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Bigfoot Hoaxer Killed in Accident

By Benjamin Radford

 

 

 

A Montana man was struck and killed by cars Sunday night while trying to hoax a Bigfoot sighting. The Montana Highway Patrol reported that Randy Lee Tenley of Kalispell was pronounced dead at the scene on U.S. Highway 93 south of Kalispell after being hit by two cars consecutively.

 

Tenley was wearing a military-style ghillie suit, which is a type of camouflage that resembles vegetation or foliage. Police interviewed Tenley's friends to determine why he would be wearing a full-length dark ghillie suit in the right-hand lane of the highway at night, and were apparently told of Tenley's nocturnal Bigfoot-inspired mischief.

 

Trooper Jim Schneider, interviewed by the Daily Inter Lake.com, said that Tenley "was trying to make people think he was Sasquatch so people would call in a Sasquatch sighting. You can't make it up. I haven't seen or heard anything like this before. Obviously, his suit made it difficult for people to see him."

 

The most famous film of a Bigfoot — one shot in 1967 in Bluff Creek, Calif., by a man named Roger Patterson — is widely considered a hoax pulled off by a man in a costume. Whether Patterson was the hoaxer or victim of a hoax is unclear, but anyone pulling such a stunt these days is taking a real risk. [Bigfoot, Nessie & the Kraken: Cryptozoology Quiz]

 

Tenley's death will likely reignite a long-standing debate within the Bigfoot community: Would it be ethical to shoot and kill a Bigfoot? Some say yes, because that's the only way to prove they exist, and once proof is found, funds could be made available to protect them as an endangered species. Others say no, that because Bigfoot sightings are so rare, they must have very small populations and killing one might drive the animals to extinction. Ecological ethics aside, aiming a gun at a Bigfoot could be a bad idea. You simply can't know for sure if the mysterious, burly figure you have lined up in your sights is the real beast, or a bear, or a hoaxer in a costume.

 

This tragedy also highlights the prevalence and dangers of Bigfoot hoaxing. It is unknown whether Tenley had pulled the same prank on previous occasions (and therefore may be responsible for earlier Bigfoot reports in the area), but it seems unlikely that he was killed during the one and only time he chose to don the suit to scare people into thinking they saw Bigfoot.

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I have a sister that lives up in Kalispell Mt. and I asked her if she had heard anything about it. She said she heard about it on the news and sounds like the guy trip and fell on the road and a 17 year old girl ran over him and it freaked her out pretty good.

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So....? If you shot some dumass who was trying to pretend to be bigfoot like this guy, what would the charge be?


I guess they get you for not having a Bigfoot hunting license. lol

No seriously, what can they do? If some idiot wants to dress up in some suit trying to make folks think he's some dang animal, which that's the first thing I would think, is some dang animal, unless the joker is running away from me, I'd shoot him just out of fear. And if they ask me what I thought it was before I shot him, I'd tell them I wasn't quite sure maybe a bear or something. I just know I was going to do what I had to save my life.

But if he's not running after me, I guess I'd better hope it's deer season and that I had a deer license.

Either way I don't see how they can do much of anything. I thought it was a dang animal. what can I say?
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