- The imprint of a hairy backside in the mud of Washington
state is the strongest hint yet that Bigfoot is roaming the North American
far west, according to researchers who made the discovery.
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- Many people doubt whether the giant primate, commonly
known as Bigfoot, actually exists. Hundreds of its supposed footprints
have been photographed and cast, but this is one of the few body impressions
of the hypothetical creature.
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- "If we can just get other scientists to look at
this with an objective view, I think they'll say there must be something
out there," says LeRoy Fish, a zoologist and retired wildlife ecologist
who took part in the expedition that discovered the imprint.
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- Most stories of the bipedal apelike creature are dismissed
as misidentifications or hoaxes. But Fish and others think Bigfoot, or
Sasquatch as it is known in Canada, may be living hidden away in remote
wilderness areas.
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- The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO), which
includes some trained scientists, sponsored a 13-person expedition in September
to look for evidence in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in southern
Washington state. To attract one of the creatures, the team set out food,
spread pheromones and played recordings thought to be the calls of other
Bigfoots.
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- After placing apples in a muddy spot one evening, the
investigators returned the next morning to find an impression which, they
say, shows the left forearm, hip, thigh and heel of a large primate. They
believe the impression was made as the creature sat down and reached over
to pick up the bait.
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- Anthropologist Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University
says the imprint seems to have been made by a large, hair-covered hominid
more than 2.5 metres tall. Meldrum says he found markings that look like
human fingerprints on the heel print. "All we're trying to say at
this stage is that there's evidence that justifies objective consideration,"
Meldrum says.
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- The BFRO is inviting outside scientists to examine the
casts, but has so far had no offers. "It's been a challenge,"
says Meldrum. "For most people, you just mention Bigfoot and you get
a snicker." Benjamin Radford of the Skeptical Inquirer magazine agrees
that mainstream scientists are wary of the subject because of a history
of fakes. "After a while they just get tired of wasting their time
on hoaxes."
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