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		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Photo)_Silver_Star_Mountain_%22Bigfoot%22_Photos&amp;diff=4707</id>
		<title>(Photo) Silver Star Mountain &quot;Bigfoot&quot; Photos</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-26T02:37:40Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:29 crop Silver Star Mt.jpg|thumb|Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:30 crop Silver Star Mt.jpg|thumb|Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Silver Star Mt. 030 orig.jpg|thumb|Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Silver Star Mt. 029 orig.jpg|thumb|Silver Star Mountain Bigfoot]]&lt;br /&gt;
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November 17, 2005 - outside Yacolt, WA&lt;br /&gt;
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A backpacker from Vancouver, Washington, took these photos on Silver Star Mountain in Gifford Pinchot National Forest on November 17.&lt;br /&gt;
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He says he doesn't know what the figure was, but he does not believe it was another hiker or backpacker.&lt;br /&gt;
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The photos are inconclusive, but they are potentially relevant.&lt;br /&gt;
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The figure you see could be a sasquatch. The silhouette is comparable to the lanky silhouette in the Marble Mountains footage. It also looks similar to some eyewitness sketches.&lt;br /&gt;
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As in the Marble Mountains footage , there's nothing in the outline to indicate that it's another person (except for the upright posture). There's no lines indicating clothing or a pack. The lump on the neck could easily be a clump of hair, similar to what you can see in the PGF.&lt;br /&gt;
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Most snowshoers or backpackers in these conditions would look different than this silhouette. It will be useful to compare images of an equipped snowshoer or backpacker standing at this same spot at the same time of day. We're hoping a few different people will heed our recommendation and go up there to get some comparison photos.&lt;br /&gt;
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The terrain and present conditions helps and hinders attempts to get more photos/footage in this area. Deep snow on the ridges makes it more difficult for a photographer to move around up there, but it also makes it easier to spot trackways and movement.&lt;br /&gt;
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It won't hurt to suggest to people in Washougal and Yacolt to carry a camera when driving around.&lt;br /&gt;
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BFRO investigator John Callender interviewed witness (initials RC) near his home on Friday, November 25, 2005.&lt;br /&gt;
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John says, in his opinion, RC is honest and credible. His locale and normal activities would have put him in a position to get these photos. The story and photos do not appear to be hoaxed.&lt;br /&gt;
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T&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<updated>2026-03-26T02:16:30Z</updated>

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		<title>(Infamous) Alberta 2012 &quot;Bigfoot&quot; photo</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-26T02:06:04Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Alberta 2012 &amp;quot;Bigfoot&amp;quot; photo  ''Admin Note: Most of the Old Guard Bigfooters suspect this photo is of a gor...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:656562838 1494209349381902 5452978413963084724 n.jpg|thumb|Alberta 2012 &amp;quot;Bigfoot&amp;quot; photo]]&lt;br /&gt;
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''Admin Note: Most of the Old Guard Bigfooters suspect this photo is of a gorilla in it's pen at a zoo, but without additional information, pictures or the actual witness to question and interview, this photo can only be described as infamous.''&lt;br /&gt;
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This photograph of a supposed Bigfoot was taken in Alberta, Canada in August of 2012. It is thought by some researchers to be the clearest image of Bigfoot since the Patterson-Gimlin film. Although, many believe it to be a bear with its rear end in the air rather than proof of a Bigfoot.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The woman that uploaded the photograph wrote along with it: “I know this person. They are a dogsledder and would in no way be the type to try to fool around with fake pictures. They actually think it’s a bear and cub but for some reason they only have one photo. Strange.”&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>(Other Hominoid) El Reno Chicken Man</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Copy of the handprint with measurements  It was called the El Reno Chicken Man because it raided a chicken...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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It was called the El Reno Chicken Man because it raided a chicken coop in December of 1970 in El Reno. However, it left strange gorilla-like prints on the coop door like the above photograph. The door of the chicken coop was taken to the Oklahoma City Zoo where it was examined by the Director, Lawrence Curtis. Curtis believed the print to have been left by a primate of some kind but was confused by the thumb, which appeared as though it could have been injured.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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&lt;div&gt;Copy of the handprint with measurements&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Research_Tactic)_Audio_Drop_Boxes&amp;diff=4702</id>
		<title>(Research Tactic) Audio Drop Boxes</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-25T21:43:07Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:1DropBox.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:2Drop_Boxsnc.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:3Drop Box.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:20170514 124114.jpg|thumb|Older Style MABRC Audio Drop Box with bark on it]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:abc6014dropbox.jpg|thumb|Newer design using camouflaged tape instead of bark]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Drop Box in tree.jpg|thumb|Newer drop box with camo tape 20 feet up in the tree.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Audio Drop Boxes'''&lt;br /&gt;
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An article written by D.W. &amp;quot;Darkwing&amp;quot; Lee, Executive Director, MABRC.&lt;br /&gt;
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(Special thanks to Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett for creating this unique drop box, without him, I don't think I would have ever come up with this great idea.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 9 (2006) years ago, I happen to talk to the guys from Texlaresearch about their dropboxes they used to place their audio recorders out in the field.&lt;br /&gt;
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They have used these dropboxes to obtain some really great audio, and I learned a lot from these guys, one of the main things I learned, is to just walk along through the woods and just drop off the box and continue going on, not dwelling on the fact you are putting this recorder in place.&lt;br /&gt;
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The MABRC uses this approach on our audio recorders and guys like Randy &amp;quot;Rebelistic&amp;quot; Savig, Mark &amp;quot;Sawdustt&amp;quot; Newbill, Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett and Mike &amp;quot;CompresserMike&amp;quot; Hartsell have taken these to a new level with the numbers of dropboxes and the design of them.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
One design in particular caught my attention, and with good reason.  On an expedition about a year ago, I took Dave Jett out on a four wheeler to place his new dropbox, and I was very impressed.  It was a PVC pipe sealed on one end, with the other end filled with foam rubber to keep the recorder in and a very ingenious hook system that allowed Dave to place his recorder up high above the eye level of even the tallest Bigfoot.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Placing bark around the entire rig, once placed high up into the tree, unless you knew it was there, you would never know it was hanging there above you.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So lets fast forward to January 2017, I had deployed some of my dropboxes out during the MABRC expedition.  These were made out of small tupperware bowls with lids, easily seen at long distances. &lt;br /&gt;
Upon reviewing the audio, I was shocked to hear 4 wheelers approach my recorder, stop, and the people dismounted.  They approached the box and you could hear them open the box saying &amp;quot;what the heck is this?&amp;quot;.  Then they realized it was recording, they closed the box back.  I came so close to loosing my recorder.&lt;br /&gt;
