Monsters
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No, that’s not the problem, says
Turhan Murad, a physical an
thropologist at California State
University at Chico. Murad
teaches a course called “Bigfoot
and Other Monsters; Myth or
Reality?” '
“It’s not that scientists are
unwilling to accept Bigfoot, but a
matter of having to prove its
existence - coming up with
physical evidence of some type,”
says Murad, who uses the mystery
as a lesson in how science works.
Krantz bases much of his case on
more than 1,000 footprints found in
a single area of California that
suggest a giant creature with a
clubfoot. Only someone with a
detailed knowledge of anatomy
could fake such a deformity, he
says.
But Murad, who has examined
the same prints, says a human foot
can be deformed in many ways.
Thus, he says, anybody could have
faked the prints.
No Bones About It
No skeletons, bones, or fossils
have ever turned up for a Bigfoot,
a major reason most scientists are
skeptical at best.
But the people who believe in its
existence offer explanations, some
admittedly bizarre. Take, for
example, Robert Warth, president
of the Society for the Investigation
of the Unexplained.
Warth suggests that an
aberration in the earth’s elec
tromagnetic field may have
caused a tune warp that enables
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the creature to appear and then
disappear, baffling scientists.
And John Beckjord, a Seattle
man who operates a “Bigfoot
Hotline” and says he has seen the
creature three times, offers this
explanation of why people shoot at
Bigfoot but don’t kill it:
“It suggests something science
isn’t ready to face yet, and doesn’t
have the tools to study. It could be
that Bigfoot isn’t from this earth,
that it’s able to prevent us from
seeing it. Now this is just
speculation, but we need to have an
open mind.”
Beckjord has sent samples of
purported Bigfoot hair to experts
for analysis. The result, he says, is
that the .experts agree that the
hairs were unique and didn’t
match that of other North
American mammals including
humans
One of the experts, Ellis Kerley,
a University of Maryland an
thropology professor, puts the
matter slightly differently.
“The hair resembled the
Eastern black bear a good bit, it
had components of gorilla hair,
and some of human hair,” he says.
“That is, it was difficult to
distinguish; you couldn’t say it was
one of the three. I keep an open
mind, but if there is a Bigfoot, it’s
surprising it hasn’t left any
skeletal remains.”
Snowman, No;
Bigfoot, Yes
John Napier, former director of
the Smithsonian Institution’s
primate biology program and an
authority on hand and foot
anatomy, wrote a thorough study
of the Abominable Snowman and
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Bigfoot in 1973. He concluded that
the Snowman is not real, and that
the 1967 Bigfoot film was not
genuine. But, because of the
number of unexplained footprints,
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exist.
Those who agree and venture a
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topithecus, a big ape that lived 1 to
2 million years ago.
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the land, have decided to call off
the search, says Oswalt, the town
selectman.
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sightings, he promises they will be
investigated fully.
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