“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. The data conclusively proves that the Sasquatch exist as an extant hominin and are a direct maternal descendent of modern humans.” – The Sasquatch Genome Project, 2013
You may have heard of the Sasquatch Genome Project. It launched in 2010 and faceplanted by 2013. Their attempt to contort science to their will failed to demonstrate anything valid. Believe it or not, the issue still lingers today on social media. Some people cling to the belief there is a conspiracy to stifle Bigfoot truth.
To that I say, those people need to find a better hobby and so do I. This issue should be dead but never seems to go away
The SGP wouldn’t be worth noting at all except it’s the only Bigfoot genomic effort to date that has been sufficiently financed. Had there been actual genetic evidence and a higher caliber of scientist involved, it could have been interesting.
Here’s the big problem with Bigfoot genetics: there is no biological evidence of Bigfoot. If there has ever been biological substances worth testing then it has not survived the delicate process of forensic collection. Any alleged samples that have not been preserved properly to the extent that it is reliable ends up as a complete misfire as far as analysis of results.
DNA degrades very fast without excellent timing and proper handling. The samples that end up being tested are generally too fragmented. DNA is essentially a lot of sequences. When there are disruptions in those sequences, due to degradation or contamination, the test results default to the closest known taxonomy or to nothing at all, depending on the primer that is used to test with.
When alleged Bigfoot DNA reaches a lab, it usually does not even get tested by a geneticist. It’s usually a forensic scientist because that’s who’s available and willing to do the testing and of course get paid for it. In all cases, DNA testing of alleged Bigfoot organic substances has demonstrated a vast chasm in knowledge between geneticists and forensic scientists.
A Sasquatch Genome is not Human
“The paper was intended to prove there was something novel out there that was basically Homo, and the mitochondrial DNA placed it clearly in Homo.”1 – Melba Ketchum, lead scientist of the Sasquatch Genome Project
Tom Prychitko, a molecular biologist, was the only person involved in the SGP with an academic background in genetics. He expressed amazement that a badly fragmented hair he tested came back with human results.2 I’m amazed that someone with a PhD in a biology discipline didn’t realize that genetic samples of any kind that have been sitting around a while are next to worthless. Bigfoot hairs are especially worthless due to lack of genetic material.
If you test with human primers then bioinformatically, the test results will logically default to the closest taxonomic match which will be human.
An even bigger challenge is matching any results to other alleged Bigfoot samples to “definitively prove” anything. There are precisely zero sequential Bigfoot DNA matches of any samples anywhere, degraded or not.
That is the truth, despite the hard feelings and naysaying from people who think there is a different truth deliberately hidden from them.
See Marcus Daily’s SubStack for more. There is also a chapter in Hacking Bigfoot devoted to the debunk, posted as part of an audiobook.