Sasquatch and Science

Is it possible for the field of bigfoot study and inquiry to ever get picked up and recognized  by science?

In what may be the most recent widely publicized story pertaining to the ongoing saga of the Sasquatch, a series of FBI files detailing the analysis of hair samples once thought to have belonged to the legendary Sasquatch raised concerns among some members of the Sasquatch research community.

“Skeptics love it,” said Idaho State University professor Jeffrey Meldrum, Ph.D., in a statement to Idaho Press on Friday. Meldrum, referencing the hair samples featured in the grainy black and white files released by the Bureau, further noted that it was apparent that “it’s not primate hair”, and that “on the basis of that photo alone that it was almost certainly [from the deer family].”

Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology, is a leading proponent for the physical existence of Sasquatch and worries that stories in the popular press about the FBI’s study could do more harm than good.

“[I]t diverts attention away from the more compelling evidence,” Meldrum said, citing evidence in the form of footprint castings, recordings of purported Sasquatch calls or vocalizations, and controversial photographic evidence that includes the famous 16 mm film made by Roger Patterson in Bluff Creek, California, in 1967.

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