Tennessee Man Finds Fossilized Print, Suspects Ancient Bigfoot

Harold Jackson of Cookeville, Tennessee was walking with a friend when they stumbled across a fossilized footprint embedded in a rock.

Jackson pried the fossilized print up from the surrounding rock and brought it home. As he rinsed off the mud, he was impressed at the detail in the impression. Not only was the outline of the foot clear, but also the impression of the toes, the heal and the ball of the foot. Looking at it from the side, he could see where the weight of the walker had pressed the now hardened mud tightly together directly under the print, whereas the fossilized mud down deeper was not as closely packed.

After studying it closely, Jackson is still unsure of what the footprint is from, but whatever it was, it was big.

Eleven inches big. So, without any critical thinking, both Jackson and the Cookeville Herald-Citizen have embraced the hypothesis that bigfoot’s responsible.

I’m skeptical, but that’s not really new.

Full story here.

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