(Hoax) Oct 2009 Honobia Walkie Talkie Incident
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.
