IMO This is a real bigfoot or yeti or sasquatch. The anatomical structure is sound along with the face and hair. It would be quite the elaborate hoax if not real. your thoughts?

The item was exposed by Ammanuel Janssens Casteels as a hoax. I though he created it, but he did not. Here's the story from Michel reynal's Virtual Institute of Cryptozoology site:

The frozen mannikin (sic) of Bourganeuf

In 1997, what looked like a new version of the affair of the frozen man (this cadaver of a frozen hairy man shown in the US fairs, which Bernard Heuvelmans was able to study in 1968) occurred... in France !

It was indeed a hoax, and amusingly, our Belgish friends of the ABEPAR (which publishes the journal Cryptozoologia) are (involontarily) responsible. Emmanuel Janssens Casteels, animal sculptor and a collaborator of the magazine, relates in the June to August 1998 issue of Cryptozoologia that two friends of his have helped people who wanted to make a giant copy of Bernard Heuvelmans's frozen man :

"In fact, it was a sculpture made with sponge rubber on which hairs of horse tail have been pasted. The eyes have been simply bought from a provider specialized in taxidermy."

Of course, a crazy story was associated with the "show" of Bourganeuf, whose creator had obviously read Bernard Heuvelmans's book.

Originally posted by dave420
reply to post by MrsEsterhouse

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A photo is never enough to say whether the subject is a real bigfoot/yeti/whatever. Saying it is shows a willingness to believe over a willingness to find out the facts.

Until a DNA sample is provided and the body recovered, it's just a photo of something hairy, that does look like a bigfoot. That's it.

And don't get me started on those bloody electric aliens.