Dr. Jeff Meldrum: Sasquatch Most Closely Resembles a Form of Ape

Renowned bigfoot researcher Jeff Meldrum of Idaho State University spoke to Wofford students studying urban legends during the Jan Interim. Here, Wofford senior Dominque Cox gets a majority signed. (GERRY PATE/gerry.pate@shj.com)

In our previous post, "Dr. Jeff Meldrum Speaks at Wofford College," nosotros alerted our fans to Meldrum's speaking solar daytime of the month to Wofford students studying "urban legends" during the Jan Interim.

The Spartanburg Herald-Journal is a daily newspaper, together with the master copy paper for Spartanburg, South Carolina.The Journal covers what happened at the outcome inwards the article below.

Bigfoot researcher talks at Wofford nearly urban legends

By LEE HEALY

lee.healy@shj.com

Published: Sunday, Jan 22, 2012 at 3:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Saturday, Jan 21, 2012 at 11:36 p.m.

When a bird of curious Wofford College students began debating the fact, fiction together with in-between of pop urban legends, they lately turned to a widely known practiced to uncovering out to a greater extent than nearly 1 of the world's age-old phenomenon — Bigfoot.

Jeff Meldrum, a professor of anthropology at Idaho State University, spoke Fri to students inwards accounting together with finance professors Ryan together with Jenny Johnson's Interim course, Urban Legends: (Mostly) True Stories Verified past times a Friend of a Friend.

Interim opportunities are available to all Wofford students during the calendar month of Jan each year. The classes aren't commonly the traditional academic courses students are used to, merely a fourth dimension for exploration together with experiential learning.

So for some other week, the 32 students inwards the Johnsons' Urban Legends course of didactics are exploring the truth — or lack thereof — behind pop stories, such every bit whether trick-or-treaters should inspect Halloween candy for dangers or if catfish the size of Volkswagen Beetles swim nigh the base of operations of a Colorado River dam.

“It's an interesting topic. The focus of our bird is non ever if it's truth or fiction, merely that people lead to tell the story,” Ryan Johnson explained.

“We're non trying to debunk anything,” Jenny Johnson said.

On Friday, Meldrum signed books adjacent to plaster casts of could-be Sasquatch footprints — examples of the prove he's personally discovered during years of inquiry on the elusive “wild man.” Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 known practiced on primate locomotion, Meldrum has appeared inwards a seat out of documentaries for the Discovery Channel together with has written several books on the topic.

“Oftentimes, behind the stories there's a substance of truth,” Meldrum said. “Do the roots of the stories nearly wild men betoken dorsum to a existent brute or creatures? Could whatever persist into the present?”

Meldrum said he enjoys speaking to college-age students because they're commonly opened upwards to novel ideas together with weigh points on their ain merits.

Meldrum told students that he personally operates nether the hypothesis that the brute known every bit Sasquatch most closely resembles a shape of ape. He said that tales of similar creatures receive got been passed through the generations inwards many of the world's cultures.

Taking a scientific approach to the subject, Meldrum discussed the development of ape-like mammals that could have, over time, traveled to together with settled inwards diverse places around the world.

“The prospect that some of them powerfulness receive got existed into the introduce isn't then far-fetched,” he said, pointing to casts of footprints he start personally encountered inwards 1996 nigh Walla Walla, Wash. The tracks closely resemble a human's merely are significantly larger together with present a pressure level ride inwards the middle rather than an arch. The flex at the mid-foot, Meldrum explained, is to a greater extent than similar to a chimp's.

Meldrum told students that 1 of the themes of the Urban Legends course of didactics — together with stories similar that of Bigfoot — is that at that spot is no history without myth together with said he's gained an appreciation for folklore together with tradition through his scientific study.

Wofford senior Dominique Cox said Meldrum's presentation made her think. She called the Urban Legends Interim the favorite of her college career.

“The stories are then outrageous sometimes, merely there's ever a grain of truth to it, then it could live true,” Cox said.

SRC:  Spartanburg Herald-Journal 

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