May 2, 2026

The Truth About Sasquatch: Sightings, Traditions, and the DNA They're Hiding

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Most people approach Sasquatch as a question of belief. This episode treats it as a question of data. In this episode of Broadcasting Seeds, we dig into Sasquatch the truth — not the folklore, not the television version, but what the actual evidence shows when you look at it without flinching. That means 18,000-plus entries in the Bigfoot sightings database, mapped across geographic corridors that follow continental forest systems with behavioral signatures no misidentification theory fully explains. It means seven independent Indigenous traditions — predating European contact — that align geographically with every major modern sighting zone. And it means the Sasquatch DNA study Ketchum led for five years across eight institutions, with results confirmed by seven independent laboratories, that no mainstream journal would agree to peer review. We cover what the nuclear DNA actually showed. Why the Q30 scores directly counter the contamination argument. What happened when the sequences were submitted to GenBank. And why the system that's supposed to answer this question may be structurally designed to prevent the answer from ever arriving. This isn't a Sasquatch government coverup in the traditional sense. It's something quieter, and in some ways more troubling: an institution that declines to look, and then cites not having looked as its reason for disbelief. Bigfoot Native American legends, forensic DNA, behavioral data, migration corridors — it all points somewhere. Where it points is up to you.

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The standard response to all of this, extraordinary claims, require

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extraordinary evidence, assumes the system designed to evaluate extraordinary evidence

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is operating in good faith, and the GenBank story alone

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should make you question that assumption. A genetic sequence matching

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nothing in the known biological record was submitted to the

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world's official genetic database. The database refused to accept it

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because it was attributed to a species that doesn't officially

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recognize what that species isn't officially recognized, partly because the

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sequences aren't in the database. That's not science, folks. That's

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a door that locks from the inside.

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Broadcasts, broadcasts plant in the.

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Minds of the.

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All right, there's a forensic DNA study sitting in a

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published journal right now that says sasquatch is real. Not

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a blog, not a Reddit thread. A five year forensic

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DNA study, eight institutions, one hundred and eleven samples, three

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complete genomes, sequenced at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center,

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one of the most respected genomics facility in the country.

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The researchers couldn't get it peer reviewed, not because the

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data fell apart under scrutiny, because no mainstream journal would

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agree to review it. At all. So the lead researcher

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did something the scientific community has never forgiven her for.

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She purchased her own journal and published it herself, and

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then GenBank, in the world's official repository for all known

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genetic data, refused to accept the sequences the study produced.

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The reason the sequences didn't match anything in the entire

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recorded history of life on Earth. That's either institutional science

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protecting its credibility or institutional science for protecting something else entirely.

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And after spending serious time with this data, I can

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tell you the line between those two things is thinner

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then most people are comfortable admitting. Welcome to Broadcasting Seeds.

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I'm your host, Benettanton And before we go any further,

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and it matters more than you can know. Now back

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to this problem. Okay, by the end of this episode,

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you're going to understand three things. Three what the actual data,

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not the folklore, not the cable TV specials, but the

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raw numbers from an eighteen thousand reports citing database. It's

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not just one, but it's multiple actually. Point two. You're

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going to understand what the Ketchum DNA study found, why

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no one in mainstream science would peer review it, and

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why refusing to look at evidence isn't the same thing

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as disproving it. And you're going to understand why Native

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Americans and First Nations peoples across this continent never needed

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a scientific journal to confirm what they've documented for centuries,

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and why the zones where their oral traditions are the

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oldest are the exact zones with the highest number of

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sightings density. I'm naming the this episode. This is Sasquatch

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the truth, not the version that gets mocked off the internet,

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not campfire stories, right, the version that lives in the numbers.

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Here's the problem with how most people approach this topic.

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The mainstream dismissal runs on a single, seemingly airtight logic,

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no confirmed body, no proof, and for most people, that's

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the end of the conversation. Right, you either believe or

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you don't. The joke writes itself. Move on. But that

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binary doesn't. It does something dishonest. It flattens all the

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documented entries in bigfoot sightings, in databases and reports spanning

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every forested state and the continental United States, most of

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them from ordinary people with nothing to gain from this.

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It just reduces it into a punchline, and it erases

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dozens of independent indigenous traditions, dozens pre dating every European

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arrival on this continent that all described the same creature

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with the same behavioral markers in the same geographic regions

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where reported clusters are today. It glosses over the fact

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that the federal agencies managing the national forests in federal

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land where the highest siting densities on sit are the

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same agencies with the long institutional history of deciding certain

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questions aren't worth asking. And it completely varies the DNA

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study where the lead researcher, Frankly, a veterinarian and licensed

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forensic scientist, couldn't find a single peer reviewed journal willing

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to evaluate her findings, so the scientific community got to

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dismiss it on publication grounds without ever opening the data.

