For decades , humans have pondered whether a predominate , hairy , biped animate being roams our wood . Some call him Bigfoot . Some refer to him assasquatch . Normally , his universe is debated only among paranormal enthusiasts . But thanks to some newly uncovered governmentfiles , we now know the Federal Bureau of Investigation once execute some forensic testing to see if Bigfoot was living among us .
accord to theSeattle Times , the agency was contacted by a Bigfoot investigator name Peter C. Byrne in 1976 with a petition to try out a hair sampling Byrne had collected in Oregon . The 15 hairs were attach to a small slice of cutis , which Byrne and his colleagues at the Bigfoot Information Center and Exhibition were ineffectual to name . The hairs add up from a search of a situation where two U.S. Forest Service employees claimed to have see the creature . In gain to the fuzz , there were 14 - in footprint .
Incredibly , the FBI was tractable to the request . Jay Cochran Jr. , assistant director for the FBI ’s scientific and expert service of process division , wrote Byrne and said that although the agency is interested primarily in felonious matters , he would make an exception . Though their office may have doubt the existence of Bigfoot , it had beenaskedto make interrogation in the past . It was possible they need to settle the matter once and for all .
If Byrne bear out hope his sample might produce a definitive answer as to Bigfoot ’s creation , he was disappointed . Cochran revealed to him that the tomentum come from a deer , although the correspondence was lost in transit and Byrne never really read the answer until this past hebdomad . Speaking withThe Washington Post , the 93 - year - old expressed little letdown . " If the FBI says it ’s deer fuzz , I approximate that ’s it , " he say . " For now . "
[ h / tSeattle Times ]
