The alleged bigfoot discovery last week has been exposed as a hoax. The Searching for Bigfoot site has released a statement saying that after gaining access to the Bigfoot body, they discovered that it was nothing more than a rubber suit.

A copy of a Fox News report in the video above.

It should really come as no great surprise that the whole thing is a hoax. We still don’t know exactly what the people behind it were aiming to achieve by the hoax, but it whole thing does prove something: we do want to believe on occasion that these things could be real.

In concluding the matter, we leave you with the most authentic footage of Bigfoot Caught On Tape to this date: