Hi All:
I would like to add my two-cents about "all" Bigfoot/Sasquatch tracks found are proven to be fake:
On November 15, 1999, J. H. Chilcutt, Latent Fingerprint Examiner for
Conroe Police Department, Conroe, Texas, received a plaster cast of a footprint from Dr. Jeff Meldrum, Dept. Biological Science, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho . The cast was made by Deputy James P. Akin of the Pike County Sheriff's Office in Pike County, Georgia in 1997 from an impression found in the Elkins Creek flood plain. The cast was 17.5" long and 8.5" wide.
The Elkins Creek casting was examined over a period of several months and J.H. Chilcutt observed several areas on the cast where primate dermal ridges appeared.
After a considerable amount of time studying the dermal ridge flow patterns found on the castings, J.H. Chilcutt came to the conclusion that the dermal ridges were definitely the ridges of a non-human primate.
That conclusion was based on the fact that humans have creases running perpendicular to the lateral ridges on the first joint of the toes where the toe meets the foot. No such creases were observed on the track casting. In this particular area on the Elkin Creek casting the ridges were found to flow lengthwise along the side of the foot. According to J.H. Chilcutt this does not occur in the human or the known non-human primate. The dermal ridge flow patterns found on the Elkins Creek casting were also said to be consistent with the 1967 Blue Creek Mountain Road cast and the 1984 Walla Walla, Table Spring cast.
Based on the conclusions reached after careful study of the Elkins Creek cast, J. H. Chilcutt, Latent Fingerprint Examiner for Conroe Police Department, Conroe, Texas gave the following opinion:
"The Elkins Creek Cast is that of an unknown primate."
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Throughout remote and rugged regions of North America over the span of the last 50 years several thousand eyewitness reports of sasquatch sightings, foot prints, and other circumstantial evidence has been documented and accumulated.
Now the way I see it, this is either the greatest hoax of all time or there just might be a highly intelligent, extremely elusive, large, unknown primate yet to be discovered.
Since I have always had an open mind when it comes to scientific discoveries, and I'm not a big enough fool to call thousands of people liars and hoaxers, I am inclined to believe the above.