Does the Freeman Bigfoot video show an infant?

The Freeman Bigfoot video is considered the second most important video in Bigfoot history. It shows a large, upright, hairy creature walking with deliberate, heavy steps. There are many that believe this may indeed be a Bigfoot. The resolution was about the best you will get from 1994 technology.

Paul Freeman was a watershed employee in the Pacific Northwest who had found a series of footprints that he casted. He sort of became famous and once appeared on Good Morning America showing off some of his cast. It was on this show that he admitted he had faked some of them.

Dr. Meldrun has the largest collection of Sasquatch footprints in the world. Some of his castings are from Paul Freeman. Dr. Meldrun believes you should not throw the baby out with the bathwater because some of them may indeed be the real deal.

The strangest thing of all of this is the film may show the Bigfoot picking up an infant at the end of it. Would this be a detail that a hoaxer would add in? I don't think so. Why bother when you don't even know if anyone will see the film anyway.

There is something about the Freeman film that I cannot dismiss out of hand.

Today's Bigfoot Hunters And Science

Searching for bigfoot has always been considered a pseudo science. It has been relegated to the level of UFO, Locke Ness Monster, ghost and so forth. All of that is changing now. With the advent of digital technology and the new media, bigfoot research is entering the mainstream. That was not without a long series of decades which steadily yielded trace evidence to keep the interest alive. Today, real scientist are getting involved.

A generation ago grew up watching the Leonard Nimoy narrated tv show In Search Of that created interest in all things unknown, but ingrained cryptozoology into the realm of speculation and mystery for the general masses. It was viewed as entertainment but not much more.

Bigfoot research had never had the following of mainstream science. That is not surprising; science deals in what can be measured, studied, observed and tested - none of that can be done with bigfoot evidence. At least until recently. That is because of who is involved. 1968 was the pivital year.

Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin are known for the 16 mm footage the obtained of a female sasquatch in northern California (a film that to this day has never been debunked), but they also acquired evidence that is just as strong. They were able to cast numerous footprint found in areas were there was a rash of sightings. With a continuation of prints being found over the decades, these things cannot continue to be ignored.

In the decades since the Patterson Film there is now a growing body of 'evidence' that has made many in the scientific and academic community begin to take notice. When you consider the number of footprint cast and audio of strange behavior such as tree knocking and howls that cannot be attributed to any known animal, no wonder bigfootery is now becoming more recognized.

Fortunately (perhaps because of the fame possible in the new media) some scientist have entered the fray in the search for the North American Sasquatch. Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Estaban Sarmiento added their expertise in zoology and primatology. They do this at great risk. Without following the proper procedures of scientific methodology, they may be considered scientific heretics. That judgment is for future scientist to consider.

Digital technology has allowed the 'hobbyist' to get into the game. I mean now that trackers and woodsman with no formal academic training in biology, zoology and so forth, can be at the front line and often get way ahead of those that do not go into the field. It is in the field were the real discover will be made. Yes, studying dermal ridges has its place but is in the outdoors were this thing will finally be found. Sasquatch will not just walk into a University lab and introduce himself.

DNA Evidence Of Bigfoot From Canada Monsterquest Episode

I was watching an old Monsterquest from 2007 the other night on the Monsterquest Marathon. There was an episode titled "Sasquatch Attack." It was about a group of Bigfoot researchers that went to a cabin on a remote lake in northern Canada that had be the location for some strange going ons.

A couple years ago the cabin had been the scene of a rock throwing episode in which campers spent a frightened night as rocks pulverized the roof. Monsterquest personal went on top of the cabin and found many rocks laying on top. Since the cabin is not below a cliff or mountain range, where did the rocks come from?

Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Dr. Estaban Sarmiento went on the six night expedition to gathers and analyze clues. An incident that was downplayed was a trap they had set out which was a bed of nails.

They placed a board with nails sticking out near the back door. In the morning there was blood and tissue samples. To make a long story short, it was analyzed in a laboratory and found to be 99 percent primate. The DNA was close to human but no cigar.

I call that proof.

Jeff Meldrum And Bigfoot Evidence From YouTube Guys

I believe that the best approach to bigfoot research is to keep doing what the YouTubers are doing already. Going out into the field and chronicling our adventures, and self-policing what we do with high-tech analysis. It is time, however, to take it to a different level.

There is a real opportunity to gather DNA evidence without a dead body in a laboratory. Let me explain. In the field, we come across hair and feces (eventually you will). These samples should be gathered and analyzed. I have to admit, unless you know someone at a University Lab, that is going to be a little difficult. That is why the visual is so important.

Just look at recent developments.

In the past few days Dr. Estaban Srmiento and Dr. Jeff Meldrum have been the guest on two Blogtalk radio shows hosted by Youtube bigfooters. That is extraordinary. They know that the searching we are doing may very well uncover DNA without the actual capture of the beast. With DNA we would know more about the animal. Right now, we don't know enough about their societal structure to guess their next moves. We must be doing something right to be taken so seriously by these eminent scientist that have been featured on MONSTER QUEST.

From Jeff Meldrum's "Sasquatch - Where Legend Meets Science" Chapter 15, Splitting Hairs and Molecules: DNA and Physical Evidence.

"Precise hair identification - trichinology - is a challenging process requiring
an extensive reference collection with which to compare the unknown sample.
There can be considerable individual variation in hair length, color, texture,
and stage of growth within a species, as well as variation between different
regions on the body of a single individual animal. Arriving at a conclusive
identification can be a labor-intensive process requiring exhaustive comparisons
with known standards.

In the past there have been several independent
analyses of hair attributed to sasquatch, more often than not conducted at the
request of an amateur investigator. Usually, the hairs were readily identified
as belonging to a commonly known animal such as bear, coyote, or human. However,
some hair samples were of indeterminate identity. While an indeterminate
identification of an alleged "sasquatch hair" is interpreted by some as
indication of an unknown animal, it is more conservatively regarded by others as
the lack of a comprehensive collection of hair samples from known species of
animals with which to compare the strand in question. Indeed this would be the
only reasonable outcome for hair that might in fact have come from a sasquatch.
All that could be concluded is what species the hair did not appear to belong
to. Conclusive identification depends on a match to a known sample of hair,
i.e., an established standard. Without a confirmed sample of sasquatch hair, any
hair truly originating from a sasquatch would necessarily languish in the
indeterminate category. Such a standard is unlikely to be acknowledged until
hair is pulled directly from a sasquatch body by a qualified analyst."