An Australian man says he was devastated after learning he had been involved in a high-profile Bigfoot hoax. Last December, Andrew Clacy left his home in Victoria to join Rick Dyer, a used car salesman from Texas who calls himself the ‘master tracker of Bigfoot.’ Mr Dyer claimed online to have killed the legendary Sasquatch and packaged him in a glass case. He provided a number of images as documentation. Lying through his teeth: Rick Dyer, posing with the phony Bigfoot he used for the hoax Andrew Clacy left his home in Victoria last December to join Rick Dyer, in a national tour of America with purported body of Bigfoot
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Andrew Clacy travelled America for three months with a phony Bigfoot body
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The Victorian man says he believed it was real for the entire trip
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Rick Dyer was responsible for the campaign
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Dyer was involved in previous Bigfoot hoaxes
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Clacy says he lost $12,000 in the venture
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Clacy says Dyer is now boycotting him on the internet and hacking his emails
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To make matters worse, Dyer has embarked upon an online campaign to boycott @placeholder, alleging on his blog that Clacy knew about the hoax throughout the period he was promoting it.