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Skookum cast

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The Skookum cast is a plaster cast often claimed to be an imprint of the body of Bigfoot, although it is more typically regarded as that of an elk.
 

The cast was taken on September 22, 2000, during a Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) expedition to the Skookum Meadows area of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington state, during filming of the now-cancelled Animal-X television show.

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The cast, which measures 3.5 by 5 feet (1.1 m × 1.5 m) and weighs approximately 400 pounds (180 kg), is of a partial body imprint left in roadside mud. Impressions of hair are evident on the cast. The body dimensions of the cast are reportedly 40 to 50 percent larger than that of a six-foot tall human. On the same expedition of the BFRO there was evidence of 17 inch footprints that may have belonged to a Sasquatch as well. Many individuals, including the co-founder of the BFRO, Ron Schaffner, recognized several anatomical features that led them to conclude it was made by a resting elk. The cast apparently reveals landmarks that can be recognized as the hindlegs, hip, chest, and wrists of a reclining elk. Cleaning the cast revealed finer details, including "extensive impressions of hair on the buttock and thigh surfaces", and what appears to be longer hair along the forearm. Alternatively, it has been said by some Bigfoot enthusiasts to show the imprint of a forearm, hip, thigh, heel and ankle, and Achilles tendon of a reclining Sasquatch. Impressions of hair are evident on the buttocks and thigh surfaces of the cast, as well as much longer fringes of hair on the forearm region. Dermal ridges appear on the heel, with many of the same characteristics consistently found on other purported Sasquatch samples. Dermal ridges have been alleged to occur on a "heel," but these have been interpreted as hair impressions from the wrist of an elk. A number of elk hoof imprints and coyote paw prints are also present.

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Elk and bear hair was found in the cast. Henner Fahrenbach, a retired biomedical researcher from Beaverton, Oregon, analyzed some hairs and claims to have identified a single specimen, which he believes belongs to a Sasquatch, although he admits this identification is very tentative and impossible to test.

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There are multiple interpretations as to what the cast represents. Impressions of the elk's wrists were studied by anthropologist Jeffrey Meldrum of Idaho State University, and his interpretation of their anatomy matches his hypothetical models of a Sasquatch foot. Others  note a much stronger similarity between the imprints and an elk's wrist and metacarpal impression. This perspective received support through the lack of "Bigfoot footprints" in the immediate vicinity.

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The cast has been examined by several Sasquatch enthusiasts, including journalist John Willison Green, John Bindernagel, and Meldrum, who believe the cast to be authentic, and solid evidence of the existence of Sasquatch. Anthropologist Grover Krantz has gone on record as saying that he had no idea what the cast represented. Ron Schaffner, the co-founder of the BFRO, and others within the group, recognized several unique characteristics of an ungulate lie, indicating to them the imprint was made by an elk.

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On March 3, 2001, Marc Hume wrote an article for the National Post of Canada in which he recognized the clear tracks of an elk and described: "imprints left that would match perfectly with an elk's legs." In his opinion, the cast was "if anything, a cast of the impression made by the hindquarters of an elk.

We are not saying one way or the other as to what this cast shows. That will be left to more scientific minds, how ever there is apparently good arguments either way as to what this cast shows and we will leave it up to you to have a good look at it and decide for yourselves.

Possible Structures

Here is something we found that caught our attention. We put it here to give you something to think about. Let us know what you think or if you have seen something that could be one.

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These are all possible Bigfoot structures that have been found. If you have something you would like us to look at feel free to send it to us and we will definitely take a look for you!!! 

Possible Burials
Bigfoot Burials and Graveyards
 

Here is something we found that caught our attention. We put it here to give you something to think about. Let us know what you think or if you have seen something that could be one.
 

Date unknown, modern era: Northern California. A witness saw four Bigfoots carrying bones. The longest bone was up to four feet long. Reported by Ray Crowe.
 

​Date unknown, modern era: Pacific Northwest. A man witnessed three Bigfoots digging a hole with their hands to bury a fourth Bigfoot. Afterward, they rolled rocks on the grave. Reported by Roger Patterson.
 

​Date unknown, modern era: Starkey, Oregon. In the Blue Mountains, Sue Sebring found unusual cobble piles in the forest. Possible Bigfoot graveyard. Reported by Ray Crowe.
 

​Date unknown, modern era: Alder Creek, Sandy, Oregon. East of Portland, Peter Byrne noted an unusual mound of earth along the creek. Reported by Ray Crowe.
 

1949: Pacific Northwest. A man reported seeing three Bigfoots, two older males and a female, laying a dead young female Bigfoot out on top of a rock on a mountain peak. This is probably the simplest Bigfoot burial, similar to the sky burials of ancient humans. John Green did not believe the story, but looking at other reports, it seems reasonable. Reported by John Green.
 

​1962-1967: Northern Washington state. A man witnessed three Bigfoots burying a fourth one. Reported by Peter Byrne.
 

