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Initech

(100,076 posts)
Thu Oct 3, 2013, 02:01 PM Oct 2013

"Expert" Claims To Have DNA Evidence As Proof Of Bigfoot's Existence

Bigfoot is real, and now at least one scientist claims there is proof.

A group of Sasquatch researchers who have been collecting over 100 pieces of evidence over the past five years screened “never before seen HD video” of the alleged creature at a news conference in Dallas on Tuesday.

The footage, which came from a similar effort dubbed The Erickson Project, led by Adrian Erickson, included what the group said was a sasquatch moving through wooded areas in Kentucky.

Dr. Melba Ketchum, who has led the group of researchers called the Sasquatch Genome Project, has been working on a $500,000 analysis of DNA samples from an unknown hominin species. Ketchum calls the project “a serious study” that concludes the legendary Sasquatch exists in North America and is a human relative that arose approximately 13,000 years ago.

“They’re a type of people, they’re a human-hybrid, we believe. And all of the DNA evidence points to that. And they can elude us, so if you get [footage] at all, it can be fleeting,” Ketchum told ABC affiliate WFAA.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2013/10/new-bigfoot-evidence-screened-as-expert-claims-proof-of-existence/


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"Expert" Claims To Have DNA Evidence As Proof Of Bigfoot's Existence (Original Post) Initech Oct 2013 OP
Okay, I'm a skeptic. TxDemChem Oct 2013 #1
DNA? this is nothing more that ketchup and rat poop! Javaman Oct 2013 #2

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)
1. Okay, I'm a skeptic.
Fri Oct 4, 2013, 07:54 AM
Oct 2013

I saw this on the news. I'd like to see their data on both nuclear and mitochondrial DNA. I'd especially like to see the d-loop.

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