Finding Bigfoot's Cliff Barackman is Down with OPP! (Orang Pendek Project)

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Cliff Barackman isn't just a pretty face on TV. He stays busy year round studying various hairy hominids, and one of his largest projects is the Orang Pendek Project. Cliff recently added the above cast to the official OPP database. But what is the OPP? According to Cliff's website:

"The Orang Pendek Project is an international collaborative effort between researchers on three continents to gather, document, and analyze data supporting the existence of an unclassified bipedal primate native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra."

Cliff had this to say about the above cast impression:

"Sometime during the last few days of July, 2013, a man named Pak Saril witnessed an orang pendek near Hutang Gunung Sangkar, which roughly translates to the “Debt of the Caged Mountain.” Word spread of the encounter, and Jhonisa, one of my Sumatran contacts, heard of the encounter and visited the site on July 30. A footprint was found, and was later cast. It is not known if more than one footprint was found.

The cast shows leaves and forest debris from the jungle floor, some of which was buried in the mud in the impression. A right foot made the print, and the adducted, or divergent hallux is pronounced and well-defined all the way down the toe stem. It connects to the medial cuneiform bone just a little forward of halfway down the inside of the foot. The cast shows a subtle bulge at the front of the foot pad near the base of the toes. This seems corresponds to where the metatarsal head meets the base of the phalanx, or the proximal phalanges."

To read up on the OPP and see the rest of the evidence Cliff has collected, follow this link.