Despite my negative review of Jay Delaney’s documentary Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, which screened earlier this year at SXSW, I can’t help but feel bad today for the film’s subjects, Bigfoot enthusiasts and would-be hunters Dallas Gilbert and Wayne Burton. They’re the ones who wanted to go down in history as a famous research team. As Wayne says in today’s clip, they even had a joke that God put Bigfoot on this earth strictly for them to try to catch him.

Unfortunately, Dallas and Wayne seem to have been beaten to the punch. Reportedly, two men have found the body of a Bigfoot in Georgia, and they’re set to prove their discovery at a press conference this Friday to be held in Palo Alto, California. Last weekend, Bigfoot researcher Tom Biscardi (who appears in Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie, investigating the findings of Dallas and Wayne) went down to Georgia to see the body and since that time it has been undergoing DNA tests and other scientific study. For Dallas and Wayne’s sake, I hope the find isn’t legit, and the guys can keep on holding onto the American Dream.