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The Secret Society of Hoaxers


Dunbaraj

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I always wonder this. There are thousands of Bigfoot sightings going centuries into the past. More happen now, I'm sure, because of population increase and urban sprawl. But I ALWAYS wonder about the other half of the coin here: the hoaxer. 

  • Why do you do it? 
  • How much time are you willing to invest into the hoax?
  • How much money are you willing to pay for a suit? 

It's ridiculous once you start rabbit-hole thinking about their motivations and desires for the hoax. Sometimes it turns out really bad: like the guy who got run over by a 15 year old girl on the highway while dressed as Sasquatch. Sometimes it just makes you laugh your ass off, like with this weird monkey dummy thing someone threw into a swamp. And sometimes it is clearly just for financial gain, like with Rick Dyer carting a fake Bigfoot in a freezer all over the country charging $5 a  pop for a viewing. 

Is there really some kind of weird secret society out there? I really really want to jump into this topic more. I think I might put this into deep research.  You know, I look at what many people consider to be a compelling bigfoot video like the Patterson/Gimlin footage and I'm just shocked at the potential amount of time and effort that a small group of people are willing to dedicate to this bizarre hobby. 

Do you hoax? 

 

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I doubt there is such a society.  An organisation is effective to the extent it is not secret (if it is effective).   Freemasons, though nominally secret manage to raise a fair amount of cash for charities.  

I think that hoaxes are pulled off as a joke or to give the hoaxer some kind of thrill.  If money is involved it becomes fraud. The fact that something may be a fraud does not mean that the joke or thrill is excluded.  

Take the Piltdown hoax. It started with a few bits of thick human cranium, which would have been enough to cause a stir in the anthropology circles of the time. If it had been left at that it might never have been exposed. But when Smith-Woodward and de Chardin fell for it, it had to go further to keep the thrill going.  It was not enough for Charles Dawson, he pushed his luck with faked teeth, other fossils not otherwise found in England and then a piece of elephant ivory cut to look like a cricket bat.  It was when the faked teeth were properly examined that the hoax fell to bits, but by that time Dawson had been dead about 46 years.  

Dawson had been forging antiquities of various kinds for decades.

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As Henry Gondorff  (?) said in "The Sting", the best con is the one where the people being conned never get to realise they've been conned ! I wonder how many like that have flown under the radar on the big stage of history.

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Davros of Skaro

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There's an evolutionary advantage to lying. If people believe your lie, then you have a greater chance of spreading your genes. 

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