By Nora O’Malley Local Journalism Initiative Reporter This story starts down an abandoned forest service road deep in central Nuu-chah-nulth First Nations territory on Vancouver Island. It was fall, two or three years ago. Tyee Wilson Jack was bucking up a log for firewood when he saw something move on the right side of his periphery. “Did something just stand up?” thought the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ (Ucluelet First Nation) Hereditary Chief. “I didn’t want to turn my head, but I moved my eyes. I swore. It’s a frickin’ Pookemis.” “He’s just watching me,” Jack thought as he continued chopping, as he said to himself, “I’m not gonna panic. One more swing and I’m gonna look.” “THWACK!” Jack swung his axe then turned his head to look. The creature jumped off the stump it was standing on and hid. Jack said he heard the jump and saw the bookemis – or Sasquatch as the bipedal hairy giant is commonly called – for one second from about 25 metres away. “The hair on the face is long. The eyes are really dark and glassy, I guess. It was tall. Just the way I saw it stand up. It was like easily over seven feet. It was big. And the smell it left was stench,” Jack recalls. Jack says elders always taught that if someone has an experience with a bookemis, they should leave it an offering. “I left six pieces of chopped wood. I yelled, ‘I’m leaving you this wood’.” The next morning, bright and early, Jack returned to the site of the encounter and the wood was gone – but there were huge footprints. “I didn’t take any photos, damn it. I didn’t think to bring my phone,” said the 58-year-old. Jack shared other stories too; of MacMillan Bloedel loggers hearing them in caves, a woman bumping into one in the Hitacu village at night and on one occasion, when he did have his phone, Jack recorded a deep, grunting noise. He played the recording for two conservation officers he met while hunting in Nahmint one winter. “They looked at each other. They’d never heard the sound before,” said Jack. “What is it?” asked the conservation officers. “You won’t believe me if I tell you. It’s a pookemis. A Sasquatch,” Jack replied. 200 black bears for every Sasquatch Cynical unbelievers might be swayed by the ongoing research of Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University. Dr. Meldrum has dedicated his life to studying Sasquatch tracks or Anthropoidipes ameriborealis (North American ape foot). Meldrum’s primary evidence includes the analysis of hundreds of footprint casts. His research has been published in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin, the Journal of Scientific Exploration and he has penned several books on the man-like creatures, including ‘Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science’ and the ‘Sasquatch Field Guide’. “I’ve examined long trackways. That’s what pulled me in was examining a long trackway of 35 to 45 tracks that showed all the variation. It showed toes extended, toes flexed, toes sliding in the mud, half tracks where it was running up on the front half of the foot, all the dynamics of an animate foot,” Meldrum told the Ha-shilth-sa over a Zoom call. He says the hoaxes are “very transparent” and that anyone with a little wherewithal and familiarity with the anatomy and functional aspects of the primate and human foot could distinguish a real track from a fake. “Finding a long line of tracks with successive tracks is really rare,” Meldrum said. “My privilege of looking at a long line of tracks was actually quite unique. I was so floored because at that time I was kind of ambivalent in my attitude towards the subject matter. I was intrigued, but ambivalent and very skeptical.” He admits that the lack of physical remains is frustrating, but not surprising given the moist forest habitat, acidic soils, and the presumed intelligence and caution of the trackmaker. “It’s the favourite piece of missing data the skeptics focus on and obsess with it to the exclusion of everything else,” said Meldrum, who has faced criticism from his peers for decades due to the absence of fossil records. With the recent discovery of fossils from a small extinct hominin species labeled Homo floreiensis (hobbit) on the Indonesia island of Flores, Meldrum says the scientific community is “at least tolerating the possibility that Sasquatch might exist”. Based on credible sightings and footprints, Meldrum says that there is good evidence to suggest that the Sasquatch is a large, powerful omnivorous species that has similar habitat requirements to black bears. “The ratio, I think, is about 200 black bears for every one sasquatch. That’s not just pulled out of the air. That’s based on inferences drawn on about analogy of their social structure, their size, the life history of great apes and so forth,” said Meldrum. “The point being, have you ever talked to anyone who has found a black bear skeleton in the woods?” asked Meldrum. The professor of evolutionary biology went on to compare the supposed social behaviour of Sasquatch to orangutans – male orangutans are primarily solitary and communicate with