Poll: If Dr. Melba Ketchum Proves Bigfoot, Will You Apologize?
Nobody wants to see Dr. Melba Ketchum fail. Some of us have been following her journey to discovery for almost 5 years now. At her highest point, she had most of the Bigfoot community's support, and few would dare to challenge or question the validity of her ongoing study. Ketchum received a huge influx of support from all over the world after her interview on Coast to Coast AM calling for Bigfoot enthusiasts to donate whatever form of psychical evident they have. Two years after her interview, and 100 samples later, she now holds the key to unlocking one of the world's biggest mystery, Bigfoot.
However, this all went downhill after years of promising and delaying the results. It didn't help her cause when she decided to share a "stick structure" photo, and made claims about a playful family of five Bigfoots. These wild claims gave credence to gossips by bloggers such as Robert Lindsay who wrote articles about Bigfoots horse braiding her horses, and her Bigfoot rape fantasy.
Now, we are here at the end of the year, The Year of The Sasquatch. Ketchum is finally delivering on her promise, or at least appear to. Some of her early supporters have now defected after two years of unclear progress. These former supporters are now referred to as "skeptics", "doubting Thomases", and "naysayers". Even Bigfoot Evidence blog is now considered to be an "anti-Ketchum" site even though 95 percent of our articles are in support of Ketchum.
With that all said-- If Ketchum's paper does pass peer review and prove that Bigfoot is a living, breathing, being, should defectors and skeptics apologize for their criticism? That's our poll question for today:
Here are the latest statements from inside and outside the Ketchum camp:
"I just wanted to address a great question that was asked. We are currently awaiting for the peer review to be done. We are confident it will go thru and be published. However many are asking if something were to happen what would we do about the paper. Let me reassure you THIS PAPER IS COMING OUT. If something were to happen (we feel it will be published) and it isnt Melba will still bring it out for the world to see. This paper is solid and can stand on its own if necessary." - Robin Lynne Forestpeople
"When Dr Melba Ketchum's Bigfoot DNA report is finally released, the "Naysayers" and "Doubting Thomases" will find a new issue to be negative and mean about toward their fellow man. They can't help it because it's their "nature" to behave in such ways. One could say it's in their "genes".
Hey, there's a new DNA study for Dr Melba Ketchum and Dr Sykes. Studying the derisive "Mean Gene". Everyone knows there's a lot of available samples out there to collect." - Dr. Matthew Johnson
"I think EVERYONE in Bigfooting wishes she would succeed in this DNA project. However, many have lost faith, and they have lost it because of what SHE and her allies have said and done. For years we have stood up in support of this project, but now we have reached the point where we feel either betrayed or deeply suspicious of their motives and sincerity, if not their very sanity." - Steven Streufert
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ReplyDeleteGod, I feel empty inside...
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DeleteMe too.
3rd. I feel good. I knew that I would now
Delete4th mutha fuckas!!!!!
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DeleteI cannot wait for the publication of Dr. Ketchum's paper. She is going to validate so many aspects of Sasquatch behavior: wood knocking, calling, hair braiding and so much more. Hopefully when she is doing the tv circuit after publication she will let us know more about her firsthand experiences watching Sasquatch move objects with their minds. The scientific community will be fascinated by hard evidence of telekinesis. Lets hope they don't try to sabotage the study.
ReplyDeleteKetchum is def a loon. Her weird ass theories about angels or nephilim, and possible sexual thing with bigfoots. This all came from HER, not from outside sources. Shes nuts... It won't make the "paper" or results any more real.
DeleteWatch how the real scientists interpret those same samples and results to mean something completely different. and THAT is how this will play out. Stupid bleevers... don't get your hopes up. The train crash is coming.
In the beginning, YEARS AGO, i supported ketchum. i thought "hey maybe she will do this". Then repeatedly i was lied to and made the fool. I have since become so disenfranchised by her media fiasco that it its hard to believe anything coming from her, forest people, Lindsay, Santa claus, or the chalupa chupacabra.
