Blog # 86 Bigfoot Research Reference and Assistance
Over the last 5 years North America Bigfoot Search (NABS) has taken great pride in answering every email and question that has come our way. We believe that it takes a community of knowledge to answer the most complex problems. We have also made it our goal to make our research accessible to the masses and we believe that this has been accomplished through The Hoopa Project, Tribal Bigfoot and The Track Record.
“TR” indicates Track Record number, they are numbered 1-174 and the “Pg” indicates the page number. There are more then 85 listing for just eye color. Each entry on the index regarding color is a story about a sighting which will include the location and specifics that the witness was willing to explain.
"The Track Record, A Bigfoot Encyclopedia" is over 3000 pages long and has an index that is over 80 pages in length. The project of developing an index took us over a year to complete. Here is the link to our website for more specific information about the Track Record:www.nabigfootsearch.com/TrackRecord.html
The next question that came our direction was the complex issue of bigfoot odor. This is not an easy question to answer but it is one that we have posed to people who have been around the biped the most, Native Americans. Many different tribes have told us that bigfoot needs to get as close to their prey as possible to make a successful capture/kill. Even though they are exceedingly quick, it would be in their best interest to expunge the least amount of energy as possible in every hunt, thus also reducing their chance of injury. The Native Americans have told us that all animals and humans in the forest have a distinctive odor, thus deer can smell hunters, deer can smell a mountain lion, and, the prey of bigfoot can smell them. In an effort to mask their odor, the bigfoot will roll or spread feces, urine and sometimes blood of different species on them in an effort to hide/mask their own odor.
Researchers must understand that encounters with bigfoot can happen at different times. You may come across them when they are not hunting and may not have any odor. You may also come across them while they are hunting and they may have an immense odor. They may also have an odor associated with human perspiration, damp, musky and stinky, just needing a bath. In a final response to the question, we again referred them to the Track Record and the index on “bigfoot odor”:
Bigfoot Odor TR 7 Pg 5, TR 9 Pg 3-4, TR 10 Pg 3, TR 15 Pg 4, 5, TR 17 Pg 2, 4, 5, TR 18 Pg 4, TR 19 Pg 7, TR 25 Pg 8, TR 28 Pg 9-10, TR 33 Pg 5, TR 39 Pg 8, TR 40 Pg 6, 7, TR 42 Pg 1A, 9, TR 43 Pg 7, TR 44 Pg 6, 8, TR 47 Pg 9, TR 52 Pg 3, 5, TR 55 Pg 7, TR 58 Pg 6, TR 60 Pg 9, TR 61 Pg 8, TR 64 Pg 4, 5, TR 70 Pg 8, 17, TR 74 PG 12, TR 80 Pg 8, TR 81 Pg 6, TR 82 Pg 13, TR 83 Pg 12, TR 84 Pg 8-9, 10, TR 85 Pg 15, TR 86 Pg 5, TR 90 Pg 5, TR 91 Pg 4, TR 95 Pg 2, TR 108 Pg 7, TR 109 Pg 1, 15, TR 110 Pg 7, TR 111 Pg 2, TR 119 Pg 4, TR 120 Pg 9, TR 121 Pg 11, TR 124 Pg 13, TR 127 Pg 12, TR 130 Pg 3, TR 132 Pg 5, TR 133 Pg 10, TR 134 Pg 10, TR 136 Pg 2, 7, TR 138 Pg 14 (Musky), TR 139 Pg 2, 13, TR 140 Pg 5 (Urine Odor), TR 145 Pg 2, 7, TR 146 Pg 2, 3, 11, TR 147 Pg 6, TR 150 Pg 2, 9, 14, TR 151 Pg 7, TR 152 Pg 4, TR 154 Pg 2, TR 157 Pg 10, TR 159 Pg 1, TR 160 Pg 9, TR 163 Pg 5, TR 165 Pg 5, TR 167 Pg 4, TR 169 Pg 7, TR 170 Pg 5, TR 171 Pg 14, 15.
The last of the series of questions we will address will be bigfoot hair color. Many have asked us if bigfoot comes in any other colors then brown and black? The answer to this question is a resounding, “YES”. We have recorded sightings ranging from golden, reddish, gray, white, tan, blotched colors, light brown, essentially every hair color that a human can possess a bigfoot can possess. Here is the Track Record index listing for a grey colored bigfoot:
Bigfoot Grey in color TR 21 Pg 4, TR 50 Pg 8, TR 54 Pg 5, TR 63 Pg 3, TR 64 Pg 6, TR 69 Pg 10, 11, TR 80 Pg 8, TR 86 Pg 6, TR 89 Pg 8, TR 93 Pg 5, TR 96 Pg 12, TR 98 Pg 2, 11, TR 99 Pg 14, TR 100 Pg 11, TR 103 Pg 5, 10, TR 122 Pg 8, TR 125 Pg 6, TR 127 Pg 12, TR 129 Pg 2, 3, TR 132 Pg 6, TR 140 Pg 5, TR 141 Pg 10, TR 150 Pg 10, TR 152 Pg 1, TR 159 Pg 2, TR 160 Pg 8, TR 161 Pg 3 (Charcoal Grey), TR 168 Pg 7.
There are listing in the Track Record for every color we noted. In Tribal Bigfoot we made many statements about the association of a blonde or light brown bigfoot with body mass and structure. Harvey Pratt did two outstanding sketches of golden colored bigfoot that are in Tribal Bigfoot from sightings in Northern California, they have very human qualities.
One of the goals of this blog is to inform the weekend researcher that there are research tools available to you that reflect the issues you confront and hear about on a daily basis. When you hear something that seems completely absurd or out of the realm of reality, Ray Crowe probably covered it in the “The Track Record.”
Enjoy the great outdoors.
Always Travel in Pairs.
Comments and opinions are always appreciated.
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Blog #85 Oregon License Suspensions and Bigfoot Sightings
During our years of bigfoot research North America Bigfoot Search (NABS) has heard many stories regarding the governments involvement in the topic. In “The Hoopa Project” we copied a United States government document from the Army Corps of Engineers that talks about bigfoot living in the forests of Washington. There were also citations in the book about the FBI conducting hair analysis on purported bigfoot hair, again, all written in a government document. More information about the Hoopa Project: www.nabigfootsearch.com/catalog/item/6180213/5983581.htm
In the last month a series of claims were made on Linda Newton Perry’s site about the Oregon Department of Motor Vehicles becoming involved in bigfoot sightings. The claim was made that people who observed a bigfoot and subsequently reported the sighting to an Oregon police department would have their license suspended. Since many of us in NABS are current and former police officers this information was deeply disturbing. Let’s clarify the authority police officers have in California. If we observe someone driving and is under some type of physical impairment (physical impairment) we can sent a special notice to DMV requesting that the driver go through a new drivers test with an official to prove they can still operate a vehicle safely. If a medical doctor is treating a person who is having fainting spells or blackouts, they are required by law to notify DMV, subsequently, the person’s license will be suspended until the fainting spells are under control. We know of no authority that allows officers in California to recommend suspension of a license based on the driver making an observation and subsequent report. Example, seeing things or thinking you are seeing things is not necessarily a rationale to suspend a license.
An individual on Ms. Perry’s site made mention of Oregon DMV form 4423 and that this form was utilized to suspend licenses. The Oregon DMV stated that a form of that number does not exist in their system, but, that may be a law enforcement form utilized by an agency that they numbered. Form 6066 is utilized by Oregon DMV to document license suspension issues.
The Oregon DMV issue was of critical importance to NABS so we decided to spend the day investigating the issue. After a series of phone calls, we were able to contact the Oregon DMV’s Public Information Officer, David House. David is the point person for the public and media that have questions about anything inside the Oregon DMV. NABS explained the issue in great detail to David and inquired if Oregon DMV had a practice of suspending licenses of drivers who reported a bigfoot or sasquatch sighting? David stated that the law in Oregon appears to mimic the law in California. The intent of the law is to control physical impairment, not mental issues. If a driver has issues controlling their vehicle a law enforcement officer can request re-testing. If someone is severely mentally disabled the DMV sends the officers statement to the DMV’s “Medical Program Coordinator” (MPC). The MPC evaluates the requests and then can send a notification to a driver requesting that they obtain a medical clearance from a psychologist or psychiatrist. This ISN’T their (DMV’s) doctor, this is a doctor of the drivers choosing. If the doctor evaluates the driver and determines they are medically unfit to drive, they can recommend suspension. Again, this would be a doctor of the drivers choosing that would make the recommendation.
I asked Mr. House if he could check with the MPC and determine how many times in the last several years a bigfoot or sasquatch sighting has been the catalyst listed by the police officer as a reason for suspension, he stated he would check into it and contact us later in the day. Four hours later Mr. House did call NABS. Mr. House stated that he contacted the supervisor of the MPC and she then contacted each of the three subordinates that review cases. Never in the history of Oregon DMV has a bigfoot or sasquatch sighting been listed as a reason for license suspension, according to Mr. House. Mr. House did state that possibly the police officers listed the bigfoot or sasquatch in their report and did not forward that information to DMV, but he thought that wouldn’t be valuable as all information is needed in the report to authorize a medical evaluation. He further stated that if a bigfoot or sasquatch sighting was the catalyst for the suspension and it wasn’t listed in the documents sent to DMV, what would the officer list as the rationale to suspend the license?
So, to clarify the issue of drivers licenses being suspended in Oregon because of a bigfoot or sasquatch sighting, the official response from the Public Information Officer is NEVER. If there is a license suspended the driver has a right to an administrative law hearing. The driver can go alone or with an attorney, they are informal as many of us in NABS have attended them over drunk driving arrests and subsequent suspension of the arrestees license. The administrative law judge sits as an impartial party and makes a decision as to the outcome of the evidence. There is a stenographer in the room and everything stated is documented.
NABS would recommend that any driver in Oregon who is faced with suspension over a bigfoot sighting to get the stenographers documented and certified notes, they will show why the license suspension was upheld and validate your claim. Here is the link to Oregon DMV: www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/
It would seem that Mr. House knows that drivers with licenses suspended could easily prove why they were suspended via the stenographers and attorney’s notes and he knows he would be challenged if he lied, so, we wouldn’t understand why he would. He also knows that he is gauged by the media and public contacts as to his honesty, so we doubt that he would lie under the scenario of our interview. There may be isolated incidents where a local small town police officer didn’t report the issue to DMV regarding a bigfoot sighting, but, if that happened, DMV would surely hear about it at the hearing stage from the driver. It’s an interesting issue and you’ve just been privy to the DMV response.
**Maybe there are some people out there who just don't want bigfoot sightings reported......
NABS
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Blog #84 Human Qualities & Peter Byrne’s Documentation
The last professional researcher to commit full time to the study of bigfoot with significant resources and an investigative team was Peter Byrne. Peter was a big game hunter that had traveled the world. He has a very engaging accent and I’m sure that this was one attribute that allowed witnesses to feel comfortable in his presence.
