Bigfoot expert sues fellow believers

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 19 (UPI) -- A California man who bills himself as a world-renowned authority on Bigfoot creatures is suing fellow believers for not paying for his services.

Thomas Biscardi, who has spent 33 years tracking down the mystical half-man, half-ape creature said to roam the wilderness, sued the president and vice president of the Great American Bigfoot Research Organization.

In his suit, he claims the year-old organization agreed to pay him $250,000 to "lend his experience, knowledge and reputation," to conduct Bigfoot expeditions, and to provide the group with use of his library of plaster footprint casts, films, photos and sound recordings, the San Jose Mercury News reported.

Now, Biscardi says he's only received $65,000, and the group won't give back his library specimens.

Biscardi's lawyer said the organization no longer has a lawyer. The last one had quit for non-payment. Neither of the group's leaders could be reached for comment by the newspaper.