SAN ANTONIO — Real or fake, the 8-foot sasquatch-looking creature in a glass case is drawing attention in the Alamo City.

Rick Dyer, a self-proclaimed “master tracker”, brought what he calls a Bigfoot to San Antonio this week to show off to those interested enough to pay $10 to see the 2-year-old specimen.

Encased in a 9-by-5-foot case, the hairy body allegedly has been preserved by a taxidermist and has had an autopsy, although Dyer refuses to say where or when those things took place.

More than 100 people bought $20 tickets to a sold-out event at Alamo Drafthouse Park North for 7 p.m. Thursday that includes a movie, a question-and-answer session and a viewing of the beast.

Hundreds of others bought tickets for a viewing for $10 Wednesday at a Home Depot parking lot, and Thursday in the movie theater parking lot. About 20 people lined up Thursday morning outside the theater before it opened to buy tickets.

Some who saw the body believed, but others were skeptical.

“I think it's a hoax,” said Lisa Martinez after seeing the “proof” in the movie theater parking lot. “I've read a lot about it, but it looked too much like a hairy person instead of an ape. It doesn't make sense it would have been in San Antonio.”

As the website Snopes.com points out, Dyer made similar claims in 2008 when he claimed to have killed Bigfoot. When Dyer revealed the specimen at a press conference, it turned out to be a rubber ape suit.

Others were convinced.

“I am speechless… it is unbelievable,” said Ace Ochoa, a 20-year-old who saw the body with his father. “I think it's real; you can see where it's cut open and the facial features seem like you can't fake them.”

Ochoa's father said he was skeptical before and after seeing the body.

Dyer tows the case in a 17-foot trailer behind a 40-foot-coach with BigfootTracker.com stickers all around. He is on a nationwide tour to prove he actually killed the cryptic and illusive animal, which he calls “Hank.”

Inside the trailer were pictures of two other sasquatches Dyer said were in the woods near Loop 1604 and Texas 151.

“The reaction has been excellent,” he said. “I have not had one bad experience and thousands of people have passed through that trailer.”

Dyer, 36, said he killed the 8-foot-tall Bigfoot in San Antonio in 2012 with a 30-06 rifle after he lured “the beast” near his tent with a set of Wal-Mart ribs he rubbed with a secret ingredient.

He said he refuses to give a hair or meat sample for research because he already has the proof. He said “a university” is testing the animal, but that he has a nondisclosure agreement and cannot reveal which “university,” he said.

Dyer said if people definitively find out that it is Bigfoot, their reactions won't be as great because the mystery will be gone.

He is traveling to Houston over the weekend for more events, Dyer said.

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