Peter established a research center in The Dalles, Oregon. The center has long since closed but many of the letters and documents that he received were re-printed by Ray Crowe in two separate writings, “The Byrne Files I” and “The Byrne Files II”. Both of these works contain fascinating letters from witnesses and many responses from Peter. NABS acquired the rights to these writings when we purchased the Ray Crowe research and part of our rationale in the purchase was to carefully review many of the letters that Peter received. To read more about the Byrne Files hit the click below:
NABS was formed to establish that bigfoot did exist of that it was an elaborate hoax. We did not have a predisposition for which route we would take and we didn’t have theories or angles that we leaned towards. It was after years of reading, study, field work and interviews that a profile of the biped started to emerge. Part of our research included the review of the research of others. We did not want to re-invent the wheel and take credit for the work already accomplished by others. Part of that review process was the careful reading of the Byrne Files.
NABS utilized the forensic skills of Harvey Pratt from the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation to draw the sketch of what witnesses had observed. Harvey was told to draw the best sketch possible and to take as long as needed to get it right. Harvey traveled to the witness at great expense to NABS. These sketches were not done via phone or email, they were a sit down session that sometimes last two hours. This part of our project clarified that the biped we were studying had firmly established human physical qualities. It walked on two feet like man, it had two arms like a man, it had facial features close to man and sometimes nearly identical to man. No other research group has ever utilized a law enforcement trained forensic sketch artist to sketch what bigfoot witnesses have observed.
It is truly amazing to NABS researchers when we hear that we have fabricated evidence or persuaded witnesses to accept a sketch that isn’t truly what they observed. We’ve been accused of humanizing the biped rather then depicting it as an animal. The reality of our work is that bigfoot/sasquatch or wild man appears to have human qualities that cannot be ignored.
In the Byrne Files Part I a letter is written to Peter that describes an event that took place in Illinois in 1968. The letter describes a sighting of a bigfoot with “human features.”
See attached article
The Byrne Files I, Page 42-43
In the Byrne Files #2 Page 3 the following letter was sent regarding an incident in Arkansas approximately 100 years ago. The witnesses stated, ”It was just like a human except that it was hairy all over.” The witness goes on to describe behavior that sounds very human, see below.
See Attached article
The Byrne Files #2, Page 3.
The last letter that we will include occurred in Texas in 1921 and may be the most amazing. The witness was so convinced the bigfoot was human that he continually attempted to engage the biped in conversation but only received a grunt in response.
See Attached
The Byrne Files #2, Page 10
While the letters prove nothing, they are one small building block in an ever evolving pyramid of knowledge. NABS is not out looking for articles such as what we have quoted, they are easily found. We encourage the readers to conduct their own research, dig deep and read the historical perspective and the associated language of what was printed in the 1700-1900's, you will find a distinctly human angle to this issue.
Enjoy the great outdoors.
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In our ongoing effort to categorize the Ray Crowe research we came across a report written by a Chinese scientist, Si Zi. Si had written a letter to Ray asking for copies of his newsletter about bigfoot and he was enclosing a copy of his report about the Chinese Wild Man's hair analysis. One item that immediately struck us is that the Chinese scientists have always called their bigfoot "Wild Man", never any term indicating an animal or other primate. The Chinese wild man has been part of their culture for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The report indicates that the scientists have recovered thousands of hairs and all are physically different then any known hair, animal or primate. The morphology of the hair is different then all human or primate hair yet can be classified as primate. They have been identified as primate but not a known and recognized primate. **This is the exact result that NABS has documented when identifying bigfoot/ sasquatch hairs that we have recovered.
The report indicates that they found inordinate ratios of fe/zn in wild man, more then 50x greater then humans and 7-8x greater then some animals. Our studies have indicated that bigfoot hair has unusually high levels of melanin that may be acting as a inhibitor to DNA extraction in certain areas. To view a relationship between zinc and melanin, refer to this study at Rice University: pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es60111a006. We must state that we do not have conclusive proof that there are high levels of zinc in bigfoot hair but we do see a correlation between the zinc and melanin levels in wild man. The cause of the unsual levels is worthy of study. While this report does not offer conclusive proof of the primates existence, it is one piece to an ever evolving puzzle. Stay with NABS over the next 12 months as we continue to clarify the DNA profile of bigfoot/sasquatch/wildman.
The report concludes by stating that this is the first report to provide scientific evidence of the possible existence of wild man. The date of this report was 12/31/96.
North America Bigfoot Search has been studying this topic for almost 6 years. We’ve trekked into some of the most remote regions of our forests, never traveling to see the biped but to understand the reasons it may be visiting that specific area. We started our research with no pre-conceived ideas or designated path, we were not given marching orders. This was pure research bringing every variable into the mix.
After months of accumulating data, talking to various experts, spending years in isolated communities, mapping locations of sightings, a shape of what we were studying started to take shape. This was a very slow process, months of team meetings, reviewing reports by experts on behavior, language, motion, tracking, footprints, photography and many other subjects too numerous to mention.
One of the first reports we prepared was an overview of bigfoot traits. This was a summary of thousands of reports that showed a consistency of behavior in identified areas. This is the link to our site where we outline and provide a brief overview of that report: www.nabigfootsearch.com/bigfootdescription.html
The traits and characteristics that we identified:
This is a biped.
An adult ranges on average from 6-8” in height.
Average weight 600-800 pounds.
It can reach a ground speed of 30-35 mph.
It is 10-15X stronger then the average human.
Teeth are similar to human.
Hair color can be anything in the range that humans possess
Can be very territorial.
Senses:
Vision- Daylight vision is average while night vision is exemplary.
Hearing –possibly an infrasound ability that humans do not possess
The sense of smell is equal to or greater then humans.
Rational thinking ability has been shown and exhibited
Habits:
Rock Throwing, sometimes huge boulders, extremely accurate
Wood banging
Wood Structures, (The Hoopa Project Pg 124).
Yelling and screaming
Diet;
Omnivore
Footprint;
Similar to human.
Language;
Does have an unidentified language, confirmed by a linguistic expert. See the attached link for report: http:www.nabigfootsearch.com/Bigfootlanguage.html
Footprint is similar to human, refer to report: www.nabigfootsearch.com/Footprints.html
Misc;
Swimming-Excellent, known to swim long distances
Highly interested in small children and women with long hair.
Climbs trees with ease.
Can stalk with an extremely stealthy approach.
DNA- There have been numerous DNA tests done on samples attributed to bigfoot and a majority have been classified as having a human element. Scientists have discounted the human results as being caused by human contamination. NABS has been conducting their own DNA testing for the last 22 months with results indicating this is not an animal.
All of the indicators that NABS has established is that bigfoot is on the human side of the genetic tree.
Fish Lake
Fish Lake is located in the Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California, just south of Bluff Creek. There has been a history of bigfoot incidents at this lake dating back to the 1950’s. Bluff Creek travels just east of the lake and eventually dumps into the Klamath River. There is a paved road that goes directly to the lake where there is exceptional campgrounds and a truly beautiful setting. The area immediately behind the lake has been closed to all hiking for the last 7 years. The USFS claims that the region has a tree disease that can be carried and spread, thus the closure of the area. It’s always been suspicious to NABS that this area is closed as it represents absolute prime bigfoot habitat and also would be the alleyway for the biped to walk from the interior of the wilderness into Fish Lake and onto the Klamath and Hoopa. When we have spoke to administrators in the Orleans office about this issue, they are very evasive as to when the area will open and, specifically why and where the disease is located. We have also asked for the reports outlining the issue in the area and have been told they would be forth coming, we’ve never received them.
Southern Oregon
As this blog is going out there is an ongoing project taking place in southern Oregon. In the recent past there has been serious damage done to a sign and garbage cans in a remote wilderness area of a National Forest. The type of damage that was sustained was severe and inconsistent with a teenager going on a adolescent rampage. Local bigfoot researchers in the area got a hold of this story and started to look into the issue. Not long after initial inquiries the USFS closed the region to all public access.
Articles have stated that a California Bigfoot group has filed a formal complaint with the Forest Service about the closure, this was not NABS. There has also been a recent article indicating that a USFS team will be going into the area with the aid of snowmobiles. They will be staying for two weeks and will be taking a biologist, a tracker, an animal behavioral specialist and a hound. There was no mention of any firearms or tranquilizers. The Forest Service spokesperson was asked what type of study was going to take place by this team, his comment, “I’m not at liberty to discuss it any further.” Maybe there is no study taking place, maybe they are going in to bring out a body?
Caution
All indications are that the team entering this Southern Oregon Forest are attempting to stalk the perpetrator of the vandalism. The team knows that a bigfoot may be the culprit.
There has NEVER been a confirmed case where people have been successful in stalking a bigfoot, bigfoot will find you on their terms, not yours. Bigfoot has shown mixed emotions with canines. There have been many documented cases where dogs have gotten involved with a bigfoot and have not lived through the encounter. There have been others where the bigfoot hasn’t felt threatened by the canine and the dog merely ran from the biped and hid his under a house or their owner.
The behavior indicated by the biped in southern Oregon shows that it is probably not happy with human intrusion into an area that it wants to occupy. It has shown aggression and its reluctance to merely move onto another area, it is being territorial.
NABS has publicly indicated that we believe that bigfoot is on the human side of the genetic tree (Tribal Bigfoot, DNA Report, Pg 372-373). We believe that this genetic association also means there are bigfoot that mimic the human population, passive, aggressive, interested, angry and criminal. Researchers entering an area where a bigfoot has shown aggressive and angry behavior is forcing a confrontation that will not be beneficial to the researchers or the bigfoot. First, it is extremely doubtful that we (the public) will ever know the true outcome of this expedition. If someone is seriously injured or killed, they will be carried out by helo and we will hear zero. If nothing happens, nothing will be said. As we’ve stated many times in the past, bigfoot finds you, you won’t find bigfoot. Going into high altitude wilderness in the middle of winter puts you on their turf and their conditions, not something that NABS would ever do. You need every advantage when studying this biped, including the ability to evacuate quickly, which won’t exist in a major storm.
NABS believes that this team is greatly underestimating the conditions that will be present. Our guess is that they will set up camp in a valley area, probably near the base of a mountain to lessen wind and weather issues against their camp and to be near a water source. Anyone who has studied bigfoot knows that they enjoy camp sites at the bottom of mountains and in valleys as this offers them the optimum location to harass (rock throwing, keeping you up at night, etc) and observe you! The team would not set their camp on a mountaintop or ridgeline as weather conditions would be horrid in winter.
When you enter a habitat that is occupied by beings that have lived it for thousands of years, you better bring in experts. The Green Berets, Navy Seals and Army Rangers have experts in survival under these conditions. They know how to occupy areas covertly and successfully place surveillance under harsh conditions. We’ve spoke to these experts about the conditions that will be present in Oregon and they state that researchers entering this area without adequate support (immediate evacuation when needed), training (extensive winter survival training should you be forced from your camp), positioning (Knowing where to place the camp to have a tactical advantage)and having personnel that can get you in and out with everyone alive and healthy, and, no casualties at either end.. These specific areas of expertise should be employed when entering a wilderness area under adverse conditions.