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''SO D.W., what next?  You may ask?''&lt;br /&gt;
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I took Dave Jett's idea and built two prototypes to use in my areas.  To do this, I needed to buy some items.  While I used a different capping system because my local hardware stores didn't carry what I needed, I have found everything I would require since on Lowes.com, I will be building newer models within the next month.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Research_Tactic)_Audio_Drop_Boxes&amp;diff=4700</id>
		<title>(Research Tactic) Audio Drop Boxes</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:1DropBox.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:2Drop Box.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:3Drop Box.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:20170514 124114.jpg|thumb|Older Style MABRC Audio Drop Box with bark on it]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:abc6014dropbox.jpg|thumb|Newer design using camouflaged tape instead of bark]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Drop Box in tree.jpg|thumb|Newer drop box with camo tape 20 feet up in the tree.]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Audio Drop Boxes'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An article written by D.W. &amp;quot;Darkwing&amp;quot; Lee, Executive Director, MABRC.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Special thanks to Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett for creating this unique drop box, without him, I don't think I would have ever come up with this great idea.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 9 (2006) years ago, I happen to talk to the guys from Texlaresearch about their dropboxes they used to place their audio recorders out in the field.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They have used these dropboxes to obtain some really great audio, and I learned a lot from these guys, one of the main things I learned, is to just walk along through the woods and just drop off the box and continue going on, not dwelling on the fact you are putting this recorder in place.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The MABRC uses this approach on our audio recorders and guys like Randy &amp;quot;Rebelistic&amp;quot; Savig, Mark &amp;quot;Sawdustt&amp;quot; Newbill, Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett and Mike &amp;quot;CompresserMike&amp;quot; Hartsell have taken these to a new level with the numbers of dropboxes and the design of them.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
One design in particular caught my attention, and with good reason.  On an expedition about a year ago, I took Dave Jett out on a four wheeler to place his new dropbox, and I was very impressed.  It was a PVC pipe sealed on one end, with the other end filled with foam rubber to keep the recorder in and a very ingenious hook system that allowed Dave to place his recorder up high above the eye level of even the tallest Bigfoot.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Placing bark around the entire rig, once placed high up into the tree, unless you knew it was there, you would never know it was hanging there above you.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So lets fast forward to January 2017, I had deployed some of my dropboxes out during the MABRC expedition.  These were made out of small tupperware bowls with lids, easily seen at long distances. &lt;br /&gt;
Upon reviewing the audio, I was shocked to hear 4 wheelers approach my recorder, stop, and the people dismounted.  They approached the box and you could hear them open the box saying &amp;quot;what the heck is this?&amp;quot;.  Then they realized it was recording, they closed the box back.  I came so close to loosing my recorder.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''SO D.W., what next?  You may ask?''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I took Dave Jett's idea and built two prototypes to use in my areas.  To do this, I needed to buy some items.  While I used a different capping system because my local hardware stores didn't carry what I needed, I have found everything I would require since on Lowes.com, I will be building newer models within the next month.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>(Research Tactic) Audio Drop Boxes</title>
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&lt;div&gt;[[File:1DropBox.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:2Drop Box.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:3Drop Box.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:20170514 124114.jpg|thumb|Older Style MABRC Audio Drop Box with bark on it]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:IMG_6014dropbox.jpg|thumb|Newer design using camouflaged tape instead of bark]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Drop Box in tree.jpg|thumb|Newer drop box with camo tape 20 feet up in the tree.]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
'''Audio Drop Boxes'''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
An article written by D.W. &amp;quot;Darkwing&amp;quot; Lee, Executive Director, MABRC.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
(Special thanks to Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett for creating this unique drop box, without him, I don't think I would have ever come up with this great idea.)&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
About 9 (2006) years ago, I happen to talk to the guys from Texlaresearch about their dropboxes they used to place their audio recorders out in the field.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
They have used these dropboxes to obtain some really great audio, and I learned a lot from these guys, one of the main things I learned, is to just walk along through the woods and just drop off the box and continue going on, not dwelling on the fact you are putting this recorder in place.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
The MABRC uses this approach on our audio recorders and guys like Randy &amp;quot;Rebelistic&amp;quot; Savig, Mark &amp;quot;Sawdustt&amp;quot; Newbill, Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett and Mike &amp;quot;CompresserMike&amp;quot; Hartsell have taken these to a new level with the numbers of dropboxes and the design of them.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
One design in particular caught my attention, and with good reason.  On an expedition about a year ago, I took Dave Jett out on a four wheeler to place his new dropbox, and I was very impressed.  It was a PVC pipe sealed on one end, with the other end filled with foam rubber to keep the recorder in and a very ingenious hook system that allowed Dave to place his recorder up high above the eye level of even the tallest Bigfoot.  &lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Placing bark around the entire rig, once placed high up into the tree, unless you knew it was there, you would never know it was hanging there above you.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
So lets fast forward to January 2017, I had deployed some of my dropboxes out during the MABRC expedition.  These were made out of small tupperware bowls with lids, easily seen at long distances. &lt;br /&gt;
Upon reviewing the audio, I was shocked to hear 4 wheelers approach my recorder, stop, and the people dismounted.  They approached the box and you could hear them open the box saying &amp;quot;what the heck is this?&amp;quot;.  Then they realized it was recording, they closed the box back.  I came so close to loosing my recorder.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
''SO D.W., what next?  You may ask?''&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
I took Dave Jett's idea and built two prototypes to use in my areas.  To do this, I needed to buy some items.  While I used a different capping system because my local hardware stores didn't carry what I needed, I have found everything I would require since on Lowes.com, I will be building newer models within the next month.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>(Research Tactic) Audio Drop Boxes</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-25T21:03:14Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Courtesy of Texlaresearch  Courtesy of Texlaresearch  Courtesy of Texlaresearch  File:20...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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[[File:2DropBox.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:3Drop Box.jpg|thumb|Courtesy of Texlaresearch]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:20170514 124114.jpg|thumb|Older Style MABRC Audio Drop Box with bark on it]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:IMG_6014drop box.jpg|thumb|Newer design using camouflaged tape instead of bark]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Drop Box in tree.jpg|thumb|Newer drop box with camo tape 20 feet up in the tree.]]&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Audio Drop Boxes'''&lt;br /&gt;
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An article written by D.W. &amp;quot;Darkwing&amp;quot; Lee, Executive Director, MABRC.&lt;br /&gt;
