Today inward Bigfoot History | JAN 06 | Meldrum Backs Freeman

Photoshopped film of Jeff Meldrum belongings a Paul Freeman cast

“So the idea occurred to me: Well, if [Paul Freeman] is responsible for this [Bigfoot] hoax, why would he portray it as well as thus incorrectly on the conduct a opportunity I would read it differently?” -- doc Jeff Meldrum

Today inwards 1997 according to the book, Bigfoot Exposed, doc Jeff Meldrum stakes much of his academic reputation on the Paul Freeman trackway. This trackway was a serial of  Bigfoot tracks from the Blue Mountains close Walla Walla, Washington. He wrote his back upward on a posting to the Internet Virtual Bigfoot Conference, an online (email-based) Bigfoot query community.

This was a pretty large bargain since at the fourth dimension doc Jeff Meldrum was fellow member of the Biological Sciences faculty at Idaho State University as well as Grover Krantz’s professional person heir-apparent inwards the champaign of anthropology. Currently equally of 2013, Meldrum is a total professor. Krantz was the start academy professor to publicly support as well as query the possibility of Bigfoot's existence.

If you lot get got e'er heard doc Meldrum speak, you lot may survive fortunate plenty to listen how he start met paul Freeman as well as the circumstances of thier meeting. In our previous post, "Dr. Jeff Meldrum Compelled yesteryear Freeman Tracks" you lot tin read doc meldrum retell the story, below is a curt excerpt from that post:

Meldrum began next the tracks, far beyond where Freeman’s kicking tracks ended, as well as constitute additional sets of footprints coming as well as going. Whatever had made the tracks had obviously come upward downwardly the Mill Creek drainage, using the brush along an empty irrigation ditch equally cover, mayhap to raid the apple tree as well as plum orchards farther below.

“At that indicate it was clear Paul had read the whole circumstance completely backward,” Meldrum says. “So the idea occurred to me: Well, if he’s responsible for this hoax, why would he portray it as well as thus incorrectly on the conduct a opportunity I would read it differently?”

The indicate is, doc Meldrum constitute plenty interesting close the trackway himself, that he was compelled independently what he had observed himself. But let’s dorsum upward as well as hash out Paul Freeman a bit.

Paul freeman is described inwards an AP article.

Freeman, 45, does non appear the type to spook easily. He is beefy, bearded and, at 6-foot-4 as well as 265 pounds, approaches Sasquatch proportions himself. He's a meat-cutter yesteryear trade; an outdoorsman as well as hunter yesteryear nature.

Apparently he position downwardly the butchers knife as well as started to search for bigfoot. Before his death he had claimed to see Bigfoot himself iv times as well as has collected to a greater extent than cast, most of them alongside dermal ridges, to a greater extent than than whatsoever other Bigfoot hunter. This brings us dorsum to Meldrum. Meldrum non entirely staked his proficient cite exactly likewise position his coin where his oral fissure is, he ended upward buying Freeman’s collection for a total of nearly $2000 dollars. 

Dr. Meldrum was quoted yesteryear the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, "I’d been given an earful yesteryear people close Paul’s reputation, as well as it was bad. I went into it rattling skeptical."

You tin read Meldrum's initial reaction to the prints at our post, Dr. Jeff Meldrum Compelled yesteryear Freeman Tracks. You tin larn farther details at Cliff Barackman's Cast Database.

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