A man in New York says he found an eight-foot Bigfoot corpse in the Adirondacks, preserved it, named it “Dack,” and had DNA results proving it was part Neanderthal and part human. Cornell University says it never ran the test. That gap is the whole story.
Charles Stuart, who calls himself “Snake the Bigfoot Hunter,” says he found the decomposing remains in 2024 near Old Forge in Adirondack Park. He says the creature was about eight feet tall and weighed about 300 pounds. He says he collected blood, hair, and fecal samples, then sent them through a friend connected to a Cornell veterinary DNA lab.
Stuart says the results showed the body was 58.5 percent Neanderthal and 41.5 percent human. He has posted images of the remains and a document he presents as a Cornell lab report. He says the evidence is groundbreaking.
Cornell does not agree.
The university says it did not conduct testing for Stuart and did not produce a report. It also says the documents posted on his website were not from Cornell. Stuart rejects that denial. He has called the university’s statement false and has said he plans to sue Cornell for $10 million.
The room splits fast
This is the kind of claim that makes the internet choose a side before lunch.
Some people want it to be true. Not because they have seen the body, but because Bigfoot has survived for decades on exactly this kind of possibility. A blurry figure. A strange print. A hair sample. A story with just enough detail to keep the door open. If a body really existed, the argument would no longer be about footprints. It would be about a specimen.
Others see a familiar pattern. A spectacular claim arrives. The evidence is held by one person. The institution named as the source says it has no record of the work. The response is not more testing. It is an accusation of a cover-up.
And then there are the Bigfoot believers themselves.
That may be the most interesting part. This is not simply scientists versus cryptid fans. Members of the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization have expressed skepticism about Stuart’s claims. One member previously described the remains as a fake. When the people who most want Bigfoot to be real are not convinced, the claim has a credibility problem inside its own audience.
That matters. Bigfoot research already carries a burden. Every hoax makes the next credible report harder to take seriously. A real discovery would need chain of custody, independent labs, published methods, raw genetic data, and experts willing to put their names on the result. A photo of a furry body and an disputed document does not get there.
What is actually known
The documented facts are narrow.
Stuart claims he found a Bigfoot body in the Adirondacks in 2024. He claims he submitted samples for DNA testing. He claims the results showed a mix of Neanderthal and human DNA. He has displayed the remains publicly and promoted the story.
Cornell denies performing the testing or issuing the report. Other Bigfoot researchers have publicly doubted the find. No independent verification of the body or the DNA results has been presented in the reporting available.
That does not prove the remains are fake. It does mean the central claim is unverified.
The DNA description itself raises questions. “58.5 percent Neanderthal” is not how a normal genetic ancestry result is usually described. Neanderthal DNA exists in small percentages in many modern human genomes. A creature that is mostly Neanderthal would be an extraordinary biological claim, and it would require extraordinary evidence.
A credible DNA report would identify the lab, the sample type, the testing method, the reference databases, the contamination controls, and the raw sequence data. It would be reproducible. Another lab could examine the same material and reach the same result. Until that happens, the percentage is a claim, not a finding.
Why people care anyway
Bigfoot is easy to laugh at. That is also why the story travels.
It touches something older than the internet: the hope that a large unknown animal could still be hiding in a big forest. The Adirondacks are huge, wooded, and sparsely populated in places. People have reported strange sightings there for years. None of that proves Bigfoot exists. But it explains why the idea does not die.
The claim also lands in a moment when people are quick to distrust institutions. Cornell’s denial is straightforward, but Stuart’s response turns it into a conflict. In that framing, the absence of verification becomes proof of suppression. That is a powerful story, and it is much easier to spread than a lab protocol.
Still, skepticism is not the same as dismissal. The right response is not “Bigfoot cannot exist.” It is “show the evidence.” If there is a body, preserve it properly. Document the location and the recovery. Let qualified geneticists test independent samples. Publish the data. Invite replication.
If the remains are a hoax, those steps will expose it quickly. If they are something else, those steps are the only way anyone outside the story will believe it.
For now, the choice is simple. There is a man who says he found Bigfoot. There is a university that says it never tested the body. And there is a public waiting for evidence that can survive outside the person making the claim.
Until then, Dack remains a very large question mark in the Adirondacks.
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