Dr. Jeff Meldrum

Meldrum's interest was triggered in 1996 when he personally examined a fresh set of large footprints in the Blue Mountains of Washington State — prints that showed dermal ridges, pressure ridges, and mid-tarsal pressure breaks consistent with a large bipedal primate. His background in primate foot biomechanics made him uniquely qualified to assess what he was seeing. He has since accumulated over 300 footprint casts and subjected them to forensic analysis.

• ▸Over 300 Sasquatch footprint casts in his personal collection show consistent anatomical features incompatible with hoaxing
• ▸Mid-tarsal pressure breaks in multiple unrelated casts indicate a flexible mid-foot inconsistent with human anatomy but consistent with a large undiscovered primate
• ▸Dermal ridge patterns on several casts are too detailed and anatomically consistent to have been fabricated
• ▸The Patterson-Gimlin film subject shows muscle mass, proportions, and gait biomechanics that would be extraordinarily difficult to fake with 1967 technology

• 1.Over 300 documented footprint casts with forensic analysis, held at Idaho State University
• 2.Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (2006) — peer-reviewed academic treatment of physical evidence
• 3.Published papers on primate foot morphology applied to Sasquatch cast analysis
• 4.Collaboration with the FBI's fingerprint division on dermal ridge analysis of key casts