Creatures, Myths & Legends

The FBI once tested Bigfoot hair samples, former agent claims

By T.K. Randall
November 10, 2024

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) You would think that the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation) would already have its hands full dealing with legitimate cases, but according to one former FBI agent, officials once spent time investigating the Bigfoot phenomenon and even tried testing alleged samples of Sasquatch hair.

The claim comes courtesy of Tracy Shandler Walder - a 45-year-old from Texas who previously worked as a special agent with the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.

The case in question reportedly dates back to the 1970s and saw the FBI investigate samples of hair provided by a hunter who claimed that they had originated from the creature.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the samples turned out to be from a deer, but it was the FBI's willingness to conduct tests on them at all that makes the incident particularly intriguing.

"That hunter believed it was from Sasquatch or Bigfoot, they legitimately tested it and ran it through their forensic labs and it came back as being a species of deer," said Walder.

"But it's interesting that the FBI actually took it on.""It kind of played into the conspiracy theories and legitimacy surrounding it."

Could the FBI have had a reason for taking this particular case seriously ? Did the bureau know something about the phenomenon that we don't ? We may never know for sure.

As for Walder, she has her own thoughts about the Bigfoot phenomenon.

"In my opinion with cryptids, I think they are probably real species of animal that people have mistaken for something else or have actually never seen before," she said.

"It's kind of insular of us to think we've discovered every single species out there in the world."

"I don't think that we have."

Source: Daily Star

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