Bigfoot Files: Episode 1 Trailer
Posted by: Craig Woolheater on October 16th, 2013
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To air on British TV Channel 4 at 8:00 PM, October 20.
Yeti, Bigfoot, Abominable Snowman, Sasquatch and Almasty are just some of the names for mysterious creatures across the globe that have fascinated cryptozoologists and confounded scientists for decades.
Are they an ancient hominid, a member of the human family like Neanderthals? Are they giant apes or some other species? Or are they simply hoaxes? A leading British geneticist believes he has the tools to finally answer the riddle.
Oxford Professor of Human Genetics Bryan Sykes has assembled substantial physical evidence, which he subjects to the most sophisticated DNA tests available, as he and presenter Mark Evans hope to answer scientifically, once and for all, the mystery of Bigfoot.
Episode 1
Mark Evans travels to the Himalayas to find the real story behind the centuries-old Yeti legend.
He risks altitude sickness at Everest Base Camp, where the photograph of a footprint in the snow set off Yeti mania in 1951. He traces the legend through ancient manuscripts, holy relics and a Nazi expedition, and meets people convinced they have come face-to-face with the creature known in the west as the Abominable Snowman.
Meanwhile Professor Sykes reveals the results of his DNA tests on the Yeti hair samples he’s collected. The results are spectacular and unexpected.
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.
Well, since we cannot view it here, I guess we will have to wait for someone over there to spill the beans about the Yeti hair results. Hopefully this episode will be put on DVD and or blue ray soon, so it can be ordered. Looks very interesting. It’s neat they got Nikolai Valuev, the former heavyweight boxing champ of the world, to take part in the show, as well as Reinhold Messener, who had his own Yeti encounters and investigation.
Please, someone on here who will be able to see it, divulge the episode’s findings after it airs!!
Maybe it will be availible to stream online. A lot of networks can do that.
Actually the Metro (a fine upstanding newspaper <–sarcasm) has already spilled the beans. Apparently the hair samples were found to be a DNA match for a polar bear / brown bear hybrid from 120,000 years ago.
…which I think is supposed to suggest that the Yeti is actually a primitive undiscovered subspecies of the brown bear, living undiscovered in the Himalayas.
I'm not sure what episodes 2 and 3 will say about the other subjects (presumably Bigfoot and Almas?) though.
Hapa: Not only the former WBA World Heavyweight champ, but he was never knocked down. But he’s a humongous human being; it’s hard to imagine someone being able to knock him down.