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(Special thanks to Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett for creating this unique drop box, without him, I don't think I would have ever come up with this great idea.)&lt;br /&gt;
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About 9 (2006) years ago, I happen to talk to the guys from Texlaresearch about their dropboxes they used to place their audio recorders out in the field.&lt;br /&gt;
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They have used these dropboxes to obtain some really great audio, and I learned a lot from these guys, one of the main things I learned, is to just walk along through the woods and just drop off the box and continue going on, not dwelling on the fact you are putting this recorder in place.&lt;br /&gt;
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The MABRC uses this approach on our audio recorders and guys like Randy &amp;quot;Rebelistic&amp;quot; Savig, Mark &amp;quot;Sawdustt&amp;quot; Newbill, Dave &amp;quot;Therealsuperdave&amp;quot; Jett and Mike &amp;quot;CompresserMike&amp;quot; Hartsell have taken these to a new level with the numbers of dropboxes and the design of them.  &lt;br /&gt;
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One design in particular caught my attention, and with good reason.  On an expedition about a year ago, I took Dave Jett out on a four wheeler to place his new dropbox, and I was very impressed.  It was a PVC pipe sealed on one end, with the other end filled with foam rubber to keep the recorder in and a very ingenious hook system that allowed Dave to place his recorder up high above the eye level of even the tallest Bigfoot.  &lt;br /&gt;
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Placing bark around the entire rig, once placed high up into the tree, unless you knew it was there, you would never know it was hanging there above you.&lt;br /&gt;
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So lets fast forward to January 2017, I had deployed some of my dropboxes out during the MABRC expedition.  These were made out of small tupperware bowls with lids, easily seen at long distances. &lt;br /&gt;
Upon reviewing the audio, I was shocked to hear 4 wheelers approach my recorder, stop, and the people dismounted.  They approached the box and you could hear them open the box saying &amp;quot;what the heck is this?&amp;quot;.  Then they realized it was recording, they closed the box back.  I came so close to loosing my recorder.&lt;br /&gt;
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''SO D.W., what next?  You may ask?''&lt;br /&gt;
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I took Dave Jett's idea and built two prototypes to use in my areas.  To do this, I needed to buy some items.  While I used a different capping system because my local hardware stores didn't carry what I needed, I have found everything I would require since on Lowes.com, I will be building newer models within the next month.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Newer drop box with camo tape 20 feet up in the tree.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Older Style Audio Drop Box with bark on it&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>(Newsletters) Bigfoot Field Guide</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-03T01:59:18Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Started in 2008, the Bigfoot Field Guide released a series of newsletters that revolved around researching Bigfoot.  You can find and download the different issues here.&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Feb 2008 Newsletter.pdf|Feb 2008 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:1-15-09 Newsletter.pdf|Janusary 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:2-15-09 newsletter.pdf|February 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:3-15-09 newsletter.pdf|March 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:4-15-09 newsletter.pdf|April 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:5-15-09 newsletter.pdf|May 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:6-15-09 newsletter.pdf|June 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:7-15-09 newsletter.pdf|July 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:April 2010 newsletter.pdf|April 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:6-15-10 newsletter.pdf|June 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:7-15-10 Newsletter.pdf|July 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:8-15-2010 newsletter.pdf|August 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:May 2020 Magazine.pdf|May 2020 Magazine]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:March-2020-Magazine.pdf|March 2020 Magazine]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:July Magazine 2020.pdf|July-2020-Magazine]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:Jan 2020 Magazine.pdf|January 2020 Magazine]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:BFG-12-2011 newsletter.pdf|December 2011 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:September 2020 Magazine.pdf|September 2020 Magazine]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>File:Jan 2020 Magazine.pdf</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-03T01:59:06Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Jan 2020 Magazine&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>File:July Magazine 2020.pdf</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-03T01:57:58Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;July 2020 Magazine&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>File:March-2020-Magazine.pdf</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-03T01:57:06Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;March-2020-Magazine&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>File:May 2020 Magazine.pdf</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-03T01:55:52Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;May 2020 Magazine&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>(Newsletters) Bigfoot Field Guide</title>
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		<updated>2026-03-03T01:53:58Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;Started in 2008, the Bigfoot Field Guide released a series of newsletters that revolved around researching Bigfoot.  You can find and download the different issues here.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Feb 2008 Newsletter.pdf|Feb 2008 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:1-15-09 Newsletter.pdf|Janusary 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:2-15-09 newsletter.pdf|February 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:3-15-09 newsletter.pdf|March 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:4-15-09 newsletter.pdf|April 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:5-15-09 newsletter.pdf|May 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:6-15-09 newsletter.pdf|June 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:7-15-09 newsletter.pdf|July 2009 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:April 2010 newsletter.pdf|April 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:6-15-10 newsletter.pdf|June 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:7-15-10 Newsletter.pdf|July 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:8-15-2010 newsletter.pdf|August 2010 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:BFG-12-2011 newsletter.pdf|December 2011 Newsletter]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:September 2020 Magazine.pdf|September 2020 Magazine]]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<updated>2026-03-03T01:53:42Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;September 2020 Magazine&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>(Historic) W. Henner Fahrenbach</title>
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		<updated>2026-02-01T20:30:07Z</updated>

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Dr. Henner Fahrenbach died while living at Apache Junction AZ, at 93 years old.&lt;br /&gt;
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Wolf-Henrich (Henner) Fahrenbach, PH.D., was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. He earned a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Washington in 1961, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, from 1961 to 1963. He served as the head of the Laboratory of Electron Microscopy at the Oregon Regional Primate Center in Beaverton, OR, from 1967 to 1997, and as a Clinical Affiliate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biosciences at the Oregon Health &amp;amp; Sciences University’s School of Dentistry in Portland, OR, from 1987 to 2007. Professional memberships include(d) the American Association of Anatomists, American Society for Cell Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and others. He served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology (1978-1982) and Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie (1977-1982).&lt;br /&gt;