It would be interesting to understand the expeditions goals. It would appear that they are going out to kill it, thus the dogs and the tracker. If this is the motive of the team, there will be no good outcome.
NABS made a promise to the public that we would continue to keep them informed and updated as to our progress. The educational process would be done through our website and through publications. We do not have an agenda and we go where the research takes us, sometimes to some very unusual locations! Below is a list of what we have accomplished in the last 5 years.
2005- California Bigfoot Search was established and we immediately went to work developing our team and building a strategy. The name was soon changed to North America Bigfoot Search (NABS).
2006- A NABS team went to work in Hoopa, CA. We established ourselves as honest, credible and interested in the lives of the residents and their stories. We met with many outstanding individuals in Hoopa and learned much about Oh Mah. The result of 24 months of study was “The Hoopa Project”.
2007- North America Bigfoot Search started conversations with the Western Bigfoot Society of Oregon to purchase their research. The culmination of this effort was to archive all of the various research that Ray Crowe had accumulated over the decades of investigating bigfoot. NABS also received the publishing rights of Ray Crowe’s work. NABS is still reviewing documents that were received in this purchase, hundreds of pages of documents from Peter Byrne, John Green, Dahinden, etc. This was a great acquisition and furthers bigfoot research substantially.
2008- The Hoopa Project was published. Affidavits were used for every witness that claimed a bigfoot sighting. The best law enforcement forensic artist in the U.S. was brought in and interviewed the witnesses and subsequently drew what they saw, a first for the bigfoot research world.
2008- NABS reached an agreement with the California AAA driving club to license their map of Northern California and Southern Oregon. We placed all of the sightings in the Hoopa Project and Tribal Bigfoot on this map with a listing on the reverse side of each incident and what transpired.
2009- The second book by our Executive Director, David Paulides was published, Tribal Bigfoot. Tribal was the logical next step in NABS’ research. The team went outside the bounds of Hoopa and continued their investigations into counties that surround Hoopa and then traveled to Oklahoma and Minnesota in the pursuit of bigfoot sightings and encounters. NABS again utilized the services of a forensic artist to draw exactly what the witnesses observed. The drawings have been described by witnesses as "stunning" and "exactly what I saw."
2009- NABS worked 18 months on Ray Crowe’s “Track Record” to develop an index that would aid bigfoot researchers. Ray Crowe published a monthly newsletter for 17 years that covered the world. The Track Record was over 3000 pages and 174 issues. The index that NABS authored is over 80 WORD pages in length and is the most comprehensive index in any crypto field, we nicknamed this project “The Bigfoot Encyclopedia”, it’s huge!
2009- NABS acquired the research of Archie Buckley of the Bay Area Research Group. They were one of the first groups in California to put forth a systematic and scientific effort to investigate bigfoot. Archie was an expert on the foot and wrote several excellent papers, many on this website. Archie worked closely with George Haas. George produced one of the first bigfoot newsletters, The Bigfoot Bulletin. NABS has placed every Bulletin on our site for the public to review. www.nabigfootsearch.com/Bigfootbulletin.html
Review- NABS is not attempting to compete with any group or individual. We will continue to take the high road in every relationship we pursue. We will strive for professional investigations and presentations. We always attempt to answer every correspondence we receive and we sincerely appreciate your emails and support through the purchasing of products in our store. Every penny of profit from the store goes directly back into our research. We have several exciting projects that have been ongoing for many months. You will soon realize that we do not take a conventional approach to bigfoot research, we will taking a cutting edge angle that utilizes the latest in forensic science and investigative excellence.
NABS wants to thank each and every person who wrote us this year. The hundreds of emails we’ve received are all appreciated. We do respond to everyone who writes. We respond to the supporters and the critics and we are polite in every exchange.
We have allot to be thankful for and much of that comes from the support we get when we are in the small communities. Without you opening your doors and allowing us inside, our research would grind to a snails pace. We are also very thankful for the solo researchers that have joined our efforts to forward us valuable evidence in the last year. We have been humbly surprised by the number of you who have understood and appreciated our efforts and have sent us your findings and requested our assistance.
Predator & Bigfoot
We hear many, many stories over the years and a vast majority of those are filed away in our brains never to be told again. Every once in awhile we hear a story that has an interesting twist and it starts to make the rounds of researchers. Several months ago we were approached by an individual who was doing his own bigfoot research. The person was from Los Angeles and had ties to the motion picture industry. His interest in bigfoot emanated from a sighting made by a friend and he subsequently started to conduct his own field work. His friends from the industry heard of his hobby and related the following story.
**Disclaimer- NABS is not stating that anything related to this story is fact. We merely found the story interesting.
The movie “Predator” is the favorite film of several of our researchers. Many of us know this movie very, very well. There are a few that can recant story lines, it’s scary how well they know it, and, there may be a reason! This informant told us that Predator was loosely based on the physical abilities and known traits of bigfoot, hmm. He filled in the gaps as is described below.
There have been claims that bigfoot can appear and disappear, same as Predator.
When the Predator does disappear, it doesn’t disappear totally, there is a blurry outline and fuzzy perimeter to its shape, same as was described to David Paulides by a Hoopa Police Officer in “The Hoopa Project.”
The Predator has the body of a man and walks on two feet.
Bigfoot has a body similar to a man and walks on two feet.
The Predator killed a soldier in the movie and then hung the body in a tree.
Bigfoot has been known to kill game and place the body in a tree.
The physical size of the Predator is much larger then a human.
The physical size of bigfoot is much larger then a man.
Predator appeared to enjoy and protect a woman in the movie. At one point it appeared that a soldier was abusing the woman and the predator killed him.
It’s widely known that bigfoot likes women and children.
The Predator moves through the trees with ease because of its strength.
In “The Hoopa Project” and “Tribal Bigfoot”, David Paulides tells how witnesses describe bigfoot moving through and hiding in trees.
At one point in the movie the Predator changes and it appears to disappear into its fuzzy perimeter, except its glowing eyes.
Hundreds of witnesses have described bigfoot with glowing eyes.
The Predator exhibits super-human strength throughout the movie.
Bigfoot is known to have strength up to 10X that of man.
At one point in the movie a soldier hears a voice talking to him, presumably the Predator.
Many people who have a bigfoot sighting, report hearing voices talking to them in their head.
The Predator cannot be killed with conventional firearms.
To the best of our knowledge, a bigfoot has never been killed with a firearm.
The Predator doesn’t speak our language.
Bigfoot doesn’t speak our language, but, it does have a language.
The Predator had the soldiers under surveillance at many points in the movie without them ever having any knowledge.
It is known that bigfoot has the ability to watch us and has and we would never know it.
The Predator is living in a forest and jungle setting.
Bigfoot lives in both a forest and jungle setting.
In a later version of the Predator we learn that he came from another planet and crashed on Earth.
Some claim that Bigfoot came from another planet and crashed here on Earth.
This is just another one of those stories that come from the world of bigfoot research!
Have a great holiday with your families!
Always travel in pairs.
Enjoy the great outdoors
**David Paulides is part of a group of worldwide bigfooto researchers that are part of an ongoing email exchange regarding bigfoot, sasquatch, wildman. In the last email Dmitri Bayanov asked for input about Indian folklore and bigfoot. This started because a certain segment of researchers were pushing their agenda that bigfoot was an ape and Dmitri stepped in and asked for an historical documentation to support their position. He then asked David to write about NABS beliefs and research. This is David's response.
Fellow Researchers
While I tend to stay on the sidelines during most discussions, your most recent email regarding folklore and others response to the email has prompted me to write.
I spent two years on the Hoopa Reservation in Northern California understanding fact from fiction in regards to bigfoot, sasquatch, Indian devil, etc. It took me many months to develop the contacts and trust of the Native Americans in and around Hoopa. I knew going into the reservation that information would not immediately flow; it would take contacts and a build up of trust. That trust continued to mount until I eventually had the ability to run the Klamath and speak with elders from the Yurok and Karuk tribes. While some have discounted our findings in this area, I will tell you that they shouldn’t be overlooked. Native Americans have been victimized so many times that they are very cautious about making statements to people who wander onto their reservation asking for information. The documentation that I placed in “The Hoopa Project” and the stories, many first hand and through affidavits are a credible portrayal of bigfoot from the late 1700’s. We never had one Native American elder ever call bigfoot an animal, ape or gorilla. They all referred to bigfoot as a person, human, wild man or another Native American name that all meant a relative of some form of man.
In “Tribal Bigfoot” I spent countless hours in the libraries of the Pacific Northwest accumulating historical articles about bigfoot, wild man, Indian devil, etc. One article that we uncovered is called, “Big Hairy Indians Back of Ape Tale”, Oregonian, July 16, 1924. We believe that this article and others of the same time period all reflect a truthful account of Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest in the 30’s, 40’s and 50’s. It unbelievable to us how other researchers bypassed this and it wasn’t written about and exposed. Jorg Totsgi from Hoquiam, WA wrote the article stating that the 7’ tall, hairy beings in the woods should not be hunted by a sheriff’s posse with the mindset they are animals, they are people. Totsgi stated that three different tribes (Clallam, Quinault, Lummi) have met with these people regularly, speak with and trade with them. He states they have special abilities and they are harmless if left alone, but, if bothered can cause great harm. He states they are the Seahtik (this is spelled several different ways) Tribe and are another group of Native Americans. They can be found on Vancouver Island and on the Olympic Peninsula. Totsgi wrote this article because of a sheriff was putting together a posse to go out and hunt the group. The article and others of the same time period are printed in “Tribal Bigfoot”. This is by far not the only documentation that bigfoot is related is some manner to Native Americans, refer as Dmitri did to Kathy’s book and to our website (www.nabigfootsearch.com) where we have written about the Tule River Indian Reservation in Northern California and the pictographs of a bigfoot family on the walls of a large rock. We were given special access to this area and the tribe. The Tule Indians stated they had a long relationship with the “people” and they were in and around their tribal area regularly, thus the paintings on the walls, dated 1500 years ago.
I would also like to refer researchers to “The American Indian, Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman”, 1916, Heyday Books. Lucy Thompson was an educated Yurok woman living approximately 20 miles west on the Klamath from the Hoopa Reservation. The tribes intermingled regularly and had the same issues of survival as others in the area. In Lucy’s book she writes almost two full chapters about Indian Devils. About how they came into camp when the warriors are gone hunting and how they steal the Indian women, sometimes permanently, sometimes they eat them and sometimes they are taken as wives. She describes how some children are born from this union and some of the kids are very wild and cannot be tamed.
I should clarify that we (NABS) has never felt that bigfoot or sasquatch will come back with DNA that shows it a homo sapien. We have repeatedly stated that we believe that it will come back much closer on the genetic tree to human then gorilla, Giganto or ape.
