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I never gave him much thought until a few years ago when I listened to him. What a great guy he seemed like, and so knowledgeable! I am a fan.

Yes, it is an incredible story indeed. I do think there was a 'Zana' and I do think it was her DNA that was tested, I think they tested her offspring too maybe which was entirely human? With regard to the reported size, appearance and claimed physical abilities I'm very much more inclined to believe those were dramatic embellishments and overexcited stories based on her different appearance. Many, many old time stories about creatures have gross embellishments of height, size, strength etc. for all kind of animals - snakes, sharks, apes and so on and I'm inclined to believe that is what happened in this case unless there is very good evidence otherwise. I simply don't know but when they did the DNA analysis did they measure the length of the bones, like a femur bone or something to establish likely size ranges? That would be telling. I think you're right, we can accept certain things 'with suspicion'. That is a great phase

True. It is rather weak testimony, and if put against all sasquatch testimony, it is pretty rare, but it's there. The testimony that an actual offspring was born is even more rare. Yup. In fact, I recall only one or two claims that offspring were born of the mating of a male sasquatch and a North American female aboriginal human. I'll have to dig for those........ The Zana story is absolutely incredible, even if one accepts the African slave line. First, she was huge; claimed to be @ 6'6" tall and proportionately built. This is not impossible, but an extremely rare female Homo sapien size, especially for one who was likely malnourished, living in the wilds. Secondly, the medical condition that supposedly accounts for her body covered with hair; hypertrichosis. Scientifically, it is so rare as to be a condition found in 1 of five billion or more people. That's right; there have been about 50 cases recorded since the Middle Ages. So add that remarkable claim to a 6'6" tall African woman found wild in the Caucacus Mountains. But there's more: incredible strength, speed, and daring (like swimming a swollen, turbulent river), not to mention her ability to survive (even prefer) outside during sub-zero cold.........all winter. The demand to accept all of these things is only valid with the claim that dna genetic testing proves that she was Homo sapien. Frankly, I only accept it with suspicion. I'll be open to and looking for any chink in Margaryan's claims that I can find.

Hello, I am from northern Minnesota. I am an avid outdoorsman, but I've never had any interaction or seen any evidence of sasquatch. Due to the PG film and eyewitness accounts I am open to the existence of sasquatch.

This is Blackbear from Seattle, WA. with an interest in the Bigfoot legend. This urge began when I was really young when strange footprints were found on a remote local beach by a fellow explorative youth. At first, I didn't believe in what we were witnessing but it was surreal and it scared the you know what out of us! In fact, we would not leave our cabins. I guess this adventurous experience is what triggered my interest; coupled with our realistic encounter with the unknown from this scenario.

I thought I already did an introduction, but not finding it anywhere. My name is Gabe Heiss and I live in Hamtramck (city within Detroit),MI. Although there's no BF activity this far in, there may be some in Palmer Park (not too likely) and on Belle Isle. There is definitely activity closer to where I'm from in Ypsilanti near Ann Arbor in Washtenaw Co. All along the Huron River from Pontiac (Oakland Co) to where it dumps into Lake Eerie in Flat Rock (Wine/Monroe Counties), there is Bigfoot activity. I also research other parts of Wayne and Oakland County along the Rouge River and its tributaries. Just yesterday I got pics and casts of what I believe to be 8" juvenile tracks in a Metropark on the Huron. I've only been (re)searching for about four years, but have had an interest in the subject since the 1970s. Like many people open to the existence of large, hairy bipedal ape-men, I thought they only lived in the Pacific Northwest or The Himalayas for most my life. Through TV shows such as Monster Quest and Finding Bigfoot, I discovered that witnesses were reporting sightings of skunk apes and Bigfoots in Florida and nearby Ohio, and it wasn’t long before I started seeing possible sign left by these creatures in the woods of my own backyard of Southeast Michigan. More recently, even more knowledge was gained through the hosts and guests of such podcasts as Bigfoot Outlaw Radio (featuring Bear and Coonbo) and Wes Germer’s Sasquatch Chronicles.I have also travelled to Pennsylvania and Ohio to research with the likes of Mary Fabian, Amy Bue, and Mike Familant, before meeting seasoned Michigan researchers like Bob Daigle, Val Zavalas, and Phil Shaw at conferences and outings closer to home. Around 2019, I formed SEMIBRO (Southeast Michigan Bigfoot Research Organization) with friend Brian Widick, and have also worked with other local research groups such as Michigan Sasquatch Experience, Michigan Aboriginal Project, Lost Cryptids Conservatory, and Time Is Now. Through my affiliation with Phil Shaw's West Branch group, Gabe has expanded his research beyond the “urban bigfooting” of Southeast Michigan. Contact: SE_MI_Bigfoot@hotmail.com Check out the Huron Howler video: https://youtube.com/user/pistgabe

