�I took a picture to show my mother�s husband, who�s a hunter, and he said it wasn�t a human�s,� she said. �I�m not claiming that footprint to be anything. I don�t know what that is.�
Wendy recalls multiple incidents in the past five years in which she and her husband have come across �something not human.� She said she hears knocking sounds on the walls of their house late at night, and she remembers a time when she saw a figure in all black running across the railroad tracks.
�The direction they were going, there were no homes. It would�ve gone out the woods, crossed the tracks, and gone back into the woods,� she said.
Wendy and her husband have also heard loud growls outside. �I never walked backwards so fast to get back in the house. But I couldn�t see, it was so dark back there.� She said the growl was impossible to duplicate and made her husband�s �hair stand up.�
�I didn�t believe in the sasquatch before,� Wendy said. �And in fact I�m still fighting it. But I can�t make sense of that large footprint.�
According to the group Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, Ohio has logged more than 242 sightings since 1974.
Melba S. Ketchum, director of DNA Diagnostics who conducted a DNA study that concluded by confirming the existence of a Sasquatch species, said they do tend to pound on things out of curiosity.
�They even left me feathers once. I was behind blocked gates and there was nobody there but me,� she said. �Who else could it have been?�
She claims the average Sasquatch she�s seen is 10 feet tall, and they can �make any noise they want. They can mimic animals. And they can growl, of course.� Ketchum said the average foot size for a male is 17 feet, 15 feet for a female, and 7 feet for a baby.
As to whether Wendy�s sighting of a black figure across the railroad tracks was accurate, Ketchum said the species are �every color of the rainbow.
�We had over 100 samples of the study,� she said. �We had everything from white to blond to multicolored to black. A lot of them are brown with a reddish tint, even carrot-top red.�
Wendy said the sighting have made her feel �just a little uneasy.�
�When I walk the dogs now, I take a lot of lights. And my blinds go down when it gets dark,� she said. �It�s the unknown, I guess.�
Ketchum said from what she has discovered, the animals are not something that should terrify anyone.
�They�re not monsters; they�re a type of people,� she said. �The DNA shows that. The paternal side is novel, but the female side is 100 percent modern human (as in 13,000-15,000 years ago).�
Jeffrey Meldrum, a professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University, said he has examined hundreds of suspected sasquatch footprints and said they are broad, flat, and flexible.
�I am convinced that something exists on the basis of the evidence. What that something is, that remains a mystery,� he said. �Whether it exists or not isn�t that mysterious anymore because of the overwhelming evidence.�
Source: ABC News