​After 1972: Klamath Agency, Oregon. A bulldozer driver was building a road in the forest. He ran the road through an area of large stones in a circle 20 feet in diameter, with smaller stones in the middle. The next day, he would come back and all of the stones were replaced in their original positions after he had bulldozed them away. This went on for some time, and eventually, he built the road around the area. Possible Bigfoot burial site. Reported by Vic McDaniel.
 

​Before 1975: Location unknown, probably Pacific Northwest. Three Bigfoots were witnessed digging a hole with their hands to bury a fourth Bigfoot. When the hole was filled in, huge boulders were rolled over the site. Reported by Glen Thomas.
 

​1985: Calapooia River, Oregon. In the Oregon Coast Range, Gold miners found a 50 foot wide area where the tops of all trees had been broken off around the perimeter. In the clearing, there was a deer carcass and two piles of smooth, five inch cobblestones, about 2.5 feet high, separated by 20 feet. The previous night, the miners had been frightened by strange screams and the sounds of breaking trees. They never went back to excavate the area. Possible Bigfoot burial site. Reported by Ray Crowe.
 

​1989: McMinnville, Starkey, Oregon. Scott White found strange piles of rocks in a clearing with smashed trees. Possible Bigfoot burial site. Reported by Ray Crowe.
 

​1990: Estacada, Oregon. East of Portland, a hunter found a dead baby Bigfoot ten feet up in a tree. He reported that it was just a small, furry little thing. He was interested in the tree in the first place due to large scat piles all around it. The dead Bigfoot was buried in the boughs of an evergreen and was covered with covered with other boughs.
 

​The hunter thought that the scat piles were from the mother Bigfoot who had been sitting under the tree mourning the death of her baby. This could be called an “Indian style burial,” as Indians in the Pacific Northwest used to bury their dead up in trees, albeit in caskets.
 

​The hunter called Portland State University and told them he had found a dead baby Bigfoot. They laughed at him and told him that they were not interested in looking at it. After all, Bigfoots don’t exist. The man stuck the baby Bigfoot in his deep freeze, and that’s the last we’ve heard of it. Reported by Ray Nab.
 

​Summer 1992: Estacada, Oregon, near Bagby Hot Springs. A philosophy teacher saw two Bigfoots, either a male and female or two females. There were two young, auburn colored Bigfoots with them. They were in a riverbed, burying another Bigfoot under a pile of stones. They had not dug a hole; they were just burying it with rocks. He stated that the Bigfoots were acting “sad.” The site was rechecked by an investigator one year later, but flooding had washed the stones away, and the site could not be rediscovered. Reported by Ray Crowe.

​We see over and over here reports of 3-4 Bigfoots participating in the burial of another, as if it is some kind of a ceremony.
 

​After 1995: Whidbey Island, Washington. Rhett Mullis found large mounds on this island in Puget Sound where there is no history of Indian residence. A large pit had been dug out but had not yet been used. There was a “hallway” along a well-used trail and scat was scattered around. The mounds were covered with large hand-sized rocks. Plants had been pulled up and placed on top of the mounds in order to hide them. Possible Bigfoot graveyard. Reported by Rhett Mullis.
 

​October 21, 2002: Estacada, Oregon. Possible Bigfoot burial grounds consisting of pits and stacks of heavy rocks were found at a high elevation in the Clackamas River Gorge. They could not be Indian burial grounds. Reported by the BFRO.
 

​The story of Paul Seifert's Cave, in which he claimed to have found remains of extinct animals, large human bones, ancient tools, weapons, and other artifacts in 1891, has been a topic of local talk around Gotham and Muscoda for over 90 years. But what is not generally known is the discovery of huge human bones in other areas of Wisconsin, which lend credence to Paul Seifert's claim that he had found a large cavern with the remains of a giant race, which predated the American Indian.
 

Seifert's cave, which is supposedly in a high bluff on the Wisconsin River between Gotham and Muscoda, first came to public attention as the result of a letter printed in a Viennese paper by S. Lon Wolfgang. In the letter he described how his friend, Paul Seifert, had sent him relics of great antiquity from the United States. Included among the articles were spear and arrow points of copper, quartzite, flint, and obsidian, all of giant size, along with numerous ceremonial objects. Seifert offered that if his friend would visit him he would disclose the secret of where they were found.
 

​The German did so and upon his arrival in Gotham, Wisconsin, was met at the train by Seifert. When the matter of the cave was brought up, Seifert led his friend to it. This was accomplished by climbing to the top of a hill called Bogus Bluff.
 

After the climb, the two men proceeded some distance back from the face of the hill and then lowered themselves by rope into a crevice indicated by Seifert. They then found themselves on a narrow ledge, which led back into a cave, the floor of which was covered with sand and indicated the possibility on an ancient river bed. Numerous passages led off from the cave and, upon entering one of them, Von Wolfgang was amazed to see a great number of human bones and skulls. Intermingled with them were a large number of battle axes, spears, and arrow points and pottery fragments, all huge in size. Seifert then indicated that although the cave was known to the local Indians, it was not one of their burial grounds, and that it had been there as long as they could recall.
 

