news
A Bigfoot expert has explained how he spots potential hoaxes – insisting it’s usually easy to tell if someone is lying about a sighting.
Matthew Moneymaker, who runs the the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), regularly shares sightings from witnesses on the organisation’s website and includes reports on how members of the team investigated the incident – and he’s now revealed how he avoids being duped.
During an appearance on Fox News’ Planet Tyrus podcast, Matthew explained: “We do actually place a lot of weight on a visual sighting if we can actually talk to the person.
“Over the years, I’ve gotten pretty good at, having spoken with thousands of witnesses … There were a lot of instances … Where somebody was telling a story and I could tell they were lying. That’s happened enough …
“When you’re hearing from just a regular person, a normal person who’s just telling you about something they saw, it’s not difficult if you can talk to them for a while to get a feel.
“Because usually people who are lying, they are nervous, they’re dodgy, they’re kind of defensive, there’s a whole different vibe to it when they’re just making up a story.”
Matthew went on to reveal he usually doesn’t share reports if they are only about strange noises or mysterious footprints – because he’s convinced visual sightings are less open to “misinterpretation”.
He added: “If they hear something though, what people have got to realise is … If you just look at the reports we post, you’d think there were more sightings than sound reports and that’s not the case. We’re not posting most of those sound reports because there’s a potential – even if the people, even if the witnesses truly believe that it was a Bigfoot – they might be wrong.
“Same thing with foot prints … You can’t just tell from talking with the witness if they are believable and credible because they might be believable and credible but they might be wrong about a foot print or a vocalisation. A sighting though, you’re seeing a big eight-foot tall thing with arms and legs, there’s not a lot of room for misinterpretation.”