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Is that a Sasquatch government cover up, maybe not in

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the way people usually mean it, but an institution that

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won't look and then sites not having looked as it's

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reason for disbelief. That's its own kind of suppression, all right,

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And the mainstream keeps laughing. The data, the data hasn't

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gotten the memo. So let's look at what the data

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actually says. The data. If you pull up the Bigfoot

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Mapping Project right now, you can see and it's publicly

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available Bigfoot Mapping Project sixteen thousand plus entries, interactive map.

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The first thing that strikes you isn't the volume, right,

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it's the shape. The reports don't scatter randomly across the

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country the way a hoax or a mass delusion would.

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They cluster, I mean hard along specific geographic corridors that

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follow a consistent pattern old growth, forest cover, elevation, gradient,

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and proximity to permanent water sources. Washington State has seven

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and twenty four BFRO verified sidings. That's the Bigfoot Research

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Organization verified sidings, the highest to any state. It also

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works out to it's about nine point one two per

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one hundred thousand residents, the highest per capita rate in

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the country, but the raw number misses the more interesting detail.

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Those reports aren't evenly spread across Washington State. They're concentrated

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in a band running down the western slope of the Cascades,

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the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, the Olympic Peninsula, the Hoe

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and quint Whoa Wow quinault rainforest systems. There's some words

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in here, folks, that I'm going to have some trouble with,

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so I've tried to study them. But you'll see it's

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not just the Pacific Northwest. It's a specific corridor, a

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spine that runs south to north. It goes from Sorry

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north to south into northern California, the Six Rivers National Forests,

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the Hoopa Valley Watershed, the Trinity Alps. It runs north

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from there into British Columbia, into the Fraser Valley Valley,

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into the exact region where the word sasquatch actually originates from.

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Then there's a second concentration, entirely the Appalachian Chain, the

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Appalachian Mountains, unbroken forest running from Maine to Georgia, feeding

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into the Ohio River Valley, from where southeastern Ohio alone

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has roughly two hundred and eighty verified reports concentrated in

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the Appalachian foothills. I I'm not even talking about Pennsylvania

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at this point, but the Washata and Ozark systems in

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Arkansas and Oklahoma, separated from the Appalachian cluster by the

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Mississippi flood plane and down in Florida right where forty

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eight of sixty seven counties had documented sightings as far

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back as twenty ten and accounts in a written record

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stretch back to eighteen eighteen. When you step back from

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that map, what you're looking at is a distribution pattern

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that follows the continental forest systems almost exactly. Now, the

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skeptic's most credible argument is this, that pattern looks like

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black bear habitat, and absolutely it does. Josh Stevens, a

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PhD candidate from Penn State, ran a formal GIS analysis

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for more than thirty three hundred BFRO data points and

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found significant correlation with black bear range. His conclusion was

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that the whole phenomenon is likely explained by misidentification. I mean,

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it's a fair argument. It's also incomplete because black bears

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don't leave bipedal tracks with consistent five foot stride length

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or for hundreds of yards through soft substrate they don't

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produce footprints with dermal ridges the equivalent of fingerprints. Right

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that physical anthropologist Grover Krantz and fingerprint analysis Jimmy Childs,

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both identified are independently examined and concluded could not be

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faked with a carved wooden prop You'd need a flexible

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skin like surface with actual biological structure. And black bears

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don't show up in the behavioral data the way these

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reports do. Right, here's a detail that almost no one

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in the mainstream conversation is picked up. The Sasquatch Data

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Project and Independent Research Initiative with twenty nine hundred plus

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parsed reports, right terrestrial, amazing job, that's all I have

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to say to you, and one and eighty separate variables

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found that sightings cluster disproportionately around new moon phases, not

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full moon phases. Right, new moons, the darkest nights of

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the month. That's not a random scatter, Okay, it's a

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behavioral pattern consistent with a large, primarily nocturnal animal that

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has learned to minimize its visibility during active movement. You

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don't get that from misidentified identified black bear Blundering black

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bears blundering through the daylight. You don't get it from

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hoaxers picking the darkest nights of the month to run

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around in the woods in a suit. Okay, you get

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it from something that knows when it's dark. Tim Renners

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Weather enriched data set pushes this even farther, and he

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cross referenced five twenty one BFRO sighting data reports with

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actual meteorological data cloud cover, humidity, dew point, precipitation, wind

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speed UV index pulled from the Dark Sky API for

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each specific location and date. It's the only public data

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set in existence that links real environmental conditions to individual

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sighting events. What it reveals is quietly significant right sightings

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cluster on atmosphere conditions consistent with low light, low ambient light,

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and reduced human outdoor activity. Whatever this is, it appears

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to time. It's exposure. That's not folklore. That's a behavioral

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signature in a data set. And then there's the movement patterns.

