Meldrum and Mionczynski: Scientists Seriously Seeking Sasquatch

[LTC8K6]

Before Mionczynski and Dr. Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University even met, their research crossed paths. They had visited some of the same people, a mountain man and a U.S. Forest Service patrolman in Washington who had encountered a sasquatch and found footprints in the woods.

So they both got hoaxed by Freeman then?

In 1996, Meldrum was visiting family in Boise, Idaho, when he decided to make a trip up to Washington with his brother to visit Dr. Grover Krantz, an anthropologist and leading sasquatch researcher. Meldrum examined Krantz’s collection of alleged sasquatch footprint casts, which Krantz would eventually give to Meldrum for his research years later.

On the way home, Meldrum made a surprise visit to Paul Freeman, once a Forest Service patrolman, who claimed to have encountered a sasquatch and made footprint casts.

Freeman said he had just found fresh tracks, too. Would Meldrum like to see them?

“The coincidence of it was disconcerting at first,” Meldrum said. Did Freeman somehow find out they were coming?

But Meldrum was astounded by what he saw. The tracks were fresh and clear. They were either the real deal or a clear hoax, he thought.

Meldrum and his brother got supplies to make casts. They remain some of the strongest prints in Meldrum’s collection of 200 casts and some of the most compelling evidence, Meldrum said. What he had captured was skin ridge detail. Just as we all have individually unique fingerprints, we have distinct footprints.

“There are a few other mammals that have texture to their pads, but typically that’s a primate characteristic,” Meldrum said.

What he captured was a real print, he believes.

“It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck.”

Skin ridge detail...is that the new term to authenticate a track?

Boy is Meldrum in deep...

http://trib.com/lifestyles/home-and-garden/article_77709fa0-ddeb-554c-a72b-db6ceec6c982.html

 

[LTC8K6]

His studies required him to spend weeks high up in the mountain solitude. So when a large upright figure collapsed his tent one night in the early 1970s, John Mionczynski knew it wasn’t another human.

He was studying bighorn sheep in the Wind River Mountains. From inside his tent, Mionczynski could see a distinct open hand with an opposable thumb, about twice the size of a human hand.

Mionczynski crawled outside and built a campfire. He could hear the creature breathing but couldn’t see it in the darkness. For 45 minutes it threw pine cones at him.

What a story that is...45 minutes? Who believes this crap?

Based on field research, Meldrum’s footprint expertise and Mionczynski’s studies of animal habitat and behavior, they’ve developed hypotheses about the North American ape:

* Meldrum and Mionczynski hypothesize the population size in North America to be 500 to 1,000 individuals. They guess that an individual male has a 1,000-square-mile home range, which overlaps with several females and their young, who have smaller home ranges. The researchers have observed a repeated appearance of the same footprints in the same home area.

* Males are estimated at 8 to 9 feet tall in stature, when standing upright on two feet. Females would be about 7 feet tall, adolescents 4 to 6 feet tall. Weight is estimated at 700 to 1,000 pounds, based on a model for grizzly bears. Mionczynski hypothesizes that the creature travels on both two legs and all fours. Meldrum has made casts of 16-inch footprints.

* The North American ape is likely an omnivore, eating fish, meat and plants. Sightings increase around elk season, which suggests to Mionczynski that the animal is particularly drawn to elk meat left behind by hunters. Mionczynski also believes it is a hibernating creature.

* No evidence suggests the use of tools or structured living space. They have language and are reclusive and highly intelligent. Mionczynski said the researchers have found evidence of sasquatches covering their tracks, literally brushing over their footprints with pine bows so as to stay hidden.

Perhaps the most interesting research lies in the food. Mionczynski identified a plant he believes attracts the animal. The berry-producing shrub is not common in Wyoming and is unique in the fact that it occurs after the first hard freeze of the year, in September. (He said he would not identify the plant for fear people would start looking for it.)

Meldrum found a distribution map for the plant. They overlaid it with a map of credible sightings from September and the following months.

“We found a correlation,” Mionczynski said.

These two are bonkers...

 

[William Parcher]

Skin ridge detail...is that the new term to authenticate a track?

He slips the "dermal ridge" term in there too..

Meldrum has also travelled to China, where he compared casts there to those taken in North America. The dermal ridges followed the same pattern, suggesting the existence of sasquatch in the mountains of western China.

Jimmy Chilcutt never lost his crown.

 

[LTC8K6]

Jimmy Chilcutt never lost his crown.

It's unbelievable...a grown man and a college professor and he refuses to acknowledge reality.

 

[William Parcher]

We know that crackpots exist in the world. Bigfooters like to point to believing scientists because it adds a supposed special ingredient - credibility with educated professional acknowledgement. The theme is that the academic process which Meldrum went through (to reach his station in science) somehow weeds out the crackpots. The idea is that a university would not grant a PhD to a crackpot.

The absurd thinking is not usually limited to one single thing (Bigfoot). Meldrum is deeply into Mormonism too. I wonder what other wooness Mionczynski wades into.

 

[William Parcher]

The hand has decreased in size...

"That hand was three times as wide as mine and had an opposed thumb that stuck out as plain as day," Mionczynski said.

From inside his tent, Mionczynski could see a distinct open hand with an opposable thumb, about twice the size of a human hand.

Source

 

[William Parcher]

What does the Discovery Channel know about him?

Natural historian and eccentric scientist John Mionczynski...