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From 1954 through 2007, Fahrenbach published many articles in a wide variety of scientific journals. In 1998 he published Sasquatch: Size, Scaling and Statistics[1] in the journal Cryptozoology. He has also published online articles pertaining to sasquatch biology. One such article, Sasquatch Dimensions and Traits[2], is a condensed version of his Cryptozoology paper, along with some added material.&lt;br /&gt;
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Fahrenbach is widely considered to be adept in the identification of hair and has accumulated a collection of over a dozen samples thought to be of sasquatch origin. Laboratory efforts to isolate diagnostic DNA sequences have not yet been successful.[3] In 2003, Fahrenbach presented &amp;quot;The Skin and its Appendages&amp;quot; at the International Bigfoot Symposium in Willow Creek, CA.&lt;br /&gt;
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Henner appeared on SciFi Investigates - Bigfoot (2006)&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZeCA74klE}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>(Historic) W. Henner Fahrenbach</title>
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Dr. Henner Fahrenbach died while living at Apache Junction AZ, at 93 years old.&lt;br /&gt;
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Wolf-Henrich (Henner) Fahrenbach, PH.D., was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. He earned a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Washington in 1961, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Anatomy at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, from 1961 to 1963. He served as the head of the Laboratory of Electron Microscopy at the Oregon Regional Primate Center in Beaverton, OR, from 1967 to 1997, and as a Clinical Affiliate Professor in the Department of Integrative Biosciences at the Oregon Health &amp;amp; Sciences University’s School of Dentistry in Portland, OR, from 1987 to 2007. Professional memberships include(d) the American Association of Anatomists, American Society for Cell Biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Sigma Xi, and others. He served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Insect Morphology and Embryology (1978-1982) and Zeitschrift für vergleichende Physiologie (1977-1982).&lt;br /&gt;
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From 1954 through 2007, Fahrenbach published many articles in a wide variety of scientific journals. In 1998 he published Sasquatch: Size, Scaling and Statistics[1] in the journal Cryptozoology. He has also published online articles pertaining to sasquatch biology. One such article, Sasquatch Dimensions and Traits[2], is a condensed version of his Cryptozoology paper, along with some added material.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Fahrenbach is widely considered to be adept in the identification of hair and has accumulated a collection of over a dozen samples thought to be of sasquatch origin. Laboratory efforts to isolate diagnostic DNA sequences have not yet been successful.[3] In 2003, Fahrenbach presented &amp;quot;The Skin and its Appendages&amp;quot; at the International Bigfoot Symposium in Willow Creek, CA.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Henner appeared on SciFi Investigates - Bigfoot (2006)&lt;br /&gt;
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{{#ev:youtube|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QZeCA74klE}}&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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	<entry>
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		<title>(Historic) John Napier</title>
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		<updated>2026-02-01T20:16:58Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Darkwing moved page (Scientist) John Napier to (Historic) John Napier without leaving a redirect&lt;/p&gt;
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John Russell Napier, D.Sc. (1917 – 1987) was a primatologist and physician. Napier was noted for his work with Homo habilis and human and primate hands/feet. He is also known for his research on bigfoot and, most notably, his 1973 book, &amp;quot;Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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Born March 11, 1917 (at Vicarage, Old Windsor, Berkshire)&lt;br /&gt;
Died August 29, 1987 (at Ulva Ferry, Isle of Mull, Scotland)&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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		<title>(Historic) Bryan Sykes</title>
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[[File:Sykes-profile.jpg|thumb|Bryan Sykes]]&lt;br /&gt;
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[[File:29372134. SY475 .jpg|thumb|Bryan Sykes' Book]]&lt;br /&gt;
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From [http://www.cryptozoonews.com/sykes-obit/ Loren Coleman]&lt;br /&gt;
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Human geneticist Bryan Sykes, Ph. D. (born September 9, 1947) passed away December 10, 2020, in Edinburgh, Scotland, after a long illness.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes was educated at Eltham College, received his BSc from the University of Liverpool, his PhD from the University of Bristol, and his DSc from the University of Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes published the first report on retrieving DNA from ancient bone (Nature, 1989), and headed the genetic survey of Yeti and Bigfoot DNA.&lt;br /&gt;
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Based on his genetics study, Bryan Sykes was named Cryptozoologist of the Year 2013. I learned later that independently and separately Daniel Perez’s Bigfoot Times named Dr. Bryan Sykes their “Bigfooter of the Year.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Since the time of Edmund Hillary’s ill-managed 1960 examination of Yeti evidence in Nepal, there had been a need for a serious re-inspection of all the evidence for the wide variety of Yeti material from a number of types of Yetis. Into the void stepped Dr. Bryan Sykes in about 2011.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes told the cryptozoology researchers that he would work with them, if they would work with him. The geneticist had thrown down the challenge. After the fiasco of the Ketchem affair, many were careful, but eventually agreed to share hair samples with Sykes and his Oxford University-based study.&lt;br /&gt;
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Globe-trolling with a crew from Channel 4/NatGeo to record the historically significant work he was doing, Sykes ended 2013 revealing the DNA findings regarding Yeti, Almas, and less so Bigfoot. He obviously had put in the effort scientifically.&lt;br /&gt;
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The media would misunderstand what Sykes discovered or even said about his Yeti samples.  But the results from just two samples of hair (one from Ladakh, the other from Bhutan)  indicated he had identified a giant bearlike brown Yeti, and that Yeti researchers have figured a large, unknown bear accounted for one of the three kinds of Yetis.&lt;br /&gt;
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The news reports screamed that the Abominable Snowman mystery had been solved and that “Yeti is a Polar Bear” – sometimes with pictures of white polar bears. Both were incorrect media conclusions.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sometimes the media seemed to be more a problem than a help in sharing some of Sykes’ statements. Take for example, this one:&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. Brian [sic] Sykes and his team at Oxford University carried out DNA analysis of presumed Yeti samples and thinks the samples may have come from a hybrid species of bear produced from a mating between a brown bear and a polar bear. Sykes told BBC News:&lt;br /&gt;
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“I think this bear, which nobody has seen alive, may still be there and may have quite a lot of polar bear in it. It may be some sort of hybrid and if its behaviour is different from normal bears, which is what eyewitnesses report, then I think that may well be the source of the mystery and the source of the legend.”— Dr. Bryan Sykes, BBC News (17 October 2013)&lt;br /&gt;
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Of course, note within this one alleged quotation Sykes is reported to have said “nobody has seen” this bear “alive,” but he is also noted as saying that “what eyewitnesses report” is “different from bears.” Was Dr. Sykes misquoted?&lt;br /&gt;
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As I have mentioned here before and recently shared anew with Daniel Perez of Bigfoot Times, in the New Scientist on April 2, 2001, the following was published. It directly impacts on the Sykes’ samples:&lt;br /&gt;
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Hairs found in a Bhutan forest could be those of the legendary Yeti, say makers of a TV documentary.&lt;br /&gt;
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The cluster of hairs was found in a cedar tree by scientists who accompanied the documentary team. Sonam Dhendup, a local Yeti-hunter and guide, said the tree was the animal’s lair.&lt;br /&gt;
