The Ray Wallace death bed confession shook the Bigfoot community to it's core in 2002. The Jerry Crew construction site made the news in the 1950's with Bigfoot leaving it's footprints all over the place. Turns out, it was all a hoax. More after the jump!
From skepdic.org:
According to Michael Wallace, Bigfoot is a hoax that was launched in August 1958 by his father Ray L. Wallace (1918-2002), an inveterate prankster. Shortly after Ray’s death, Michael revealed the details of the hoax, which were reported widely in the press. Ray had a friend carve him 16-inch-long feet that he could strap on and make prints with. Wallace owned a construction company that built logging roads at the time and he set the prints around one of his bulldozers in Humboldt County. Jerry Crew, a bulldozer operator, reported the prints and The Humboldt Timesran a front-page story about “Bigfoot.” The legend was born. However, a former logger, 71-year-old John Auman, claimsWallace left the giant footprints to scare away thieves and vandals who'd been targeting his vehicles. His hoaxes didn't begin until after he'd seen what a stir he'd created.
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