著名大脚怪支持者杰夫·梅尔德鲁姆去世，享年67岁

n September 11, 2025, the fam- ():: of Don Jeffrey Meldrum announced that he had died following a brief battle with brain can- cer. Meldrum was a tenured professor of anatomy and anthropology at Idaho State University but was best known as the leading advocate for the biological re- ality of Bigfoot. Within the Bigfoot subculture, Meldrum occupied a unique position. He was not so much a field researcher out in the wilderness looking for Big- foot—though he did some of that—but a public advocate and analyst of evidence supporting Bigfoot. He was the keynote speaker at numerous Bigfoot conferences and appeared on many television pro- grams. …