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On returning to Britain, the team handed the hair to Oxford geneticists for analysis.&lt;br /&gt;
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“It’s not a human, it’s not a bear, nor anything else that we’ve so far been able to identify,” says Bryan Sykes, professor of human genetics at the Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford.&lt;br /&gt;
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“We’ve never encountered any DNA that we couldn’t recognise before, but then, we weren’t looking for the Yeti,” says Sykes, the first geneticist to extract DNA from archaeological bone specimens.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes says that all other hairs handed in by the Yeti-hunting team were easy to identify, turning out to be pigs, for example.&lt;br /&gt;
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An earlier, skin sample from Bhutan reputed to be from a Yeti was shown by Sykes to be that of a bear. But he is mystified by the hair sample. “We don’t know what it is; it’s behaving most peculiarly,” he says.&lt;br /&gt;
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Rob McCall, an evolutionary biologist from the University of Oxford, reported finding scratch marks inside the cedar tree, which resembled claw rather than nail scratches.&lt;br /&gt;
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McCall also discovered odd footprints just a couple of hours old. They revealed a short print with a narrow heel, plus toe pads rather than claws. Source.&lt;br /&gt;
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While the documentary made of Sykes’ findings showed its quota of polar bear images, it also had an artist draw the following too. Some people did listen closely to what Sykes was saying.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes’ books covered and corrected the revealing of his findings.&lt;br /&gt;
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Today, word of Sykes’ death shocked the world of hominology. In the wake of all the documentary footage of Sykes investigating the Bigfoot and Yeti cases, this news feels sudden.&lt;br /&gt;
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One chapter in Bryan Sykes’ book is entitled “The Guru” and it’s about Loren Coleman and the International Cryptozoology Museum. I was honored, and noted that Sykes’ son did the chapter header drawing of a coelacanth, the logo species of the ICM. Doubly honored. Maybe someday we can obtain an original of Richard’s drawing for the Museum.&lt;br /&gt;
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On December 18, 2020, The Guardian published “Bryan Sykes obituary.”&lt;br /&gt;
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A few snippets from it include these:&lt;br /&gt;
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The human geneticist Bryan Sykes, who has died aged 73, pushed forward the analysis of inherited conditions such as brittle bone disease and double-jointedness, and was one of the first to extract DNA from ancient bone.&lt;br /&gt;
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The same Bryan Sykes, holder of a personal chair at Oxford University, analysed hair supposedly taken from mythical hominids such as the Bigfoot and Yeti, and announced the results in a three-part television series. His delight in science and enthusiasm for communicating it to popular audiences were both aspects of an expansive personality that alternately inspired and exasperated his colleagues.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes was not the only one to realise that the ability to read sequences of DNA code opened up the possibility of tracing human ancestry to our early origins. He was exceptional, however, in seeing that the wider public would connect emotionally to these stories if the dry details of the science could be presented accessibly. His book The Seven Daughters of Eve (2001) proposed that every living European could trace his or her ancestry to one of seven women living between 8,500 and 45,000 years ago. They, in turn, would share descent from a single Eve, who lived in Africa even earlier. He gave the seven women names and, anticipating people’s desire to know which “tribe” they belonged to, the same year set up the first direct-to-consumer genetic testing company, Oxford Ancestors, as an Oxford University spinout.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes went on to use this method to solve the mystery of the origins of islanders scattered throughout the Pacific Ocean: whether they had arrived from the Americas, as Thor Heyerdahl had suggested on the basis of the 1947 voyage of the Kon-Tiki raft, or from Asia. Receiving hospital treatment on Raratonga in the Cook Islands after a motorcycle accident while on holiday in the mid-90s, Sykes realised he could resolve this uncertainty using mtDNA. He went on to collect samples from Pacific islands and Pacific Rim countries, and established that Polynesia was in fact entirely settled from Asia.&lt;br /&gt;
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His collaboration with enthusiasts searching for the Bigfoot and Yeti raised eyebrows even higher. Hairs from bits of mystery creatures that had long lain in museums and temples made their way to his lab. The three-part Channel 4 series Bigfoot Files (2015) maintained the suspense to the end, but all the samples proved to come from known animal species. A hasty claim that a Yeti specimen was a match to a prehistoric polar bear proved to be a case of mistaken identity. For Sykes it was all education as entertainment – he never seriously believed that such creatures existed, but sought to encourage curiosity rather than squashing it.&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes met Sue Foden when she was a student in Oxford, and they were married in 1978. Though the marriage was annulled in 1984, he and Sue remained close and had a son, Richard, born in 1991. His later marriage to Janis Wilson ended in divorce. In 2007 he collaborated with the Danish artist Ulla Plougmand on an exhibition featuring the seven daughters of Eve, and their subsequent relationship lasted until the end of his life. In later years, as his health deteriorated, Bryan was increasingly supported and cared for by Sue. She, Ulla and Richard survive him.&lt;br /&gt;
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See also, “Sykes Team Error: Yeti DNA Matches Modern Polar Bear; BBC Compounds Error, Says It Was Himalayan Bear.”&lt;br /&gt;
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The discoveries yet to be found in the DNA of the Pangboche “Yeti finger” may remain in the future, thanks to Dr. Sykes.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Relict Hominoid Inquiry 4:67-74 (2015) contains Loren Coleman’s Book Review of&lt;br /&gt;
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The Nature of the Beast: The First Genetic Evidence on the Survival of Apemen, Yeti, Bigfoot and Other Mysterious Creatures into Modern Times. By Bryan Sykes. London: Hodder &amp;amp; Stoughton, ©2014. 320pp. ISBN 978-1-444-79125-9. UK£25.00 (hardback).&lt;br /&gt;
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One segment of Sykes’ book remains unrecognized by most involved in Yeti studies. I wrote (pages 73-74):&lt;br /&gt;
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There is one more revelation in this book that caused me great astonishment. Few seem to have read the book closely enough to realize that part of the DNA testing that Sykes did gives a complete revision to the status of the Pangboche yeti finger findings of only four years ago, when it was dismissed asmerely “human.”&lt;br /&gt;
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We all thought the Pangboche finger bone was lost. When it was found again, we all were told, it was merely that of a “human.” No mystery we were informed.&lt;br /&gt;
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The result of the DNA analysis was announced on a program entitled “Yeti Finger” on BBC Radio 4 on December 27, 2011. The program stated: “A DNA sample analysed by the zoo’s genetic expert Dr Rob Ogden has finally revealed the finger’s true origins. Following DNA tests it has found to be human bone. …Dr Rob Ogden, of the RoyalZoological Society of Scotland, said: ‘We had to stitch it together. We had several fragments that we put into one big sequence and then we matched that against the database and we found human DNA. So it wasn’t too surprising but it was obviously slightly disappointing that you hadn’t discovered something brand new. Human was what we were expecting and human is what we got.’&lt;br /&gt;
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Thanks to Bryan Sykes new book, The Nature of the Beast, we now understand that is hardly the end of the story. In Chapter 19 of his book, Sykes tackles the mystery of “The Pangboche Finger,” and the result he found is startling and shocking.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ogden’s “human” DNA result was curious to Sykes, and Sykes knew he could find out what mitochondrial DNA it was aligned to. Sykes was able to find that it was “a European mitochondrial DNA sequence, in the clan of Ursula.” The notion that the “human” of the Pangboche finger might be from a monk had to be thrown out. Indeed, Sykes writes, “The Pangboche Finger sequence was almost certainly not from Nepal or anywhere else close by…” (page 194).&lt;br /&gt;
