Moscow, Idaho (AP Wire) -- Eye witness accounts and footprints point to the existence of the legendary sasquatch, a Washington State University Anthropology Professor told a meeting of the Idaho Academy of Science on Saturday.

"Although most eyewitness stories of the elusive shaggy creature are fabricated, many have been authentic," says Dr. Grover Krantz.

False Sasquatch tracks can be spotted immediately, he said, because perpetrators of the hoax would enlarge a copy of their own foot on a piece of wood, strap it to their foot and trudge through the snow.

"Such an attempt not only leaves an imprint of a larger foot but also usually leaves an imprint of the grain of the wood," said Krantz.

"Only a person with detailed training in human anatomy, a vivid imagination and an organization of a very secretive members could have planned the thousands of footprints throughout the northwest and Canada since the 1920's," Krantz said.

The Sasquatch legend suffered two setbacks last March after a film of the creature and footprints found near Colville, Washington were labeled "fakes."

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