When reports surfaced that a couple of would-be Bigfoot hunters had a sasquatch in their freezer Idahoans knew the story was going to end up on the desk of Idaho State University’s Jeff Meldrum.

Meldrum, an associate professor of anatomy and anthropology at ISU and an affiliate curator at the Idaho Museum of Natural History, is one of the few college professors actively researching the existence of Bigfoot. He has brought science into the search for a large human-like beast that long has been considered a possible inhabitant of the Pacific Northwest.

For Meldrum the issue is simple. Something is out there. .

“As incredulous as these reports may seem, the simple fact of the matter remains -- the footprints exist and warrant evaluation,” Meldrum writes.

The Georgians who announced that they had discovered a Bigfoot in the southern woods did not impress Meldrum. Speaking Sunday in Edmonton at the Royal Alberta Museum, Meldrum said the evidence was not compelling, according to Canada.com.

"It didn't have the bulk or the mass. It seemed to be vacuous, the hair did not look natural and the face bears a striking resemblance to an off-the-shelf costume,” Meldrum said.

Now I get skeptical anytime I hear the words professional next to the words Bigfoot hunter. That’s how Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer describe themselves and they looked cheesy on TV.

Here’s the pictures that Meldrum found uncompelling. These guys make themselves easy to dismiss.

But Meldrum can’t be ignored. He’s not ready to say Bigfoot exists but he studies in the realm of the scientific uncertainty where their remains an unlikely but plausible case these creatures have existed in the wild without discovery.

Here is a television report about him.