In very serious news, researchers claim to
have used genetic testing to verify Bigfoot's existence, and he might be in
Rhode Island.
A team of researchers led by Melba Ketchum, a
Texas veterinarian, claims to have used DNA samples to prove the existence of
Bigfoot, reports the Huffington Post. On the team’s Sasquatch Genome Project’s website, it claims the genetic testing also
confirmed the hairy beast is half-human, the result of a human mating with an
unknown primate about 13,000 years ago.
Mainstream science journals rejected the research.
Instead, the group self-published the first volume on an online science journal DeNovo Journal of Science last week.
“Rather than spend another five years just
trying to find a journal to publish and hoping that decent, open-minded
reviewers would be chosen, we acquired the rights to this journal and renamed
it so we would not lose the passing peer reviews that are expected by the
public and the scientific community,” Ketchum said.
Another paranormal research team claims to have recorded
evidence of sasquatches roaming the forests around Exeter, West Greenwich and
Cumberland.
Although mainstream scientists did not embrace
the team’s research, there is a thriving community of people who believe
Bigfoot is more than a mythological beast. According to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, there are more reports of Bigfoot sightings
right here in Rhode Island.
In 2010, a motorist claimed he was spooked by
an unidentified animal that ran quickly across Route 6 on two legs which then
hopped over the guardrail. In 2006, another witness claimed to have seen a woven stick structure in a South Kingstown forest.
Bigfoot investigators say such structures are
thought to be created by the mammal. A biker reported he spotted Bigfoot
in Glendale during the day in 1998.
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