“WBTV did a little digging and found out, of course, it’s not the real Bigfoot, but actually a plywood cutout painted black. The cutout is the brain-child of the fun-loving Morris Isenhour.”
We had some kids doing just that a few years back when my son was in high school.
I told him to spread it around that next time there was a sighting I was going let a pack of bear hounds on the trail.
The Sightings stopped happening.