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(Hoaxer) Joe Metlow

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Darkwing:

In January 1970, while Bigfooters were in Bossburg in the wake of Ivan Marx's Cripplefoot track find there, they were approached by Joe Metlow, a prospector. He told them that he had a Bigfoot immobilized in an abandoned mine shaft and that he had sold it. The Bigfooters said that they "would top your best offer," and a bidding war ensued. John Green, a Canadian Sasquatch researcher, and a journalist and editor in his day job, came and got involved in a way that offended Dahinden. Metlow declined to give anyone a peek for $1000. Bids topped out at $55,000, which called his bluff, and interest fizzled when he wouldn't bite.

Joe Metlow then claimed that he had a Sasquatch foot in his freezer, which started another bidding war. Again, he was evasive, changed his story, and ducked out of a trip to have potential buyers view it. At this point it was obvious to the Sasquatch squads that they'd been had.

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From Don Hunter; René Dahinden (1993) [1973]. ''Sasquach/Bigfoot: The Search for North America's Incredible Creature''

Pages 153-159

One evening at the end of January, two men arrived at the Sasquatch Hunters' camp on the Marx property, Joe Metlow, a prospector and Bill Streeter, a state wildlife agent. Metlow's first question to the hunters was, what was their price on a Sasquatch? It was explained to him, in somewhat noble fashion by David Jensen, that money was hardly a consideration compared with the importance to science of establishing the creature's existence. And besides, he pointed out, getting hold of a Sasquatch was a much more involved problem than Metlow seemed to appreciate.

"But I've got one," Metlow said. "and it's sold"

Nobility and scientific priorities fled. "We'll top your best offer." Jensen countered. At this point, Fardell and St. Hilaire were somewhere in the wings. The first act was Jensen's alone.

Metlow's story was that on January 27, while out laying claim lines (at a location he wouldn't name for the moment), he had come up behind a cream-colored sasquatch at a distance of about eighty yards. He said he could only make out its back and that it appeared to be digging ferns out of knee-deep snow and eating the roots. Metlow noted that the surrounding area was well trampled, and he felt the creature was making its home close by. He had brought Streeter along to confirm the story. Streeter was able to confirm that that was the story that Metlow had told ''him''; after that he faded-in a most judicious move-from the picture.

Throughout the discussion that followed, Metlow, displaying all the time an astonishing facility for avoiding specifics, somehow gave the impression to Jensen that not only did he know where the creature lived, but that he had immobilized it in an abandoned mine shaft. He said nothing more about how much he had been offered, or by whom. Jensen was sold. He stressed to Metlow that the only source of any money worth considering among the Sasquatch hunters was at Northwest Research Association (another name for Roger Patterson) in Yakima, and that he would contact his principals immediately. He did, amd Patterson directed him to keep the talk going, and to keep the Dahinden crowd out of it. Schism.

Metlow left, promising to keep in touch.

Roy Fardell and Roger St. Hilaire, the Dahinden camp, knew something was popping. They managed to scrape together the bones of the story and, following some intricate detective work, came up with Metlow. After that it wasn't too difficult to discover the approximate area where Metlow had been prospecting on the day in question. It was somewhere on Frisco Standard, a mountain a few miles to the north.

While these deductions were being pursued, Roger Patterson was in touch with his backer Tom Page, a wealthy Ohio businessman who paid the former rodeo rider an annual retainer to be kept informed of every break in the Sasquatch search. Page flew out immediately, and he and Patterson met and huddled with Metlow, following which the Patterson camp moved its operation to a motel in Colville, twenty-two miles away. The divorce was final.

Rene reflects on the split somewhat ruefully, and certainly naively: "I thought it had been all for one and one for all before this, but that's not how it worked out."

The Dahinden camp, its leader in Calgary, but in daily contact by telephone, stayed put in Ivan Marx's backyard. Dahinden's orders to the others were to stall, and bluff; to find out what Patterson and Page were offering, and top it. Rene talked to Metlow by phone but was quite unable to determine whether the man had what he said he had. By now Page was tossing around the figure of thirty-five thousand dollars for a Sasquatch, dead or alive. Metlow remained coy. Page had hired a helicopter from Spokane and had it on constant alert at Colville airport, ready for immediate take-off on Exercise Sasquatch-Retrieval.

