{"id":2613,"date":"2014-11-07T08:24:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T12:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2014-11-11T15:48:30","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T19:48:30","slug":"2613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2014\/11\/07\/2613\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hunter, The Hoaxer, And The Battle Over Bigfoot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/?attachment_id=2614\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2614\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2614\" src=\"http:\/\/oddempire.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/anigif_longform-original-29525-1415316093-14-300x168.png\" alt=\"anigif_longform-original-29525-1415316093-14\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a sweaty July day, and Rick Dyer is in his tank-like Toyota, barreling down a highway just south of Atlanta. It\u2019s a comically oversize SUV, with a rack of roof lights and an exterior wrapped in flat-black vinyl. If Batman drove a Jeep, it would look like this.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere near the turnoff for a Christmas tree farm, Dyer abruptly turns into a sloping grassy median, then into a field of knee-high weeds beyond the road, then down a narrow dirt trail, where, after rumbling over an impressive heap of felled trees, we arrive at a small clearing just on the other side of a trailer park. Dyer, 37, is wearing a red T-shirt, red gym shorts, and a camouflage hat embroidered with a Bigfoot logo. His neatly trimmed beard frames a mischievous grin. \u201cLet\u2019s go do a Bigfoot investigation,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>Moments later, we\u2019re parked beside a trailer where a couple of boys are milling around a rusty grill. \u201cAre you the one who called about Bigfoot?\u201d Dyer asks. The pair looks confused. Soon, there\u2019s a small gathering and Dyer explains that someone from a nearby trailer said that a Bigfoot attacked his car. \u201cI went up there and checked it out, and his door from his car is ripped off,\u201d Dyer says matter-of-factly. Someone asks what kind of car it was, and Dyer provides a make and model, and says a tow truck is on its way. If they see anything, Dyer tells them, please contact him through his website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat are you going to do if you find it?\u201d a man in a basketball jersey and sunglasses asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I\u2019ve already killed one,\u201d Dyer says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/timstelloh\/the-hunter-the-hoaxer-and-the-battle-over-bigfoot?utm_source=digg&amp;utm_medium=email\">[[[MORE]]]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It\u2019s a sweaty July day, and Rick Dyer is in his tank-like Toyota, barreling down a highway just south of Atlanta. It\u2019s a comically oversize SUV, with a rack of roof lights and an exterior wrapped in flat-black vinyl. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/2014\/11\/07\/2613\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","WB4WB4WP_MODE":"","WB4WP_PAGE_SCRIPTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_STYLES":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FONTS":"","WB4WP_PAGE_HEADER":"","WB4WP_PAGE_FOOTER":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddempire.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}