Sasquatch Hoax Ends in Tragedy
Steve Barton
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NBC Montana
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As a race, we human beings have wrought insufferable tragedy on ourselves and the world. Sometimes said tragedy is the by-product of our own stupidity. Case in point: one man whose brush with the legend of Bigfoot brought about an untimely demise.
According to NBC Montana, Randy Lee Tenley, 44, was dressed in a military style “ghillie” suit when he was struck and killed by two cars, one driven by a 15-year-old and the other by a 17-year-old. Tenley was in the midst of trying to pull off a hoax Bigfoot sighting when he was hit by one vehicle and then run over by a second whose driver didn’t see him lying in the road.
“According to his companions, he was out there in the ghillie suit attempting to incite a sighting of Bigfoot, to make people think they had seen a Sasquatch,” says Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider. “He probably would not have been very easy to see at all.”
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