(Hoax) Jeane Hiebert Temagami Photos
These photos appeared in 2009, and were claimed to be from a Jeane Hiebert in 2009, subsequent investigations led to the belief that Jeane Hiebert is a fictional person, that did not exist as multiple databases showed no one with that name living in that region. This was a second hoax that came from the Temagami area and it's suspected that the film company trying to produce Ben Matine Bigfoot Doc/The Man God Forgot this movie. They attempted to create a series of Bigfoot pictures that resembles the costume used in these photos here.
Included is a post from Todd Prescott on the Coalition for Critical Thinking in Bigfoot Research about his efforts to validate the information related to this hoax.
Todd Prescott I was contacted by someone many years back who claimed to have video screenshots of a Bigfoot in Algonquin Park. They were supposedly driving their truck back from a trip and just happened to have a GoPro attached to the front bumper of their truck. A week or so after their trip, he sat down with his wife to watch the footage they had taken of their drive back. Low and behold, the wife noticed something on the side of the road. They both felt that it was a bigfoot standing at the side of the road. They sent me the stills and the short clip of about 5 seconds approaching the subject at the side of the road and passing it. To me, it didn't look like a bigfoot but a dude in a ghillie suit. Probably a hunter (since it was hunting season). I spoke with someone on the phone named "Edward." He spoke as if he had a towel over the phone and was trying to hide his identity. It was weird, to say the least.
I wanted to have a follow-up call but the number him gave me was bogus. My initial convo with him was with him on a pay phone. Supposedly, Edward was working up north far out of cell range. This is why he had to use a pay phone. Long story short, it all seemed so clandestine and I was left with the feeling that it was a bogus story. While speaking with Edward, he had told me about the Hiebert photos and promised to send them to me. He did send the photos via email but would never respond when I replied back. I looked high and low for this Jeane Hiebert but came up empty handed. I even exhausted different spelling combinations of the name. At the time, one of my uncles worked for the Police in Ontario and he gave me access to a website that allowed me to find anyone who existed in this province. Jeane did not come up. Edward also told me about black helicopters and how a Forest Service worker had tried to confiscate the Hiebert photos through some secret meeting that was set up. There was just a lot of government conspiracy nonsense and men in black talk. I figured that it was all hokum (and still do). I think that someone was working on a film and the Hiebert photos were from that. Around this time the Temagami documentary was being advertised--although it never came to fruition. I wondered if the Edward and Hiebert nonsense was affiliated with that. It all seemed like an opportunity to generate interest in the subject of bigfoot in Ontario so that the Temagami doc could get some traction. Of course the Temagami doc was all BS too. I had hosted an expedition in Temagami just a couple of years earlier, so I wondered if that inspired someone to create a fake story and hope to capitalize on the attention Temagami was already getting.
My guess is that because "Edward" didn't get anywhere with me, he reached out to Ontario Sasquatch and proceeded to dupe them. In my emails, I was pressing "Edward" for a lot of info and contact info. Again, he never responded.
Anyhow, I'd be willing to bet a signed copy of Roger Patterson's book that the Hiebert story is just that--a story. The photos look fake and the details contrived.
And finally, the Ontario Wildlife Field Research group is the folks who finally produced these pictures onto the Internet. It's suspected by many that they are very complicit in the hoax, since they claim to have talked to the Hieberts when no one else can find them anywhere online.
