Welcome to Brain Stuff, a production of I Heart Radio.

Hey, Brain Stuff, I'm Lauren Mogulbaum, and this is another classic episode of the podcast.

In this one, we look at what a team of researchers found when they tested samples supposedly

collected from Yeti, a spoiler alert.

It wasn't all that mysterious.

Hey, Brain Stuff, I'm Lauren Mogulbaum, and, you know, everybody loves a good cryptid.

If the classic creatures of legend and hearsay, but the Loch Ness Monster, for example,

or Sasquatch, are too campy for your tastes, perhaps your interest would be peaked by the

Groot slang, a giant snake with an elephant's head said to hang out in caves of northwestern

South Africa, or the Yahweh, basically the Bigfoot of the Australian Outback, or the Mapingory,

a giant sloth like a purportedly lurking in the Amazon rainforest on the border between

Brazil and Bolivia.

If you're a game to dive into the waters of cryptosuology, you'll be there a while because

they are fathomless.

Science, however, will rarely dive in there with you.

But it has, on occasion, made an exception for the Yeti.

If you were to ask, hey, are the Yeti just a bunch of bears, genetics would say yes.

The Yeti, or the great white, abominable snowman of the Himalayas, is one of the world's

most beloved cryptids.

Its major figure in the folklore of Nepal and hikers are constantly reporting to have seen

a giant, white, ape-like creature stalking around the mountains.

Some even claim to have brought home a piece of one of these beasts, a tough of hair, a

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