The Science of Bigfoot! Huh? What?

Editor’s Note: This is a post by Bigfoot Evidence contributor, Damian Bravo. You can join his Facebook group, Sasquatch Lives?.

Bigfoot has been around the human world longer then the thinkers, believers, knowers and skeptics think the creature has actually existed. To many, the legend of Bigfoot only goes back to the famous Patterson/Gimlin film taken 44 years ago and the Bigfoot tracks that were found by construction workers in the 60’s and 70’s. Now, science has categorized the supposed creature as mythical, yet evidence of hairy like bi-pedal creatures have been documented in stories and ancient glyphs and rock art in North America and other continents. Is there a true science being applied to the search and quest to prove Bigfoot truly exist?

I myself have looked at the enigma of Bigfoot for over 28 years, from my perspective which was initially from the outside of the Bigfoot community. I saw that the legend of the creature in part was more of an unintentional fabrication that at times was made by possible hoaxes, stories, misinformation and conjecture. Yet in these many years I have looked at the existence of Bigfoot, my holy grail would always be Patty, walking in the few seconds of film and my idea of Bigfoots existence would regenerate itself and come back to life.

Now it would be incorrect to say that science has not truly been applied in the search for the supposed creature. We have seen the many documentaries where researchers and scientist have been ask to look at the evidence in the many years since the events that occurred in Bluff Creek on October 1967. The current events of the possible release of DNA evidence and even supposed HD quality video is the new enticing evidence that for those that think of the possibility of Bigfoots existence would vindicate them and so be able to point to others and give them the satisfying “I told you so”.

Yet I sometimes ask myself what has been the true science that has been applied to prove the supposed species is real. Logically you would think that good HD video and amazing photography mixed in with some hair samples and a piece of Bigfoot stake would be enough to prove the hairy monster is walking about somewhere in the world of man. Yet even now those very things are becoming a source of invalidation by what many believe is the improper way the information is being given to the masses by the group making lead by Melba Ketchum, which to some seem like outlandish claims. Why you may ask? Well, let’s take a look at the process and how findings are confirmed to be facts. In the science world other scientist must collaborated the methods and data that are being presented as facts which is called a peer review thingy. This peer review thingy must… and this will sound redundant… be reviewed, retested, reanalyzed and doubled verified by other scientist-- they all must reach the same conclusions based on the methods of the originators information independently.

Now, a lot of ideas in science are theories until proven to be facts and cannot be disputed, maybe, well everything is up for disputed, but in general the big findings are usually accepted by the scientific community at large and respected journals who publish them. One of my favorite scientists in the theoretic study of Bigfoot foot morphology is PhD Dr. Jeff Meldrum, professor of Anatomy and Anthropology of Idaho state University, who thinks that the evidence of the existence of Bigfoot is too great to be ignored. Doctor Meldrum has put at risk his credibility in his study of the many cast sent to him from different parts of North America.

Now seeing all these things we must keep in mind that an episode from a documentary is not actually research of an unknown species. Actual research is done over many years and the data accumulated from it would not be able to be explained in one documentary on whatever the field of study or finding being presented. To be honest also you just can’t believe everything you see on the science channels, at times things are made up or are just theories that have not been proven or the science is just not available to be able to actually prove them.