loud calls to advertise their presence and attract a female. “I think that is probably a good analogy for sasquatch because we have those ruckus loud calls,” said Meldrum. The smoking gun? In May 2023 Darby Orcutt, the director of Interdisciplinary Partnerships at North Carolina State University Libraries, launched a “curiosity driven project” approved by the Institutional Review Board called the ‘Study of Allegedly Morphologically Anomalous Physical Samples’. He put an open call out to anyone in the United States or Canada with unusual samples to offer for deeper analysis and genetic testing. Orcutt says they received more than 100 items to investigate, including hair, teeth and even body part his research team informally dubbed a “hand-paw thing”. “The DNA is really the gold standard today. It wouldn’t matter how wonderful the trace evidence of apparent trackways were - that’s never going to be what puts the scientific community or the general public over the top. But DNA...well, that’s a different matter,” said Orcutt over Zoom. “If we were to find something interesting, that would really change the understanding of this topic. But that all depends on IF there is a biological species underlying this phenomenon and IF someone offers an authentic sample of it,” he said. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Association sent Orcutt a cache of hair samples to work with. “It’s a sacred trust, really,” said Orcutt. “Real science takes a lot of time. We are batching this up and very meticulously documenting each one.” Unfortunately, Orcutt says the first analysis of 20 samples did not yield results, so they are using a different approach. “The samples are not the freshest,” he said. “There is tremendous opportunity for Indigenous communities to partner on this.” The Bigfoot DNA study remains open to any offerings of unidentified specimens found in North America. Folks who submit samples can be identified by name or opt to keep their identity confidential. “The other thing is, we are not disclosing specific locations of things at all. We’re not doing that under any circumstance. We might say, ‘This sample came from Saskatchewan or eastern Kentucky’. That’s about as specific as we’ll get,” Orcutt promised. “It’s kind of like fishing. We don’t want to reveal their hiding hole.” Orcutt went on to say that if they do find an undiscovered species, they will be “careful and ethical with the reveal”. The ‘hide-and-seek-champion’ Nuu-chah-nulth have many stories about seeing Sasquatch and unique names for the creature. Huu-ay-aht First Nations knowledge keeper Qiic Qiica says the belief in Sasquatch, or C̓ac̓uqḥta, is widespread and deep rooted in his culture. “Our people, historically, were always hunters. In Nuu-chah-nulth culture, there are a number of animals that we just don’t hunt. One of them is C̓ac̓uqḥta. Another one is the wolf, we don’t hunt them because they are a pack animal, we believe they live like us. Same with the orca,” Qiic Qiica said. “Another one we didn’t used to hunt is the black bear. In the plains or on the mainland, you might hear of Indigenous people who would eat bear, our people never did because it was believed they were like the healer or the doctor. They could have anything wrong with them and they know what to eat to fix it,” he explained. “Our people used to watch the bear to learn what they eat for getting better.” Qiic Qiica points out that the greatest predators in North American are rarely seen. “More often than not, they see us and we don’t see them. Think about how illusive the wolves are, how illusive the cougars are. Those are some of the most illusive animals in the world. From our point of view, the C̓ac̓uqḥta is even more illusive than the most illusive. It really is the hide-and-seek champion.” He shared a story about an ancient agreement between C̓ac̓uqḥta and a Huu-ay-aht chief that teaches about protecting its identity: The Chief got really curious about it and he kept trying to go out and find. He would go out when it was foggy, he would go out at daybreak or dusk and try to find it. He went out this one foggy day and he could see in the distance C̓ac̓uqḥta. He started following it, chasing it and trying to see where it lived. Finally, the Bigfoot realized he was being followed so he started running. The Chief was trying to keep up to it and he ended up slipping on a rock and hurt himself. The Sasquatch turned back and felt sorry for him. He wanted to help him. The Chief was really grateful because he was saved by this creature and he asked him, ‘What do you want in return?’ The Sasquatch replied and simply said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ It’s a spiritual gift to encounter a Sasquatch, according to Nuu-chah-nulth culture. “If you are so blessed to ever see one or be in the presence of one, you were chosen,” said Qiic Qiica. Jack echoes the sentiment. “It’s not there to harm you. To me, it’s a protector. They’re just curious. I would never recommend anyone to harm it. I would hate to see anyone harm something like that,” he said. -30- CAPTIONS Tyee Wilson Jack talks about a recent Sasquatch encounter over coffees at Ucluelet’s Big Beach Lounge. (Nora O’Malley photo) Dr. Jeff Meldrum holds a Bigfoot cast. (Submitted) Dr. Jeff Meldrum discusses his research over zoom from his office in Idaho State. (Nora O’Malley photo) Lab: FIGURE 1. Multiple angles of the virtualized models of duplicate Patterson casts included in the holotype of Anthropoidipes ameriborealis. (Submitted)The two-day meeting of the core group of Bihar BJP in Suraj Kund ended on Monday during which the BJP leaders came out strongly in support of JDU chief Nitish Kumar as the leader of the NDA in Bihar. The BJP leaders said the party is willing to contest the upcoming assembly elections under Kumar's leadership. ET Year-end Special Reads Top 10 equity mutual funds of the year. Do you have any? How India flexed its global power muscles in 2024 2024 was the year India became the talk of America "We have a leader and face of the NDA in Bihar. Nitish Kumar is the chief minister of the state and we will go for the upcoming election under his leadership," Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal told ET post the meeting. Before Jaiswal, Bihar deputy CM Samrat Choudhary also reiterated that Kumar is the leader of the alliance. Over the past few days, several BJP state leaders have reiterated that Nitish Kumar remains the leader and the CM face of the alliance. The clarification from the BJP about the CM face in Bihar came after the rumours started going on in political circles of the state that there could be another political shift before the assembly polls. The rumours emanated after the BJP formed the government in Maharashtra with Devendra Fadnavis as the CM. 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CLEVELAND, Ohio — Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski took questions from reporters on Sunday regarding the 20-3 loss to the Dolphins , Dorian Thompson-Robinson, injuries, and more. Below is the transcript as provided by the Browns media relations department: More Cleveland Browns coverage Browns running back Jerome Ford gives update after suffering ankle injury vs. Dolphins ‘Dorsey not getting the criticism he deserves’: What a former Browns CEO said after Cleveland’s loss to the Dolphins Dorian Thompson-Robinson outplayed by former Browns QB Tyler Huntley as Browns lose 20-3 to Dolphins to fall to 3-13 Week 18 NFL Preview: Find everything you need to know with our Week 18 NFL preview. Opening Statement: “Okay, injuries; Jerome (Ford) has an ankle injury, Denzel (Ward), shoulder, Jordan Hicks, concussion. So we’ll update the rest of the guys as we see them today and tomorrow. Obviously not good enough. We got to come away with a win, got to come away with taking care of the football, putting ourselves in position to go find a way to win and we didn’t do that. That’s the disappointing part. The results are what they are, that’s frustrating. But with that, I’ll take any questions.” You had a decision to either kick or go for it from fourth and goal from the three. Why did you decide to go for it instead of taking the points? “Yeah with just that field position, I think it’s really important to get the seven there from the three-yard line.” On those fourth downs, I think you guys were 0-4, I know the one was in the endzone. But did you see anything on those three? I know on the other three, I know those are huge plays in the game. “I mean a turnover on downs is a turnover. I know it doesn’t officially go down as a turnover but you’re putting your defense back there on the field and you got to come through. When it’s fourth and one, advantage has to be toward the offense and you have to come through there.” I saw you talking to Dorian (Thompson-Robinson) on the sidelines after the pick. Obviously an ill-advised throw from him there. What did you see there? “Yeah, I think obviously you’re always, at every play, you’re looking at it and thinking about the decision and the accuracy and all those things and just making sure that he’s understanding in those roles when you have to locate defenders. I think that was really the biggest thing there on that play.” Why is he struggling with some of the real, short, basic stuff, whether it’s throwing out of the backfield, throwing it into the flat, not even just going down the field, but just seems he’s really struggling with timing on those shorter routes? “Yeah, we’ll look at it, and it’s not for lack of effort. He’s putting in the work. We’ll look to help him in any way we can to score some points.” You were determined to have him finish this game. Why? “Just felt like that’s what was best for the team.” I know it’s early, but will you start him next week in Baltimore? “Yeah, I won’t get into anything for next week, Mary Kay (Cabot).” On the intentional groundings, I know it’s not just on the quarterback, but does he have to sort of, in those situations, is there something he can do to avoid those? “Certainly you want to avoid those. Those are big penalties with the loss of down and the yardage. So, we’ll continue to coach him up. And