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Every major database BFRO, the Bigfoot Mapping Project, the NAWAC

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independently points to the same four movement corridors, among others.

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Among others, these are I'm just concentrating on these four.

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The Pacific Spine running down the cascades, the Appellation Chain,

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the Washata Ozark arc and the Ripe Riparian networks, which

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the river Valley's functioning as lateral highways connecting these systems.

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The Columbia Snake and Willamette in the Pacific northwest, the

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Ohio and the can Can can ah Waha something like

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that in the east, the Arkansas and the Red Rivers.

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In the south central river valleys, ridgelines, forest spines, migration corridors.

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That there's a reasonable, even boring explanation for all this.

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Large mammals need food, water, and cover. Of course, reports

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cluster near rivers and forests. Of course, seasonal movement follows snowpack.

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That's just how animals work. But that explanation only holds

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if there's an animal to explain. The mainstream science says

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there isn't one. So either, eighteen thousand plus people across

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two centuries, across dozens of states, any of them hunters, loggers,

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law enforcement, law enforcement officers, doctors, lawyers, field workers who

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spend their lives in the woods, are all misidentifying or

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fabricating the same behavioral pattern in the same geographic corridors.

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Or something is moving through those corridors. And long before

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any database existed, long before a single researcher plotted a

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single GPS coordinate, the people who actually lived in those

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corridors had a name for what we were seeing. Section two,

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The Indigenous Record, And before there was a BFRO, before

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there was any databases. Before Jerry Crewe found those tracks

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in Bluff Creek in nineteen fifty eight and the wire

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services ran photos and the word bigfoot entered the American vocabulary,

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there were already thousands of years of documentation. It just

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wasn't the kind of documentation Western science knows how to process.

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All Right, So I'm talking about seven major indigenous traditions

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across North America describe a large, bipedal, hair covered creature

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living in the deep forest. Now, seven traditions that developed independently,

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separated by thousands of miles, with no shared cultural pipelines,

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no common origin point that would explain the overlap. Okay, Now,

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with that being said, there's something like forty plus indigenous

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tribes that all have a store worry about these things, sasquatch, bigfoot,

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things like it. I am covering these seven because they

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cover the areas that I had already brought up, right,

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So you've got the The Staalo peoples of British Columbia's

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Fraser Valley call it Sasquatch sas Shaholis right. The Lumini

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of northern coastal Washington call it I cannot even pronounce that, folks,

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And I'm sorry. I I've tried, but I just cannot.

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The Connault of the Olympic Peninsula is very similar to that,

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and I can't pronounce it either. So the Hooplah Valley

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the europe The Coraz people modern California call it Umah Boss,

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which means boss of the woods. The Cherokee of the

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Southern apple Lation call it chick Lee, and Coodlee of

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the Southern Appalachians call it that right. The Seminoles of

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Florida Wetlands carry accounts that pre day European settlement of

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this region. The Yakima, nez Turs, and Umatilla and Warm

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Springs people of the Columbia Plateau described the stick Indian

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and I can't say that either. But it's like the

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ish Istayaha, a creature associated with rivers and forest edges

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that causes psychological disorientation and those who encounter it, all right.

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So this is where the word sasquatch comes from. The

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word Sasquatch was born in the Columbia, British Columbias, Fraser

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Valley essentially, Okay, seven traditions, seven geographs, regions, and when

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you plot them against the modern sidings database, every single

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one aligns directly with the highest density. Again, there are

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over forty different tribes with bigfoot like creatures in their

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lower but I'm sticking with these for this video. Okay.

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Fraser Valley sits at the heart of the Pacific Spine Corridor.

