Cases cryptozoological errors: Bigfoot, bear or beaver?

In 2013, two boys exploring the woods in Massachusetts, made an unusual and very significant discovery: they found a huge footprint that looked almost human.

Police who arrived on the findings, admitted that they were confused. Information immediately appeared in the local media, but the police officer Frank Alighieri sent a cast of the track by a forensic expert, who determined that it was "not a trace of a human foot, although he also has five fingers."

While the experts were cautious in their conclusions, the indirect consequences of such discoveries were obvious: many thought this trail the actual proof of the existence of such creatures as "Bigfoot".

However, it was one of the many occasions when the traces of the most ordinary animals have been mistaken for human. It was subsequently shown that the trail belonged to a huge bear.

The bear's paw has five fingers like a human foot, and, consequently, unclear or strain traces from the feet with five fingers can easily be mistaken for traces of the legendary humanoid beast.

There are more strange cases of incorrect identification, which for many years was considered a matter of feet the Sasquatch or Yeti.

Here is one such example. The researcher who submitted videos, which were filmed large strange tracks with webbed fingers, left a couple of feet, claimed to have discovered an unknown animal.

Needless to say, this discovery has attracted attention, as the tracks did look pretty strange. After receiving the copy of the footage, a biology Professor Mike Stewart reported that the trail did not belong to the foot of "Bigfoot" or any other mysterious creature, and was just a footprint of a beaver.

The question arises: "As the hind leg of a beaver can be so unusual and why the trail is so huge?"

It Dr. Stewart replied that he knew of beavers that grew to 40 pounds and more, and that the size of the limb in the video does not belong to even the largest of them.

But the remains of the bear's paws can be much easier to take over human remains. So in 2004, at the car wash in Manila was discovered a strange package with two hands. Two medical experts, independently from each other determined that the skeletal remains of the hands belong to a woman or child. After a thorough investigation, in the absence of other remains, was finally tested for DNA. "Human hands" were the paws of a bear.

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