Yeti Finger Fails DNA Test

One of the biggest pieces of evidence confirming the existence of the yeti has been debunked. A yeti finger, which was once revered in a monastery in Nepal, has finally been identified… and the results are not nearly as exciting as you would hope.

It turns out that the infamous yeti finger is actually just a human finger. The yeti finger may not have a mythical origins, but it does have an interesting history.

The yeti finger was stolen (some say that it was purchased) from the Pangboche Buddhist monastery, which can only be found by lost travelers who listen to the monks’ ceremonial horns, in the 1950s.

The Daily Mail reports that the Pangboche Buddhists found a yeti hand and believed that it warded off evil spirits. In the 1950s, one of the fingers from the hand was stolen by Bigfoot researcher Peter Byrne and was smuggled out of the country, according to MSNBC, by actor Jimmy Stewart. The finger eventually found its way to Dr. William Osman Hill, another Bigfoot researcher, and later landed at the Royal College of Surgeons where it was put on display with the label “a Yeti finger from Pangboche hand.”

The authenticity of the yeti finger has been debated by yeti hunters, conspiracy theorists, and scientists for years. The finger recently went through a DNA test and researchers say that unfortunately, the yeti finger doesn’t prove the existence of Bigfoot.

Rob Ogden of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, told BBC News:

“We had to stitch it together. We had several fragments that we put into one big sequence, and then we matched that against the database and we found human DNA. (The result) wasn’t too surprising, but obviously slightly disappointing.”

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