Believe it or not, these four figures all have one thing in common.
This is what JFK, Martin Luther King, Jeffrey Epstein and “Bigfoot” have in common
What do JFK, Martin Luther King, Jeffrey Epstein, and Bigfoot all have in common?
No, it’s not a Jon Stewart gag from The Daily Show, nor is it some out-of-date Trivial Pursuit question from the mid-’90s — it’s a genuine question with a real answer.
John F. Kennedy was killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. Martin Luther King Jr. was killed by James Earl Ray. Jeffrey Epstein was killed by... well, let’s leave that there. It’s got nothing to do with their deaths. Plus, do we even know if Bigfoot is still alive?
The real answer is this: they all had a file opened on them by the FBI.
— The West Virginia Bigfoot Museum (@WVbigfootmuseum) July 18, 2025
FBI investigated possible Bigfoot evidence
That’s right, Bigfoot was investigated by the FBI, which was opened in 1976. It was in that year that the director of the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition in The Dalles, Oregon, Peter Byrne, sent the FBI “about 15 hairs attached to a tiny piece of skin.” The Bureau investigated it, and found nothing conclusive to suggest that it came from whatever creature Bigfoot is supposed to be. However, it did mean that a file was officially opened regarding the case.
History.com writes that “in early 1977, [the FBI] sent the hair back to Byrne along with his scientific conclusion: “The hairs are of deer family origin.” Four decades later, the “Bigfoot file” was declassified.
Benjamin Radford, deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer, spoke to the magazine, making clear that the investigation and file was not an acknowledgement of the existence of Bigfoot, but simply a favour to the hopeful theorist. “All it means is the FBI did a favour to a Bigfoot researcher,” Radford said. “There’s nothing wrong with that, but it shouldn’t be mistaken for de facto government endorsement of the reality of Bigfoot.”
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“Obviously, I can’t speak for Peter Byrne,” Radford said when asked about Byrne’s shocked reaction to the declassified results. But “if you’re going to make a big enough deal about this unknown specimen to give it to the FBI, then you’re not going to want to publicize the fact that it turned out to be deer.”
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