Sasquatch Attack?

from Monster Quest

The History Channel

A review by Judy Trainor

Treasurer, UBRG

Aired November 7th, 9PM CST

 

Location:   Ontario, Canada

Snelgrove Lake, accessible only by float plane

A single fishing cabin on the lake

              

 

The show starts with several witnesses, each with his own story.  There is some tremendous computer art work based on descriptions given by the witnesses.  It's the best I've ever seen. It is animated, and it's very impressive.

We are told the story of a fisherman who rented the cabin, and heard wood knocking, which he returned.  Later that evening, while one member of the group was up, the cabin began to shake.  He tried to awaken others, but they couldn't be roused.

Dr. Lynn Rogers, a wildlife biologist, ruled out other wildlife.

Tom Steenburg, cryptozoologist, explained that there are more wildlands than people realize, especially in Canada.

The owner of the fishing cabin had discovered the cabin completely trashed. Shelves were torn off the walls and sinks, appliances and plumbing were destroyed.  After refurbishing the cabin, he drove 288 large, sharp screws through a plywood board, so that they extended more than an inch on the other side.  He set the board down in front of the cabin door to protect the property.  Something stepped on the board, leaving some bodily tissue on the screw threads.  They traced around the bloody screws, and the shape looking like a big partial footprint.  From the screws they retrieved tissue, hair and blood.  (By the way, a hair is called a 'fiber' early in an investigation, or when it's possibly weathered.)  There is another computer graphic showing how the creature stepped on the board.  Great graphics!

Dr. Jeff Meldrum, anthropologist (Idaho State Univ.) and Curt Nelson, biologist (University of MN) were taken to the property and left there.

Next, there is a historical note about David Thompson, an explorer in Canada in 1811, who found tracks and noted them in his logbook.  He said the Indians called the maker of the tracks "Sasquatch."

There is a clip of an August, 1984, interview with Keifer Erwin, a professional tracker, who tells of an incident at the South MacMillan River, Yukon Territory, when she found tracks in the sand and thought them to be those of a Sasquatch.

They found a diary in the cabin with an entry dated 8-9-95, about an unidentified footprint that was size 16EEE.

Nelson does the usual ... away from the cabin, on a large rock on the other side of lake, he sets up camp and spends night with different cameras ... nothing.  He goes back to the cabin.

John Green talked to Albert Ostman about his kidnapping.  For details of this, see Bobbie Short's website Bigfoot Encounters.

Back at the big bonfire with Jeff, Curt and a crew member, a rock is thrown at the men. Jeff throws it back, and something in the woods throws a rock onto the roof of the building.  They PANIC, and the next day at daylight, Chuck Mossbeck flies them out.

Todd Disotell, Professor of Anthropology of NYU Microbiology Lab, agreed to run DNA tests, as well as examine the "hair morphology" to get DNA for sequence building. In on the testing is Dr. Lynn Roger of Ely, MN.  In the morphology, under the microscope the hair had no MEDULLA!!  (Human hair is medullated.)  The hair tip was tapered like that of a "wild human" would be.

Mitochondrial DNA:   Prof. Disotell ran into difficulty.  He said that either the material was so degraded that any viable DNA was destroyed by nature, or those tissues WERE NOT biological samples.

Nelson had difficulty in obtaining a DNA sample due to a distraction, which he discovered was caused by the zinc coating on the galvanized screws from which they had collected the material.  He found a way to remove the zinc and separate the DNA from the samples. It was identical to human DNA, except that it had one nucleotide that was different; one of the same ones which chimps differ from humans in.  The DNA was primate.  He said, "I fully knew I might be looking at the DNA of a Sasquatch."

The DNA is primate, but not quite human.

The great apes deviate from humans in 35 locations on the genome.

This creature only deviates from humans in ONE location.