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Bigfoot has long been considered a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax, but one thing is for sure, the idea of a prowling hairy ape-man has captured the public's imagination for nearly 70 years.
It dates back to a small news item in 1958 which gripped readers who were lured in by the idea of a North American counterpart to the Himalayan region's mythical monster, the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti.
Journalist Andrew Genzoli, of the Humboldt Times, highlighted an entertaining letter from a reader about loggers in northern who had discovered mysteriously large footprints.
Such was the unexpected level of interest that Genzoli then published a series of follow-up articles, including how the loggers had named the so-called creature who left the tracks 'Bigfoot'.
And with that, the legend was born.
As it turned out, the tracks were actually planted by a man named Ray Wallace but his prank was not revealed until his death in 2002, when his children said it had all been 'just a joke'.
Myth or reality: Bigfoot has long been considered a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax.
The most compelling evidence of its existence came in 1967, tour hà giang giá rẻ when Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson shot footage of a furry figure walking through Bluff Creek, northern California
The video, known as the Patterson-Gimlin film, was shot while the men were out on a quest to find the elusive beast.
Left is Patterson and right is Gimlin while they look at ceramic casts they made of the footprints allegedly left behind by the creature in 1967
By this point it was far too late, however. The public's imagination had already run wild, tour hà giang giá rẻ with various alleged sightings and fables of Bigfoot's existence.
Today, there is still no firm evidence, but what are the top five theories about this apparently mythical creature that has fascinated the public?
MailOnline takes a look.
1. Bigfoot is a lost species of hominid
Ten years ago a study by Melba S.
Ketchum suggested that genetic testing had confirmed that Bigfoot was a human relative that arose some 15,000 years ago
Ten years ago, it was reported that genetic testing had confirmed that Bigfoot was a human relative that arose some 15,000 years ago.
The announcement made national news and stemmed from a press release issued by a company called DNA Diagnostics about the work of a Texas veterinarian.
The study, by Melba S.
Ketchum, also suggested that such cryptids had sex with modern human females, which is what resulted in hairy hominin hybrids.
'Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens,' Ketchum said in a statement.
The research was titled 'Novel North American Hominins: Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies' and was later published in the DeNovo Scientific Journal.
It took Ketchum and colleagues five years to study 111 samples of alleged hair, blood, mucus, toenail, bark scrapings, saliva and skin that had been collected from more than 30 sites around North America.
The result?
Some were 'not consistent with human or any known wildlife hairs' after being compared to the likes of dogs, cows, horses, deer, elk, foxes, bears, coyotes, and wolves.
Not only that, the report claimed, but 'DNA analysis showed two distinctly different types of results; the mitochondrial DNA was unambiguously human, while the nuclear DNA was shown to harbor novel structure and sequence ...
the data conclusively proves that the Sasquatch exist as an extant hominin and are a direct maternal descendent of modern humans.'
All very exciting.
The problem, however, is that critics later explained how any of these samples could have been contaminated and therefore thrown up the erroneous results that they did, perhaps even by being touched by the humans who found them.
Another issue is the journal the research was published in. Not only was it one that nobody had heard of, it also turned out that no other studies, articles, papers or reviews had been published in it.
Ketchum's was the only one.
It later emerged that — and charged people $30 to view the article.
All in all, a nice theory but ultimately a cautionary lesson in bogus scientific research.
2.
The creature is actually an ape from Asia that wandered to North America during the Ice Age
For about two million years, an ape as big as a polar bear lived in South Asia until it went extinct 100,000 years ago.
Or at least that's the general consensus in the scientific community.
However, some Bigfoot hunters say Gigantopithecus blacki is actually alive and well and hiding out in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, suggesting that the creature is the famous sasquatch.
Claim: Some Bigfoot hunters say the extinct beast Gigantopithecus blacki is alive and hiding in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, suggesting that the creature is the famous sasquatch
Its enormous teeth, once sold as 'dragons' teeth' in Chinese drugstores, led some experts to believe it was part of the human family tree, as ancient humans we may have been related to had large molars
It dates back to a small news item in 1958 which gripped readers who were lured in by the idea of a North American counterpart to the Himalayan region's mythical monster, the Abominable Snowman, or Yeti.
