Among those obsessed with finding evidence of Bigfoot in the s was the Harvard anthropologist and crypto-eugenicist, Carleton S. But sea monsters and Wild Men are very different animals, and live on opposite ends of a hidden spectrum.
More scientists surveyed were willing to entertain the possibility of Nessie existing than Bigfoot or its relatives 23 percent of respondents, versus 13 percent. But, given the two of them, over half 57 percent of the respondents would view the theoretical discovery of something like Bigfoot as having a severe impact on science, whereas only 3 percent of respondents felt similarly about Nessie. Water beasts, no matter how fanciful and elusive, are really not much different than the colossal squid or the oarfish—bizarre underwater creatures we rarely get glimpses of and understand very little about.
Were we to find definitive proof of a water beast like Nessie, it would be exciting, and, should the animal prove to be a dinosaur, a major revelation. But it would also be, finally, just another animal in a vast kingdom. Wild Men like Bigfoot are different—they are, in a word, abominable. Henry Newman, an Anglo journalist working in Calcutta in the s, first heard reports of a Wild Man on the slopes of the Himalayas from members of a British expedition to summit Everest led by Lieutenant Colonel C.
An abomination does more than evoke metaphysical horror and physical disgust; it is an affront to the ways in which we understand the world. They are incompatible with holiness and blessing. Unlike the Loch Ness Monster, the chupacabra, or some giant thunderbird, a Wild Man necessarily straddles the worlds of the human and the animal, with one big, hairy foot in each realm. Cochran's letter noted that the results were being sent to Curtis, at his request, because "Mr.
Byrne will be out of the country for several months. Cochran said the examination of the hair "included a study of morphological characteristics such as root structure, medullary structure and cuticle thickness in addition to scale casts. At the end of all that: "It was concluded as a result of these examinations that the hairs are of a deer family origin," Cochran wrote.
Even though he does not recall that test being performed, or the FBI's conclusion, more than 40 years later Byrne still dreams of finding a Bigfoot. He noted that he once found in the Pacific Northwest a "huge footprint" of what would have been an upright mammal with five toes on each foot and a "inch stride. And, "We had a sighting 10 days ago [of a Bigfoot] from a very reliable, very good friend of mine," Byrne said.
Last year, he said, there was a sighting of a suspected Sasquatch by seven loggers, who were surprised to see a huge creature ambling their way. When it came to believing in Bigfoot, Byrne noted, those men were "all totally skeptical right until then.
Byrne, who was sentenced to three years of probation and full restitution, had been receiving Supplemental Social Security Income, and had been required to report to Social Security certain travel outside of the U. According to federal prosecutors in , investigators found a copy of a letter Byrne had sent his publisher, Safari Press, "directing that any future royalties for his published books be sent to his girlfriend. Attorney's Office for Oregon said in a press release at the time. Skip Navigation.
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