DeleteYou guys are weird you know that don't you and don't give me that five years of support crap, why don't you just bleeding wait for the paper no matter how long it'll be now. She's said enough times lately that it's within weeks not months anymore, you can start foaming at the mouths again if nothing happens in the next 2-4 weeks. Real bigfooters with the species' best interest im mind should continue to stand by this study, when it's out voice your piece then, not that I think you'll be listened to much if you're critical because it does contain the species goods ladies and gents.
Deleteand when did you read it,or are you just taking Melba's word for it?I live in the light of the bright southern moon,I'll take you all sailing from midnight til noon,I'll show you the sea of tranquility you can have any flavor you happen to see...Gordon Lightfoot baby!
DeleteWell, for now all we have is her words for it yes and those other parties involved that have seen it and confirm.
DeleteWho are?
DeleteAnon 1:17 is obviously from Melba's camp. I bet its Crazy Lady McForestpeople. (Sorry Mayor McCheese for the name I gave her, no relation to you.)Way to stick up for the angel bigfoot, family of five that braids horse hair,that moves things telekentically and mind rapes people, because that doesn't sound crazy right anon 1:17?
DeleteIt doesn't matter what type of hype is blown onto this. It's still crap, and there is no bigfoot. You need to have the actual bigfoot in your hands to declare it. (a specimen is REQUIRED) Shes just mis interpreting results to mean something it doesn't contaminated, or degraded samples of regular old humans does not equate into bigfoot no matter which way you try and spin your yarn...
ReplyDeletePoppycock. As they say. All of it.
DNA doesn't lie. If it shows unknown hominid, then there's some out there right now. IF, it's replicated results from several different labs, with same results, then it's good data. It would never be contaminated in the same way at several different labs. That is what you're implying. Something out there right now, is producing the same unknown dna. There is no declaration, there's just intelligent extrapolation of the data. That's what science is and does. Extrapolation: bigfoots are out there now, and the poor little piddly brained humans are not smart enough to catch them.
DeleteAnon 10:43 you're about as dumb as they come, one sentence you say they don't exist the next you want a specimen no wonder when you can't make up your mind what you even think. Nutcase.
Deleteagreed^ can you imagine if religion was held up to the same standard Show us a body not buying the god or prophet thing not untill I see a body What the Bible the Quran nope to much contamination through the hands of men :@ ) Im not down with religion just saying is all people accept so much with so little to go on Are the forest people really that much of a stretch ?
DeleteIndeed yes it's a severely hypocritical society this one we're still living in today. God this God that all over the place with nothing but faith games to base it on.
DeleteI'm going to pray to the forest people,they can hear me thinking .
Delete^^^lol@all of the replies. This website is pure entertainment GOLD! I'm going to link my friends.
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Delete"unknown hominid" could maen modern human not in genbank. It could also mean "unidentified primate" which is the same old terms used for decades describing "alleged" bigfoot samples.
It will be vetted, and her claims will be a big pile of poo in the believers face for trusting this persons theories. Look into the person and her claims specifically. Not just the washed down version. If you still feel like supporting the claims, then have fun washing the poo off of your faces.
@1:58....the nuDNA will likely show a new species of hominid. It's that simple. genetic sequences never before seen. Can't be modern human. There will be many more studies, this is just the first. Only the data has meaning, not what person sequenced it. Many different labs sequenced this study, so what does it matter what Ketchum's personal past is? The "decades" of testing was always mtDNA, not nuDNA. Big difference. This will be the first data from nuDNA testing of suspected bigfoot samples. All the witnesses can't be lying, all the footprints can't be faked. Some are for sure. People may lie and deceive, but DNA does not.
DeleteThe data is not washed down, it is not yet available. Having not seen it, we're both guessing. If the data can be duplicated several times by different labs, it will then be a matter of interpretation. For that the experts in the field will have to do it for us. That will be most interesting. Just what will they agree or disagree on? Wait another month or two, enjoy the Christmas season, and the great debate will ensue. Hybrid? Unknown hominid? How do they do what they do? What type of mental processes do they posses? What do they eat? How do they maintain their huge body mass? Do they have to pursue food all of their waking hours or do they spend most of their time playing like dolphins?