Journalist Andrew Genzoli, of the Humboldt Times, highlighted an entertaining letter from a reader about loggers in northern who had discovered mysteriously large footprints.
Such was the unexpected level of interest that Genzoli then published a series of follow-up articles, including how the loggers had named the so-called creature who left the tracks 'Bigfoot'.
And with that, the legend was born.
As it turned out, the tracks were actually planted by a man named Ray Wallace but his prank was not revealed until his death in 2002, when his children said it had all been 'just a joke'.
Myth or reality: Bigfoot has long been considered a combination of folklore, misidentification, and hoax.
The most compelling evidence of its existence came in 1967, tour hà giang giá rẻ when Bob Gimlin and Roger Patterson shot footage of a furry figure walking through Bluff Creek, northern California
The video, known as the Patterson-Gimlin film, was shot while the men were out on a quest to find the elusive beast.
Left is Patterson and right is Gimlin while they look at ceramic casts they made of the footprints allegedly left behind by the creature in 1967
By this point it was far too late, however. The public's imagination had already run wild, tour hà giang giá rẻ with various alleged sightings and fables of Bigfoot's existence.
Today, there is still no firm evidence, but what are the top five theories about this apparently mythical creature that has fascinated the public?
MailOnline takes a look.
1. Bigfoot is a lost species of hominid
Ten years ago a study by Melba S.
Ketchum suggested that genetic testing had confirmed that Bigfoot was a human relative that arose some 15,000 years ago
Ten years ago, it was reported that genetic testing had confirmed that Bigfoot was a human relative that arose some 15,000 years ago.
The announcement made national news and stemmed from a press release issued by a company called DNA Diagnostics about the work of a Texas veterinarian.
The study, by Melba S.
Ketchum, also suggested that such cryptids had sex with modern human females, which is what resulted in hairy hominin hybrids.
'Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens,' Ketchum said in a statement.
The research was titled 'Novel North American Hominins: Next Generation Sequencing of Three Whole Genomes and Associated Studies' and was later published in the DeNovo Scientific Journal.
It took Ketchum and colleagues five years to study 111 samples of alleged hair, blood, mucus, toenail, bark scrapings, saliva and skin that had been collected from more than 30 sites around North America.
The result?
Some were 'not consistent with human or any known wildlife hairs' after being compared to the likes of dogs, cows, horses, deer, elk, foxes, bears, coyotes, and wolves.
Not only that, the report claimed, but 'DNA analysis showed two distinctly different types of results; the mitochondrial DNA was unambiguously human, while the nuclear DNA was shown to harbor novel structure and sequence ...
the data conclusively proves that the Sasquatch exist as an extant hominin and are a direct maternal descendent of modern humans.'
All very exciting.
The problem, however, is that critics later explained how any of these samples could have been contaminated and therefore thrown up the erroneous results that they did, perhaps even by being touched by the humans who found them.
Another issue is the journal the research was published in. Not only was it one that nobody had heard of, it also turned out that no other studies, articles, papers or reviews had been published in it.
Ketchum's was the only one.
It later emerged that — and charged people $30 to view the article.
All in all, a nice theory but ultimately a cautionary lesson in bogus scientific research.
2.
The creature is actually an ape from Asia that wandered to North America during the Ice Age
For about two million years, an ape as big as a polar bear lived in South Asia until it went extinct 100,000 years ago.
Or at least that's the general consensus in the scientific community.
However, some Bigfoot hunters say Gigantopithecus blacki is actually alive and well and hiding out in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, suggesting that the creature is the famous sasquatch.
Claim: Some Bigfoot hunters say the extinct beast Gigantopithecus blacki is alive and hiding in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, suggesting that the creature is the famous sasquatch
Its enormous teeth, once sold as 'dragons' teeth' in Chinese drugstores, led some experts to believe it was part of the human family tree, as ancient humans we may have been related to had large molars
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