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^ Right, there should have been some toejam from something beside bigfoot in the mix. Somebody is picking their feet in Poughkeepsie believing in this Ketchum bull.

Yep, she reported 100% of tested samples positive for bigfoot. 109 of 109 or 110 of 110 or ... depends on which source you check, but 100% either way. The chance that every single sample submitted was bigfoot is vanishingly small. It's "even more vanishingly small" (if that's a thing?) knowing something about the provenance of some of the samples ... as I do. I tell you this, not a guess, but certainty: a portion of those samples absolutely were bigfoot and a portion absolutely were NOT. (And many I'm not sure about of course.) The absolute certainty that some were not bigfoot but she reported them as bigfoot anyway inescapably means one of two things: laboratory error or fraud in reporting. It is claimed she followed standard forensic procedures in cleaning samples to remove contaminants. So ... what's left? This is not a hard question, it just doesn't fit the story some want to tell. The only thing it means in the end is that Ketchum's study has no relevance regarding determining whether bigfoot is real or not. The coolaid chuggers will lock in on her REPORTED (falsely) results as the proof they want to find. The scoftics will lock in on the falsely reported positives as basis for dismissal they want to find. Anyone with an open mind and any background in science will rue the loss of the best candidate samples collected to date and look to the future for new samples and legitimate testing. Sykes got second-string samples, the leftovers Ketchum hadn't managed to destroy. I'm not a Sykes fan but regardless, I don't think there was anything to find in what he tested. If you hope for a DNA result, look to the Olympic Project "nest" and soil testing. Even with scoffing Disotell involved it's the best game in town right now. MIB

First of all Lucas did indeed draw Chewbacca's inspiration from his dog Indiana. I know this will be hard for some to understand, but his dog had nothing to do with the way Chewbacca looked. So the Bigfoot connection had nothing to do with Chewbacca. The "Inspiration" from his dog, was to give Han Solo a loyal companion in the way his dog was to him. Had nothing to with Bigfoot or the way the dog looked. Trhe reason the dog looked like a person going down the road is a large 130lb dog sitting in the front seat could be misidentified as a human. You know, just like when a human is misidentified as a Bigfoot, or an entire group of skiers is confused for a Bigfoot family. You should first start by looking at early concept sketches, then look into actually who designed the Chewbacca costume, "hint" it wasn't Lucas.... I guess Mel Brooks made the real vision of Lucas's Chewbacca with John Candy's role in Spaceballs.. Now that was straight up dog. The only connection that Chewbacca has with Bigfoot is the story of them filming in California and the crew telling Peter Mayhew not to wonder around in the woods while in costume so he would't get shot or hurt in case someone thought he was a Bigfoot.

How in the heck are you still defending the Bigfoot slant with Lucas!? Thats a lot of typing to say "Ive got nothing so I will recant my statement about Lucas playing with Bigfeets as a child!" The article states that his dog sitting LIKE A HUMAN in the passanger seat of his car AND peoples observstions that it Looked LIKE A HUMAN, inspired Lucas to create Chewbacca..... Why doesnt chewbacca more closely resemble a Husky? Why doesnt Jabba the hut more closely resemble a garden slug? Why doesnt a tontar more resemble a unicorn? Why doesnt ewoks more resemble black bear cubs? Its science fiction thats why! At this point there is NO connection between Star Wars and Bigfoot! If someone can provide proof otherwise? Awesome! The problem with our brains not meshing Leaf? Is mine works in black and white....not alot of gray noise in there.