The Dahinden company was ready to move whenever the Patterson lot stirred. And there were others. A young newspaperman, Denny Striker of the Colville ''Statesman Examiner'', who had been keeping journalistic track of the hunters' presence since the first sighting of the crippled print, could almost taste a massive scoop. If anyone from either camp moved, somehow Striker was after him. He had a jeep sitting in the bush, gassed up and ready to run at the first sign of action. At one point he kept Patterson motel under observation for seventy-two hours straight, following a tip that a big move was imminent. And the ubiquitous Norm Davis was on the fringe of the action, tagging along with the Dahinden group. Sides were being taken by the usually non-partisan; the border patrol officers committed (unofficially) their help to the Dahinden side, their sense of fair play apparently offended by the selfish attitude suddenly displayed by the Patterson troupe. Ivan Marx stayed neutral, warning Dahinden's men: "If you tell me anything, and the other guys ask me, I'll tell them, so better not tell me anything." As friction grew between the two sides the townspeople grew disenchanted with their one-time favorites.

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Metlow was still being coy about his Sasquatch. Finally, Page offered him a thousand dollars to confirm the area where he supposedly had the creature. Although no money changed hands, Metlow conceded that it was on Frisco Standard, but he declined to accompany the hunters to the spot. By this time all concerned should probably should have concluded that there was nothing to the prospector's story; but they were in the advanced stages of Saasquatch fever, blind to all reason. In a "top secret" move Patterson and Page and group whipped off in their chopper, set down on the top of Frisco Standard, and took to snowshoes. The Dahinden squad was not outdone; a local sympathiser with their cause had provided a light plane, for the price of the cost of fuel. The moment that Patterson and Page left their machine, the "enemy" small plane came buzzing round the mountain, playfully waggling its wings at them as they flapped about in the deep powder snow.

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Metlow was still accepting no offers, but still was making noises that kept the bidding healthy. Dahinden's men were phoning Rene at 2 a.m. with daily reports. The bids crept up: $35,000, $40,000, $50,000. "Top them," Dahinden ordered. At the same time he phoned John Green, asking him to get down to Bossburg to watch over their interests. Green went, but (according to Jensen), apparently overcome by the same motives that were fuelling the whole fiasco, spent most of his time galloping between the two camps, seeing where the best deal lay for himself. From this came the rift that more or less broke the one-time close Dahinden-Green Partnership.

Rene's final bid, made as he recalls, "from a hotel in Calgary where I was without a pot to piss in." was for $50.000. It was enough to call Metlow's bluff. The prospector walked away from the affair, still uncommitted as to the truthfulness or otherwise of his story.

Metlow wasn't finished with the hunters yet though. When the Frisco Standard smoke had cleared, Rene, by now back in Bossburg and in an apparent moment of truce with the Patterson team, paid a visit with Jensen to Metlow's home. Conversation was general and quite genial until Metlow casually mentioned that he had a Sasquatch foot in his freezer. The fur hit the fan again. Rene immediately offered five hundred dollars for one peek at the exhibit. Metlow raised him to five thousand dollars. The excitement brought Dickie Davis to the scene, antennae quivering. Before you could say, "Bigfoot" Davis had a contract sketched out. It would include John Green to write the book, Bob Titmus to skin and dissect the foot's owner-presumably stashed in a cave somewhere above the snowline-and anthropologist Grover Krantz to introduce it to science. Rene was out, so was Patterson.

(Informational) Bossburg, Washington

2026-05-11T23:13:14Z

Darkwing:

Bossburg is a ghost town located in Stevens County, Washington. It sits on the east side of the Columbia River, very close to the Canada–US border. In 1892, Bossburg was a busy place with about 800 people living there.

The town was first called "Young America." But in 1896, it was renamed Bossburg to honor C. S. Boss, who was one of its first citizens. Today, Bossburg is most famous for something mysterious that happened in 1969. People found large, human-like footprints in the snow. These tracks were believed to be from a Sasquatch (also known as Bigfoot) with a unique, crippled foot, which led to the name "Cripplefoot."

History of Bossburg

Bossburg started as a mining town. People dug for valuable metals like lead and silver. When the mines began to produce less, the town faced money problems. To try and keep Bossburg going, a ferry was set up to cross the Columbia River. A sawmill was also built to process lumber.

