
Jay Cooney recently wrote a blog in which he posted these fine drawings by Sybilla Irwin and he said that there was one kind of Bigfoot in North America, and the eastern kind matched the western kind. With this statement I most heartily disagree and Jay knows it. For that reason I feel no remorse in offering the alternative interpretation. Instead of being the same as the Western Sasquatch (as exemplified by the Patterson-Gimlin film) the Tennessee creature seems to me to be a prime example of my category, the American Almas (Hair samples submitted for analysis had supposedly consistently turned out to measure in the Neandertal range but my only source of this information is from other researchers, not from whatever reports they are quoting. I have at least handled some of the hair samples)
. My contentin is that the head to body proportions and the body structure by itself are much more humanlike than the larger and bulkier classic Sasquatch. In the Eastern kind the head is larger in proportion and the head is held high enough that the chin is a level well above the shoulders. The top of the head is less pointed and the cranium is much larger.


The close-up of the head, and then the Neanderthal skull overlain for comparison.
Jay makes a big deal about the teeth that show do not match ape teeth, but in fact they are
a better match for Neanderthal teeth in size and shape.
Here is a comparison of the Tennessee Bigfoot to the Living Neanderthal Man of Heuvelmans as depicted by hi former wife Alika Lindbergh. The proportions are a very good match. Below is a reconstruction plan of a Neanderthal man designed for animation by Jerod Bough and once again the bodily proportions are much the same. And I had previously remarked that the illustration of the habituated Tennessee Bigfoot "Fox" show a Neanderthal type of skull in his head.