We Can See Why Ketchum Is Best Friends With Wally Hersom

"Big Phil"

Do y'all think southern accents are sexy? How Dr. Melba Ketchum managed to convince Wally Hersom that she can prove Bigfoot without a type specimen is beyond us. It has been said before, and we'll see it again, we need a damn body, preferably a live one.

To actually understand why Wally spent nearly half a million dollars on the Ketchum study, you have to understand Wally Hersom:

1) Wally is retired now, but he ran a very successful company called PowerOne. Uncle Wally is basically a billionaire (or multimillionaire).

2) Wally has money coming out of his ears. We know this because he was with us at the Sierra Kill site last summer and dude has a ton of thermal and night-vision equipment. No one truly owns a thermal-imager unless you're Bart Cutino, or just plain rich. Bart's family owns half of all businesses in Monterey, CA (we probably made that up).

3) Wally offered us $100,000 if we can prove to him that the "Big Phil" photograph is fake. With the help of Phil Poling, we proved it to be fake in under 5 seconds. Easy money, right? But you know something? We're not going to take the offer. It's sleazy and downright immoral to accept that kind of cash from a friend. Thanks, but no thanks, Wally. So, what's our point? Wally is frickin' rich, and he's eager to spend it on his passion, and right now it is Bigfoot.

Which brings us to our issue with Ketchum. The lady from Texas really understands Wally's passion (and so do many people in the Bigfoot community). With her sweet southern accent and a nice shoulder massage, we can imagine how easy it was for her to talk Wally into funding her $450,000 5-year Bigfoot DNA study -- which so far has proven nothing. We're posting this article hoping that our friend Wally reads this and stop writing this lady a check every damn time he gets off the phone with her. This latest post on the Bigfoot Forums is just sickening:

slowstepper, on 03 Jul 2013 - 08:07 AM, said:
BTW,  just to keep you updated.  several months ago Wally Hermson requested that he be given files containing the "3 complete genomes" that Ketchum claims to have.  Melba demanded a significant amount of money for a "special hard drive" capable of holding those data  (as an aside a 4 terrabite drive from seagate is about 170 bucks)

Wally provided the money,  and has still not recieved the data or anything else he has requested from Melba.  All of this after he provided $450,000 dollars to Melba!  and got stuck paying tax and penalty on that after it turns out Melbas tax deduxtable organization was not tax deductable at all!