​Upon his return to Europe, Von Wolfgang printed another letter in the Vienna Courier relating his experiences. He described the cave as being the final resting place of a lost race.
 

​The area in and around Gotham has a multitude of caves, with the area in question being one of the only well-protected ones from both the weather and enemy attack in the immediate vicinity.
 

​Because he was ridiculed by the local people when he told of his find, Seifert blasted the entrance shut, and all attempts to locate the cave since then have been unsuccessful. If this cavern does indeed hold the remains of a hitherto-unknown race of people, it could be one of the most important finds of the century and well worth further investigation.
 

The following three incidents lend credence to Paul Seifert's story. In September 1905, two skeletons with thigh bones six inches longer than those of a six-foot man were found in a gravel bed near the town of Forest. These two persons would have been well over seven feet tall in real life.

​A short time later, several huge skeletons were found while excavating work was being done on a street in La Crosse.
 

​During the summer of 1881, a story circulated in Pepin County that several large bones, believed to be human, had been found along the Chippewa River near Durand. The skeletal remains were examined by a doctor who claimed they were from an extinct animal. Other opinions were that the bones had belonged to several early French trappers; still another was that they had belonged to a giant race of Indians. While this controversy and examination of the bones led to their becoming lost, the fact remains, that had the persons been still living, they would have been from seven to nine feet in height

Bigfoot Theories


With all of the wild theories that are out there about Bigfoot, it is almost impossible to know what is real and what is fantasy. Theories that range from demons to aliens and they run just about everywhere in between. They have been reported from being shy and illusive to being aggressive and attacking. All of these theories really only distract from what the actual evidence shows. We are going to put to you what we have found in the evidence we have researched to this point. As we dig deeper into the evidence we will update this page so you can keep up to date on our findings. To see what we have found in our research please visit the research page and enjoy.
 

Gigantopithecus
 

First, Here are pictures of both Gigantopithecus and possible Bigfoots. Compare them for yourself but there are a lot of features that are similar. Taking those into account it is not impossible that Bigfoot is a relative of Gigantopithecus. Having said that, with all of the different types of this creature reported around the world it is not impossible that a relative managed to survive and in all of the different climates around the world evolved differently to adapt to those climates. In the USA there are reports of many different types of Bigfoot. Form Bigfoot to the Skunk Ape to the Fouke Monster and there are even more than that. Would it be so difficult to believe the different branches of the Bigfoot tree evolved differently to fit into there environment. It would explain the difference in the vocalizations from around the country. Humans have evolved to be able to adapt to there surroundings so why would it be so hard to believe that Bigfoot could do the same thing. Look at all of the differences in people and other animals around the world and it then doesn't look so hard to believe.
 

Bigfoot
 

You can look at these samples of the footprint variations and see that the possibility of Bigfoot having evolved to match there environment is a very real possibility. As far as the reports being so heavy in some areas and not others. That could be very simple. Human population density. Except the pacific northwest were there are a lot of vacation activites that go on. The more people living in a given area the more likely it is that at some point some one will see what they think is a bigfoot. Bigfoot is reported to be very illusive. Remeber they are in there natural habitat and we are the outsiders. There senses have most likely developed to be MUCH more accute then ours which would be obvious living in the environment they live in. Any hunter that goes deer hunting knows that a deer has senses that can detect them before the hunter sees the deer unless they take certain precautions. It is an easy thing to think then that a bigfoot has most likely developed there senses much the same and they could even be more accute given how illusive they are. If it were easy to find a bigfoot we would have found one long ago for the proof that we need to confirm they are real. Let us not forget about all of the native american sightings that have happened for hundreds of years before they were first reported by the rest of us.
 

Final Thoughts
 

In some final thoughts we are not saying that we know Bigfoot is real but what we are saying is that IF it is real these are some things to look at in hopes that it will help to prove the existence of Bigfoot. These are only our theories based on the available evidence from around the internet. There is so much misinformation out there that it is very hard to know what to trust and what not to trust. Thankfully there are people and groups out there that have very reliable reputations such as the BFRO, Cliff Barackman and Dr. Jeff Meldrum. There are others but if you want to look into this yourself these are good places to start. All of the sites on our links page are very good sources of information to help you with your research.

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Here is something else to think about. Throughout the historical record there have almost always been more than one type of hominid species. So why would it be impossible for there to be more than one today? Is it just modern man who thinks we can be the only one to have survived into modern times?

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Having said that other than the evidence that has been reported and gathered to date there is no physical proof that there is another one today but it is not impossible for one of our distant past relatives to have survived into modern times. What do you think? Feel free to let us know.

Last but not least here are some images of possible Bigfoot creatures from all over. Hope you enjoy!!!

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What could be a bigfoot track next to a human foot

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