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The Olympic Peninsula is one of the densest sighting zones

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in on the continent, and the Six Rivers Watershed in

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northern California is where the Patterson Ginlin film was shot. Now,

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I know there's none some recent stuff trying to discredit

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that film, but and I really haven't covered it, and

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I've kind of stayed out of it on purpose. But

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that is a whole other episode. Okay. Southeastern Ohio, Cherokee

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and Appalachian Territory is the of what researchers call the

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Grassman Concentration. The Florida Wetlands carried two hundred plus years

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of consistent accounts, distinctive enough that researchers treat the characteristic

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odor as a biological marker, and the Columbia Plateau Stick

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Indian territory sits directly over the re Parian corridor connecting

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the Pacific Spine to the interior Northwest. This is not

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a coincidence of geography. These peoples didn't place their traditions

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in these locations because it was convenient. They placed them

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there because that's where the encounters happened. Now here's the

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part that should make the skeptics uncomfortable. Period. The Stick

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Indian tradition, documented in the historical record as far back

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as the eighteen hundreds, doesn't just describe a large, hairy creature.

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It described specific behavior. The Stick Indian mimics sounds, particularly whistling.

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It causes witnesses to feel disoriented and confused, even paralyzed

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with unease. It steals fish from camps and river sites.

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And Reverend Algana Walker, a missionary working among the Spokane people,

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wrote about these accounts in his diary in eighteen thirty eight,

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nearly one hundred and twenty years before Jerry Crews tracks

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made national news and Bigfoot was born right, Those same

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behavioral details sound mimicry wood knocking, a feeling of being

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watched or psychologically detlized. You've got food taken from campsites.

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These all appear consistently in modern encounter reports across every

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major database. Think about that for a second. Okay, a

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behavioral description documented in missionary journals in eighteen thirty eight

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showing up in independently submitted field reports in twenty twenty four,

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twenty twenty five. Today. That's not cultural contamination. The people

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fillingfr BFRO reports out in Ohio or Arkansas aren't drawing

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from Spokane oral tradition. They're describing what they experienced, and

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what they experienced matches what the Yakima and Nespers and

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Warm Springs people describe two a missionary nearly two hundred

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years ago. The territory sits in the heart of Fraser Valley.

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This is the shless hotspot in Colombia British Columbia, and

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don't describe don't describe Sasquatch as an undiscovered animal. They

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describe it as a being that exists on the boundary

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between the physical world and the spiritual one, and it's

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capable of moving between both. They say that seeing a

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sasquatch means you are in the right place at the

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right time. It's not a threat, it's a signal. And

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for most Western listeners, that framing is easy to dismiss.

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Spiritual language around a creature that science says doesn't exist

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sounds like mythology, absolutely, But here's the thing about that dismissal.

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The same scientific establishment that would call the Shahelis worldview

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unscientific spent decades telling the public the UAP sidings were

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weather phenomenon and pilot confusion. It told us for years

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that doctors reporting opioid related patient harm were overstating the risk.

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The track record of institutional science on questions it doesn't

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want to engage in as clean is not as clean

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as its confidence suggests. Okay, and that's something else, the

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OPBE journalist covering Indigenous perspectives on this topic wrote in

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twenty twenty five, for many indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest,

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bigfoot is a living and powerful part of their identities

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that requires zero proof of existence. Zero proof of existence

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not because the evidence is weak, because the question itself

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prove it. Show me the body is the wrong freaking question.

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It's a Western scientific framework being imposed on a relationship

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that predates that framework by thousands of years. The Sahelis

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aren't waiting for a peer reviewed paper man, and neither

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are the Cherokee. Neither are the Iroquois. They've been living

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alongside this thing since before the concept of peer review

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freaking existed, Which brings us to the one researcher who

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actually tied the tried to produce that peer reviewed paper,

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who spent five years across eight institutions, analyzing a hundred

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and eleven samples, and found something that the entire scientific

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establishment decided, without reviewing, that it didn't want to know.

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Section three The DNA all right. Doctor Melbuketcham is a

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veterinarian and forensic scientist, not a hobbyist, not a podcaster

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with a theory like me, A licensed forensic scientist with

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decades of professional experience in DNA diagnostics running in acredited

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laboratory in Texas. She still to this day runs a

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accredited DNA laboratory in Texas. Now, when she began what

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would become a five year study into biological samples attributed

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to Sasquatch, she wasn't operating outside the bounds of science.

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She was applying standard forensic methodology to an unusual set

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of samples. What she found turned into one of the

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most controversial and most systematically avoided documents in the history

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of American science, in my opinion. The study involved eight

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institutions Texas A and M University, ut Southern Medical Center,

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the University of North Texas, New York University, Palo Paleo

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Labs in Ontario, and three additional research labs. AE hundred

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and eleven samples from thirty four collection sites across fourteen

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US states and two Canadian provinces. You had hair, you

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had blood, you had tissue, you had sliva five years

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of analysis. Let's start with the hair. The samples had

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shaft diameters measuring eighty to one hundred and ten micrometers.

