Jesse Weber Explores Bigfoot DNA Claims With Joseph Scott Morgan
The Law & Crime host stepped into unusual territory as forensic analyst Joseph Scott Morgan examined the science behind an alleged Bigfoot body.
Jesse Weber is a familiar face on the Law&Crime Network’s Sidebar, usually breaking down intense court cases and major crimes. This week, he did something completely different.
He stepped onto the NewsNation segment “Hot Take” to host forensic analyst Joseph Scott Morgan. The topic wasn’t a standard trial. It was Bigfoot.
Weber Tackles a New Kind of Case
Weber opened the YouTube segment by admitting this was uncharted territory for him. “I have Joseph here today to talk about something that I have never talked about before, something that I never thought I was going to talk about before,” Weber said.
He compared the massive public interest in the creature to the ongoing discussions about UFOs and UAPs.
The anchor explained that people have argued over and hunted for Sasquatch for centuries. The evidence has historically run the gamut from footprints and handprints to grainy videos.
Weber wanted to follow the actual science to see if legitimate proof exists.
The Bigfoot Hunter
Jesse Weber explained some of the background of the case, and it seems that some of what he said fit the category of “You have to see this to believe it.”
Inside a glass display case at the Great New York State Fair sits what appears to be an eight-foot, 300-pound hairy creature. Charles “Snake” Stewart insists it’s the real thing.
Stewart, The Finder
Charles Stewart goes by the moniker of “Snake the Bigfoot Hunter.” Snake claims he found the body in the Adirondack Mountains two years ago before he put it on display at the Great New York State Fair. People stop and stare. They take pictures. Some believe. Others laugh.
But Snake says he has proof and noted that he ran DNA tests at Cornell’s veterinary DNA lab. He told reporters the results show the creature is “58.5% Neanderthal DNA and 41.5% human DNA,” and his conclusion is that the mix makes it a true hybrid. A real half-and-half.
A Forensic Analyst Weighs In
Joseph Scott Morgan is a forensic analyst, so he knows a thing or two about DNA testing. He brought some hard facts to the conversation.
“When it comes to DNA, the lab is only as good as the sample and the chain of custody,” Morgan shared.
Think about that for a second. Anyone can walk in with a piece of hair or skin. But without proof of where it came from, the data is useless. Morgan says the chain of custody matters. Who had the sample? Where did it go? How was it stored?
Unfortunately, Snake doesn’t seem to have efficiently answered those questions.
DNA and Neanderthals
Morgan also tackled the Neanderthal numbers. Here’s the thing. “Most modern humans carry Neanderthal DNA,” he noted. That’s a known fact and you and I probably have some, so when a test shows a mix of human and Neanderthal markers, that doesn’t mean you found Bigfoot.
According to Morgan, it usually means you tested a regular person. A scientist can’t just jump to “new species” from that. It doesn’t work that way.
Peer Review Is Needed
There is another problem because allegedly, no one else has confirmed the results.
“Extraordinary claims require peer review,” Morgan noted. So far, there doesn’t appear to be any public confirmation from Cornell’s veterinary DNA lab. No official statement has surfaced, and no peer-reviewed findings have been released. At this stage, the DNA claims rely on Stewart’s own account.
For a guy like Morgan, a body in a glass case at a fair is a show and doesn’t fall in the category of science. Not even close. Fox News reported in June that some folks called Snake “a hoaxer and scammer.”
History of Sightings
People have been seeing Bigfoot for a long time. According to several historical accounts, North American settlers started reporting encounters in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Some describe a giant ape, while others report a very hairy human or even a bear standing on two legs. Maybe it’s something else, but for now, it appears that mainstream scientists still aren’t convinced.
Critics argue that if the discovery were genuine, scientists would be eager to study it. So far, no such scientific consensus has emerged.
Viewers React
The YouTube comments revealed that there are people who believe in Bigfoot, and some of them also believe that aliens are real.
One person claimed, “I saw one in 1978, Oregon coast around midnight.”
Another one declared, “Bigfoot is real!!! Aliens are real!!!”
Meanwhile, others noted that mainstream science ignored too much in the past. One commenter noted that a book titled “Truth Denied by Scott Carpenter details a previous Bigfoot DNA study.”
Then, they explained, “Of course publicly the study is disregarded as being faulty though the book lays out the case for why it wasn’t.”
Still, they felt that anyone who checks it out can “Make of it what you want.”
Science has a lot of high hurdles to clear before anyone accepts an eight-foot hybrid living in New York. That’s a big ask. Until then, the mystery keeps drawing interested onlookers.
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