Bossburg even had its own newspapers. The Bossburg Journal was published for many years, and the Bossburg Herald came out for a short time. The town's cemetery is still used today. Local families take care of it, but some graves do not have names on them.

The Bossburg Cripplefoot Mystery

Bossburg became famous for a strange discovery related to Bigfoot.

Finding the Cripplefoot Tracks

On November 24, 1969, something amazing happened near the old Bossburg town dump. People found very large, human-like tracks in the snow. What made these tracks special was that the right foot seemed to be crippled. Earlier that year, a woman had reported seeing a Sasquatch nearby.

Many believed these tracks were made by an injured Bigfoot. Locals started calling the creature the "Bossburg Cripple." Today, it is usually known as "Cripplefoot." A Bigfoot researcher named René Dahinden came to investigate on November 27. However, many curious people had already walked over the tracks. Dahinden managed to photograph and make a plaster cast of the best print he could find. Another researcher, Bob Titmus, joined him for a few days.

After searching for two weeks, Ivan Marx, a Bossburg resident, and René Dahinden found more evidence. On December 13, 1969, they discovered 1089 giant human-like tracks in the snow. These tracks led to, from, and across a river near Lake Roosevelt. An anthropologist named Grover Krantz joined them. He took photos and made casts of the tracks. Later, filmmaker Roger Patterson and his assistant, Dennis Jenson, also spent time there. Scientists like primatologist John Napier and anthropologist Jeff Meldrum studied the casts and photos. They became convinced that the tracks were real.

René Dahinden was also impressed by the tracks. But he had some doubts about how they were found. For example, Ivan Marx stopped their car, walked off, and then returned saying he had found tracks. This happened right after they passed an empty Jeep. René wondered if the Jeep's owners might have been making the tracks. The Jeep was gone when they returned. Still, René eventually believed the tracks were authentic.

Sasquatch Hoaxes and Tricks

Not everything about the Bossburg Bigfoot story was real. Some people tried to trick the researchers.

The Captured Sasquatch Story

In January 1970, while Bigfoot researchers were in Bossburg, a prospector named Joe Metlow approached them. He claimed he had a Bigfoot trapped in an old mine shaft. He said he had already sold it. The researchers offered to pay more, starting a bidding war. John Green, a Canadian Sasquatch researcher, also got involved. Metlow refused to let anyone see the Bigfoot, even for a lot of money. The bids went up to $55,000, but Metlow wouldn't show proof. People soon realized he was bluffing, and interest faded.

The Sasquatch Foot in a Freezer Story

Joe Metlow then claimed he had a Sasquatch foot stored in his freezer. This started another bidding war. Again, he avoided showing the foot and kept changing his story. He even backed out of a trip where buyers could view it. At this point, the Bigfoot researchers realized they had been tricked again.

The Filmed Sasquatch Hoax

Nine months later, in October 1970, Ivan Marx called René Dahinden. He said, "I've got a film of the cripple[foot Bigfoot]." Bigfoot researchers rushed back to Bossburg. After watching the film, most were convinced it was real. Another bidding war began for the film's rights.

However, researcher Peter Byrne listened to some children who said they knew where the film was shot. When he visited the location, he found that the area did not match what Marx had claimed about the filming. Further investigation revealed more problems with the story. Soon, belief in the film disappeared. Peter Byrne and Michael McLeod both wrote detailed accounts of this trick.

Part Two

Virgina Story posted her story on Sasquatch in 2006: Sasquatch tracks are sighted in Bossburg in Stevens County on November 24, 1969

On November 24, 1969, Joe Rhodes of Colville, in Stevens County, finds Sasquatch tracks in Bossburg. Sasquatch or “Bigfoot” is a seldom- or possibly never-seen, rather enormous, alleged beast, possibly hominid, that leaves large footprints (unless these footprints are left by something else). “Sasquatch” is the Salish word for “wild man.” Rhodes’s discovery of Bigfoot footprints will lead to extensive searches, and at least one hoax. Investigations will prove inconclusive.