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Human hair measures fifty five to one hundred micrometers, most

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primate hair measures fifty to eighty micrometers. These samples fell

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above the human range, stiffer, more wiry, and couldn't be

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matched to any species in the reference collection, not bear,

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not human, not any known animal anywhere on Earth. One

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tissue sample twenty six was sent to Texas A and M,

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and independently.

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To Hew.

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Hughley Pathology HU gu l e Y Pathology, both came

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back with the same finding. This tissue is not consistent

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with human skin if you were easter glands ekring glands,

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and then humans have and hair follicles clustered deeper than

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any known primate. The structural profile didn't match anything in

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their reference libraries. Then the DNA work began, and here

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is where the study gets genuinely strange. Folks. Ketchem's team

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ran mitochondrial DNA analysis on all one hundred and eleven samples.

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Mitochondrial DNA is inherited maternally, it traces the mother's lineage.

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Every single sample returned a fully human mitochondrial haplotype that

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all one hundred and eleven confirmed across seven independent laboratories

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with consistent results. Sixteen distinct human haplotypes identified predominantly East

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European and Middle Eastern in origin, with some African, American

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and Indian lineages present. No Ape sequence, no Neanderthal, No

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does Novan does Novian? Yes? The maternal line of these

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samples is completely unambiguitous, unambiguously modern human. Then they ran

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nuclear DNA analysis. Now nuclear DNA is the fall genome

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inherited from both parents across twenty Across all twenty four

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samples tested, every single one failed the human threshold. Human

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control samples on the sample aluminum platform consistently score about

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ninety nine above ninety The Ketchum samples scored between fifty

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three and eighty nine percent. And here's the detail that

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makes the contamination argument difficult to hold. The team deliberately

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degraded a known human DNA sample and ran it through

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the same process as a control. That sample purposely damaged

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human DNA still scored ninety seven point one five percent.

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The Ketchum samples didn't score lower because the material was degraded.

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They scored lower because part of the nuclear genome doesn't

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appear to be human. Multiple sequences from the nuclear analysis

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will run through BLAST, and that's the search tool that

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compares genetic sequencing against everything cataloged in gen Bank. They

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matched nothing, not in any species, not anywhere in the

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recorded genetic history of life on Earth. Now here's the

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specific sample that almost no one who covers the Sasquatch

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DNA study catchem conducted. Ever mentions sample blood recovered from

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inside a metal down spout attached to an exterior of

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a building. The pipe had been torn away with significant force.

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Fang marks on the metal bite marks in a arct pattern,

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with plaque and tartar residue left behind. Whatever made those

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bite marks through a metal pipe left biological material and

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walked away. Three of the one hundred and eleven samples

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were selected for full genome sequencing at ut Southwestern Medical

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Center using an illuminum high SECT two thousand. The raw

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output is more than ninety gigabases for genome at greater

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than thirty times coverage, well above the threshold for complete

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genomic analysis, and here is the number that directly dismantles

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the contamination argument. Sequencing quality is measured by Q thirty scores.

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Scores in the eighties or nineties indicate clean, high quality reads.

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Contaminated samples typically score between forty and fifty percent. The

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three catchem whole genome sequences scored eighty eight point six percent,

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eighty eight point four percent, and eighty eight point seven percent.

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These are excellent scores. Those are the scores of clean,

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uncontaminated sequencing. What the sequence is revealed was something the

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researchers described as mosaic human nuclear DNA interspersed with novel

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non human primate sequence. The phylogenetic tree showed primate relationships

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consisting with the known family chimpanzee, the macaque, gibbon, marmoset

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and lemur, and Homo sapiens, but threaded through the human

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sequence were stretches of genetic material that don't belong to

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any of them, and Ketchum's team proposed a species name

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Homo Sapiens cognatus, formally registered in Zoo Bank, the International

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Zoological Nomenclature Registry, with a legal identification number. The name

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exists in the scientific record, the registration is valid. That

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conclusion stated plainly in the paper. The data conclusively proves

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that the sasquatch exists as an extant hominin and are

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a direct maternal descendant of modern humans. Then they tried

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to publish. Mainstream journals declined not after peer review, nope,

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before it, but before it, no institution would agree to

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evaluate the findings. And after years of rejections, catch them

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