there’s obviously, as everybody knows, there are certain times that a sack is okay. You don’t love it, but sometimes you have to do that. It’s like anything with the young quarterback teaching when to throw it away, when to make that decision. So we’ll keep coaching them.” How do you get your guys ready with one game to go and things looking so bad? How do you get them ready to play a team like Baltimore next week? “Yeah, it’s no different than every single week, Jeff (Schudel). It’s the NFL. It’s a privilege to play in this league, it’s a privilege to coach in this league. We love the competitive nature of these games. It’s a division opponent. That’s just how we operate.” Myles (Garrett) got two sacks to get to that 14, making a little history. Just one of the few positives from today. Just what can you say about the consistency he brings in every game week in and week out? “Yeah, plays hard. I think he got real close on a few field goal block attempts as well, and I think that’s a great measure of how hard you’re playing, is how hard you go on that unit. He’s given us everything he’s got.” You were a fan of Snoop (Tyler Huntley) throughout the preseason and all of that. But what did you see in Tyler today? “Yeah, I mean he made a great play there on that third down. We brought everybody, he made somebody miss and natural ability took over. But obviously he made a few plays today.” You guys have obviously supported Dustin (Hopkins) through his struggles this season, but seeing him make that field goal, what did that just mean for him confidence wise? “Yeah, like we’ve talked about with Dustin, always worked through this with him. He’s a veteran, he’s kicking it really well in practice. Obviously just had that one opportunity in this one, but a veteran that we really trust.” Fans will take consolation in moving up to number three in the draft order. How do you feel about that? “Yeah, I have no comment on that, Tony (Grossi).” How about with Denzel (Ward)? Do you think he could be lost for next week? “Yeah, it’s way too early to tell on injuries.” Pierre (Strong Jr.) looked like he left about two minutes left. “Yeah, evaluating him for a head injury, but I don’t have any information past that.” When did the injury to Denzel occur? Because we found out about it while you guys were on offense to start second half. Was it late in that...? “I believe it was right at that last possession in the second quarter.” I know it’s all been disappointing, but the fact that you go 2-6 at home, you talked about trying to come out of here with the win. Just what’s that frustration level like, especially after going 8-1 last year at home? “Yeah, we’ve got the best home field advantage in the NFL with our crowd and how into it they are. We haven’t done enough as a football team to keep them into it. So that’s the frustrating part. I really wanted to get this one for them in this building being the last one at home, so it’s frustrating.” Obviously, you committed to getting (Jerry) Jeudy the ball, 18 targets. Is that the number you envisioned? “Jerry’s our best player on offense. 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The Georgia Southern football team was once again in a great position entering last week’s home matchup with Troy. The Eagles were tied for first place in the Eastern division with Marshall, a team they beat earlier this season and controlled their own destiny in making it to the Sun Belt Championship. Three games remaining against teams with losing records in the conference were ahead, and if the Eagles were able to win out, they had a chance to even host the Sun Belt Championship. The Eagles have struggled in post-October football games with a 2-10 record and unfortunately that trend continued as they fell 28-20 to a Troy team that came in 2-7 overall and 1-4 in conference play. The Eagles only committed one turnover, which came late in the game, but really struggled on third down as the defense allowed Troy to go 11-14 and eat up valuable time off the clock, while the Eagles offense only managed to go three for eight on third down. “We really needed to be better on third down,” said coach Clay Helton. “I thought quarterback Matthew Caldwell did a nice job of getting the ball to his playmakers going 11 for 14 and keeping our offense off the field. They did the things that good ball-control offenses do. They didn’t turn the ball over and limited us to just eight drive possessions.” While message boards and social media lit up after the game with frustrated fans, Eagle starting defensive lineman Isaac Walker vented his frustration as well on Instagram. Helton announced Monday that Walker was no longer with the team and would not go into the reasons behind it. “I can confirm he is no longer on the football team,” Helton said. “We are very fortunate here unlike a lot of places that have a lot of attrition. We have 123 players, men who are pulling really hard in the same direction. They want to win a championship and are fighting like heck. Leadership is always tough, you aren’t going to make everyone happy and that’s the