Destination Truth find Yeti Hair in Bhutan
If, like me, you are addicted to these shows searching for some hidden truth in this new Information Age, you undoubtedly caught the Destination Truth episode recently aired on SeeFee (syfy) channel. If you didn’t, go check it out on YouTube or hulu.com. It’s impressive for one reason only. The gang at DT got, what appeared to be, a genuine American scientist to state that their evidence hair from Bhutan was (1) a primate hair and, more importantly, (2) not cataloged in their DNA database. Uhm, what? Bueller? Two idiots from Kentucky throw a dummy in an ape costume into a refrigerator and they get CNN coverage while a real scientific lab went on the record that whatever the hair sample was, it wasn’t human and it was a primate, gets not even a mention anywhere?
This, if anything, has me quite puzzled. Ok, puzzled is the wrong word, this has me saying, WTF?!?! Once again I am presented with the great choice in these types of situations. Either it’s a total sham, or it’s so unbelievably true that everyone thinks its a scam. Now, I admit, just about every single time this choice is presented to me, it invariably turns out to be a sham. The Ghost Hunters Halloween 2008 special has largely been touted as the biggest scam of all time. After some you tube video’s replaying the event, I have to admit, the whole Grant’s coat being pulled looked very fishy, so much so that I think it was scam. But that’s a topic for another time. Right now we’re in Yeti hair samples world.
So if anyone out there in the interweb sees this, and it’s likely not many, where the hell is the shock and awe? A real sample that is an “unsequenced DNA sample from a primate” is shocking! Especially considering the area, Bhutan, and the fact that there are no primates in that area that are known about.
On the point of the Yeti itself, could it actually exist, that’sa tough question. We’ve never actually caught a glimpse of a giant squid, but we know they exist because we have the bodies. So the same question applies, where are the dead Yeti’s? Wouldn’t we have foundjust one of them? How long does a dead body the size of Andre the Giant take to decompose in a forest? Could we really have just not found a dead body in all the time Humans have been looking? I say that’s a solid maybe. Its one of the leading arguments against just about all ‘new’ creatures in the world.
But wait! Maybe there is evidence after all? Some time ago, in the 30’s, several teeth and a jawbone were discovered in a Chinese apothecary shop. They turned out to be a giant ape, named Gigantopithecus blacki, that stood about 9 feet tall. It was thought to have gone extinct some 300,000 years ago, give or take a few. More about that can be found here: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/1208_051208_giant_ape.html
Well, that leaves a big ‘what the F%## if in my opinion. We know something that big did exist once. We know it was a primate. Could it have survived in an extremely remote forest/jungle where the local inhabitants all believe completely that this create exists and most have seen it? I don’t know. But I have to admit, the evidence from the guys at DT is shocking. What is more shocking is that no one seems to have cared. Maybe everyone is gun shy about the Yeti/Sasquatch issue after so many fake claims. Would figure that when someone finally finds something interesting, no one seems to care.
Let me stress, I am not saying that they DID find something, I’m saying that they have compelling evidence that should be reconfirmed by a 2nd independent laboratory, and, oh, I don’t know, covered by at least one news agency? But then again, the guys at DT did find alien bodies and some weird Imperial drone code speech in South America a few weeks ago. I can see how some may be natural skeptics. If I find anything anywhere i’ll be sure to post it here.
I agree 100%. This seems like a major find, and yet no one is saying anything. I don’t think they faked it, but I would love to see them present the findings and remaining hair samples to some other sources!
I am sure they have had their share of fakes, but I really don’t think you can fake a hair sample with unsequenced DNA. If it were anything identifiable it would have shown up in the testing. I am also surprised no one has covered this at all unless even the lab and scientist were fakes which should be easy enough to debunk with a few phone calls.
Oh my God! I was thinking the SAME thing when I saw this episode a couple of weeks ago. I woke up the next morning and turned to CNN and the other news channels and heard NOTHING about this.
Their find was absolutely amazing. And look what they went through to get just that little bit of hair evidence.
I’m usually extremely skeptical about this stuff, but this evidence blew me away and I’m very disappointed in the lack of news coverage over what the Destination Truth crew found on the Bhutan Yeti episode.
Knowing that other large mammals do infact bury thier dead (ie. elephants), I would say that there is a definate possibility that the Yeti has gone undetected in remote parts of the world. Nothwest Canada is 80% unexplored, The Congo is also largly unexplored, as well as most of the rainforests’ in our world. Three new leopards have recently been discovered in Malaysia, all three have common ancestry dating back hundreds of thousands of years. If a large cat can evade people then it is possible for a large ape to do the same, esspecially in remote parts of our beautiful planet.
Actually, this is not the first case of a hair sample indicating an unrecognized primate….and several of these cases come from the U.S. One thing I thought looked a bit fishy though, was that it was so many hairs…if you’ve ever had someone try to pull out your hair, then you will understand that it takes quite a bit of force to pull out that many at once. Those hairs seemed fairly uniform in their form, the way they curved, indicating that they did indeed grow close together. It is hard to believe(but not impossible) that that many hairs could be yanked out by grazing past a tree.