Ashtabula County resident Wendy – she asked to have her last name
withheld because she’s not sure she wants to be involved with Bigfoot
stories – was doing yard work on Aug. 11 when she noticed a 7.5 inch
wide footprint that was an inch and a half deep into the mud.
“I took a picture to show my mother’s husband, who’s a hunter, and he
said it wasn’t a human’s,” she said. “I’m not claiming that footprint
to be anything. I don’t know what that is.”
Wendy recalls multiple incidents in the past five years in which she
and her husband have come across “something not human.” She said she
hears knocking sounds on the walls of their house late at night, and she
remembers a time when she saw a figure in all black running across the
railroad tracks.
“The direction they were going, there were no homes. It would’ve gone
out the woods, crossed the tracks, and gone back into the woods,” she
said.
Wendy and her husband have also heard loud growls outside. “I never
walked backwards so fast to get back in the house. But I couldn’t see,
it was so dark back there.” She said the growl was impossible to
duplicate and made her husband’s “hair stand up.”
“I didn’t believe in the sasquatch before,” Wendy said. “And in fact
I’m still fighting it. But I can’t make sense of that large footprint.”
According to the group Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, Ohio has logged more than 242 sightings since 1974.
Melba S. Ketchum, director of DNA Diagnostics who conducted a DNA
study that concluded by confirming the existence of a Sasquatch species,
said they do tend to pound on things out of curiosity.
“They even left me feathers once. I was behind blocked gates and
there was nobody there but me,” she said. “Who else could it have been?”
She claims the average Sasquatch she’s seen is 10 feet tall, and they
can “make any noise they want. They can mimic animals. And they can
growl, of course.” Ketchum said the average foot size for a male is 17
feet, 15 feet for a female, and 7 feet for a baby.
As to whether Wendy’s sighting of a black figure across the railroad
tracks was accurate, Ketchum said the species are “every color of the
rainbow.
“We had over 100 samples of the study,” she said. “We had everything
from white to blond to multicolored to black. A lot of them are brown
with a reddish tint, even carrot-top red.”
Wendy said the sighting have made her feel “just a little uneasy.”
“When I walk the dogs now, I take a lot of lights. And my blinds go
down when it gets dark,” she said. “It’s the unknown, I guess.”
Ketchum said from what she has discovered, the animals are not something that should terrify anyone.
“They’re not monsters; they’re a type of people,” she said. “The DNA
shows that. The paternal side is novel, but the female side is 100
percent modern human (as in 13,000-15,000 years ago).”
Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho
State University, said he has examined hundreds of suspected sasquatch
footprints and said they are broad, flat, and flexible.
“I am convinced that something exists on the basis of the evidence.
What that something is, that remains a mystery,” he said. “Whether it
exists or not isn’t that mysterious anymore because of the overwhelming
evidence.”
Source: ABC News
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