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Read the Alleged Bigfoot DNA Email

August 15, 2008

What follows is text from an email that Curt Nelson, a University of Minnesota biologist, allegedly sent to Tom Biscardi, Chief Executive Officer of Searching for Bigfoot, Inc., after he completed DNA tests on three samples that were purportedly taken from the deceased Bigfoot creature.

From: "Curt Nelson" [address redacted]
To: Tom Biscardi [address redacted]
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2008 8:11 AM
Subject: DNA results 2

Tom,

DNA was purified from the tissue [redacted] brought to me, and from human cells (positive control), and the DNA from the sample and the control human cells was reacted with three sets of primers designed to amplify (make copies of) human or chimpanzee mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), two of the three primer pairs worked - produced DNA segments of the size predicted for human/chimp DNA. The third primer failed, even with the positive control (human) sample, so the failure was only a technical one.

The amplified DNA segments produced in the PCR reactions - two from the tissue sample and two from the human control cells - were sequenced from both ends using each of the primers used in their amplification. The human control sample sequences were 100% human as expected. One of the DNA segments from the tissue sample was also 100% human (about 500 base pairs). The other DNA segment was an apparent mix of DNA sequence. However, the DNA sequence interpreted by the sequencing computer algorithm indicates at least a 96% match to Didelphis virginiana - a possum.

Curt Nelson

Also included here are two additional photos from the press conference.

Bigfoot still frame   

The first photo is a blurry still frame image that Biscardi handed out to the media during the press conference. The video, Biscardi claimed, was taken two months ago in a Georgia forest.






Bigfoot closeup 



The second photo, also provided by Biscardi, shows the mouth of the dead creature, something which Biscardi said should "prove to all of you people that it is not just a mask."











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