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Sykes did the detective work, figured out who was the most likely candidate to have left his DNA on the finger, and compared them to cheek swab DNA he had collected.&lt;br /&gt;
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Amazingly, what Bryan Sykes found through his testing was that the Pangboche finger DNA sequence matched “in every respect” the mDNA of Peter Byrne. The result means the Pangboche finger’s actual origin is still a mystery.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Pangboche yeti finger was rediscovered while on display at London’s Royal College of Surgeons. The late Dr. William Charles Osman Hill, a consultant to the Tom Slick expeditions, bequeathed it to the Hunterian Museum, which is a division of the Royal College of Surgeons.&lt;br /&gt;
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The Pangboche hand, the so-called yeti hand, has been the point of much discussion since 1959, which I summarized in Tom Slick: True Life Encounters in Cryptozoology (Fresno, CA: Craven Street-Linden Press, 2002). I began further researching the material, decades ago, when I noticed early in my yeti research that Tom Slick expeditions, the evidence he found, and any results weregenerally ignored in the “Abominable Snowman” literature. This appeared to be a combination of the Slick family’s need for being out of the limelight, the secrecy behind the Slick-Johnson expeditions, and the general outcome of the harsh skeptical debunking that occurred during the Hillary-Perkins-World Book yeti expedition of 1960.&lt;br /&gt;
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After the first edition of my Tom Slick book was published in 1989, and my 1991 filming with George Agogino and Peter Byrne by NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries, the interest in the Pangboche yeti hand and the Slick expeditions increased.&lt;br /&gt;
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Bryan Sykes has left one last mystery unsolved for other geneticists to unravel.&lt;br /&gt;
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''Don Jeffrey “Jeff” Meldrum was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, on May 24, 1958. He died, from brain cancer, on September 9, 2025, in Pocatello, Idaho. During 2023, Meldrum suffered a health crisis while he was on a Bigfoot speaking engagement aboard an Alaskan cruise, and was taken to a port for a medical emergency. He retained his privacy through his health crisis until his death.''&lt;br /&gt;
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Born in 1958, D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and an affiliate curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History.&lt;br /&gt;
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Through his work in the field of physical anthropology and his specialization in foot mechanics, Meldrum has studied the implications for bipedal adaptation and locomotion in early hominids. He has also participated in palaeontological field projects to South America, collecting new fossil primate specimens from the Miocene of Columbia and Argentina.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum is best known for his open-minded yet scientific approach to the bigfoot phenomenon. Because he grew up in the Pacific Northwest, Meldrum was no stranger to the subject, having heard sasquatch stories from an early age. His interest in the legendary creature took a back burner as he continued his formal education and teaching until 1996, when he found and cast a series of fresh sasquatch prints in Washington and, the following year, northern California. Meldrum has since gathered and purchased collections of purported track casts as part of his research into sasquatch foot anatomy, and his lab now houses what may be the world's most extensive collection of sasquatch track casts. Meldrum is widely considered the leading expert on sasquatch footprints as well as the derived morphology and functional anatomy of the foot.&lt;br /&gt;
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Starting in the late 1990’s, Meldrum has frequently appeared, often with J. Richard Greenwell, in documentaries discussing his insights into amateur videotapes allegedly showing the creatures known as bigfoot and Yeti, in addition to sharing his research pertaining to derived foot anatomy and locomotion. He has spoken at many sasquatch conferences and symposia, including the Willow Creek International Bigfoot Symposium in 2003 and the &amp;quot;Bigfoot in Texas?&amp;quot; museum and speaker series sponsored by the University of Texas and the Institute of Texan Culture in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum received his B.S. in zoology specializing in vertebrate locomotion at Brigham Young University in 1982, his M.S. at BYU in 1984 and a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences, with an emphasis in biological anthropology, from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center from 1989 to 1991. Meldrum worked at Northwestern University's Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology for a short while in 1993 before joining the faculty of Idaho State University where he currently teaches.&lt;br /&gt;
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'''Published works'''&lt;br /&gt;
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Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (2006, Forge Books)&lt;br /&gt;
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Obituary by Loren Coleman&lt;br /&gt;
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Jeff Meldrum was an American anthropologist and academic. He was a full professor of Anatomy and Anthropology in the Department of Biological Sciences at Idaho State University. He was also adjunct professor in the Department of Physical and Occupational Therapy and the Department of Anthropology. He was an expert on foot morphology and locomotion in primates.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum received his B.S. in zoology specializing in vertebrate locomotion at Brigham Young University in 1982, and his M.S. at BYU in 1984. In 1989, he completed a Ph.D. at Stony Brook University in anatomical sciences, with an emphasis in biological anthropology, with John G. Fleagle as his doctoral advisor. He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center from 1989 to 1991. Meldrum worked at Northwestern University’s Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology for a short while in 1993 before joining the faculty of Idaho State University where he taught until his death.&lt;br /&gt;
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1989, Ph.D. Anatomical Sciences (Physical Anthropology), State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY&lt;br /&gt;
1984, M.S. Zoology (Anatomy and Physiology), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT&lt;br /&gt;
1982, B.S. Zoology (Anatomy and Physiology), Brigham Young University, Provo, UT&lt;br /&gt;
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1989-1991, Postdoctoral Visiting Assistant Professor, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum published numerous academic papers ranging from vertebrate evolutionary morphology, the emergence of bipedal locomotion in modern humans, and the plausibility behind the Sasquatch phenomena, in addition to being a co-editor of a series of books on paleontology.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum, who was an “active member” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also studied and commented upon issues of genetics and the Book of Mormon in his book Who Are the Children of Lehi?, written with Trent D. Stephens.&lt;br /&gt;
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On September 11, 2025, it was announced that Meldrum had died after a brief battle with brain cancer, at the age of 67.&lt;br /&gt;
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I posted the tragic news of Meldrum’s death, which had been confirmed by professional associates and Meldrum’s academic department. Social media was soon filled with condolences and shock. Meldrum was well-known throughout the Bigfoot and cryptozoology world.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum attracted media attention due to his interest in “Bigfoot” (which Meldrum preferred terming “Sasquatch”). Meldrum believed that the cryptid hominid Bigfoot exists, and his research on the topic was criticized by some (especially for errors he made in endorsing some shaky evidence). Meldrum authored Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science in 2006. Within Bigfoot studies, Meldrum was respected for his scientific thoughts and grounded approach.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum was interested in Sasquatch beginning in the 1980s, but he initially started speaking on Bigfoot to public groups in 1996, first at “Bigfoot Daze,” in Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum became a frequent guest on television, after 1996.&lt;br /&gt;
