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Sorry, Leafy. I didn't make myself clear about the Q-tip sample. What I should have said was that the BF hair sample that I sent wasn't contaminated with my DNA when she compared it to my sample from the Q-tip. (That still didn't sound right, but maybe it's a little better.) Rockape, I guess the NDA has expired by now & it's OK to talk about it. I had two different samples. One was extremely fine white "hair", & the other was black. I found the white hair in the garden, about 4' high, stuck to a pod of okra one morning. I had heard them out at the apple tree, close to the okra, the night before. There were 3 little ones & a couple of adults. I had gotten a picture of a little white juvenile & was convinced that the white hair was from him. When I first found it, it smelled like somebody that's never had a bath. It was awful. I sent some to Southern Yahoo & he said it looked like some kind of synthetic fiber, but because of how I had found it, I sent it to be tested anyway. Melba said it was the nastiest synthetic fiber she ever looked at through a microscope, & didn't include it in the study. I still don't know where it came from, why it stunk so bad, or how it got on the okra, but I still think the BFs had something to do with it being there. Maybe from a stuffed toy that they had, assuming that they don't grow synthetic hair. The other was from a big clump of black hair that my son & I found found hanging from underneath the limb of a fallen tree. One evening, we hid in an old camper, that was sitting out behind the house. I was listening with the bionic ear, & he was looking through the night vision, toward the west, at a place where we thought the BFs were crossing the fence when they came here. There was one that ran around whistling like a whippoorwill from dark until daylight every night, & before long we heard the whistle coming toward us. There was just a little strip of orange left in the sky, but it was enough to see a figure moving around near the fallen tree, where they crossed the fence. Just as we saw the figure, the whistling stopped & it was gone. The next morning early, we went over to the place where we had seen the figure & looked around. It was near the railroad fence & dirt was piled up on the RR side to almost the top of the fence. They could walk up there & just step down into the pasture, but the tree had fallen there & they had to duck under a limb that was about 5' high. Hanging on that limb was the clump of black hair. It was dry & fluffy & had an earthy smell. There was no livestock in that pasture & hadn't been any in about a month. Also, we had about 5 inches of rain a few days before. The hairs were from 2-5 inches long & just slightly more coarse that my hair. I pulled it off the limb with a stick & stuffed it into a plastic bag. Later, I put it into an envelope because the researcher said it shouldn't be kept in plastic. I still have quite a bit left. When Southern Yahoo told me about the study, Melba had almost finished the tests on all the other samples that she had & was planning to send them to the other labs in a few days. He asked her if she could use another sample & because of where mine came from, she said that she would like to have it. I had to hurry to get it there in time to be sent with the others, & she didn't have time to do her tests on it before they were sent. She just looked at it under the microscope, said it looked good & sent some with the other samples. A couple of weeks later, she told me that when she did the mitochondrial test, it wasn't human like the others & she didn't think it was BF. I didn't hear anymore from her for a little over a year, but one day a friend told me that he had asked her about it & she told him that it came back with the same strange nuDNA as the others that she thought were BF. I called her & she confirmed that it was definitely the same nuDNA as the other BF samples.

Good news, for now. Somehow Ray not critical ... however in his condition, improvement is problematic, especially given his heart problems. He will never go home again. I am sure thoughts and prayers helped a lot. He says he's going to be transferred to a new VA facility in Lebanon, Oregon; which is in the central Willamette Valley east of Corvallis, or SE of Salem. When I saw him last Monday, the 14th, he could barely talk. Now his voice and mental stability have recovered a lot. Ray's a tough guy. He sends good wishes to all who have thought of him. Your telephone calls are now welcome { VA Portland on a speaker phone }, but if he is weak, don't expect to talk long. Tell him good things that will make him smile.

That story about the researchers contaminating the samples doesn't hold water, because we sent a sample of our own DNA with the hair samples. And no, you aren't the only one that thinks it's strange.

I found this on The BF Field Journal in an article about the study.

As far as probabilities goes the greatest odds would be it was a hoax. If bigfoot be real its so rare that its only been captured on camera once. Therefore its far more likely that a couple of dudes pulled a hoax than having captured the real deal. Far easier to hoax a thermal nowadays than hd video. I predict a lot more thermals in bigfoots future.