The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 15, 1990, Page 15, Image 14

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    Bigfoot
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the hair to someone who had done
this kind of analysis before.
Dr. W.H. Fahrenbach of theOre
gon Regional Primate Research Cen
ter has looked at hundreds of al
leged bigfoot hairs. I was directed
to him by extremely reliable sources
in both the Wyoming and Nebraska
Game and Parks commissions. To
anyone in the business, Fahren
bach is a credible and serious sci
entist.
Fahrenbach said the hairs most
closely matched “presumptive
bigfoot hair” his lab has received
from similar incidents in the Pacific
Northwest.
Fahrenbach said he compared
the hair to human, primate and
dozens of hairs from animals that
are indigenous to Colorado.
He said the Green Mountain
Falls hair was the first he had seen
from the Rocky Mountains.
Fahrenbach said the core of the
hair, called the medulla, was thin
ner than the medulla of a typical
bear hair. The medulla of a human
hair is broken throughout the length
of the hair. The hair pulled from tne
screen had a solid medulla.
Fahrenbach would not confirm
that the hair was from an unknown
humanoid.
“We don’t have a standard of
comparison at the present stage,”
Fahrenbach said. “You can’t iden
tify a dragon turd if you’ve never
seen a dragon turd. Likewise, you
can’tidentify a bigfoot hair ifyou’re
not sure you’ve seen a bigfoot
hair.”
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bach was not that the hair was un
identifiable, but that he didn’t care
that it was unidentifiable.
"Sightings are a dime a dozen,”
he said. “Same with footprints and
hair.
"What we need is lengthy video
... or a body. People will try to
explain the whole thing away un
less we have minutes of crystal
clear, image-intensified video or a
bloody carcass.”
Fahrenbach said he is certain
there are bigfoot in the Northwest.
"Sheriffs deputies have seen
footprints and creatures time and
time again .... We’ve got whole
neighborhoods giving the exact
same descriptions of the things
"After seeing so much evidence
and so many reports,” he said,
“such a scam becomes much more
incredible than the existence of
such a creature.”
Earlier, Brienzo had said nearly
the same thing.
"This (all tne recorded bigfoot
sightings) would be the biggest,
most complex hoax in history,” he
said.
With the hair and the photos
and our own mania, it seems now
that the least probable conclusion
is that Dan is crazy.
And, looking at all the evidence,
it does seem that a hoax would be
more incredible than the existence
of a hairy humanoid
Add the fact that Dan refuses to
accept money for anything related
to the bigfoot story and I’m left
with only one probable conclu
sion. As a somewhat respectable
journalist who returned from the
hunt without a carcass,
I refuse to say what
that conclusion is.
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