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He traveled to discuss the topic with associates and to gather evidence. Meldrum was present at a 2011 conference in Siberia regarding the Siberian Snowman, which included investigating alleged footprints that had been spotted in a Kemerovo cave. He acknowledged that the results of the Russian field trip to the cave site were most likely fraudulent. He suggested that the supposed evidence found was simply an attempt by local government officials to drum up publicity.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jeff Meldrum was on the initial “Board of Advisors” of the International Cryptozoology Museum (founded 2023). Meldrum and I (Loren Coleman) often would give concurrent talks at Bigfoot conferences, and have conversations at these events.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2018, Meldrum spoke at the International Cryptozoology Conference held in Portland, Maine.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jeff Meldrum was an early follower of Grover Krantz, and copied Grover’s “one fossil primate” answer to the Bigfoot question. Meldrum’s initial position was that Gigantopithecus was the solution. But as Meldrum matured in his thinking, he began to agree with Paranthropus theorist Gordon R. Strasenburgh Jr. It became a foundation part of his later writings.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum also developed a new view of the Shipton Yeti cast (see here), and the ICM placed his donated cast on exhibit.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dr. Jeff Meldrum was a Full Professor of Anatomy &amp;amp; Anthropology at Idaho State University (since 1993). After his death, ISU noted he was the longest serving member of their Department of Anthropology faculty. He taught human anatomy in the graduate health professions programs.&lt;br /&gt;
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His research encompassed questions of vertebrate evolutionary morphology generally, primate locomotor adaptations more particularly, and especially the emergence of modern human bipedalism. His co-edited the volume, From Biped to Strider: the Emergence of Modern Human Walking, Running, and Resource Transport, which proposed a more recent innovation of modern striding gait than previously assumed. His interest in the footprints attributed to Sasquatch was piqued when he examined a set of 15-inch tracks in Washington, in 1996. His lab housed well over 300 footprint casts attributed to the mystery primates. He conducted collaborative laboratory and field research throughout North America, and the world (e.g. China, and Russia), and had spoken about his findings in numerous popular and professional publications, interviews, television and radio appearances, public and professional presentations. He made 226 appearances on reality television, in documentaries, and on news magazines, frequently seen on the Discovery Channel, History, and the National Geographic Channel, among others, regarding the evidence for Sasquatch/Bigfoot.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum authored Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (Tom Doherty Publishers, 2006), which explores his and other scientists’ evaluations of the contemporary evidence and also affords deference to tribal people’s traditional knowledge of this subject. He has also published a series of field guide pamphlets, on Sasquatch, Yeti and other wildmen, to consider the potential of relict hominoids around the world (Paradise Cay Publishing, beginning 2014).&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum was the editor-in-chief of the scholarly refereed journal, The Relict Hominoid Inquiry (beginning in 2012).&lt;br /&gt;
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You may be surprised to find listed within the Skookum (2016) cast at IMDb is one Jeffrey Meldrum, playing Dr. Jeff Cameron. Meldrum is also listed as a producer. Above, on the set of Skookum, Dr Jeff Meldrum is interviewed by Melissa Adair of Squatch Unlimited.&lt;br /&gt;
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In 2006, Dr. Jeff Meldrum received the “Bigfooter of the Year” award bestowed in Daniel Perez’s Bigfoot Times.&lt;br /&gt;
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This 2022 photograph shows Meldrum had placed an enlargement of the 1930s’ California fruit crate label on his office wall (upper left hand corner). I had discovered this forgotten piece of the early acknowledgment of Bigfoot, and published about this discovery in Anomalist #10, in 2002.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jeff Meldrum made an intense impact on cryptozoology in the age of early television documentaries and social media, 1990s-2000s. He used the media more than Ivan T. Sanderson, Bernard Heuvelmans, John Green, and Grover Krantz were able to do in the 1960s-1970s.&lt;br /&gt;
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Jeff will be remembered as a hard-working, kind, scientific, polite, good-natured, humor-filled, passionate, family man who shared freely his labor in the field of Sasquatch studies. Our sincere condolences to his wife, children, friends, colleagues, and associates. His work shall live on.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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Born in 1958, D. Jeffrey Meldrum, Ph.D., is currently an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University and an affiliate curator of vertebrate palaeontology at the Idaho Museum of Natural History.&lt;br /&gt;
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Through his work in the field of physical anthropology and his specialization in foot mechanics, Meldrum has studied the implications for bipedal adaptation and locomotion in early hominids. He has also participated in palaeontological field projects to South America, collecting new fossil primate specimens from the Miocene of Columbia and Argentina.&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Meldrum is best known for his open-minded yet scientific approach to the bigfoot phenomenon. Because he grew up in the Pacific Northwest, Meldrum was no stranger to the subject, having heard sasquatch stories from an early age. His interest in the legendary creature took a back burner as he continued his formal education and teaching until 1996, when he found and cast a series of fresh sasquatch prints in Washington and, the following year, northern California. Meldrum has since gathered and purchased collections of purported track casts as part of his research into sasquatch foot anatomy, and his lab now houses what may be the world's most extensive collection of sasquatch track casts. Meldrum is widely considered the leading expert on sasquatch footprints as well as the derived morphology and functional anatomy of the foot.&lt;br /&gt;
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Starting in the late 1990’s, Meldrum has frequently appeared, often with J. Richard Greenwell, in documentaries discussing his insights into amateur videotapes allegedly showing the creatures known as bigfoot and Yeti, in addition to sharing his research pertaining to derived foot anatomy and locomotion. He has spoken at many sasquatch conferences and symposia, including the Willow Creek International Bigfoot Symposium in 2003 and the &amp;quot;Bigfoot in Texas?&amp;quot; museum and speaker series sponsored by the University of Texas and the Institute of Texan Culture in 2006.&lt;br /&gt;
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Meldrum received his B.S. in zoology specializing in vertebrate locomotion at Brigham Young University in 1982, his M.S. at BYU in 1984 and a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences, with an emphasis in biological anthropology, from State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1989. He held the position of postdoctoral visiting assistant professor at Duke University Medical Center from 1989 to 1991. Meldrum worked at Northwestern University's Department of Cell, Molecular and Structural Biology for a short while in 1993 before joining the faculty of Idaho State University where he currently teaches.&lt;br /&gt;
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We are still accumulating information on Wes, who was instrumental in Bigfoot research and knowledge back in the 70s and 80s in the Blue Ridge mountains with Paul Freeman, Bill Laughery and Vance Orchard.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Historic)_Wes_Summerlin&amp;diff=4675</id>
		<title>(Historic) Wes Summerlin</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Historic)_Wes_Summerlin&amp;diff=4675"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T19:39:44Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:Wes Summerlin.jpg|thumb|Wes Summerlin ]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Wes summerlin2.jpg|thumb|Wes Summerlin ]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Wes Summerlin12.jpg|thumb|Wes Summerlin ]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We are still accumulating information on Wes, who was instrumental in Bigfoot research and knowledge back in the 70s and 80s in the Blue Ridge mountains with Paul Freeman, Bill Laughery and Vance Orchard.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Historic)_Wes_Summerlin&amp;diff=4674</id>
