November 12, 2006
On Friday, November 10, Dr. Jeff meldrum was interviewed on NPR by Ira Flatow on his Talk of the Nation: Science Friday show.
Anthropologist, author and scientist Jeff Meldrum talks about the evidence for (and against) the existence of Bigfoot. Are there animals hiding in the woods that we know nothing about? Meldrum’s new book is Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science.
You can listen to the segment with Dr. Meldrum from their website here.
The interview references the Associated Press attack on Dr. Meldrum, as well as the September 27, 2002 interview with Dr. Jane Goodall with Ira Flatow. Mr. Flatow mentioned this previous interview on Friday because of a question asked of Dr. Goodall by a caller. Dr. Goodall responds to the caller who asks about Bigfoot.
Following is a transcript of that portion of the program:
Dr. Goodall: As for the other, you’re talking about a yeti or bigfoot or sasquatch.
Ira Flatow: Is that what he’s talking about?
Dr. Goodall: Yes, it is and…
Ira Flatow: Is that the message I’m missing here?
Dr. Goodall: I think that’s the message you’re missing and…
Ira Flatow: Is that right?
Caller: Pretty much.
Ira Flatow: I’m out of the loop. Go ahead.
Dr. Goodall: Well now, you’ll be amazed when I tell you that I’m sure that they exist.
Ira Flatow: You are?
Dr. Goodall: Yeah. I’ve talked to so many Native Americans who all describe the same sounds, two who have seen them. I’ve probably got about, oh, thirty books that have come from different parts of the world, from China from, from all over the place, and there was a little tiny snippet in the newspaper just last week which says that British scientists have found what they believed to be a yeti hair and that the scientists in the Natural History Museum in London couldn’t identify it as any known animal.
Ira Flatow: Wow.
Dr. Goodall: That was just a wee bit in the newspaper and, obviously, we have to hear a little bit more about that.
Ira Flatow: Well, in this age of DNA, if you find a hair there might be some cells on it.
Dr. Goodall: Well, there will be and I’m sure that’s what they’ve examined and they don’t match up. That’s what my little tiny snippet says. They don’t match up with DNA cells from known animals, so apes.
Ira Flatow: Did you always have this belief that there, that they, that they existed?
Dr. Goodall: Well, I’m a romantic, so I always wanted them to exist.
Ira Flatow: Alright?
Caller: Thank you.
Ira Flatow: Thanks for calling. Well, how do you go looking for them? I mean, people have been looking, right? It’s not like, or has this just been, since we don’t really believe they can exist, we really haven’t really made a serious search.
Dr. Goodall: Well, there are people looking. There are very ardent groups in Russia, and they have published a whole lot of stuff about what they’ve seen. Of course, the big, the big criticism of all this is, "Where is the body?" You know, why isn’t there a body? I can’t answer that, and maybe they don’t exist, but I want them to.
You can listen to the segment with Dr. Goodall from their website here.
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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