We believe that you cannot ignore history, I wrote several chapters in Tribal about the history of bigfoot/sasquatch and how the human characteristics have remained consistent through history. It’s beyond us how bigfoot got derailed into an ape, gorilla or Giganto. When you look at the written history behind bigfoot/sasquatch/wildman and read about their language, society, tribes, cannibalism, rape, abductions, you cannot ignore the human traits that are consistent in each story. I know that many have made a career by calling bigfoot/sasquatch and ape, gorilla, Giganto and we understand the passion that comes with a lifelong statement that “this is what it is.” We didn’t come into this arena with ANY preconceived notions, none. If we could prove this was all a hoax, we would state that. If we found it was more ape then human, we would state that. From a position of neutrality, which is where we started, we are stating that it appears from the experts that bigfoot utilizes language, has human characteristics, has abducted humans, has killed and eaten humans, apparently has bred with humans and the physical characteristics and behavior exhibited is consistent with a population that is found on several continents.
I know that others will say that “what we researched wasn’t a human”. Well, whatever you did research was extremely smart, evasive and had the thinking ability to avoid detection and long-term surveillance over many decades. We don’t believe that you can ignore the statements of the one population base that has shared ground with these bipeds for hundreds of years, the Native Americans. Researchers won’t hear truthful Native American stories until they’ve garnered the trust and respect of these people and have convinced them they are sincere in their quest and subsequent documentation of truthful stories.
Every so often there comes a bigfoot report that is worth garnering a second look. We invite our visitors to look at this event and share with us what the caller felt and how she responded to the dispathcher, it's a very interesting conversation.
'I'm dead serious': San Antonio homeless couple calls 911 to report Bigfoot sighting
by Joe Conger / KENS 5
Posted on December 8, 2009 at 7:56 AM
SAN ANTONIO—San Antonio police have released a 911 dispatch call reporting a "Bigfoot" sighting.
The audio recording between a dispatcher and the homeless couple lasts more than eight minutes. In it, the primary caller appears sober and deliberate as she describes the beast Nov. 30.
"And I know you guys are going to think I’m crazy, but I’m dead serious," she says on the recording. "This big thing was 75 feet away from me, smelled awful, devoured a whole deer carcass, and then took off and screamed, screeched, and took off across the street."
"I’m going to tell you right now, I’ve lived in the woods six years. Swear to God, I’ve never seen nothing like this. I’m 6 feet 3 inches; it’s bigger than me," said her 63-year-old husband.
The couple claims the creature walked upright as it carried the deer carcass off into the woods.
Police reports indicate dispatchers sent an officer by the location that night, but he found no sign of the couple or the beast.
The callers said they were living in a tent in the woods in northwest San Antonio, near the intersection of Highway 151 and Loop 1604. The area has acres of wooded terrain surrounding it.
This is the You Tube link where you can listen to a homeless person call the police department and describe, in detail , what they observed, it's riveting!
Blog # 77 Monumental Day/ Bigfoot Bulletin/ Upcoming Exciting Posts
Today is a monumental day at North America Bigfoot Search (NABS), we are posting #25 of 26 of the George Haas “Bigfoot Bulletin”, 26 issues packed with well documented bigfoot research. George and his team of Archie Buckley, Jim McClarin, Warren Thompson and others did a stellar job considering they were on the cutting edge of crypto research.
Six months ago we promised our readers that we would post the best research available on the web and make it free to all who were interested. We are fulfilling the promise to keep our readers informed. The Bigfoot Bulletin was part of the research purchased from Ray Crowe and the International Bigfoot Society. We study history in school for a reason, well, the Bigfoot Bulletin is documented history of bigfoot research and its by a group that we believe got the proposition correct and utilized viable research methods to put together their hypothesis, it’s worth reading about this bit of history.
**Our commitment to educating the public and keeping them informed on this topic will not stop with the Bigfoot Bulletin. In the near future we will be posting a revolutionary new category, some that will cause a stir in our arena. NABS has dozens of original letters that were written by Ray Wallace to Ray Crowe. Mr. Wallace owned a construction company that built roads in the Bluff Creek and Mt. St. Helens regions. Yes, it is an odd coincidence that the Wallace team built roads into some of the hottest bigfoot areas in the country, but, from that emanated some very interesting letters, we will be posting the letters. Ray has much notoriety for forging bigfoot tracks and claiming they were originals, understood. Once NABS read the letters that Wallace wrote, most written about his exploits in the 50’s and 60’s, the reader will immediately understand why we are posting these. Mr. Wallace has intimate knowledge of bigfoot behavior that was not widely known when he wrote the letters. He writes about conversations he has with Indian Chiefs about bigfoot behavior and what the chief informs him about the bipeds, it is very enlightening. Few people in the 50’s and 60’s chose to listen to the Native American about bigfoot, Ray did, and, he documented those conversations. Mr. Wallace did have a special insight into bigfoot and we will give the public the first look at these letters in the weeks to come.
On Page 3 of the 25th Bigfoot Bulletin George Haas hit the nail on the head and made statements that NABS agrees with 1000%, and, unfortunately, the state of bigfooting hasn’t changed in 40 years. George writes that there was a growing trend for bigfoot splinter groups to form and to keep their information secret. He goes on to write that researchers are now keeping their information secret and not sharing. He concludes by stating that we should be sharing information. Early in the formation of NABS we made a statement that almost exactly mimicked George’s statement. The bigfoot arena is one of the most unusual in the world of business that anyone in our organization has ever seen. George saw this behavior as an issue in 1971 and we continue to see the same behavior in 2009. One will notice that George and his team kept the newsletters positive and upbeat, something that NABS believes needs to continue in our world and to steer clear of personal attacks.
The 26th Bulletin will be posted in the next 7 days. To the best of our knowledge BB #26 was the last Bulletin and it is equally as long as 25, packed with great information.
Here is a summary of the biggest bulletin that George Haas ever produced. Refer to the Bigfoot Bulletin page on this site to observe all of the bulletin’s. The 12 pages are a great summation of the groups achievements;
Page 1- Robert W. Morgan Organizing Capture Attempt
Page 2- Is Bigfoot in Shasta?
Warren Thompson Reports on Round Mountain, CA
Track Sightings Found Near Colville, WA
Page 3- Japanese Expedition to the Himalayas
More Tracks in Washington State
The Greatest Advance in Knowledge Comes From Sharing Information
Page 4- Report from Idaho At O-Mill
Tracy M. Blair
Page 5- Family of the Devil (Brazil)
Page 6- Does Bigfoot Pound Rocks?
Jim McClarin Card File
John Dana
Page 7- Archie Buckley Reports on the Yolla Bolly
Bob Titmus Writes About Rock Pounding
Boris Porshnev Writes About Zana and Almasti
Page 8- Michael Johnson- Kentucky-Rock Pounding
Newsletter Suspended Because of Illness
Page 9- The Gougou- The Bigfoot of the East, by Bruce Wright
Page 10- Continuation of Page 9 Story
Page 11- Markers for Tracks
Quote of the Month
Page 12- Recently Published
It’s been our pleasure to post the Bigfoot Bulletin and we hope that you’ve enjoyed reading 25 of 26. Look forward to BB #26 in the next week followed by the Ray Wallace letters in the weeks to come, you will find them fascinating!
Enjoy the great outdoors!
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Bigfoot research has taken our teams across the United States and Canada. We have been fortunate to meet some phenomenal local residents that have guided us through their cities and counties and have been extremely hospitable. We thank every one of these contacts for their assistants.
**This photo was taken the morning after the first snow of the season. Water is abundant in this region of Ohio and near the creeks and rivers you can find plenty of animal tracks. As you can see on the ground near the creek, tracks are nearly impossible to find this time of the year because of the leaves.
Ohio has always been on the NABS radar screen and has been a location where bigfoot has an extensive history. Although personal issues originally took us to Ohio, it is bigfoot research that has kept us going back.
A review of the state map of Ohio in concert with reviewing sightings in the state we find that a majority of the sightings occurring in the southwest area of the state with a splattering of sightings throughout the state. NABS happened to be based in an area called Ellsworth Township, approximately 25 miles southwest of Youngtown. This area is a rural with rolling hills, farms and a mixture of new and older homes. Many residents have lived in the area for over 100 years and can supply a healthy history for the area. NABS was lucky to meet a family that has lived in the region for over 150 years and has spent the last three generations as farmers.
***This was quite an interesting spot. There was flow to the creek but quite slow and very fresh. The area was alive with birds for a majority of the time in the area and the, quiet. It wasn't deathly quiet, just an abnormal quality about it. We hudled up next to a tree for 30 minutes and sounds came back to normal, it was interesting but nothing defnitive.
Bigfoot sightings for this area of the state are few, but are here. We spoke to the families about the history of the area and if there were any peculiarities that they had experienced over the years in relationship to wildlife and farming. Many of these families live in a very rural setting where we heard rifle fire on a regular basis, and, hunting seasoned hadn’t opened yet.
We spent many hours hiking the rolling hills and observing more deer per square mile then any other location in recent memory. There were so many deer that hunting wouldn’t have been challenging! We observed one 8 point buck within minutes of leaving the shoulder of the road and entering the woods followed by 4-5 6 pointers inside of 30 minutes, it was unreal. In conversations with residents, raccoons are everywhere and hunted by some. Porcupines are rare and bear in this area are even seen less frequently. Bear are in Ohio but not in this area of the state. There are very few berry bushes that we could locate but a multitude of corn and other farm grown products, all available to anything wild and roaming.
While we were in the state, they experienced their first snowfall of the season. We jumped out of bed early in the morning and immediately got out onto the cold and wet trail. We did find many tracks, some HUGE bucks, smaller game but nothing of our big friend. We also spent significant time around local reservoirs that were nearly empty. It made for interesting walking near the waters edge where we also observed allot of tracks, but no big guy.
**We included this photo to give you a sense of the sheer impossibility of finding tracks in this time of the year because of the magnitude of leaves on the ground. This also gives deer less cover and they more vulnerable to prey...
We did have a very interesting conversation with a local resident who had no idea why we were in the area. He told us of a fall encounter two years ago near his residence. Hickory trees surround the house and the leaves had just started to fall but still offered significant coverage, to the point you couldn’t see more then 20 feet into the forest. He stated that it was just after dusk and he was on his back deck barbecuing and simultaneously smoking meat. He stated that he started to hear owls hooting extremely loud from one corner of his yard. He stated that one owl would stop and another owl would start in the other corner. That owl would stop and another would start in a further corner of the yard. The reason the individual was telling us the story was because owls weren’t very prevalent in his area and the hoots were abnormally loud. He also added that his dog was laying inside the front door of his house and was interested in coming outside and chasing the sounds, he thought that behavior was odd. The area around this residence is littered with small ponds and creeks and is directly in an area with dozens of deer.
I think that most bigfoot enthusiasts would recognize the scenario described above as behavior consistent with bigfoot activity.
