A group of researchers affiliated with legendary Big Foot Hunter Tom Biscardi left North Carolina Sunday after spending Saturday night camped out in the woods near Highway 18, south of Morganton, to investigate a recent footprint sighting.
The researchers set up cameras but said they didnt find anything. They told Eyewitness News that they will evaluate what they do have and determine if they will return to look again. Group members said they believe the footprint, which was discovered by a farmer, is real because it shows dermal ridges like a hand print and a mid tarsal break, which is evidence of a foot that bends in the middle, unlike that of a human.
Robert Price was in Hickory with two other Alabama researchers to compare a track found recently in Burke County to one found in Texas.
The possibility is definitely there," he said. "It's not to be overlooked."
The large, muddy and mysterious footprint has captured imaginations in the area.
A farmer said he recently stumbled across a larger-than-life footprint near the intersection of Highway 18 and George Hildebran School Road in the southern part of Burke County. Pork Lowman said he was walking in the woods when he came across the print, which measures 15 by 8 inches.
It's out here in no-man's land, and that's what really got me, Lowman said.
As much as I'd like to believe BigFoot exists..He doesn't..he was just a hoax that caught on and now people think because they make one fake foot print..they can get publicity. A lot of other things do exist..I'm not a non believer of the Supernatural..it's just that big foot is not one of those things