POCATELLO, Idaho (Nov. 4) - Jeffrey Meldrum holds a Ph.D. in anatomical sciences and is a tenured professor of anatomy at Idaho State University. He is also one of the world's foremost authorities on Bigfoot, the mythical smelly ape-man of the Northwest woods. And Meldrum firmly believes the lumbering, shaggy brute exists.
That makes him an outcast -- a solitary, Sasquatch-like figure himself -- on the 12,700-student campus, where many scientists are embarrassed by what they call Meldrum's "pseudo-academic" pursuits and have called on the university to review his work with an eye toward revoking his tenure. One physics professor, D.P. Wells, wonders whether Meldrum plans to research Santa Claus, too.
Meldrum, 48, spends most of his days in his laboratory in the Life Sciences Building, analyzing more than 200 jumbo plaster casts of what he contends are Bigfoot footprints.
For the past 10 years, he has added his scholarly sounding research to a field full of sham videos and supermarket tabloid exposes. And he is convinced he has produced a body of evidence that proves there is a Bigfoot.
2006-11-04
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The late Dr. Grover Krantz of Washington State University went through a similar situation. Dr. Krantz authored several books on the subject and spoke now and then in public forums on the likelihood of Bigfoot's existence.
Krantz, like Meldrum, was a very intelligent man and was fully aware of the consequences his so called pseudo-academic pursuits would bring.
Personally, I didn't have an issue with Dr. Krantz and found him to be an interesting professor of the highest caliber, but the stigma of his crypto-zoological studies did seem cause him grief from time to time.
2006-11-06 15:09:15
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answered by exnavykds 4
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Wow, I know of several other scientists that were treated the same way by their peers, too. Let's see, there was Galelaio, Copernicous, Issac Newton, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Benjamin Franklin, Pythagoras, Leonardo DaVinci, Alexander Grahm Bell, Elija Gray, Charles Darwin and Christopher Columbus just off the top of my head. So I'd say that the good professor is in excellent company..
When the exitence of this intelligent primate is finally proven, the scoffers will all look like idiots.
Of course Big Foot exists.
Peace!
2006-11-04 12:03:11
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answered by Tom I 2
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it is funny that you asked this question. I have been doing a study on BigFoot, or Sasquatch as some call him. Me. I like to call him Bill, just my own prefrence.
Anyway, BigFoot does exist in todays forrest areas and has been seen several times. Remember back the infamous video of BigFoot walking in the forrest...well heres the Bombshell..tha was not the forrest that was the was the "Grassy Knoll" in the Dallas area.
Yes Bigfoot shot JFK!!!!! He was jeslouse that JFK was getting more attention than him. So he formulated a plan to sek revenge and take back his fame.
Bigfoot stolea hunter gun after beating him up, and went towards Texas, he was on a Mission.
Bigfoot as we all know completed his Mission. therefor thus proof he exist.
2006-11-04 07:32:00
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answered by jl_353 2
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I take care of bigfoot myself! I feed him apricots and He's right here in Hawaii. Maybe I can hook up a camera, shoot some pictures (I'm still fooling with that), etc, etc.
Seriously, he's been around for awhile, hasn't he? That must make him one whatever of an old man. If he did exist, how do you suppose he came to being? Can you get something by crossing a human with a bear? I often wondered the possibilities of that, and how far that goes.....
Or maybe he's a feral human wearing a bear's skin...
2006-11-07 08:27:20
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answered by Tet 4
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Yes. i think that Bigfoot is a remnent of prehistoric Homonids living ion the Northwest. By the way there is a similar critter in the deep south called " skunk ape"
2006-11-04 06:55:02
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answered by georgeewert 1
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Wouldn't there have to be a whole herd of bigfeets so that they can reproduce? I mean, scientists have been looking for bigfoot for like, the past 80 years or so. Bigfoot would have to be 100 by now, unless there is more than one.
2006-11-04 06:43:51
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answered by badkitty1969 7
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2016-10-21 06:28:41
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answered by ? 4
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I believe it either did or still does exist today. Where would all these ancient legends of yetis and Sasquatches come from?
2006-11-04 06:45:06
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answered by Sleep deprived 4
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honestly i dont see the big deal in beleiving in big foot? like why is it so hard to belive that a big ape survived?
2006-11-04 06:42:48
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answered by Anonymous
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yes, it chased down my mom and uncle when they were out hunting in Sweetwater, Tx.
2006-11-04 08:45:16
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answered by LennyWenny 2
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