We did question resident about any possible changes in the environment in the last 200 years. The stated that the land hasn’t changed significantly. There were more homes but not enough to drastically change the landscape. I might add here that this area of Ohio suffers high unemployment and home values have suffered, some drastically. You could purchase a 4000 square foot home on over an acre, in beautiful condition for under $300,000. If you’d like to live in a quiet, beautiful region where the cost of living is low, people are extremely polite and the winters are cold, this may be the place.
NABS has included a series of photos that beautifully describe the locations we were visiting. NABS had attempted to meet with local bigfoot experts from Ohio, but it was Thanksgiving week and families issues took priority, as they should! We will be back to this beautiful state in January as we have uncovered additional evidence that is worth additional time. WE have received several reports of ongoing activity in this region and parts south, we are ongoing with this research.
Enjoy the great outdoors!
nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
In the past several months we’ve read about a few bigfoot notables that have taken a cheap shot at Harvey Pratt, the law enforcement forensic artist who completed the drawings in The Hoopa Project and Tribal Bigfoot. This individual implied that Harvey’s drawings were specifically drawn to appear human so we could perpetrate the idea that bigfoot was on the human genetic side of the scale, unbelievable! This person never interviewed any of the hundreds of witnesses who have worked with Harvey who personally thanked him for his time, patience, and accuracy in the work he completed. Maybe this individual could’ve gone to Oklahoma City and met with District Attorneys, U.S. attorneys and judges and asked about Harvey’s professional name in that community. Lastly, maybe this individual could’ve looked at the THOUSANDS of drawings Harvey has completed on suspects where the accuracy in the drawing was so precise that it allowed a law enforcement officer to pick the suspect out of a crowd and bring that person to court to face their accuser. Harvey Pratt is a man of immense integrity, honesty and accuracy, for anyone to imply that Harvey completed a drawing with some agenda in his mind is criminal! These type of statements about NABS personnel go towards identifying the lack of professionalism and jealousy that exists in the bigfoot research world.
The world needs to understand something very, very clearly, NABS had NO AGENDA when we started down this research path. If people were seeing ape-like creatures, Harvey would’ve been drawing ape-like creatures, but, this isn’t what our witnesses are seeing. Are there ape-like creatures out in the woods of North America, maybe, how could we positively say no? We have crossed the U.S. attempting to get a broad spectrum of reports from a variety of witnesses and the drawings all come back relatively close to each other.
While going through our archives we came across an article that emanated from Russia. The articles speaks of a wild man in the Siberia region that has hair over its entire body and sounds to resemble our biped bigfoot. In Tribal Bigfoot we list numerous articles dating back over 100 years that depict a “wild man” scenario, not ape. Read the article below for reference to the Russian wild man.
One researcher who has had a sighting in Northern California is Bobbie Short. She observed a female in the Marble Mountains Wilderness area. Several NABS personnel have had extensive conversations with Bobbie about her sighting. Bobbie is a nurse by profession and has an eye for accuracy, that’s part of her training. Bobbie saw a biped that looked much, much more human then anything close to an ape. We are still waiting for a witness to come forward and be interviewed by NABS that states they saw an ape walking upright. Bobbie is a notable figure in the bigfoot world, has done a tremendous amount of great research on this topic and we would encourage you to visit her site and read a portion of the hundreds of articles she has posted, come to your own conclusions about what side of the genetic tree bigfoot may be occupying.
The public needs to understand that many of the people in the bigfoot world that are making a living selling their books and operating their websites have a HUGE vested interest in continuing their banter that bigfoot is a creature on the ape side of the genetic tree. Their books are based on this theory; their websites propagate the idea that this is fact. When a new organization arrives on the scene and utilizes proven forensic techniques to depict what witnesses are seeing, these same individuals attack us. They have no basis for their attacks, they use innuendo and “he said, she said” to support their claims. Don’t believe anything you hear about NABS unless you hear us say it or unless you read it here.
NABS is still working on our bigfoot hair project and working towards resolution. This project is approaching two years in duration and has had more scientists committed to finding the answers to this complex equation then any other NABS project to date. We continue to make progress, slow and steady. It will be interesting when we are completed, many of the discussions about where bigfoot is on the genetic tree will be answered.
NABS has had dozens of emails from concerned people stating that they have posted their concerns and feelings about our research on forums and websites only to have those statements edited or removed. YES, the groups where you are posting your feelings and concerns’ supporting NABS are censoring those statements in an attempt to control the belief systems of our bigfoot arena, that is fact. NABS has spoken to each of the individuals controlling those sites and they’ve stated, “it’s our site and we can do whatever we want with it.” Truth is sometimes a very scary proposition, especially when it starts to hit people’s wallet. Don’t expect to see us on anyone’s list this year, we’ve already been told that our research doesn’t match with their belief system.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Enjoy the great outdoors!
During our time in this arena we have heard a variety of researchers argue, discuss and banter about the possibility that bigfoot is an ape or gorilla hybrid. While we have always listened intently and politely, we have had our doubts. If you read the historical record of this biped you start to see that many had this figured out years before the Patterson-Gimlin film. If you read the Bigfoot Bulletins you can understand how early researchers were tracking the idea that the biped was much more human then any claim of it being ape or gorilla.
In the last month another researcher has stepped forward with his claim that bigfoot could not be an ape or gorilla. Dr. Esteban Sarmiento is a functional anatomist at the American Museum of Natural History. His research centers on the skeletons of hominoids. He has appeared in several television specials that discuss bigfoot, sasquatch and other crypto bipeds. Sarmiento stated that the biped is "exceedingly human like" and "it would be our closest relative on Earth". See the full story here (Thanks to Bobbie Short and Bigfoot Encounters for posting this):
NABS believes that many other researchers will step forward in the coming years with their belief that bigfoot is on the human side of the genetic tree. The evidence is mounting, people are starting to question the old ape and gorilla theories and experts in their respective areas are migrating towards the human equation. It sometimes takes years for the comfort level in some circles to rise and allow these views to bubble to the top, the bubbles are rising!
During our time in the woods we are routinely asked if we have ever faced danger or threats during our hikes and excursions. I usually explain that there was one time in a state park in Northern California I was traveling alone and was in the far reaches of the park. I was on a lonely trail and was confronted by an individual that would be described as a “hippy” type. He had long hair, looked unkept and wasn’t carrying a backpack or supplies. It appeared to me at the time that he was probably protecting something in the area, maybe an illegal grow. Because I was in a state park I wasn’t armed and felt vulnerable. This person asked me what I was doing in the area? It was obvious I was hiking but I didn’t want to be rude or antagonistic, so, I politely stated I was enjoying the sites and just passing through. He warned me to stay on the well-defined trail and not to stray, I said “sure”.
I am sure that there are many examples of hikers that killed in the woods under scenarios similar to what is described above. I probably would’ve been a little more abrupt with the guy if I had a weapon, but, the situation called for diplomacy, and that’s what he got. It’s too bad that our forests have people of questionable character walking about and doing illegal things, but, that is reality.
We recently read the below listed article about a Canadian who was attacked and killed by a coyote. We have never heard of a fatal attack by this animal, but, it’s a harsh environment in the forests and when food is scarce predators can do very unusual things, all predators! Black bears, mountain lions, wolves and grizzly bears have all killed hikers in North America. We need to be cognizant that this is their environment, they are the experts and survival and escape, not us.
Recommendations, always, always travel with a friend when hiking. Two brains are better then one and two people can fend off an attack better then one. This isn’t a guarantee that you won’t be attacked but you probably will not. There was an incident in Northern California two years ago when a retired couple was walking a popular trail, together when a mountain lion attacked the male. The wife pulled out a pen and stabbed the lion several times until it released the husband. He did have serious head injuries but he did survive.
Whenever we go into the woods alone we carry a satellite phone. No, these are not that expensive and can be purchased and utilized under minimal plans where you pay for a small amount of minutes annually. Whatever county we are in, we tape the phone number of the county sheriff onto the phone in case of an emergency. Dialing 911 from a satellite phone doesn’t work; you need the area code and number for the local sheriff.
How does all of this apply to bigfoot? Please read Tribal Bigfoot and you will see the correlation. Bigfoot is a predator, probably the biggest predator in North America and they do have a history of being unfriendly, from time to time. We don’t think this behavior is normal within their clan/tribe, but it does exist.
The conference was held Saturday October 17 and started the day at the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton. At 11am the group met and had a great barbecue hosted by the museum staff. It was a very comfortable time to mingle with visitors and converse over the latest bigfoot gossip.
**Robert Leiterman from the North Coastal Region of California where he is a California State Park Ranger.
**Ron Morehead (L) and Scott Nelson (R)
(L-R) David Paulides, Robert Leiterman and Tom Yamarone
At 2pm everyone left the museum and headed down the road to the Felton Town Hall where a list of very competent speakers presented their latest finding.
The afternoon started with Tom Yamarone playing his guitar and singing some memorable bigfoot songs. Kathy Strain was the first speaker.
Kathy is the U.S. Forest Service archaeologist for the Stanislaus National Forest near Sonora. She has also written an excellent book, “Giants, Cannibals and Monsters, Bigfoot in Native Culture.” Kathy nailed this topic in her book. It is filled with excellent photos and narratives that strengthen the idea that bigfoot has been part of the Native American Culture for centuries. Her presentation was quite interesting and on topic for NABS because of the Native American-bigfoot connection.
Ron Morehead and Scott Nelson were next to speak. Ron was the individual responsible for the Sierra Sound Recordings of a bigfoot. He gave an interesting presentation on how this was accomplished and the progression from recording to analysis. Ron has been on a mission since the 1970’s to prove this was not a hoax and this was truly a recording of a bigfoot, he found that proof in Scott Nelson.
As NABS stated in an earlier blog, Scott Nelson is the expert in linguistic translation. I don’t think you will find anyone with more qualifications in their respective arena then Scott. He slowed the Sierra tapes showing that it was a language but the bigfoot speak incredible fast and we can’t understand. When the tape is slowed, you can definitely see there are hesitations in the phrases, similar to human language. After watching two of Scott’s presentations, we walked away absolutely convinced that bigfoot does utilize language and it’s quite possible they were trying to communicate with the Ron Morehead team that was on site. NABS would like to thank Scott for entering the bigfoot arena and adding a significant level of professionalism to an area that desperately needs more.
Bill Munns is an expert in the development of costumes for the movie industry. Bill explained how he had made some very, very complex costumes in his past and he always had an interest in bigfoot, so, he thought he’d apply his knowledge to the topic.
Bill stated at the top that he felt that this was a real primate that was in the PG film. He states that there are certain ways costumes move, no matter how well they are built. He showed frame 352 and he focused on the extension of the right arm behind the biped. He centered on the area of the shoulder and showed a small indentation in this area that is seen on people when they hold their arm back. He explained that when he saw this on the PG film, he knew this was a real biped. He stated that there isn’t a costume made that could replicate this feature. Bill went into several other aspects of the body and frame of the biped that added to the notion that this is a real biped. Mr. Munns added another level of certainty that Patterson and Gimlin truly caught a bigfoot on film in October of 1967.
