I believe Bigfoot exists for the following reasons:
1)There have been sighting reports by European settlers dating back to 1785 & I fail to see why, or even how, someone could come up with such a creature before the discovery of the Gorilla.
2)There have been at least 20 hair samples found that, after much analysis (Years in some cases) & compaeison to hair samples of known animals, have defied identification by Biologist Dr. Henner H. Fahrenbach. These are hairs found in the vicinity of reported sightings & discoveries of alleged Bigfoot tracks. Dr. Fahrenbach has determined these hairs to be primate & always absent of a medulla.
3)There are also scat samples that have, so far, defied identification.
4)There have been casts of alleged Bigfoot tracks found to contain dermal ridges. These were found by a forensic expert in fingerprint analysis with the Conroe, Texas police department named Jimmy Chilcutt. Mr. Chilcutt is also an expert in non-human primate fingerprint analysis who set out to debunk the legend of Bigfoot.
5)After years of intense scrutiny, including a two-ponged analysis in 2006, the Patterson/Gimlin film from 1967 has never been debunked. The first prong of the two-pronged analysis in 2006 concluded that a person couldn't replicate the walk of the subject of the film. The second prong was a frame-by-frame microscopic analysis of the film that failed to find any trace of a costume whatsoever.
6)There are alleged Bigfoot vocalizations recorded in the vicinity of other Bigfoot evidence that have, so far, defied identification.
7)Dr. Jeff Meldrum has studied numerous track casts & has noted such things as a mid-tarsal break & varying gaps between the toes of two or more casts from the same trackway. This of course indicates a flexible, living foot.
8)The Skookum Cast: The Skookum Cast is a plaster cast of an impression made in mud of a Bigfoot lying down to retreive an apple from the middle of the muddy area. Hair found in the impression was determined through microscopic analysis, by Dr. Fahrenbach, to be primate & one part of the impression was determined by the late Dr. Daris Swindler, to be the Achilles tendon of a large primate. What do you all think?