Exciting Sightings

There is a long history of Sasquatch sightings in the Pacific Northwest. Native American legends, fur trader David Thompson in 1810, settler Elkanah Walker in 1840, and many others have reported evidence of a large hairy beast inhabiting mountains and forests. Logger Albert Ostman claimed in 1957 that he had been captured by a Sasquatch family in British Columbia in 1924. Other reports from the 1950s placed the Sasquatch near Jasper, Alberta, and in Northern California. One account had “Sassie” (Times) making off with a 750-pound truck tire without taking the trouble to roll it. Roger Patterson filmed a Sasquatch in California in 1967.

Silver and lead mines originally attracted early settlers to Bossburg (pop. 800 in 1892) in Stevens County along the banks of the Columbia River just south of the Canadian border. When the minerals ran out, Bossburg was abandoned and became a ghost town. While disposing of his trash at a community garbage dump on November 24, 1969, Joe Rhodes spotted large footprints at the dump and reported his discovery.

Sasquatch hunters excitedly descended upon the area. Rene Dahinden (1930-2001), a renowned Sasquatch hunter, and others searched the area. They hung fresh meat and fruit lures six feet up in trees and scoured the countryside. On December 13, searchers found more tracks close to one of the meat lures. The left footprint measured 17.5 inches long, 6.5 inches across the ball of the foot, and 5.5 inches across the heel. The deformed right foot, slightly smaller, had two lumps on the outer edge and a third toe that was either badly twisted or missing. The little toe stuck out at a sharp angle.

Chasing Footprints

In all, the Sasquatch hunters found 1,089 footprints ranging from near the Columbia River, across the railroad and main highway, over a 43-inch-high wire fence, across flatland, and halfway up a hill. The footprints then retraced their path and disappeared into the river. Five days later a U.S. Border Patrolman found similar tracks on the other side.

Two months into the search prospector Joe Metlow claimed to have possession of a live Sasquatch. After a merry chase consuming time, money, and credibility, Metlow’s claim proved to be false. This brought the Sasquatch hunters full circle back to the original footprints.

British anthropologist Dr John Napier (1917-1987), former Curator of Primates at the Smithsonian, examined casts and photographs of the Bossburg footprints and identified the right foot deformity as talipes-equino-vanus, or club-foot. Because of the way the heels were defined in the footprints, he concluded that the cause was probably an early childhood injury. He concluded, “It is difficult to conceive of a hoaxer so subtle, so knowledgeable — and so sick — who would deliberately fake a footprint of this nature. I suppose it is possible, but it is so unlikely that I am prepared to discount it.” He went on to say:

“Either some of the footprints are real, or all are fakes. If they are all fakes, then an explanation invoking legend and folk memory is adequate to explain the mystery. But if any of them is real then as scientists we have a lot to explain. Among other things we shall have to rewrite the story of human evolution. We shall have to accept that Homo sapiens is not the one and only living product of the hominid line, and we shall have to admit that there are still major mysteries to be solved in a world we thought we knew so well.”

Faking Footprints

Upon his death in 2002, the family of Ray L. Wallace (1918-2002) admitted that he had made the giant footprints in 1958 that began the legend of Bigfoot in the Pacific Northwest. A friend had carved the 16-inch alder wood feet he used. Just because these 1958 footprints were fake, though, doesn’t mean that all of the footprints that have been found were fake.

In 2004, Bob Heironimus confessed that he posed as the Sasquatch in Patterson’s 1967 film. Philip Morris, a North Carolina gorilla-suit specialist, claimed to have sold a Sasquatch costume for $435 to an amateur documentary filmmaker named Roger Patterson.

Believers Keep Believing

Grover Krantz (1931-2002) perplexed many because he was an established scientific researcher who studied Bigfoot. A physical anthropologist at Washington State University, he undertook Bigfoot as a scientific problem that needed to be solved. He initially believed Bigfoot to be a hoax but his studies convinced him otherwise. Even though he studied Bigfoot for 30 years and believed Bigfoot existed, Krantz could never prove it.

