Virginia Bigfoot Hoax of 1978

Lonnie Trucks

Lonnie Trucks

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I just watched this documentary on the 1978 bigfoot hoax that took place in the town of Weyburn Virginia.
The town lost its lumbermill in a fire and was on the verge of going bankrupt so the mayor, sheriff, town attorney and local garage owner created
bigfoot tracks during a winter storm and throwing dead cow blood on the side of farm houses to get news attention and trick local farmers into thinking they had a bigfoot problem.
It worked until one of them got greedy and then the whole dang hoax came to light. The town eventually went bankrupt and got sold off. Any of ya'll remember this?
Here is the link to it. Watch The Town That Cried Bigfoot | Prime Video
 
I just watched the trailer. That part of the film about the new hotshot town mayor Danny Shifflett is film footage robbed from a documentary film made by the University of Southwest Missouri and the National Park Service about Shannon County, Missouri. That bit of film is from the late '70s and was filmed in Eminence, Missouri, at the Shannon County Courthouse. The person depicted as the town's mayor is actually Danny Stapleton, a Missouri State Representative for the Shannon County area. Representative Stapleton was a long-serving member of state government here in the Ozarks. What a bogus bit of film work.
 
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