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Title: Bigfoot DNA Tests Prove Hairy Creature Exists, Genetic Researcher Says
Source: huffington post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/ ... -exists-genetic_n_2199984.html
Published: Dec 3, 2012
Author: Lee Speigel
Post Date: 2012-12-03 19:57:23 by farmfriend
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Bigfoot DNA Tests Prove Hairy Creature Exists, Genetic Researcher Says

Lee Speigel
lee.speigel@huffingtonpost.com

Bigfoot is real. At least that's what veterinarian Melba S. Ketchum claims after a five-year study of more than 100 DNA samples that she believes comes from the elusive hairy beast.

Under Ketchum's direction at DNA Diagnostics in Nacogdoches, Texas, a team of researchers has concluded that the creature may be a human relative that somehow developed around 15,000 years ago as a result of a hybrid cross between Homo sapiens with an unknown primate.

Ketchum's research has yet to stand the scrutiny of independent researchers. While many people have claimed to have seen the creature, its existence has never been confirmed, despite a plethora of photos and footprints. The ongoing search is the subject of Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" television series.

"Well, it came to me, I didn't go after it, that's for sure," Ketchum said of the evidence of Bigfoot's existence in an exclusive interview with The Huffington Post. "I did not believe in these creatures. But my lab did a lot of animal testing, and we did species identification. We didn't have any hits on anything interesting until five years ago."

Ketchum's professional work includes nearly 30 years in genetics research and forensics. After her team attempted DNA sequencing of hair samples from an alleged Bigfoot encounter, they found some unusual things in the hair. But there wasn't enough DNA to conclusively verify what they were seeing.

DNA Diagnostics received more samples to investigate -- including hair, blood, saliva and urine, all reportedly from various Bigfoot sightings.

Poster Comment:

I have to admit I watch the show Finding Bigfoot. I get a kick out of them making statements about how Sasquatches do this or that and what we "know" about them. Cracks me up.

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#1. To: farmfriend (#0)

My criticism about the existence of "Bigfoot" is: N. America is covered with game camera's, where's the photo-proof?? The best bowhunters in the world go way back in the wilderness of the Lower 48, where's their Bigfoot trophy, or footprint pics, or sightings??? Carcasses or bones, where are they???

I'm not about to buy into a myth without conclusive proof.

Can any government "scientific" expeditions do a better job exploring the woods than the American Hunter?? Since the first white men hit the shores of America not one hunter/farmer has ever bagged one, and that's many generations of hunting, along with a Civil War that had men crashing through the countryside and a Depression that had desperate men shooting anything they could eat. That's enough proof for me that they don't exist.

Occam's Razor says that until substantial empirical evidence surfaces, they don't exist. A DNA test without any other physical evidence just doesn't cut it for me. IOW, "Bring Me The Head Of Bigfoot!!"

X-15  posted on  2012-12-03   20:08:32 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I'm not about to buy into a myth without conclusive proof.

that's about where I'm at.

farmfriend  posted on  2012-12-03   21:36:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

I'm not about to buy into a myth without conclusive proof.

that's about where I'm at.

The simple use of the word "myth" is a presumption against. That also is not supported by the available evidence.

Yes the evidence is less than iron clad, but there have simply been too many sightings by credible people who were not kooks and were not even looking for bigfoot.

There is something there. Now the number and distribution is likely small numbers over a vast area and mostly in remote regions of the west.

As for the strawman of "where's the carcass" it is answered by pointing out that carcasses of any animal are rare in the wild. Predators, scavengers, bacteria, and small animals quickly dispose of any such. Further if Bigfoot practices the human practice of burial of the dead that makes it even more problematic.

I find that most scoffers have either not dug into the evidence available or have a common attitude of "my mind is made up". Skepticism is always in order but retaining a closed mind in the face of even good circumstantial evidence and first hand sightings is simply close minded. I don't pretend to know what bigfoot is for sure but I am convinced that there is something there.

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-12-04   22:21:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

#36. To: Original_Intent.farmfriend (#27)

As for the strawman of "where's the carcass" it is answered by pointing out that carcasses of any animal are rare in the wild.

That is certainly true.
As an avid hiker I have rarely found any animal carcase in the forest. Even common animals with a high-population (like armadillos or raccoons) are rarely found.
Nature is a remarkably good at cleaning up after itself.

Armadillo  posted on  2012-12-05 19:10:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  

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