October 27, 2013
25064 – Sample provided by Reinhold Messner
1. Date of sample collection: August 2012
2. Location of sample collection: Schloss Juval, Nr Merano,Tirol, Italy
3. Colour of hair sample: dark brown
4. Length of hair: c.7cm long
5. Any other hair info: thick
6. Any other supporting info: animal shot by Ernst Schafer. Clearly a bear. Species unknown. Messner refers to it as a “chemo”.
Cut from neck area of mounted head by Bryan and Messner in August 2012.
7. Result: no DNA recovered
25025 – sample provided by Christophe Hagenmuller
1. Date of sample collection: 2003
2. Location of sample collection: Ladakh, India
3. Colour of hair sample: c.50 medium orange/brown hairs
4. Length of hair: c.5cm long
5. Any other hair info: see above
6. Any other supporting info: collected by Christophe Haggenmuller from yeti mummy shot c. 1970.
7. Result: Ursus Maritimus Polar Bear (Pleistocene)
25191 – Sample provided by Channel 4 expedition. Hair from Bhutan in 2001.
1. Date of sample collection: 2001
2. Location of sample collection: Eastern Bhutan
3. Colour of hair sample: Light red/brown
4. Length of hair: 3cm from distal end of hair c.15cm long
5. Any other hair info: medium thickness
6. Any other supporting info: tip of a hair found in hollow tree in high altitude bamboo forest. Stored frozen since 2001.
7. Result: Ursus Maritimus Polar Bear (Pleistocene)
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005.
I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films:
OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.
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