...and the BBC screws up the facts again. Washington is on the west coast north of California.
It is not on the east coast. The tracks Chilcutt analyzed were found in the State of Washington, which is on the west coast, in the Pacific Northwest..

Headline: "A US police scientist thinks he's found proof that Bigfoot is real"

2003 -- Forensic Primate Print expert Jimmy Chilcutt (Conroe Texas Police Dept) has studied six sets of footprints left by what could be Bigfoot, and he thinks they're the real thing. He says a footprint found in Washington on the East coast of the U.S. is a really close match to one found on the other side of the country in the State of California.

Chilcutt added that a special pattern on the prints told him they weren't made by a person with big feet or any other kind of monkey or ape.

He says the only animal with prints like the ones he looked at is a howler monkey, so he knows that a Bigfoot-type of animal is around somewhere.

Lots of footprints, photographs, hair samples and even blood samples have been found by people searching for the animal, but most of the evidence has proved fake.

Sightings have also been questioned, because it's thought some people are so obsessed with finding Bigfoot that they see it even though it isn't really there.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_3157000/3157858.stm
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Additional Washington Times article on Jimmy Chilcutt's analysis:
From the Washington Times, -UPI NewsTrack Quirks in the News

CONROE, Texas, Oct. 3, 2003 (UPI) -- A Texas forensic expert believes he has some of the strongest evidence yet the mythical creature Bigfoot exists.

Investigator Jimmy Chilcutt of the Conroe Police Department in Texas, who specializes in finger and footprints, says he is certain six footprints, claimed to have been made by Bigfoot, are genuine.

Chilcutt said one print, measuring 18 inches, found in the State of Washington in 1987 has convinced him. Apparently this is not the same track found in 1982 by Paul Freeman and certified hoaxed by U.S. Border Patrol Agent-tracker Joel Hardin.

"The unique thing about the 1987 cast is that it has dermal ridges -- and the flow and texture matches the ridge flow texture of one from California," Chilcutt told BBC World Service's Discovery program.
"The ridges are about twice as thick as in a human being."

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031002-044805-6003r.htm

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