The last person on the schedule was NABS Executive Director David Paulides. One of the first items that Paulides reiterated was that NABS would not partake in bashing other researchers or their findings and asked people in the audience not to support a culture that fed off this behavior, their was widespread clapping in the audience after this statement!
Paulides reviewed “The Hoopa Project” and that sightings and evidence still is coming into NABS. He moved onto “Tribal Bigfoot” and highlighted some of what his team accomplished. He then moved onto a hair study that NABS initiated that is entering its 20th month. He voiced his frustration that the project has taken this long but explained that there are many, many issues with bigfoot hair that don’t exist with other primates. He stated that the project would continue even though they were frustrated with the pace.
Paulides spent time discussing the Patterson- Gimlin film and the behavior of the biped in the film. He explained that he and his team have reviewed thousands of sighting reports and many of the behaviors exhibited by the biped in the film are not consistent with the majority of reports on file.
1. The bigfoot was seen during daylight hours, specifically mid-day.
2. The biped didn’t run even though she was confronted by armed men.
3. It was a female; a vast majority of sightings are males.
4. She didn’t immediately go for cover and protection, she stayed in plain view.
5. This biped had much more facial hair then 95% of the sighting reports that NABS has documented.
6. There has never been a bigfoot filmed for this duration since 1967, yet, there is probably 100,000X more people in the forests of the U.S. now as compared to 1967 that possess a video recording device. Why hasn’t this been replicated?
7. The timeline of PG observing the biped, riding back to camp to get casting material, casting the tracks, recovering the casts, driving to the post office in Eureka and arriving by 5pm is IMPOSSIBLE. This isn’t even close to reality, especially in 1967 when the roads over Bald Hills were horrible and PG was driving an old truck.
Much more about the bigfoot on the PG film was discussed, but, those were the highlights. Paulides had several people in the audience that were not listening carefully and took offense to what he was saying. Twice he brought people back to the topic he was discussing and repeated his words, slowly and carefully. This is obviously an emotionally charged topic for many people, but, Paulides stated that “People sometimes miss the obvious, the behavior exhibited was not consistent with known bigfoot behavior.” Paulides also stated several times that NABS does believe that it was a real bigfoot captured on film by Roger Patterson.
Several people have asked for a summary of the Honobia, OK Bigfoot Conference, 2009. The NABS team is still enroute home from the conference so this information is fresh!
This is the second year we have attended and the attendance this year seemed to be larger then 2008. This agenda was packed with interesting speakers and the crowd seemed informed and interested. NABS was represented at the conference by David Paulides and Harvey and Gina Pratt.
Highlights
Dr. Jeff Meldrum from Idaho State gave his usual informative and educational talk on his research. Members of TEXLA also gave entertaining talks on tracks and sounds they had found. This is also the first opportunity that we had to meet and observe Thomas Powell’s presentation. Thomas is a very smart and entertaining science teacher from Portland, OR. Thomas wrote “The Locals”, a very good book about his research in the Oregon and Washington areas. It was our good fortune to finally meet Thomas. Harvey Pratt gave an engaging presentation about his forensic art, reconstruction and how this applies to bigfoot research. The crows was enthralled with Harvey’s very explicit photos and lecture, he’s a pro!
**Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Harvey Pratt at the conference.
R. Scott Nelson
One of the highlights to NABS was the presentation by R. Scott Nelson, crypto language specialist and whose report appears on our website. This is the first opportunity that we had to meet Scott and see his presentation, it was riveting! Scott did an outstanding job explaining the process he goes through in examining tapes and possible language. His decades of expertise in this field makes him the absolute expert in this niche. He took the Sierra Recordings and painstakingly took the phrases apart second by second. He played segments of the tape for the crowd and then slowed the tape to a crawl so we could see the tone and patterns of the speech, it was there. Scott left the crowd convinced that Bigfoot does utilize speech and has feelings expressed in its tone. It was a great presentation. We look forward to meeting with Scott again in Felton and observing his presentation! Scott Nelson has given NABS further proof that Bigfoot has definitive human qualities, language.
David Paulides
David started the presentation with giving an overview of NABS.
The first section that he detailed was an 18-month study of bigfoot hair. He explained that some reports are contained in “Tribal Bigfoot” and that the study is continuing and progress is being made on DNA extraction. He encouraged research groups to work together and utilize one centralized lab rather then forcing other labs to start from scratch in their knowledge base. Bigfoot hair is a complex issue and not a normal mammalian hair. If we all tried working together we could quickly cover significant ground rather then force each lab to muddle in their learning curve.
David also spoke about the Patterson-Gimlin Film and the recent controversy that some on the bigfoot arena tried to stir. He flatly stated that nobody in NABS would ever publicly criticize any researcher for their viewpoints or research strategy. He explained that we in the bigfoot arena are already persecuted by the general public, why throw knives at each other? He encouraged people to speak about topics but not to publicly berate each other.
David went through a list of issues in the Patterson film that is not consistent with other sightings that NABS has researched and studied. He said that his team has reviewed approximately 2000 sighting reports and certain behavior observed in the PG film are not consistent with the behavior consistently exhibited in other sighting reports.
1. A female bigfoot is observed for an extended period of time during daylight hours in the PG film.
**90% of all sighting reports are of males
**In 40 years since the PG film there has never been a bigfoot observed for this length of time.
2. Patterson and Gimlin happen to stumble into filming this biped in the Bluff Creek Creek basin.
**What percentage of people had a recording device in 1967 that could document what P & G had viewed, and, were in the forests? Obviously a very, very small percentage.
**What percentage of people from 1999-2009 had a video recording device that could record clear video in the woods of North America, in essence, the odds of filming a bigfoot from 1999-2009 were probably 1,000,000X more probable then they were in 1967 based only on the number of video recorders in the possession of visitors to the woods, yet, no video of this quality and length has since been made.
3. Patty didn’t run.
**In the hundreds of cases we have reviewed where an individual observed a bigfoot, when the biped knows it is observed, it immediately runs and leaves the area, it doesn’t linger, Patty did, why?
4. Patty stayed in an open area and didn’t immediately move to cover.
**At the opening of the P & G footage, Patty was close to the forest line, look at the area behind her. She chose to move along the creek bed and stay in view. She obviously knew she was being observed, she turned and looked (another very unusual trait exhibited in this film that is not common in other sightings).
5. Patty had a very hairy face.
**NABS has interviewed hundreds of bigfoot witnesses and done numerous forensic sketches of what these people had observed. Approximately 3-5% of our interviews indicate that the biped has facial hair as heavy as Patty.
6. Nobody can produce the original version of the PG film.
7. Nobody can tell us where the film was processed.
8. The timeline that was given on how the film was transported from Bluff Creek to the post office in Eureka and then Patterson and Gimlin driving to Willow Creek to meet Al Hodgson is impossible (See Tribal Bigfoot for details).
Paulides explained that because of the above details being inconsistent with other sighting reports, the film is worth investigation. Taking into account #1-5, what were the odds that P & G happen to be riding down a trail and catch Patty on film, she cooperated and stayed in view, she didn’t run, she turned to look at them, they obtained clear footage (not blobsquatch) and this was all done by a couple of cowboys who never had training with a camera?
Seriously, what are the odds of this event occurring by pure chance?
Paulides broke from the critique of the film to publicly release high resolution scans of the transparencies made by Roger Patterson of 5 frames of the PG film. Patricia Patterson allowed NABS to scan these transparencies at the highest possible resolutions, never before done by anyone (They had been scanned before but never coming close to the resolutions obtained by NABS). Paulides did indicate that specific details in the film not visible under normal viewing are now. He also stated that the scans show significant detail about the landscape and the biped not visible in any other document relative to the film. He thanks Patricia Patterson for allowing NABS to scan these transparencies and show them publicly. This was a first for the Oklahoma Conference. Paulides will show the remaining 3 transparencies at the Felton Conference later this month. Patricia Patterson holds all rights to these transparencies.
NABS does believe that Patterson and Gimlin did film a bigfoot in the 1967 footage. They are surprised that other researchers haven’t investigated and questioned the circumstances of the event especially since most understand bigfoot behavior and have sighting reports available for review. NABS does understand that some in the bigfoot community don’t want to question anything relative to the PG film and would rather take it at face value. NABS has not and will not be intimidated into shying away from research. We will also not make conclusions until we completely understand the totality of the circumstances. NABS has been very fortunate to have many witnesses to peripheral events approach us with new evidence on the PG film. While our viewpoint on this issue is evolving, we are not ready to publicly make any statements incriminating anyone. Everyday we are getting closer to an understanding of this film, but, WE NEED MORE HELP FROM YOU. The answers are out there and we need you to bring it to us. Your identity will remain anonymous. Thank you to the many people who have come to us with valuable evidence, you will continue to remain anonymous.
Paulides went on to talk about follow-up research in Hoopa regarding “The Hoopa Project”. He also spoke about “Tribal Bigfoot”, the historical perspective and articles his team found and the significance of Harvey Pratt’s forensic work with witnesses. This included age progression of bigfoot and utilizing his abilities to take the hair off of Patty’s face, exposing what she really looks like, found in “Tribal Bigfoot”.
The presentation ended with an explanation why NABS has not been in any documentaries or television shows relative to Bigfoot. He explained that most producers are trying to make bigfoot into a monster and don’t want to expose that it may be much more human. He stated that they have had many conversations with various shows but the producers don’t want to stick to the facts or they aren’t interested in the research. In closing, Paulides stated that the only group in the world doing full time research (NABS) into bigfoot isn’t getting public or cable television exposure because of an agenda by producers to keep the facts from the public and they continue to spin reality into what they consider to be more entertaining. He did hint at a speck of hope, stating that they were having conversations with a major network into a long-term project, stay tuned.
In closing, there has been an aging group of people who call themselves researchers who have leveraged their entire career on an assumption that bigfoot/sasquatch is an ape, gorilla or something very close. Members of this fraternity have made many publicly disparaging statements about NABS and our followers, we don’t and won’t reciprocate and engage in unprofessional behavior, and, make assumptions that will later prove unfounded. A few of these individuals have edited promotional material sent to them by other conferences and organizations so that NABS personnel and their supporters aren’t shown on the conference agenda’s they promote, yes, this is true!
There has never been an ape or gorilla found living in the wilds of North America. There is no fossil record of anything similar to an ape or gorilla living in North America. Apes and gorilla’s cannot stand and run for any significant period of time. The human is the only primate species that has enlarged breasts in their females consistently over their lifetime. Science has shown that language is one of the cornerstones separating us from lower primates, bigfoot has language! Every species of gorilla or ape ever recognized by science can be easily placed under surveillance, studied and behavior understood, bigfoot cannot. NABS would gladly sit and discuss our research with any known researcher in either category. We would request that everyone in our arena act in a dignified and professional manner, respecting differences of opinion and points of view. Let’s treat each other in a manner where if our children read our rhetoric that we wouldn’t be embarrassed by the behavior.
**Thomas Powell Signing his book at the conference.
Thanks to DW LEE and the entire Oklahoma Conference team for a great event!
