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Sunday, February 24, 2013

CRYPTOLINK: The Deadly Bigfoot Hoax and Why People Do It

A word about cryptolinks: We are not responsible for the content of cryptolinks, which are merely links to outside articles that we think are interesting, usually posted up without any comment whatsoever from me.
deadly bigfoot hoax
It was a prank gone bad – a deadly bigfoot hoax in fact for 44-year old prankster, Randy Lee Tenley.
For some unknown reason, on the night of August 26, 2012, Tenley decided to dress up in a Ghlilie suit (military sniper camouflage) and stand along Montana US Highway 93 just south of Kalispell. (1)
Some believe that Tenley was trying to play a hoax on motorists, hoping they would mistake him for a bigfoot since such sightings are regularly reported in the state. Whatever Tenley was thinking or his intentions were, he paid the ultimate price for his prank with his life.
Tenley was struck down by the first car to pass him driven by a 15-year old girl from Somers. The teenager was unable to stop in time. Her vehicle struck Tenley, throwing him to the pavement and right in the path of a second oncoming vehicle driven by a 17-year old girl, also from Somers.
The girl was also unable to stop and the vehicle she was driving ran over Tenley’s prone body. While what happened to Tenley was horrible, equally tragic is the trauma his prank caused these two innocent girls. His bigfoot stunt left a lifelong emotional impact on both girls.
Arriving on the scene, Trooper Jim Schneider conducted the investigation and after interviewing Tenley’s friends, told the Daily Inter Lake that Tenley’s motives were “to make people think he was Sasquatch so people would call in a Sasquatch sighting”. He also added that it was possible that alcohol and impairment may have been partly responsible for Tenley’s actions. (1)
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