Interview with Dr. Jeff Meldrum About Discovery's Killer Yeti Special


Dr. Jeff Meldrum is featured in the upcoming 2-hour special Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives, premiering June 1st, 2014 at 9pm on the Discovery Channel. Hitfix.com sat down with Dr. Meldrum for the following interview.

So, if we're talking about a yeti doing all this damage, it seems only right to pepper the expert featured in the film, Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, with our burning yeti questions. Currently a professor at Idaho State University, he’s also a Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) curator. He knows from yetis -- and he also can explain why you haven't seen a fossil of one at your local natural history museum. Here's everything you never knew you wanted to know about these big, furry guys (some believe the yeti and Sasquatch are distinct, like grizzly bears and black bears) that you don't read about in schoolbooks.

It seems like Big Foot hasn't been part of the national conversation lately.

In fact, if anything in the digital age with web pages and blogs and all that, there's an ever increasingly large degree of interest in communication about them. The media turns up their nose at reports unless it's a sensational one or someone who is a character that has certain credibility. There was a family psychologist who claimed to see one, and because of his professional stature it got lots of play. A lot of people get ignored. For the documentary cable channel networks, it's an evergreen topic of interest.

Let's address the points skeptics make about Bigfoot, yetis and the like. Why isn't one of these creatures in a zoo? Why isn't there a fossil of one in a museum? And why are the photos and video we see presented as "proof" so blurry?

Definitely Lots of rare and endangered animals are not in zoos, like the mountain gorillas. That doesn't raise a question mark. We also have almost zero remains of animals that inhabit wet forest, so fossilization is very rare. Occupying a wet coniferous forest produces acidic conditions in the soil, so that's likewise a very rare place to produce a fossil. The giant ape is a creature we know that existed in eastern Asia for well over a million years, but we have a very few fossils. The ones we do have exist because porcupines dragged the bones into caves, where they were preserved. If it hadn't been for the porcupines, we wouldn't know the giant ape ever existed.

And why are pictures blurry? When people discuss that, they're usually referring to the Patterson-Gimlin film, and what they see is a licensed copy of a copy of a VHS that gets released by the owners, but I've worked with some film analysts and [the original] is remarkably clear. And as to photos, when you're dealing with smart phones and digital cameras, most encounters are very fleeting. One time I was driving on the freeway with my brother, and I had a camera sitting on the seat next to me. I saw a deer crossing the freeway and thought it would be a good photo to take, but by the time I had a camera and the lens cap off all I caught was the tail. If I see an 8-foot hairy primate, I might not have been so quick to grab my camera [due to the shock]. There was a Facebook site called Facebook Find Bigfoot, and it had all these little examples of the imagery. They established a set of criteria, different aspects, different criteria, and they evaluated each of these. It was kind of fascinating.

For the rest of the interview, click here.

Comments

  1. Of course he is, anywhere to make a quick buck on the footers dime.

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  2. He's done it! The perfect phony cast!

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  3. Dr. Meldrum finds Facebook Find Bigfoot worth mentioning as a point of interest? I don't think I have anything else to say, it kind of speaks for itself.

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  4. Watching monsters & mysteries

    Melon heads are real. I went to school with two sets of twins. They were smaller than average with very large heads. The one pair co-opted at Dow chem through high school. Never saw them after school and i always figured they just continued on at Dow.

    The other pair had the biggest heads and they were beyond smart. I rode the school bus with them every day and they were normal kids and nobody picked on them. These twin brothers were taking on college courses while going to school. Giant heads

    MMC

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    1. Good lord you are an idiot.

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    2. If you bend over and I can show you an even bigger head. When most guys of that age go to school they check out the chicks with the biggest tits. Whats is your malfunction.?

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    3. Compaired to those guys you are too

      MMC

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    4. 5:05.

      If you need to talk about it then you ain't gettin it

      Fact

      MMC

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    5. If you need to respond to insult, its true.

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    6. It's not an insult after you consider the source. I feel sorry for you. Gender confusion is no laughing matter

      MMC

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    7. You tell'me MMC! There's nothing wrong with being gay, buddy. I accept you the way you are! By the way, didn't you get your father on here to tell people to quit messing with you a couple months ago?

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    8. Wrong sweetheart

      My dad is dead. Unlike you I am a big boy. Must have been your boyfriend impersonating me trying to be a big man. Wasn't his name Eliot Rogers ?

      MMC

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    9. 4:49 got so riled up because he actually has a huge melon head and is one of those people that needs a longer "stick". The lady that drives the yellow short bus is always frustrated because its really hard to get that safety helmet on his giant gourd. Even then it wont buckle ;)

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    10. My my...you stupid children...have you hairs round yo` balls yet ?

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    11. ^^I have some fuzz--does that count?

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    12. I shave mine. Much more streamlined.

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    13. Could we please stay on topic, people? We were discussing melon-heads. It is not a coincidence that those twin melon-heads were at Dow Chemical. Dow has been pouring chemicals into the Titabwassee River for decades. Their aim? To create the ideal melon-head. I can't say any more right now, it's too dangerous.

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    14. Could we please stay on topic, people? We were discussing melonheads. It's not a coincidence those melonhead twins were at Dow Chemical. Dow has been running a secret program for years to develop the perfect melonhead. It involves a certain chemical that is "leaked" into the Titabawassee River periodically. I can't say any more right now. It's too dangerous.

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  5. I wish Mayor McCheese were here. He's come along about now and say something really dumb.

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    1. Heard his Nissan Cube was found abandoned along the highway just outside of Abilene, TX. It doesn't look good for the Mayor.

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  6. I think the Mayor is long gong since Joe and his buddies ruined this blog, most of his posts would get the white out treatment anyways

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  7. Meldrum should change his name to Grayman. Also, he gives me the creeps. Looks like that lecherous uncle that every family seems to have,

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