This is the start of the conferences and appearances by NABS personnel. We have had a very good summer and are ready to talk about current projects and ongoing research, some is quite fascinating.
The last year has been very interesting. We’ve been publicly challenged, ridiculed and had lies stated about our group, it’s a wonderful life! Since we aren’t guided by the banter of other Bigfoot figures who own websites, but we are guided by morality, honesty and professional investigative practices. I remember many years ago when I was placed on a molestation case. An individual had come forward claiming they were molested by a VERY public figure. They were adamant with their assertions, signed an affidavit and a criminal complaint and stated they would do everything possible to assist in the prosecution. Our investigation started with an extensive background investigation into the suspect.
Every background check includes a variety of factors in the subject’s life. Have they ever been criminally investigated, have they been terminated for a criminal offense, are they willing to cooperate in the investigation and do they attempt to intimidate or persuade potential witnesses, all critical factors, and, all point to their moral center. In the case of the molestation the suspect was very available to assist, answered every question, was willing to sign an affidavit and take a polygraph. They provided documentation on where they were, their background, relatives, friends and generally were extremely helpful.
During the course of the molestation investigation, we never told anyone why we were asking questions regarding the suspect. Nobody ever had any idea why an investigation was occurring or why law enforcement was asking questions. The rationale behind the secrecy, what if the allegations were not true? This is exactly what happened, the alleged victim took a polygraph, failed and later admitted to the fabrication. They were criminally charged with filing a false police report.
When professionals are conducting an investigation the last thing we want to do is ruin the integrity and credibility of someone in the public eye when an allegation is leveled. It’s the job of the investigator to take a neutral approach and not to demolish the suspect over a mere allegation. The investigation is similar to building a pyramid, one block at a time building towards the pinnacle. If an investigator reaches a roadblock, they look for alternatives, they consult other experts and they find other avenues to either prosecute or exonerate. Until there is overwhelming and conclusive evidence at either end, the investigation continues, and, sometimes this takes years. Patience is the key to every investigation. As people on the periphery understand the magnitude, professionalism and thoroughness of the research associated with the investigation, evidence starts to trickle down, people start to talk and witnesses understand that their identity will be kept confidential, the case starts to break. Persistence, professionalism and patience will eventually break the case.
We look forward to meeting you at Honobia and Felton!
Blog 69 Giving Back/ The Track Record-A Bigfoot Encyclopedia
When NABS started to organize and form as a group, one of our edicts was that we would give back to the research world something of value. We knew we would share our research, findings, assumptions and hypothesis, but, there would be more.
We started the web site five years ago and have slowly built a healthy resource for Bigfoot researchers, interested parties and casual observers. We have not sold advertisement on the site and continue to support the website and communications infrastructure internally through founder funds. We hope to continue to accomplish this well into the future.
Our Executive Director, Dave Paulides has written two books, The Hoopa Project and Tribal Bigfoot. Both books have been resounding successes inside the Bigfoot arena and every dollar that David has made has gone directly back into the North America Bigfoot Search general account to fund additional research. David has not profited one penny from either book. If anyone has notions that publishing a Bigfoot book will make you wealthy, think again. The amount of time, travel costs, fees paid to independent contractors and associated fees to bring either book to publisher will far outweigh anything we make in profit from any book for years into the future. These books were published for you, at our expense.
Two years ago NABS purchased the Ray Crowe research collection. This included the rights to Ray’s writings, Track Records, casts, photos and all research material. NABS knew what we were purchasing and knew what we were going to do. NABS had extensively studied the Track Record newsletter that Ray had distributed to his subscribers for 16 years. There was more information in those newsletters about Bigfoot/ Sasquatch then any other book our researchers could find. The 3000 pages of documents, photos, articles and hypothesis were priceless and needed to be brought to the current breed of researchers. One item that continually caused our researchers consternation was that there was not a master index of all Track Records. We found many interesting tidbits of Bigfoot research yet there wasn’t one method to uniformly track them. Over a year ago NABS put a group together to index every Track Record onto a master document, it is now 18 months later and we have completed the project. The result of our efforts is an 80 page WORD document that index’ the entire 3000 pages of the Track Record, yes, you read that correctly, 80 pages. Below is a sampling of one small section of the Index under the category “Bigfoot”, with only the largest “Bigfoot” categories selected;
Some of the major categories and the number of entries;
Bigfoot Berries- 30+
Bigfoot Black in Color- 30
Bigfoot Bodies- 40+
Bigfoot- Brown in Color- 70
Bigfoot Burying Bigfoot- 18
Bigfoot Caves- 20
Bigfoot Children-30
Bigfoot & Dogs- 40
Bigfoot Eyes- 100 +
Bigfoot Hair- 50
Bigfoot Hit By Cars- 15
Bigfoot Hoax- 25+
Bigfoot Odor- 60+
Bigfoot Photos- 30+
Bigfoot Quarry/Gravel Pit- 15
Bigfoot Reddish Brown in Color- 40+
Bigfoot Scat- 35+
Bigfoot Scream- 80+
Bigfoot Shakes- 15+
Bigfoot Shot- 50+
Bigfoot Swimming- 15+
Bigfoot Tan Colored- 15+
Bigfoot Throwing Rocks- 20+
Bigfoot UFO Connection- 15+
Bigfoot Whistle- 8
Bigfoot White in Color- 15+
Bigfoot Whoop Whoop- 10+
Bigfoot Women- 30+
Bigfoot Wood Knock- 20+
Each of these entries on the index states the Track Record and page number where the entry can be found. If you wanted to find the number of times a Bigfoot with red eyes was reported, you could go to each Track Record and read about it. There are sightings in every U.S. state, except Hawaii. Nearly every major Bigfoot story is recounted in these editions and there are photos of many locations, researchers, Bigfoot, etc. You could spend months browsing these newsletters, as we did.
The index was a HUGE accomplishment but we needed the Track Records readily available for viewing. NABS accomplished a monumental task by scanning each of the 3000 pages at a high enough resolution where they are readable on the computer and able to be printed. We completed the project with over one Gigabit of data. We are placing this information on a CD to make it easily accessible. The DVD’s are being copied at this time and will be at our offices by next Friday afternoon, we will be selling them through our website store.
We can guarantee that there is no other document available on any Cryptozoology topic anywhere matching what Ray Crowe and NABS has produced. This is the single greatest Bigfoot Research tool we have ever worked with and we believe that the Bigfoot community will benefit by utilizing the reference availability that the index offers. We believe that the sale of our DVD will go “live” by Friday, September 18. We know you will be quite pleased with the product and the price!
Enjoy the great outdoors
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One of my best friends is the head of a Geology Department at a major university in Canada. We talk frequently about a variety of topics that involve the outdoors, including geology. Three years ago he was invited to Stanford University at an event sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey titled, Medical Mineralogy and Geochemistry. He gave me a copy of their book, titled the same as the name of the conference, 64th edition, ISSN#1529-6466, ISBN#978-0-039950-76-6.
One thing I never knew was that geologists deal with a variety of issues that cross into the medical field. Here is a list of names of some of the books chapters;
1. Earth materials linked or potentially linked to human health.
2. Asbestos
3. Aluminum, Alzheimer disease and geospacial occurrence of similar disorders
4. Potential role of soil in the transmission of prion disease.
This book is filled with fascinating reading that is highly scientific and includes evolving theories. The top researchers in the world have contributed stories. One chapter talks about Guam and the high incidence of the Chamorros of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. A longterm study showed no genetic correlation between the disease and the victims and families. On page 125, paragraph two, the author states that environmental factors appear to be a primary factor. This is a very long study but the core ingredient was the association with the environment. Imagine, a possibility that our environment plays a role in whether we get alzheimers disease..
Prions are an entirely different issue that I’ve known about for almost seven years. Prions are a very dangerous factor in our environment and its been surprising to me that we haven’t heard more about this until today (9/10/09). On page A9 of the San Francisco Chronicle, science writer David Perlman wrote an article, “Source of Disease Killing Deer Identified.” Well, there was an entire chapter in the above identified book devoted to Prions and their associated danger to wildlife, and, maybe humans. Today was the first time I have ever seen anything associated with prions written in a newspaper.
Prion diseases are a fatal neurodegenerative disorder that has a longterm consequence to a variety of mammals. In cows we call this mad cow disease, sheep its called “scrapie” and in goats “bovine spongiform encephalopathy and in deer and elk it’s called “chronic wasting disease.” Chronic wasting disease and scrapie appear to be environmentally transmitted (they live in dirt and are eaten by animals) and thus the concern. The author states that prions can live through an autoclave at 135 degrees for 60 minutes, and, boiling does nothing to them, incineration at low temperatures has no effect (Page 138). They can also live through decades of inactivity while in the soil and this may be one way it’s transmitted to the mammals. The concern for humans could be real and is slowly working its way through the political process of allowing mainstream media to publish this. The deer can catch the disease and live for months without any symptoms. According to the book, prions can be found in the muscle tissue of the mammal (Page 136) and here is the concern for humans, hunters eat this meat. The author states that the chance of transmission to humans is low but it would appear that more studies need to be done. Below lists sites that discusses the transmission of prions to humans.
I would encourage people who are interested in this topic to read “Brain Trust: The hidden connection between Mad Cow and Misdiagnosed Alzheimer’s Disease”, By Colm Kelleher, Paraview Books, 2004. Kelleher makes associations between the monitoring of prions in cattle with cattle mutilations occurring from the 1970’s through today. He claims that the specific body parts that are removed from the cattle are the areas that contain the highest levels of prions. He doesn’t claim that these are extraterrestrials taking these specimens but a high level government program to monitor the level of prions of herds of cattle, deer and elk throughout the U.S.
The reason this section has been included in the blog is to expose our readers to the VAST array of research that is ongoing at a very high level in the forests and open spaces of our great country. If prions are as dangerous and prolific as is described, they must be having an effect on the Bigfoot population. One of the Bigfoot’s main source of protein are other mammals, deer, elk and smaller game, all might contain prions.
The real question, should we be eating deer and elk if they show no symptoms of prion exposure for months after being infected?
Enjoy the great outdoors!
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In the 50 years of Bigfoot research the world has seen a variety of approaches to the topic. There are many Bigfoot Research groups (they call themselves this) that go out on weekends, set up camp, drink a few beers, tell a few stories, walk around the trails and listen for what goes bump in the night. Some people actually pay these groups to have this experience, no problem, that’s capitalism. There are other groups that sit in their offices, send off newsletters and fire off articles that ridicule other researchers, go out to the field once or twice a year and see what the “real” researchers have been doing, this group does no significant original research, they merely like to disparage and ride the coattails of others while pumping up their chest. The third group is the encyclopedia/computer researcher. They don’t go into the field, they manage a website where they obtain revenue from selling ads on their site, they make occasional television show appearances and they pedal their books. This group has an inordinate amount of time to sit, read others sites and again, try to find a story that is controversial about Bigfoot so they can drive traffic to their site and increase the revenue to their wallet. The last group on the list is the true researchers. You don’t hear from this group much because they are actually in the field working, trying to solve the complexities of the topic, keeping their mouths shut and their eyes open, they don’t sell space on their website, yes we have these types in the Bigfoot world and these are the groups you should be relying on for most of your factual and current research information. We write this because the world of Bigfoot is one of the most dysfunctional arenas in any spectrum imaginable. It’s a place where many can’t work together, most don’t have friends, a majority of research “groups” are a group of one and almost all have an ego the size of Texas.