If a sample is contaminated, it is contaminated, no matter how many different labs analyze it.
DeleteYou do not need a specimen. You need actual DNA that does not match human DNA but is close. We already have early human types of DNA: Denisovan and Neanderthal and it is believed that we may have mated with them long ago ( Many scientific articles on this on Smithsonian & Nature online).
DeleteI WISH HER WELL AND GOOD LUCK.
ReplyDeleteEven if you're going to hell just wish them well,wish them well.
DeleteThe anti Melba people will act like they never ridiculed and find the next issue to fight over. The scientific community will act like they always knew bigfoot exists and will fight over grants, quoting their grand credentials, etc. LOL. There won't be any apologizing.
ReplyDeleteIt's not anti Melba, it's anti misinformation that she is putting out.
DeleteFor those of you who cannot understand how DNA works, you cannot have a reading that says 100% Homo-Sapien + unknown primate. Now the results could say 100% primate with Homo-Sapien and unclassified Hominid traits, however, this still would not make it a modern human as Melba has implied.
Another thing is, she has not given any deviance timeline for the unknown hominid, which should have clear genetic markers which tells us it's placement in the evolutionary tree, all live forms on earth has this embedded in it's DNA.
We all would like to have an answer to this Sasquatch mystery, but it must be the correct answer and right now, Melba's findings do not add up correctly. Take the Liger for an instant, it is not a 100% Tiger nor is it a 100% Lion. It is seen as a 100% Panthera, with both Tiger and Lion traits.
Her findings are sound! Her speculation on origin is the only thing in question to a Oxford study that has validated her findings. NOONE has said that they are 100% anything, they have eluded to it being a hybrid.
Delete@11:28....what was said is the mtDNA was 100% human, and the nuDNA was unknown hominid. Get your facts straight, moron.
DeleteYeah Toddy get your facts straight you punk, we happen to know the species is real already (some of us anyway) now all that's missing is her DNA proof to validate that everything's true.
DeleteWell,any proof really seems to be whats missing?
DeleteI've got proof.But it's in a jar. ;0
DeleteThe character assassination attempts have been very personal, it is definitely an anti-woman-vet-science attack. For some of those attackers they have already lost all credibility and respect. No apology will ever be enough.
DeleteYou gonna cry?
DeleteIf she posted pictures of her breasts instead of stick structures we might be thinking differently,Sykes has posted pictures of his breasts by the way.
DeleteWhere are breast pictures.....please
DeleteAnd he has some fine hairy titties at that!
DeleteAnon 2:28-Get over yourself and off your high horse. Take your passive aggressive rant somewhere else. We are talking about bigfoot, not about anti women, vet bullshit you are talking about. I believe in bigfoot but your butt-buddy melba is a quack. Even is she is right, I am not going to apologize. If looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck.....
DeleteNever said anything bad. Let all the Bigfoot chips fall where they will
ReplyDeleteMid Michigan calling
Just don't step in them
DeleteYou rock mid mich
DeleteThanks man U2. Rush for life
Deletetaint gonna be no polijiezin no never mind
ReplyDeleteThere is no 'foot, 'cause I'm a toon, got it?
ReplyDeleteYou mean your a Tool!
DeleteI voted no, because I am not the one who planted all the red flags. If they end up having benign explanations and the study is legitimate, let alone groundbreaking, I will be happy for her and for cryptozoology. Apologize though? Never!!! :)
ReplyDeleteBecause you're a rotten person, we get it.
DeleteActually, that is not true. I'll apologize. After all, it can't hurt. :)
Delete95% of the articles on this blog are pro-Ketchum?
ReplyDeleteI was questioning that too. 19/20 sounds high but do we consider the Burstev related posts negative,for example? He is a walking, talking red flag and we trolled the shit out of them, but that does not mean the articles were negtive?
DeleteI really don't care if people apologize. Respect for certain people has altready been lost, and an apology isn't going to change it.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to seeing the paper that started, and lead the way in Sasquatch DNA research. I feel this paper will have a huge impact on getting mainstream science and government to put some serious financial assistance toward the research of these creatures. Its seems to have given Sykes some interest anyways?
