Cliff Barackman London Tracks Update: "Many of these features point towards the authenticity of the casts"

Now, here's a development that will interest those of you dying to know whether the London Tracks are real or not. Cliff Barackman and Dr. Jeff Meldrum had spent some time together examining the footprints and found some features that "point towards the authenticity of the casts."

For those who missed the news, the London, Oregon footprints are probably the most significant footprint find in the last 40 years. According to Barackman, "They certainly represent the largest collection of data ever retrieved from any single bigfoot site, ever."

Here's an excerpt from Cliff Barackman's blog:

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I later discovered that Dr. Jeff Meldrum had an opportunity to examine a small sampling of the London casts obtained by Toby Johnson, Thom Powell, and Guy Edwards at the recent Primal Peoples gathering in Washington. After seeing the casts, Dr. Meldrum also had some concerns about their authenticity.

This past week, I sat down with Dr. Meldrum in his office and spent several hours discussing the trackway and casts. We noted the apparent lack of variation in toe position, and talked about how much change in toe position should be expected if one individual is walking over a flat, uniform substrate. We agreed that there should be relatively little variation, but indeed some.

While closely examining photographs of the casts, we discovered several examples of toe variation that were greater than first noticed, both in relative depth and splay. These examples occurred where the substrate changed from mud to sand, and at the point where the creature walked up a slight incline towards the shoreline of the reservoir. This is exactly where one would expect this sort of variation to occur: at the change in the substrate.

I missed these details because I didn't have sufficient time to closely examine each cast and contrast it with all the others before hitting the road again after my short break. As for Dr. Meldrum's initial observations, he hadn't seen enough examples of the individual casts to determine this sort of variability.

Our meeting lasted several hours, and several other features visible in the detailed photographs were discussed. Many of these features point towards the authenticity of the casts. Among these features are the mud protruding up between the toes, the consistency of the grabbing action of the first three digits (but often excluding the fourth and fifth digits), and the natural shape and contour of the elongated heel. The possibility that some of the casts recorded striations from the toe nails was also brought up.

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