Bigfoot Encounters
Researchers use DNA to test Bigfoot storyCOLUMBUS, Ohio -- Scientists are using genetic testing to test a wild theory: that Bigfoot actually exists. Ohio State University researchers are using DNA analysis on a few tufts of hair found in a Pacific Northwest forest where three men, including two former forest rangers, spotted a group of 3 "Bigfoot" about 100 feet away in the dark.
The testing should determine if the hair came from a human or another known primate. No Bigfoot has ever been killed or captured, and no carcass or bones have ever been found.
Copyright CNN News Briefs, November 6, 1995
Update: In 2000, the hair was analyzed and determined to be primate, but from an unknown primate. It was not an identical match to any known living human or non-human primate classified so far...
Back to Bigfoot Encounters Main page
Back to Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Back to Bigfoot Encounters "What's New" page