I tend to think that they came across the land bridge MUCH earlier than 12k years ago, and adapted/changed with the other creatures that BECAME megafauna. They were/are megafauna, compared to us humans. I don't remember where I read all this, but the general gist has stayed with me. What hominid could compete with Short Faced Bears and Dire Wolves? Sasquatch. They are hold-overs from another age, and their intelligence has allowed them to adapt to changing conditions. The last 150 years must have been tough on them, encountering new diseases as Europeans colonized North America and our technological advances. Just my two cents, since no one else has answered.

C’mon everyone knows you don’t eat intestines for food… it’s to send a message. 🤭

I've heard something a couple times that .. just didn't fit. Once it was like kids giggling but moving at crazy speed through brush without any thrashing or crashing. I'm at a loss. One was like 3 pre-teen boys yelling back and forth. As they got nearer my location, they also got closer to each other. They passed me, in brush, at about 75 yards. They seemed to be within arms distance of each other but were still yelling. That was weird. In the middle of that was another sound which reminded me of elk "cow talk." Couldn't see them through the brush. Sounded like a tonal language .. sort of like my Japanese neighbor. Big question: what three pre-teen Asian kids were doing up there alone. No cars but mine at the trailhead, 5+ miles, 1700 foot climb, 500 foot drop .. bit of snow on the ground. Doesn't make much sense. One .. I thought was a younger girl "shushing" a dog just around a sharp corner in the trail ahead of me. Basically came around the corner expecting to want to step off the trail and give them space so I didn't get bitten. There was nobody there. Nobody ahead, nobody behind, nobody to the sides, empty woods and trail. Again .. I'm at a loss. I think there's a psychological thing going on here. I think this happens to a lot of people, but if it does not fit into a nice pigeonhole, we don't know what to do with it so it gets forgotten by normal people, it's only weirdos like me who don't sweep inconveniences under the mental carpet so as not to have to deal with discomfort of uncertainty. I don't think not remembering means it hasn't happened to you, it means you didn't have a comfortable category to put it in so you swept it aside and have "forgotten". MIB

There are several good books on, or with substantial chapters about, Zana. We can argue about what she was, we can't argue whether she existed. Not rationally. I differ with Huntster in that I no longer accept her as an example of Almasty .. she was modern human, with or without some twists. I had hopes; they are gone. I don't think Almasty are modern human nor are they bigfoot. It's not that simple. .. in my opinion, that is. As an aside, many times when we talk about species we fall into two camps, "choppers" and "lumpers". Some lean towards attributing all evidence to a single kind of entity, some lean towards the other end of the spectrum where there are almost as many types as there are individuals. I hope to fall some rational place in between. I suspect one of the reasons we can't "find bigfoot" is that our image / belief about what they are lumps dissimilar things together such that we are investigating the void in between them, not where either actually exists or how either behaves. Again, just a guess, but it fits the efforts and results so far. MIB

I am the arbiter. If you don’t like it, there’s the door.