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Home » DNA analysis revealed that the “Bigfoot hair” did not belong to Bigfoot at all

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DNA analysis revealed that the “Bigfoot hair” did not belong to Bigfoot at all

It turned out that the mysterious strand of hair, which in June this year found itself in the hands of British writer E. Benfield and his friend R. Horsey, for several years looking for bigfoot, does not belong to the legendary Bigfoot, but an ordinary horse.

The friends have been travelling around Myanmar, Bhutan, India and Nepal for 4 years collecting local stories about Bigfoot and plan to produce a radio series dedicated to the search. A 15-centimetre strand of hair believed to belong to a bigfoot ended up in Benfield’s hands in Bhutan’s Sakteng National Park.

Benfield sent half of the strand to biologist S. Lindquist in the United States. She and her team conducted a genetic analysis and found that the strand belonged to a horse of the Altai mountain breed.

The biologist has already participated in DNA analysis of nine samples of hair, which allegedly also belonged to Bigfoot, and concluded that eight of them belonged to a bear, and one – a dog.

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