(Hoax) Bigfoot Ballyhoo Site
No one has worked harder at exposing Linda Newton-Perry and her website Bigfootballyhoo (No longer active) than Steve "Squatchdetective" Kulls and most of the information shown here is from his Hall of Shame on his website and I strongly recommend visiting his website Squatchdetective
Here is what Steve's investigations uncovered.
Bigfoot Ballyhoo was created late in 2009 by fiction writer Linda Newton-Perry. It chronicled her belief in the existence of Bigfoot, trying to get people to "keep talking Bigfoot." Over the course of the last year (2010), some of the claims being made on the site came under scrutiny.
Perry's has written several children's fiction books, where the main topic surrounds Bigfoot. In 2010, however she came out with an adult fiction book based on Bigfoot.
Bogus Claims and Tall Tales
The Oregon DMV Law
One of the first claims made on the site was the "Ballyhoo" being partly responsible for Oregon, to stop suspending driver's licenses of people whom report Bigfoot sightings.
This claim sounded outlandish on principle as no government has officially recognized the creature known as Bigfoot to exist. Only laws protecting it, in the event it does.
Letter received from Paulides debunking Perry's bogus claim.
Dave Paulides of North America Bigfoot Search, was the first to file a Freedom of Information Act form upon the state of Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles and received a letter from the assistant public relations director.
There was no Dale Saxon...
Allegedly the senior member of the ESP team was Dale Saxton, who "tragically passed away" a few months after she began writing about the team.
Here we have Linda Newton-Perry’s ESP Team, the late “Dale Saxton” on her “tribute page” to him posting a picture of Dale and the boys, posted on February 4th, 2010, claiming to be from Burnt Mountain Oregon.
Another borrowed picture on Ballyhoo
The picture comes from the Sierra Logging Museum, which was posted on November 18th, 2009 and the original link can be found by clicking here, and lists all the names of the loggers pictured, (absent in the names were Saxton, and Parchell) which was coincidentally shot in the Sierra’s, not where Ms. Newton Perry claims.
But there's more...
Post about Dale Saxton's trip to Roman Nose.
Well funny, here’s 2 pictures taken by Vern Rogers in 2006 on his Fotabug page.
Is anything real on Ballyhoo?
More blatantly lifted and misrepresented photos. It is also note in the LNP posts the copyright was blurred out.
The ESP Team "Big Clyde" Hoax
LNP's interlude with a set of Bigfoot Researchers named Dale Saxton, Cole Saxton (Dale's son), Bill Emery and Hank Parchell began shortly after she started her blog.
One of Linda's first ESP team graphics. She would later regret using those pictures.
On August 3rd, 2010, Perry announced to the world that Bill Emery (now leading the team), had obtained several trail cam photos of a Bigfoot, and over the period of the next three months, Perry and the alleged team, held us at bay. Finally the first picture surfaced.
The screen cap of 1976's, "The Legend of Sasquatch."
As it turns out, thanks to one of Autumn Williams' readers they quickly surmised that this was an altered photo of the creature from the 1977 copyrighted film, "The Legend of Sasquatch."
Coincidentally the movie had a character in it named, "Hank Parshall."
Sru Lake Hoax
LNP loved to speak of sighting reports around Sru Lake in Oregon, but all of her stories sounded suspiciously alike. She had rebuffed the claim by providing a picture of the SRU Lake gate...
The gate Linda provides us is clearly marked Sru Lake with an address.
In actuality the picture was taken in 2007, and found here, as a result of the Kim family from San Francisco, California going missing in Oregon on November 25th, 2006. This was the gate the family found opened and entered the area. Unfortunately Mr. Kim succumbed to the elements.
The same gate and address, yet no Sru Lake on the rails.
She got caught red-handed posting a picture of a track, claiming to be at Sru Lake, which turned out belonged to Florida researcher Tim Fasano
On left, her story of a track find at Sru Lake. On right, Tim Fasano's track find in Florida.
We also located a video of Vince being interviewed at his full time job in Fort Worth, again notice the scar on the nose.
ESP Team Busted as a Fraud
On January 9th, 2011 we were tipped of from an anonymous source that they had found "Bill Emery's" pictures on a professional photographer's website. We followed the link to discover the following pictures.
Pic found on the photographer's site was the same dude as "Bill Emery."
We corresponded with the photographer and learned the background behind the photos and learned that "Bill Emery" was actually somewhat of a local celebrity working at the Fort Worth Stockyards, a tourist attraction to the Dallas/Fort Worth area.
When we were looking for more pictures of "Emery" which we had found...
Picture from the Ft. Worth Exchange website.
