Sallie Ann Clarke Dies

Clarke was a tireless researcher and chronicler of the 1969 "Lake Worth Monster" of Texas. Images.

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Man faces jail for urinating on poppy wreaths

A British student may get jail time for urinating on poppy wreaths on a war memorial in Sheffield, England.

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Tampa policeman gives literary treatment to gator
bite report

Terry Ashe's initial report could have just said that his Tampa police cruiser's left bumper was bitten by an alligator.

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Officials Confirm Iowa Cat Has H1N1 Flu

The H1N1 flu virus has been confirmed in a cat treated at the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine.

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Transcript of Josh Gates' interview of Dr. Melba
Ketchum

Here is my transcript of Josh Gates' interview with Dr. Melba Ketchum, a forensic analyst with DNA Diagnostics, Inc., from the latest episode of Destination Truth:

Ketchum:  I didn't think we would have anything to talk about here, to be honest.  I was just going to rule out yeti and be done with it.  I submitted the sequence that we obtained from this hair sample to a large international database that scientists use to deposit their sequence data.  Well, at first I was very skeptical, because we've had these things come into our lab in the past, and they never panned out to be anything interesting.  However, this sample did test very clearly on the human panel of markers.  That makes it a primate, and it makes it a large primate.

Gates:  And how are we sure that it isn't just human contamination or that it's just DNA from human hair?

Ketchum:  The hair, visually, is not human.  It's courser than horse tail hair. 

Gates: (voiceover) what she told me next seemed unbelievable.

Ketchum:  Initial searches indicate that it's an unknown sequence.  There are literally millions of sequences in this database.  And we're really shocked that it didn't match any of the species exactly in the database.

Gates:  What would be required in order for us to say, from a DNA standpoint, the yeti is a real animal.

Ketchum:  If we're going to prove that there potentially is a new species, with this first hair sample, we really need more hair samples like it.  And once you establish there is a group of animals, that will go a long ways towards proving that there is a new species indeed.

 Assuming there is no chicanery involved (and with TV, how can you ever be sure?) this has to be considered a major find.  And it gives us good reason to go back and find the results that we've all heard of before, of those hairs that come back "unknown primate".  If these hairs can be located and tested again, they might show a familial resemblance with the hairs Destination Truth found.  And I'd find that pretty significant.

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Man told goats have to go

A Southington man who has been keeping goats on his property for years was told by the town that the goats have to go.

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Prisoners Save Guard From Inmate Attack

Shocking footage of an inmate strangling a guard at a Florida jail before other prisoners battled to save him has been released.

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Mattel makes Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken doll

Mattel plans to release a doll named "Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken." He'll come with a tan, quite an outfit and head of hair as well as a tiny dog.

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ICM Open House, 5 pm - 9 pm November 6th

You may know of Jim because he is famous for carving the first Bigfoot statue and his appearance in a piece of film. Rep. Adams is sponsoring a State Proclamation he will be reading at the event. Video. Images.

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Man says image of Jesus appears on truck window

Jim Stevens said he's not particularly religious and is clueless about why an image resembling Jesus Christ keeps appearing on his pickup.

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