If you were I were to look at it, all we'd see is a big, shapeless blob of plaster with

nothing remotely identifiable in it.

But to some bigfoot believers, it is very clearly the plaster cast taken from a mark in

the ground where they believe a bigfoot lay down and rolled about.

Today we've got everything you ever wanted to know about the scookam cast and more.

That's today on Skeptoid.

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I'm Blake Smith from Skeptoid.com, the scookam cast.

It's not as famous outside of the bigfoot research community as the other alleged evidence.

The shaky films and blurry photographs appear more documentaries and the giant plaster

and the foot castings are more widely recognized.

But in September 2000, a team of investigators from the Bigfoot Field Research Organization,

the BFRO, emerged from the woods near scookam meadows in Washington State with 15 square

foot of plaster and hydrocal that they claim results from a full body impression of the

mysterious man-like animal known as Bigfoot.

Was this the best new evidence supporting the existence of Bigfoot since the Patterson

Gimlin film?

Or was it something else?

Before we dig into the question of whether or not the scookam cast is evidence for the

existence of Bigfoot, let's take a look at how the cast came to be taken in the first

place.

In late 2000, the Australian television show Animal X was filming its second season.

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