Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman — author of Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America, from Cosimo partner Paraview, and presenter of Cosimo’s new series of classic cryptozoology books — has offered some comments on this week’s news about the hikers in Georgia who claim to have found the body of a Bigfoot-type creature.

From ABCnews.com:

Loren Coleman, a prolific writer on the Sasquatch, Yeti and other mysterious creatures, said he thinks this is going to be one of the biggest Bigfoot stories of the decade, even it turns out to be hoax.

When it comes to the alleged creature, he says he doesn’t use the word “believe.”

“I accept or deny evidence. Based upon the evidence we have [about Bigfoot], 80 percent is proof and 20 percent is myth,” he said.

With this one body found in Georgia, however, it’s “99 percent a hoax and 1 percent a probability of reality,” he said.

But he’s still excited about the alleged discovery.

“I’ll never turn down a chance to look at a body because it could be real, and we can’t choose the accident of history. & The most undesirable people might be the ones to discover it, but who am I to judge them.”

(Looks like Coleman’s already being proven right about a hoax.)

Buy Bigfoot! The True Story of Apes in America at Amazon, or explore the new series Loren Coleman Presents: The Book of Werewolves, The Great Sea Serpent, Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life, and The Romance of Natural History.

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