price of leadership.” Walker no longer being on the roster comes a week after quarterback Dexter Williams decided to leave the team and enter the transfer portal. Eagle players admit they are as frustrated with losing as the fans are and are trying their best to focus on the game ahead with Coastal Carolina and block the noise the best they can from outside the team. “The way the fans feel is the same way we feel,” said Eagle defensive back Chance Gamble. “We know we are expected to win here at Georgia Southern. I feel like there are plays I didn’t make on third down and I know I need to do a better job of locking in especially in those situations.” “It does hurt to hear negativity out there because we want them to love us like we love them,” said Eagle offensive lineman Bryson Broadway. “I love our fans, I love the interactions with the fans and this environment. This is unlike any other place and special. I think sometimes this brings us together and puts a chip on our shoulder and makes us want to work harder.” The Eagles are currently tied for second place in the East and with JMU and Marshall still yet to play have a good chance at winning the East but will have to win out which starts with a road game at Coastal Carolina Saturday in Conway S.C. The Chanticleers come in with a record of 5-5 overall and are 2-4 in Sun Belt play. Coastal is coming off a 38-24 loss to Marshall on the road and are averaging 30 points per game, but giving up over 31 points per contest. Ethan Vasko leads the Chanticleer offense and has thrown for 1,818 and 11 touchdowns. On the ground Vasko has accounted for 357 yards and four scores. Coastal’s leading rusher is Brayden Bennett with 546 yards rushing and 11 touchdowns. “You can see coach Tim Beck’s fingerprints on this team,” Helton said. “They have always been that spread-option team, but coach Beck is one of the most elite pro-style minds there are. They have kind of blended into that with tremendous balance. They are running the ball but also Vasko is distributing the ball to some electric playmakers. What really scared me is what they did to a really good running team in Marshall in holding them to only 35 yards that really jumped off the page as far as what they did defensively.” The Eagles and Chanticleers are scheduled for a 3:30 kickoff in a game that can seen on ESPN+The Wanted star Max George has said he is “staying positive” while in hospital waiting for tests that could shine a light on issues with his heart. In a post to Instagram on Thursday the singer, 36, explained that he went to hospital after feeling “really unwell” and added that he needed “a lot more tests” to determine “what surgery I will need to get me back on my feet.” Updating his fans, George posted a video from his hospital bed on Friday, and said he “had a bit of a rough day”. He added: “My heart rate dropped a bit this morning, which was, it was a little bit scary. “But everyone here is amazing, so wanted to get it back up a little bit and get it stable again, which is great. “Reason I’m not... like a lot of friends and family are asking why I’m not just going in and having anything (like surgery) done yet, because there’s so many tests that need to be done before we do anything. “So I just need to get through till, I guess, next week. Get all the tests done, and then they’ll know exactly what to do, because otherwise, obviously, they’ll be able to do something, but it’ll be better doing it with all the information that they need. “But, yeah, it’s shit, but still here and staying positive. “And thanks everyone as well for all the lovely messages and any friends and family and that that have messaged that I haven’t got back to. “I see you all and yeah, means a lot. Much love and have a nice Friday night.” George rose to fame in the 2010s with The Wanted, who had a number of hit songs including All Time Low, Glad You Came and Heart Vacancy. His bandmate Tom Parker died in 2022 at the age of 33 after being diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour. George, who helped carry Parker’s coffin at his funeral alongside fellow bandmates Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness and Nathan Sykes, previously said on This Morning that he continued to message his late bandmate following his death as it brought him “a bit of comfort”. He also appeared in the US musical series Glee as Clint and in his band’s reality series The Wanted Life. Over the years, he has competed in a number of competition series including Strictly Come Dancing in 2020, Bear Grylls: Mission Survive and Richard Osman’s House Of Games. George’s girlfriend is former EastEnders star Maisie Smith , who appeared on BBC One dancing competition series Strictly Come Dancing in 2020 at the same time as George, though they have previously said that romantic sparks only began to fly in 2022. He was due to appear on a MasterChef Christmas special before the BBC pulled the show from its festive schedule amid allegations about the conduct of judge Gregg Wallace across a range of shows.
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