What happens to this paper? The three most realistic possible outcomes are:
Delete1. (Least Likely) No journal publishes her paper. Dr. Ketchum decides to post a summary of her "results" on facebook and says that mainstream scientists blackballed her out of being published anywhere respectable.
2. (Moderately likely) Her journal passes "peer review" or whatever constitutes peer review at one of Igor Burtsev's sketchy Russian crypto-journals. The scientific mainstream will ignore it as quack pseudo-science.
3. (Most Likely) Dr. Ketchum's paper is accepted for publication at a major journal, such as Science or Nature. Her findings regarding sasquatch DNA, as well as their telepathic powers RE: mindspeak, mind rape, moving objects just by thinking about them, and their ability to emit Electro magnetic pulse burts, cause a worldwide awakening as biologists and anthropologists throughout the globe struggle to comprehend what the existence of sasquatch means for both the scientific community and military industrial complex, as the Pentagon seeks to harness the mental psychokinetic powers of the sasquatch for military gain.
So I guess you have read the paper and know the names of all the labs across the country that have been involved in the blind testing. Sounds like you also must know Melba personally, or some of her close friends and family at least.
DeleteWould you mind sharing your copy of the study/paper so I can form an educated opinion?
Thanks
It will be better when we don't need to worry about the publication process when Dr. Ketchum will be able to transmit the results of the study directly into the brains of every man, woman, child, and 'foot on the planet via mindspeak. Peer review is so old fashioned.
DeleteI like how this thread title's headed, clearly a BE build up to apologizing themselves now the last indicating penny fell. ;)
DeleteSo is alien taterhole probing...thank God!
DeleteThe problem could be in her scientific writing, not in the raw research. In other words, to get a paper published, you might have to produce some science to support the science that you have found.
ReplyDeleteWhen you write a term paper, you have to produce other research, and write well. If it is sloppy, then it won't get published. It is not enough for her to identify hominid DNA, she has to write about all of the science involved and write a thorough, professional paper.
Good point. It may be that the reviewers and editors are actually leading her through the rewrite to produce something they feel comfortable with. That would slow down the process considerably.
DeleteE x a c t l y .
Delete11:29 Would it be enough to find something new: human dna with previously unseens variations in some genes? Publish that, with little to know speculation on why; i.e interpret the data later.
Delete12:06 How long do you think the reviewers would do that? 1 semester and an intersession break, tops. Maybe something like that went on with collaborators or advisors who she brought in after it got started...
Maybe its because the reviewers tink shes full of shit,she has forest people and igor as her spokes people and people here are still taking it seriously...when this paper doesn't publish I won't rub peoples noses in it,just don't build up your hopes around people like this
DeleteI don't have any problem about identifying bigfoot DNA. Reading report and process to identify DNA will made difference. This is just a matter of objectivity and proceeding. My problem is more about hybridization and newborn specie around 15000 years ago. Cannot buy it.
ReplyDeleteWe'll know soon enough. 15.000 years is actually enough time for this to have happened, would also explain well some of the no bones questioning I think, a new smart species taking care of itself knowing full well it's in constant danger from enemy species and must survive the best it can largely in hiding. This smartness is still in their genes, from the US to the Caucasus say.
DeleteI don't deny the fact that BF can be smarter than any other great ape, using a form of "language" and live on basic social rules but some of these behaviors can be observed in some others species living in group like bee, wolves, gorillas and ants (that said with all the nuances required). My guess about the problem analyzing BF behaviors may comes from the fact that we see him more human than he can be and this prevents to see for what it really is: a beast, an animal. This don't means go after and shoot him. It's a very special animal with seemingly human behavior but still an animal. We often wonder: why do we not find bones or remains ? Have you ever thought that BF could be cannibal ? Seeing him as nearly human, it is difficult to consider it as such.