		<title>(Historic) Wes Summerlin</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Historic)_Wes_Summerlin&amp;diff=4674"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T19:35:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Wes Summerlin  Wes Summerlin   Wes Summerlin   We are still accumulating...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:Wes Summerlin.jpg|thumb|Wes Summerlin]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Wes summerlin2.jpg|thumb|Wes Summerlin ]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Wes Summerlin12.jpg|thumb|Wes Summerlin]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
We are still accumulating information on Wes, who was instrumental in Bigfoot research and knowledge back in the 70s and 80s in the Blue Ridge mountains with Paul Freeman, Bill Laughery and Vance Orchard.&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Wes_summerlin12.jpg&amp;diff=4673</id>
		<title>File:Wes summerlin12.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Wes_summerlin12.jpg&amp;diff=4673"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T19:34:35Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Wes Summerlin&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Wes_summerlin2.jpg&amp;diff=4672</id>
		<title>File:Wes summerlin2.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Wes_summerlin2.jpg&amp;diff=4672"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T19:31:30Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Wes Summerlin&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Wes_summerlin.jpg&amp;diff=4671</id>
		<title>File:Wes summerlin.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:Wes_summerlin.jpg&amp;diff=4671"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T19:25:50Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Wes Summerlin&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_1987_-_Northside_Watershed_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4670</id>
		<title>(Cast) 1987 - Northside Watershed - By Paul Freeman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_1987_-_Northside_Watershed_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4670"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T04:31:22Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Northside Watershed - 1987  Northside Watershed - 1987&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:975323-R1-34-34.jpg|thumb|Northside Watershed - 1987]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Northside Watershed - 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-34-34.jpg&amp;diff=4669</id>
		<title>File:975323-R1-34-34.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-34-34.jpg&amp;diff=4669"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T04:30:59Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Northside Watershed - 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_Nov_3,_1987_Tiger_Canyon_No_5_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4668</id>
		<title>(Cast) Nov 3, 1987 Tiger Canyon No 5 - By Paul Freeman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_Nov_3,_1987_Tiger_Canyon_No_5_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4668"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T04:26:43Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Tiger Canyon (#5) - Nov. 3, 1987  Tiger Canyon (#5) - Nov. 3, 1987&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:975323-R1-33-33.jpg|thumb|Tiger Canyon (#5) - Nov. 3, 1987]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tiger Canyon (#5) - Nov. 3, 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-33-33.jpg&amp;diff=4667</id>
		<title>File:975323-R1-33-33.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-33-33.jpg&amp;diff=4667"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T04:25:47Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Tiger Canyon (#5) - Nov. 3, 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_Nov_3_1987_-_Another_Tiger_Canyon_cast_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4666</id>
		<title>(Cast) Nov 3 1987 - Another Tiger Canyon cast - By Paul Freeman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_Nov_3_1987_-_Another_Tiger_Canyon_cast_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4666"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:46:02Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Tiger Canyon (#?) - Nov. 3, 1987  Tiger Canyon (#?) - Nov. 3, 1987&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:975323-R1-32-32.jpg|thumb|Tiger Canyon (#?) - Nov. 3, 1987]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Tiger Canyon (#?) - Nov. 3, 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-32-32.jpg&amp;diff=4665</id>
		<title>File:975323-R1-32-32.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-32-32.jpg&amp;diff=4665"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:44:51Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Tiger Canyon (#?) - Nov. 3, 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_August_31,_1987_-_Yellow_Jacket_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4664</id>
		<title>(Cast) August 31, 1987 - Yellow Jacket By Paul Freeman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_August_31,_1987_-_Yellow_Jacket_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4664"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:39:42Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Yellow Jacket - August 31, 1987  Yellow Jacket - August 31, 1987&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:975323-R1-31-31.jpg|thumb|Yellow Jacket - August 31, 1987]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Yellow Jacket - August 31, 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-31-31.jpg&amp;diff=4663</id>
		<title>File:975323-R1-31-31.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-31-31.jpg&amp;diff=4663"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:39:29Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Yellow Jacket - August 31, 1987&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_1982_-_Original_Sighting_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4662</id>
		<title>(Cast) 1982 - Original Sighting - By Paul Freeman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_1982_-_Original_Sighting_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4662"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:34:34Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Original Sighting (copy) - 1982  Original Sighting (copy) - 1982&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:975323-R1-29-29 LoRes.jpg|thumb|Original Sighting (copy) - 1982]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Original Sighting (copy) - 1982&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-29-29_LoRes.jpg&amp;diff=4661</id>
		<title>File:975323-R1-29-29 LoRes.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-29-29_LoRes.jpg&amp;diff=4661"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:33:51Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Original Sighting (copy) - 1982&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_May_11,_1986_-_Wenaha_Wilderness_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4660</id>
		<title>(Cast) May 11, 1986 - Wenaha Wilderness - By Paul Freeman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_May_11,_1986_-_Wenaha_Wilderness_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4660"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:27:00Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Wenaha Wilderness (copy) - May 11, 1986  Wenaha Wilderness (copy) - May 11, 1986&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:975323-R1-28-28.jpg|thumb|Wenaha Wilderness (copy) - May 11, 1986]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Wenaha Wilderness (copy) - May 11, 1986&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-28-28.jpg&amp;diff=4659</id>
		<title>File:975323-R1-28-28.jpg</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=File:975323-R1-28-28.jpg&amp;diff=4659"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:25:53Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Wenaha Wilderness (copy) - May 11, 1986&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
	<entry>
		<id>http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_Aug_20,_1992_-_Deduct_Spring_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4658</id>
		<title>(Cast) Aug 20, 1992 - Deduct Spring - By Paul Freeman</title>
		<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.squatchopedia.org/index.php?title=(Cast)_Aug_20,_1992_-_Deduct_Spring_-_By_Paul_Freeman&amp;diff=4658"/>
		<updated>2026-02-01T03:20:27Z</updated>

		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Darkwing: Created page with &amp;quot;Deduct Spring - Aug. 20, 1992  Deduct Spring - Aug. 20, 1992&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;div&gt;[[File:975323-R1-27-27.jpg|thumb|Deduct Spring - Aug. 20, 1992]]&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;
Deduct Spring - Aug. 20, 1992&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
		<author><name>Darkwing</name></author>
		
	</entry>
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