Monster Quest - BIGFOOT (Conclusion)

So here is what happened after the scientists got to Snelgrove Lake.

First the insurance footage was looked at by a Wildlife Biologist that specializes in Black Bear research. He commented on "How thorough the damage was done to the cabin." A lot of heavy things were broken up and threwn on to the floor. The most interesting, being the refrigerator. "When a bear is attacking a refrigerator, it's not so much the contents they are going after, but the insulation." A refrigerator's insulation is made with a chemical similar to formaldehyde, and when that breaks down it smells like an ant colony. What's interesting about this footage is that there appears to be no bite or claw marks ,of any kind, on the entire refrigerator."

A local Crpytozologist specializing in Bigfoot research claims that there are around 450-500 reports a year on Bigfoot sightings just in the U.S. Alone.

A Biologist that tagged a long for research commented, "Seeing as Canada has the largest unexplored bush in all the world, if Bigfoot was real, Canada would be the best hiding spot." An Anthropologist that came along for the studies commented that "There are very few trails and pathways in the woods, showing very little of human feet have touched these lands."

Two years ago the owner of the cabin, fed up with the attacks on the camp, set up a board embedded with tons of screws and set it up in front of the door to the cabin. When he came back to the cabin to check on it, the board had a huge bloody footprint and some hair on it. And that is what the scientists are here to collect. The scientists collected hair, blood, and tissue to be sent back with them to the lab. They measured the foot size to be between 17 to 18" long. A black bear's foot print max's out at about 9". Polar and Kodiak bear max out at about 14 to 15", However these bears are much more West and North of Snelgrove Lake.

Upon staying at the camp they set up cameras all around the cabin and one of them even spent a night alone in the woods a few miles away. Pretty silent except for the last night. The scientists attempted wood and rock knocking and got no response. That is, until Midnight. A nice size rock came spewing out of the woods at them. One of the camera crew grabbed it and pitched it back at the woods. Not even 10 seconds later an even larger rock came flying back and landed on top of the cabin. The whole crew and scientists were freaked out enough to pile into the cabin while listening/looking out the windows for any visual signs of Bigfoot. This was very fun to watch and I felt anxious during the entire nighttime visit. (Like I was watching the Blair Witch for the first time.) After awhile the noises and rock throwing subsided. And the crew retired for the night.

The next morning the scientists found one of the rocks on top of the cabin roof. They collected it and traveled back to America to analyze any DNA that may be present on both the rock and from what they collected from the nail board.

First of all they did have problems collecting DNA because the galvanizing on the screws mixed in with the DNA and inhibited the scientist from extracting any. So they figured out how to cancel that out and amplify the DNA to get a solid piece to analyze. The results were jaw dropping.

The DNA extracted from the Snelgrove lake nail board was "Identical to Human DNA, except it had one nucleotide polymorphism." (Human's and Great Apes share nearly identical DNA . In fact we share 388 base pairs and what sets us apart is just 35 differences. "The Snelgrove Lake DNA only had 1 Difference! That one nucleotide, that one difference, was shared with PRIMATE DNA!" The DNA says primate, but not quite Human and NOT quite Non-Human. The Scientist commented that "This DNA has a 1/5000 chance that it's Human."

Holy Crap! If there is another species we haven't found yet, this is the closest we've come to in a long time. Or perhaps it's just the Missing Link we've been searching for so long!