DeleteAbout hybridization, we have to consider that one of the parents was already bigfoot or something close to it. A giganto or some other unknown great ape ? Perhaps, but not easier to demonstrate. In anyway, considering this fact, what impact would this have on mixing one offspring, maybe two ? Would have had to do this hybridization of dozens of people to observe a change, not only from one or two individuals. Moreover, even assuming some contacts with homo sapiens, how is it that Bigfoot has apparently not learned to make tools or use fire? Sapiens could effectively defend against bigfoot and I do not see how it could venture to remove a "female" sapiens, or even reverse. An orphan ? Perhaps but it stay speculative. Anyway, the offspring would have mated with another bigfoot? and for what result ? Another bigfoot with a little bit more brain ? We now entering in the Planet of Apes myth.
My opinion about Bigfoot is that it is an animal from a common ancestor between apes and Homo sapiens, who had the ability to move up, but also retained some characteristics of primates and for which the fossil making this connection, has not yet been found. For this, we don't talk about thousand of years but hundreds of thousands.
Regarding DNA samples dated of 15,000 years, I do not know how they did it and I hope to read the report because I believe DNA can be dated only from a sample that has already been dated. This dating is done only from bones that have preserved traces of DNA that have been dated. So, from where do come these samples and comparison specimen which they belong?
You're right we'll know soon, but the debate remains open.
Sure, I'll apologize. But guess what? I wont have to.
ReplyDeleteNot even when her paper passes review in a Russian woo-woo journal? Oops, I forgot, it's being reviewed by two journals at once...my bad.
DeleteYour apology is not necessary. However, there will be a lot of "I told you so's". To be expected. Perhaps then you can just be happy and wonder about about our newly accepted cousins, and how they do what they do.
DeleteYou must've just recently gotten on the Bigfoot bus. What a dumbass. More like - Newly accepted nothings.
DeleteOh please, recognize my monkey monster man.
Denial dies hard doesn't it.
DeleteActually the proof is on you,what do you have?
Delete@12:42....you are the monkey brains. The bigfoot will, very soon, be accepted by science, whether hybrid or unknown hominid, and maybe both are out there. You're still on the turnip truck. Maybe you'll fall off, smack your head, and see the light.
DeleteWho's on that turnip truck?I think its you who needs the helmet here
DeleteWho picked Melba to do this? Its hard enough to believe there is a giant ape-man-beast in the woods, so someone decided to entrust her with this profound study? We should have got Shirley McClain to do this. I'm not saying that she doesnt know what she is doing, just that another more credible lab should have been chosen. Can't wait for the Sykes study! When do we get the official word on that anyway? - Skeeter
ReplyDeleteMaybe because nobody else wanted to do what it takes and go all the way ? She's clearly not given up where most or all before her did. And it's funny a foreign study at Oxford's okay for some some of the boneheads here on an America species, but Russian studies - already taking it way more seriously over there - not ?
DeleteThe only thing she hasn't given up on, is stringing dumbasses like you along. The ugly old woman probably laughs her ass off, thinking about how all you fools keep falling for her bullshit.
DeleteWow anon 1:25. Were you abused as a child? What meds are you on? You might wanna ask your psych team at the State hospital about your inappropriate outbursts.
DeleteAt least once a day, there's one of these big stinky bastards tappin' on my back window, begging for food. I gotta poke'm with a stick and tell'm to git back in them woods.
ReplyDeleteI sure hope they don't get discovered, the lazy bums will be wantin' all kinds of free shit and the government will be makin' us build houses for them. It'll be like habitat for humanity, lazy monkey style or some shit like that. I'll give'm the sticks, but they gotta build the motherfucker they own self.
Are you giving them blueberry bagels? Do they request food via mindspeak?
DeleteWe've run a DNA test to see if its the real Pathersome, and re sequined the proper primers for input date uh. Mr Paw Lies is helping me with those DNA samples.
ReplyDeleteAfter I'm back from my world tour, I'll address the false rumors of the rumors. Later. The results have always been the same results, and I've said that from the begining. I'll make an announcement later about why I cant make an announcement right now.
omgadz, sally, it's a bonerfied wood ate! A true prime mate. I saw it! Twiced! Can you pass me that gravy, I'm about to get back on my whirled tour so, cashew beaches laid her.
