Comments on: The Hand of Unknown Origin

By: Lee Pierce

Lee Pierce — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:47:04 +0000

I HATE FAKERS.

By: tsiatko

tsiatko — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 04:25:00 +0000

Don Monroe wanted to show this in Bellingham last year. After Jason Valenti and Paul Smith checked out the pictures that Monroe showed them and the x-ray he showed them they compared it to a bear and decided that’s what it was.

They told Mr. Monroe thanks but no thanks.

By: planettom

planettom — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:13:11 +0000

I thought from the beginning that something was weird about the missing “fingertips”. Now I believe after comparing the cave bear paw images and that of the “hand”, it is definitely a bear paw. As someone else stated, to cover up the claws.

By: cor2879

cor2879 — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 18:15:01 +0000

After seeing the X-ray of the hand and seeing a skeletal bear paw I am 99% convinced that Biscardi’s “Bigfoot Hand” is indeed the disembodied paw of a bear. I would like to see the skeletal structure of an ape hand though just to hammer in the final nail.

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:17:25 +0000

fredfacker/Craig-

Points taken. It will be interesting to see what the lab says.

By: Craig Woolheater

Craig Woolheater — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:33:11 +0000

shovethenos,

The thing to consider is that Biscardi is claiming that the DNA Diagnostics Center has done testing on the hand. He has claimed many things that have not panned out.

As soon as I hear from a representative of the lab, I will report back here on Cryptomundo.

By: fredfacker

fredfacker — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:29:32 +0000

I’m not saying the lab doesn’t know what they’re doing. (Although I do live in Houston, so if you know the history here with HPD, you know that just because a lab is accredited it doesn’t mean they’re honest or scientific in their principles. Innocent people are still being released from prison thanks to the fact that our lab techs were “fixing” the results of DNA tests.) I’m saying you can spin the PR however you want.

So a lab worker hands someone an official report that says, “The specimen definitely isn’t human, but we were unable to to verify a DNA match due to the degraded condition of the specimen.” Then that person writes a press release that only quotes, “Unable to verfiy a DNA match.”

Then, of course, that quote gets spun, and the next quote gets spun, and all of the sudden you have all sorts of outrageous claims that the lab never made in the first place.

I have a feeling a lot of what is reported through Biscardi’s camp gets rather embellished.

By: shovethenos

shovethenos — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 16:09:02 +0000

fredfacker-

That lab is a lab accredited by the FBI and others that undergoes regular evaluations to maintain their accredition. One would think they know what they’re doing with regard to degraded, decomposed samples.

But who knows, it will be interesting to hear what they say when they respond to Craig.

By: fredfacker

fredfacker — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:58:09 +0000

Whether it’s a bear paw or not (which I think it is) the removal of the fingertips and thumb make the whole thing really fishy. I’m guessing there was no actual DNA testing or the DNA was just so degraded that it came up as unusable, not as “something that wasn’t in the system.”