(Hoaxer) Joe Metlow
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 Streter 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.