Lame.^
DeleteThe poll assumes we have all been rude sexist idiots. Some of us have not said anything against the good doctor. Some of us are decent people.
ReplyDeleteYeah,some,not me,so sorry for my behaviour anyway,fuck Ketchum.
DeleteNot a single one of the footers would kill themselves (for the crime of incessantly bulling the scientific community and reasonable people) or even apologize if Ketchum failed, so to suggest that skeptics should apologize is an absurdity and the notion of a truly evil mind.
ReplyDeleteSo Bigfoot is half human?
ReplyDeleteDoes this mean that they are half ass @ssh@les, like most of the posters on these threads?
Does this mean that they are immature male offspring of unsuitable parents who failed to prepare their children for life's forseeable challenges, like Bigfoot knowledge?
Does this mean that their personalities will remain like those of disrespectful, unsophisticated, closed minded, semi-illiterate, high school dropouts who are proud of how they anonymously assault the Bigfoot knowers on the internet?
Inquiring minds want to know?
Actually the proof is on you,what do you have?
DeleteI have a big hairy taterhole!And you?
DeleteI'll take your word,no need to see all proof
DeleteI believe more in the existence of Sasquatch than I do in the existence of this paper being published and proving it exists. (Riddle me that one)This past year has been one Big Steamy Turd of Deception. Anyone still clinging to this Ketchum Bullshit needs to just put it in a jar and keep sniffin. I do believe the Hairy Bastard is out there. I just don't believe they are mind-raping, horse hair-braiding, bagel eating "Humans" who would allow their existence to be revealed by way of this ongoing ClusterFunk. I want my Giant 10 foot Chewbacca style monster fantasy back, please....much more exciting than this "They are people like us" Crapola.
ReplyDeleteNow that is well said
DeleteThis paper could never PROVE that Bigfoot exists. You would need a type specimen to COMPARE to DNA to. Show me the monkey.
ReplyDeleteTim Fasano,he's a not so great ape
DeleteNo. The paper won't prove BF existence. Her research I'd faulty her data is corrupted.
ReplyDeleteBelief is not science and her science is unsound .
Unsound... Or infrasound?
DeleteWe could be on the brink of the greatest ever discovery and these wise guys are interested in quantifying apologies from trolls? The damage is done. Saying sorry would be semi noble but when your reputation is in tatters, you will find that no one will be listening.
ReplyDeleteMMG
Dr. Ketchum would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Sasquatches exist in order for me to apologize. Not evidence,PROOF.
ReplyDeleteShe made the claim. Had she said she had strong evidence, I would apologize, but she didn't. Ketchum made a definitive claim. Proof would mean acceptance by every scientist. Her paper would have to be rock solid with not a single fracture.
"Proof" is a very strong word. Let's see if that changes in the future.
She really doesn't have enough relevant experience to provide a proper treatment in her paper. It's not her field of study and you don't learn it as a hobby. The paper will most certainly be incapable of proving the existence of a new type of hominid. She would be lucky if it generated sufficiently compelling evidence to warrant further study by academia.
DeleteI can't stand it! I've been on the edge of my seat for so long now I've got thrombosed hemorrhoids. What a disgusting bloddy mess. Thanks Melba.
ReplyDeleteI would invite her over for a cookout at my house in the Sahara Nevada’s where we would enjoy steaks (Bigfoot of course), play pin the tail on the Moneymaker, have a few laughs at Justin Smeja expense. Watch Robert Linsay leak to my nabors that I visit this website. We would listen to Renee’s latest Sasquatch call and rate it on a scale from 1 to 10 on the Squatchyness meter. Poke fun at M.K Davis’s Herniated Muscle. We would probably have to help Cliff escape from Michael Merchant’s snare line and break up several fights between “Dr” Meldrum and Jim Lebus because Jim won’t leave Meldrum’s balloons alone. Then to top off the whole experience I would then let Melba play with my Bobo, then bend her over my Game Cam and do her Bigfoot style… then apologize!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI have Tim Fasano in a freezer.
ReplyDeleteIt must be an exceptionally large freezer.
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