Bigfoot found? Mystery at an end??

Real Bigfoot or a costume?

Real Bigfoot or a costume?

Those two guys over at bigfoottracker.com may well have pulled off the scoop of the century. They say that they have in their possesion ( in their freezer to be exact) a body of a dead BIgfoot. This news has been on their website for the past two weeks. The problem was that not many people took it very seriously and the antics of the two individuals ( read below) further reduced their credibility.

However, Tom Biscardi, a controversial bigfoot investigator for many years has examined the body and has fully endorsed its authenticity.

Mathew Whitton a policemen and his colleague Rick Dyer who made the discovery have organised a press conference for Friday August 15th in Palo Alto, California.

Speaking of this Tom Biscardi says “We’ll release the DNA analysis, and we’ll have the body right next to the two boys…then you can see it’s real, that its not bullshit.”
 
On his website, Loren Coleman while stopping short of authenticating the claims says that “i feel, in all honesty, this, indeed may be the real deal, and i say this carefully after reviewing information that has been shared privately with me.”

A few tantalising pictures have been released. Guess we’ll have to wait untill tomorrow.

More excitement regarding Yeti Hairs.

Deos the Yeti suffer from Split ends?

Deos the Yeti suffer from Split ends?

Could the mystery of the Yeti finally be solved? A few hair strands supplied to the BBC by a napalese man have proven impossible to identify.

Dipu Marek found the hairs deep in the jungle after a forrestry worker had seen the yeti on three conseqative days.

In England, highly sophisticated microscopes were used to examine the hairs and by a process of elimination the indiginous animals of that region were discarded as being the source.
 
The tests were carried out at Oxford Brookes University in central England with award-winning primatologist Anna Nekaris and microscopy expert Jon Wells from the university’s anthropology department.

Ian Redmiond a primatologist and senior consultant for the UN’s Great Ape Survival Project has said that the Hairs are ‘potentially very exciting’ and along with Nekaris, agree there is “every chance” they could belong to an unknown species of primate.

Another exciting aspect is that the hairs contain identifiable follicles which means that there are cells present. As a result the hairs are being subjected to a more thorough DNA analysis.

Watch this space..

Another Footprint find from the Himalayas

Josh Gates with his 'Yeti' print.

Josh Gates with his Yeti

Once again news has reached us of another footprint find from the other side of the world. A documentary crew filming in Nepal near mt Everest stumbled upon what they considered fresh tracks belonging to a 2 legged animal.

A team of nine along with TV Host Josh Gates from the television program “Destination Truth,” armed with infrared cameras, spent a week in the icy Khumbu region where Mount Everest is located and found the footprints on the bank of the Manju River at an elevation of 9,350 feet (2,850 meters).

A total of 3 prints were found which according to Gates had human characteristics and were clearly not that of a bear. Asked why only three prints were found he commented that the area was very rocky.
Skeptics no doubt will explain the tracks away as bear prints which have enlarged to due the effects of melting. They still think the notion of a ‘Yeti’ is nonsense and demand strong evidence.
I do not believe it is evidence that they demand, no matter how strong it is, but a body. In 2001 an expedition in search of the Yeti came back with evidence including hair samples which was claimed as belonging to the mythical creature. The Hair was subjected to DNA analysis by Professor Malcolm Sykes, one of the Pioneers of DNA analysis. He said, “We found some DNA in it, but we don’t know what it is. It’s not a human, not a bear nor anything else we have so far been able to identify. It’s a mystery and I never thought this would end in a mystery. We have never encountered DNA that we couldn’t recognize before.”
People have been sentenced to death on the back of DNA evidence, but as far as the yeti is concerned it is conveniently ignored.