No Bigfoot body has ever been found. Nor are there any confirmed hair samples or scat. No evidence at all acceptable to the scientific community has come to light. Nevertheless, many people continue to believe that Sasquatch exists. They continue searching…

Read another account of “Bigfoot” that appeared on Northwest Prime Time’s cover in January 2021. It was told by the man who reports seeing the creature in the infamous video seen ’round the world: northwestprimetime.com/news/2021/jan/01/man-who-saw-bigfoot/

Sources: Steve Hymon, “Obituaries: Grover Krantz, 70; Bigfoot Researcher,” Los Angeles Times, February 21, 2002, p. B-10; “Big Believer in Bigfoot Dies at 70,” Columbian (Vancouver, WA), February 19, 2002, p. C-2; Bret Oppegaard, “Bigfoot,” Ibid., November 13, 1996, p. 1; Richard Leiby, “The Reliable Source,” The Washington Post, March 7, 2004, p. D-03; Josef Berger, “Top Denizens of the Myth Zoo,” The New York Times Magazine, November 27, 1960, p. 52; David C. Anderson, “Stalking the Sasquatch,” Ibid., January 20, 1974, p. 231; “The Bossburg, Washington (Cripple) Tracks,” and Robin Brunet, “Tracks to Nowhere,” and Clive Cocking, “The Magical, Mystical, Mythical Sasquatch,” Bigfoot Encounters website accessed September 4, 2006 (www.bigfootencounters.com/); “Bossburg,” Ghost towns website accessed September 5, 2006 (www.ghosttowns.com/); “Footprints,” Big Foot: Fact or Fantasy website accessed September 5, 2006 (home.clara.net/rfthomas/bf_prints.html). See also Wayne K. Spitzer, “Flying the Fog Roads of Cascadia: Grover Krantz on the Trail of Bigfoot,” Columbia: The Magazine of Northwest History Vol. 22, No. 2 (Summer 2008), 3-5.

(Informational) Bossburg, Washington

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(Document) March 1988 Booth Gardner letter

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In March 1988, this letter was sent to Governor Booth Gardner requesting information on Bigfoot. The response from the State Department of Wildlife noted that “the Sasquatch has never been documented and is therefore not classified as wildlife in the State of Washington. Since it has not been proven to exist, the Department of Wildlife does not manage or have any real involvement with the creature.”

In early 1988, a Washington State University anthropology professor announced a plan to prove the existence of Sasquatch by hunting and killing one using an infrared-equipped ultralight helicopter.

Booth Gardner Papers, Washington State Archives

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In March 1988, this letter was sent to Governor Booth Gardner requesting information on Bigfoot

(Database) John Green Sighting Database

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(Hoax) Oct 2009 Honobia Walkie Talkie Incident

2026-05-11T21:57:52Z

Darkwing:

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Randy Harrington posted a video on his YouTube channel about the Walkie Talkie incident, and conveniently left out a ton of info, like that the MABRC was involved in this entire event, if Randy hadn't been a MABRC member, he wouldn't have been there during the event.

But here is the big issue, thanks to XXXXXXXXXXX talking to XXXXXXXXXX and getting us to review the entire events, the MABRC believes this entire incident was a hoax committed by one person. The number of red flags here is amazing. I will list many of them here.

Flag 1 - The first night in (Monday), there was NoMercy (my son), DO, Squatchfinder, Bushman, and myself. When we reached the campsite for that night, I had walked over after Bushman told us he lost his radio on the trail to Squatchfinder's 4 wheeler to talk to him when I noticed a number of pictures on his 4 wheeler's running board that had fallen out of his jacket pocket. DO decided to return to Christ 40 Acres where we had parked the vehicles in his Polaris to get some firewood. NoMercy asked to go with him and DO vehemently said no. It only took us about 30 minutes to get to the campsite, so it should only take about an hour round trip. DO said he would look on the trail for the radio. 2 hours later, DO returned with the wood, just enough for a fire half the night, and claimed he didn't see the radio or any of the pictures that Squatchfinder may have lost. DO did not want any one to go with him, even though the rest of the week, he would grab NoMercy and go just about everywhere with him until the celebrities showed up on Thursday night, 3 days away.

Flag 2 - We traveled for three days up and down those same trails, scouring for that radio and any lost pictures, and found nothing. We also helped DO set up a new bait station technique using solar lighted flowers and other optical devices. This would be key to what would happen on Thursday. DO kept trying to get us to move our night camps at least twice a night, because if he didn't get instant activity at a camp, he wanted to move, we finally had to tell him we were moving our tents to the ridge line and staying put.

