‘BIGFOOT’ DNA SEQUENCED IN UPCOMING GENETICS STUDY

Five-Year Genome Study Yields Evidence of Homo sapiens/Unknown Hominin Hybrid Species in North America

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DALLAS, Nov. 24--A team of scientists can verify that their 5-year long DNA study, currently under peer-review, confirms the existence of a novel hominin hybrid species, commonly called “Bigfoot” or “Sasquatch,” living in North America. Researchers’ extensive DNA sequencing suggests that the legendary Sasquatch is a human relative that arose approximately 15,000 years ago as a hybrid cross of modern Homo sapiens with an unknown primate species.

The study was conducted by a team of experts in genetics, forensics, imaging and pathology, led by Dr. Melba S. Ketchum of Nacogdoches, TX. In response to recent interest in the study, Dr. Ketchum can confirm that her team has sequenced 3 complete Sasquatch nuclear genomes and determined the species is a human hybrid:

“Our study has sequenced 20 whole mitochondrial genomes and utilized next generation sequencing to obtain 3 whole nuclear genomes from purported Sasquatch samples. The genome sequencing shows that Sasquatch mtDNA is identical to modern Homo sapiens, but Sasquatch nuDNA is a novel, unknown hominin related to Homo sapiens and other primate species. Our data indicate that the North American Sasquatch is a hybrid species, the result of males of an unknown hominin species crossing with female Homo sapiens.

Hominins are members of the taxonomic grouping Hominini, which includes all members of the genus Homo. Genetic testing has already ruled out Homo neanderthalis and the Denisova hominin as contributors to Sasquatch mtDNA or nuDNA. “The male progenitor that contributed the unknown sequence to this hybrid is unique as its DNA is more distantly removed from humans than other recently discovered hominins like the Denisovan individual,” explains Ketchum.

“Sasquatch nuclear DNA is incredibly novel and not at all what we had expected. While it has human nuclear DNA within its genome, there are also distinctly non-human, non-archaic hominin, and non-ape sequences. We describe it as a mosaic of human and novel non-human sequence. Further study is needed and is ongoing to better characterize and understand Sasquatch nuclear DNA.”

Ketchum is a veterinarian whose professional experience includes 27 years of research in genetics, including forensics. Early in her career she also practiced veterinary medicine, and she has previously been published as a participant in mapping the equine genome. She began testing the DNA of purported Sasquatch hair samples 5 years ago.

Ketchum calls on public officials and law enforcement to immediately recognize the Sasquatch as an indigenous people:

“Genetically, the Sasquatch are a human hybrid with unambiguously modern human maternal ancestry. Government at all levels must recognize them as an indigenous people and immediately protect their human and Constitutional rights against those who would see in their physical and cultural differences a ‘license’ to hunt, trap, or kill them.”

Full details of the study will be presented in the near future when the study manuscript publishes.

In my last blog, I talked about a family who for 5 years that had BigFoot related activities at their home.  There is no doubt with this family that BigFoot is real and living in our woods and forests.

Now I will tell you one that is from my family.  I just heard about it this last weekend.  My son told this to me.  This happened when he was 16 years old about 12 years ago.

One weekend, my son and husband went camping with some men and their sons in the mountains.  It was on the side of a mountain and very remote.  My son and a friend went hiking and got lost.  Just before it was dark they noticed something was watching them.  Then they watched it leave.  My son said it was very big, black and on 2 legs.  I asked him if it was a person or bear.  He was adamant that it was neither.  He said all he could say that it was big, very big, black and walked away on 2 legs.  He has no idea what it was but knew it wasn't a person or bear.

My son has no interest in BigFoot.  The way he described his sighting left me in no doubt that he saw one and did not realized it.  Some people have all the luck!

This sighting to me is more compelling that all the ones I have read or been told.  The reason is that I know my son.  He has no reason for making this up.  He knows wildlife and would tell me if he thought it may have been a bear or a person.

I have talked a little about this next sighting before but not much of the details.  This was a sighting that was given personally to me.  This happened in the 1990's.  The family lived in a neighborhood that backs to a National Forest here in Colorado.  The house was by a ravine and stream.  No window coverings at all.  Events that they suspect were BigFoot related went on for about 5 years.  I have listed a few of them for you:

• One time they were watching t.v. and something slapped the side of the house where they were sitting.  There was a window behind them that also faced the t.v.  It was not a branch or rock.  It sounded like a hand hit the side of the house very hard.
• At certain times the 2 dogs would always go into their doghouses and refused to come out until the next morning.  They cowered and whimpered.  When they see the dogs do this they knew BigFoot was coming.  These 2 dogs barked at everything including bear and other wildlife that would come onto the property.
• They would hear yells from deep within the forest in late afternoon and knew they would have visitors that evening.
• One night the father thought BigFoot was outside his son's bedroom window because his son said so.  He quickly grabbed a flashlight.  He shined it out the window and saw a dark hairy shape he was sure was BigFoot.  The description he gave me have the characteristics of a BigFoot.  He was quite certain it was not a bear.
• The daughter was nervous and did not like to go outside to feed the dogs at night when she was alone and no one else home.  She felt like something was watching her.

This family had experienced this and other incidents for 5 years.  They have no doubt what it was.  They have seen bears and mountain lions during this time at their home.  So they knew the difference.  They are quite adamant of what they saw, heard and experienced.  This is an educated white collar family.  They have no doubt about the existence of BigFoot.

It is sightings such as this one that have made me believe there is something out there in our woods and forests.  That something is a bipedal primate.  What I call BigFoot or Sasquatch.

I had come across an article about a sighting an American Native couple from Canada reported.  It was very interesting about how this couple reacted when a BigFoot was approaching them while they were in a horse drawn wagon with children in the back.  The man calmly stopped the wagon and had the woman and children lay down in the back of the wagon.  He hid them by covering them with a blanket and then called out to the BigFoot.  He then slowly turned his wagon around and left.  He said he was taught to hide the women and children from the presence of BigFoot and to call out his intentions.  This was during the day.

I also came across some other BigFoot stories that Native Americans from Canada talked about.  What was interesting about 2 of the stories were the reference to two types of BigFoot.  The first one they talked about was the one that was hairy and bigger than a man.  The second one was shorter but with a tail.  ???  This is the only time I have heard about this type of BigFoot. 

These stories and articles were talked about as they would about bears, deer and coyote.  There was never a doubt to the reality of these BigFoot.

It makes you wonder.