Flag 3 - On Thursday, Dr. Meldrum, Thom Powell, and Scott Nelson arrived for the conference, and myself and DO went and drove into Talihina to meet them and get them settled in. Thom Powell wanted to camp at the researchers' camp with us, so he loaded up his stuff and went with us. A documentary film crew showed up too, and DO latched onto them, driving them around in his Polaris and telling them all his exploits. When we arrived back at camp from Talihina, DO said he had to use the bathroom and took off alone in his Polaris on the same trails that would be attached to this event. He was gone for nearly an hour, and it wasn't necessary to go that far anyway.

Flag 4 - DO returns, loads up Mike Hall, Thom Powell and the documentary crew to look at his lighted bait station. They are gone for about an hour before returning to camp, and jumping out and running up to Bushman with a walkie talkie and asked if it was his. They had traveled up the trail, and found a stone cairn on the lower trail (Just off the side of the trail shoulder) where there was a white shopping bag stuffed in it, and for whatever reason, DO jumped out and grabbed the bag and put it in the back of his Polaris. They then traveled up to the lighted bait station and found a more elaborate stone cairn constructed in the middle of the trail, and DO had Mike Hall jump out to know it down so they could proceed, only to find the walkie talkie underneath it all. All this occurred while having Thom Powell and the documentary crew there with him.

Flag 5 - The next morning, supposedly while cleaning trash out of his Polaris, DO discovers that one of Squatchfinder's photos is in the plastic shopping bag that he took out of the stone cairn at the lower trail.

Flag 6 - Why would Bigfoot put a photo in a plastic bag and put it in a stone cairn to return it? Bigfoot would not have any clue that rain or water would hurt the photo.

Flag 7 - Why would Bigfoot return the radio in this fashion? There were multiple ATVs and UTVs going up and down these trails most of the week, why would Bigfoot sit out in the middle of a trail putting together this little stone cairn to put the walkie talkie in it. Bigfoot would more than likely have played with it for a while, before either discarding it or keeping it to play with more.

Flag 8 - DO then claimed it was because he used to put a sheet of paper out with his baiting in the area of a Bigfoot and a man in a blue sweatshirt, the Bigfoot must have remembered him and returned these items because of that. However, DO hadn't used that tactic in three years prior to this event.

Flag 9 - Why didn't the Bigfoot just leave it at the lighted bait station that was only about 75 feet from where the walkie talkie stone cairn was found, because it was back into the woods and would have offered plenty of concealment for the Bigfoot to build this cairn.

This is what after careful consideration of many of those that were there about the event figured had played out.

When DO returned to Christ 40 Acres to get the firewood, he found the walkie talkie and the picture, storing them in his Truck/Trailer at 40 acres. Why? Only he knows what he was contemplating at the moment.
The five of us spent several days, looking for these items, and as other MABRC researchers showed up, they helped looked too, as DO made sure they all knew what happened that first night and that the walkie talkie had been lost.
On Thursday, the arrival of Bigfoot celebs Dr. Meldrum, Thom Powell and Scott Nelson, gave DO a chance to put together a big event that he could shine in front of them. The additional arrival of the documentary crew also gave him a lot more incentive to do what came next.

Leaving to go "purportedly" to the bathroom, he had enough time, and had went in the direction that the stone cairns would be placed, that he constructed these two cairns, placed the items in them, and then came back where he asked Mike Hall, Thom Powell and the documentary crew to go with him to look at his light station. (I'll add maps of the area for reference under this post) He was then able to stage an event that put him at the center of attention and limelight. Even today, he conveniently leaves out the details that this was not just about him, that others in the MABRC were there among other facts that really point towards DO creating this as a hoax. It was all too convenient that only one person was dead center in the entire event, and this person parlayed it into being put in a documentary and other interviews. DO's demeanor throughout all this also was a red flag, pictures taken of him showing the rock cairns and the photo/plastic bag, just give off bad vibes from his expressions. To this point, I wanted the MABRC members to know that those of us that were there truly believe that DO hoaxed the entire thing.

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(Hoax) Oct 2009 Honobia Walkie Talkie Incident

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Harrington showing the bag that had the photo in it, that he found the next day in the back of his Polaris after putting the bag from the rock cairn in the back of it.

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