Most in our organization have been professionally trained and have decades of on the job experience on how to organize, investigate and analyze every investigation they pursue. Part of this training includes a statement, “need to know, right to know”. In essence this means that if you are involved in a complex investigation you don’t dispense information unless the other person has a need or a right to know the specifics of the case. Many times other members of the investigators own organization don’t know the investigation is even occurring. The fewer individuals that know the specifics behind a case, the less of a chance that rumors get started and facts get twisted, yes, this happens. If an investigator is researching a case and the individual being questioned starts to speak publicly about that questioning, the majority of the time this person is desperate, looking for allies and is refusing to cooperate. They will attempt to embarrass, humiliate or even bully the investigator into dropping the case and abandoning the investigation, this occurs daily in law enforcement across North America. A special interest group sometimes takes up the cause of an individual under suspicion, the group berates the investigator and agency yet has absolutely no clue what evidence the agency, investigator, supporting agencies or other witnesses may possess. The special interest group will apply enormous pressure via the press, sometimes peers of the agency will apply pressure and sometimes slander to either get the agency to drop the case or release to the public the evidence they possess against the individual. The special interest group will try to bait the investigator/agency into making a statement in an effort of further ridicule and embarrassment. This behavior is usually followed by members of the public believing the rhetoric of the special interest and falling for the bait, furthering their agenda and making statements that will later prove completely inaccurate. This approach will never work when you are dealing with a professional organization conducting an investigation.
The Bigfoot world has very rarely seen a complex investigation through to its fruition, they aren’t use to this approach or subsequent success. Part of that professional investigative approach is thoroughly questioning individuals associated with the investigation. This includes locking in their story, having the witness clearly answer all questions and leaving no gaps or holes. A thorough investigator will ensure that this process is followed with an affidavit signed by the individual attesting to the facts surrounding the event. The affidavit process is something NABS has utilized on EVERY Bigfoot investigation we have researched and we see no reason to abandon that approach at anytime in the future. Affidavits have a well established place in Bigfoot investigations and were originally utilized by John Green in the early 1950’s as he interviewed witnesses of sightings and events. John understood the value of the affidavit and implemented that into his protocol. NABS knows of no other Bigfoot group that has utilized this approach in the past, other than John, but the value in legally stating the facts, attesting to them in a court document under penalty of perjury is the strongest statement a witness can make and usually sends the investigator in another direction. But, if you are attempting to avoid answering questions, evading answers, talking in circles and/or refusing to answer direct questions, well, you definitely will not want to sign a well-worded affidavit. The refusal by a witness to sign an affidavit is a red flag to any seasoned investigator that there is obviously something askew, especially if the witness doesn’t ask for wording to be changed or slight alterations to the document. Outright refusal to sign the legal paperwork only pushes the investigative team deeper and with knowledge that they are tracking the correct path.
The long and short of this blog, don’t believe what you read about any ongoing investigation until the organization working the case has made a public statement, and, that organization will not make a statement until the case has reached a conclusion. The organization will not make statements because they will not want to embarrass witnesses or involved victims or possibly compromise evidence that is being processed and accumulated.
It’s sometimes fun to read the opinions and feelings of others that the press portrays during a prolonged investigation, but, don’t develop an opinion about guilt, innocence, culpability or involvement until you have seen ALL of the facts.
Enjoy the great outdoors!
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Blog #66 Archie Buckley and San Francisco Bay Area Bigfoot Research
As we stated in a press release today, NABS did acquire the research of 40 years worth of work of Archie Buckley. Archie and his group from the San Francisco Bay Area did almost 4 decades of great Bigfoot research. The group did believe that Bigfoot was human, not ape and they did not believe that a Bigfoot should be shot or captured for scientific purposes.
Background:
Archie Buckley was born and raised in Alameda, CA, a small town across the bay from San Francisco. Archie attended and later received his degree from Chico State University in Physical Medicine.
In 1941 Archie was working just outside of Marysville, CA when he stopped at a soda fountain and saw a 16 year old girl working behind the counter. He asked his friend to go inside and broker an introduction, that’s how he met Rhea. Rhea and Archie developed a quick relationship and eloped to Reno, Nevada, got married and didn’t tell Rhea’s parents, she was 7 years Archie’s junior. They were married ten days after Pearl Harbor, 12/17/41.
Shortly after Pearl Harbor Archie joined the Army. He and Rhea traveled the United States and made stops at Little Rock, Arkansas, and places in Texas, they had three kids during that four years. One of the Buckley’s sons is a pilot for Cal Fire and fights forest fires and another son just finished his playing career for the Oakland Athletics as a catcher, their daughter is a college graduate and mother.
Archie spent 38 years working as the Chief of Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Oakland. Archie developed an expertise for understanding stride, walking and foot impressions, this translated well into Bigfooting, and, he wrote several articles utilizing his expertise and applying it to Bigfoot prints.
Archie died on July 18, 2007 after being married to Rhea for almost 66 years. They have a beautiful house in the east bay area that is truly an oasis that contains Rhea’s gorgeous garden. I had the GREAT pleasure of meeting Rhea at her house with her giving me the grand tour. She is without a single doubt the most mentally quick and physically fit 86 year old lady this researcher has ever met! We had a great conversation and I know I made a new friend. She explained Archie’s passion for Bigfoot, how he spent a great majority of that research time in the Yolla Bolly and Trinity Alps Wilderness of Northern California and how she patiently allowed him to make those trips with the likes of George Haas and Warren Thompson.
Meeting people like Rhea Buckley is really the best of Bigfoot research. Her positive attitude, appreciation for Archie and his research was a definite high point to an otherwise dreary week. Thank you, Rhea for allowing NABS to possess Archie’s research, we will read every letter!
Archie Buckley walking in his research area-Thanks Rhea for the great photo!
California at this point has several fires that are devouring our great forests (Santa Cruz, Trinity and Stanislaus Counties). Many of these fires have natural origins, lightning strikes, and other may be arson. In the history of Bigfoot research there are several stories that are associated with forest fires and Bigfoot and a select few where firefighters actually had a sighting. While NABS has never investigated any of these incidents or sightings, we will fill in the gaps about what we know.
Trinity River
Many years ago there were a series of sightings east of Weaverville (Calif) in the general vicinity of the Trinity River. At that time the California forest fires were fought by the California Department of Forestry (CDF), they have since changed their name to “Cal Fire.” Anyhow, a CDF crew responded to a spot fire adjacent to the Trinity River east of Salyer and Burn Ranch. They worked the area and decided they could return to their quarters in Weaverville. It was approximately 3am and the crew was in one fire engine driving E/B along the river. As they came around a corner of the highway they saw a Bigfoot cross the roadway directly in front of them. Again, we’ve never interviewed the crew but the story has floated the web for many years. As a sidenote, Tribal Bigfoot has a few stories were people signed affidavits about sightings in this exact area.
Another incident involves a Native American Fire Fighting crew that was working in Trinity County, somewhere in the far reaches of the forest. Supposedly a crew saw a Bigfoot down in a valley near a river at a point they could readily identify it, it ran away. Again, there are few details of this sighting but it is also floating the internet.
Nevada
Probably the most famous forest fire related Bigfoot incident occurred near Battle Mountain, Nevada, near Winnemuca. The story goes that there was a raging fire and a Bigfoot stumbled out of the fire, semi conscious and burned badly. They put the biped in the back of a pickup truck and transported it to a local veterinarian. The forest service employees stated that they used a pickup truck so not to arouse interest in someone or something injured and then transported it. Those same employees stated that they were threatened and forced to an oath of secrecy and were not allowed to talk about the incident. This turned out to be a figment of someone’s imagination, never occurred.
NABS believes that Bigfoot is a much smarter biped then to sit idly by as a major fire reaches its immediate area. Bigfoot has the speed to outrun a fire, even if it was close. We believe that it has a thinking process that easily understands the threat that fire poses. We’ve heard unconfirmed reports that some bipeds have actually been seen stomping out small fires, not sure about the veracity of that story, but, it might be possible.
Bigfoot Footage/Research
We routinely hear stories about people that have taken great footage of a Bigfoot. Every time we conduct extensive follow-up on these stories and in every single case, the footage is a disappointment. We have also heard stories of habituators that have great footage that they are reluctant to share, why? If we could assist in putting the worlds pessimism regarding Bigfoot to rest, with the assistance of photos, film footage and scientific proof, why wouldn’t they come forward? We’ve heard every excuse you can imagine, and then more! There are only two rational explanations about their reluctance to release the photos;
1. The photos and the footage does not exist.
2. The owners are looking for a huge pay day.
NABS is not saying that we haven’t seen phenomenal photographs, we have. In each instance we were forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement, which we did. We signed the agreement because we want an understanding about its physical characteristics to ensure we are walking down the correct path, we are. Item #2, pay day, is something that we believe is occurring on a grand scale. There are a few very, very wealthy North Americans that are working sites right now and claim to have footage and photos. We haven’t seen these but we have been consulted about the investigation and research, at a high level.
NABS believes that all researchers involved in the study of this unique biped need to take a breath and dig deep into themselves and ask what they are truly trying to accomplish. We’ve made this offer once, but, here we go again. We all need to put down our ego, put away the check books and work as a team, develop synergy to solve this complex issue at multi levels, and, there are many levels of this issue.
It seems to NABS that many groups continue to walk down the same, identical and useless path as every other group before them;
Put out game cameras
Spend the weekend in a campground
Walk around in the dark with flashlights
Knock on a few trees
Blast some Bigfoot calls
Hide behind a tree with a video camera
Folks, this, or something very close to this has been happening every year since the PG film. It hasn’t worked, it won’t work and even if it did work what good is more photos of Bigfoot going to do for science. They have great footage of a Bigfoot captured by Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin, science still won’t buy the product!
NABS has been doing many different things in the woods that have never before been attempted, to the best of our knowledge. If we, as researchers, continue to walk the same path and don’t start thinking outside the box, there will be no progress in understanding this complex biped. We can learn allot from reading studies and articles from the past. Maybe we should study them and attempt to understand why the observers made the statements that they did. We would suggest that EVERYONE read Tribal Bigfoot and specifically read what a group of three Native American Tribes stated in the 1920’s about Bigfoot/ Sasquatch. Every researcher may approach this topic in an entirely different angle if they took those 1920 articles to heart.
Enjoy the great outdoors!
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Across the river from our base camp in Cascade Locks is Skamania County, Washington. It’s home to Mt. St. Helens and the stories that go with Ray Wallace and Datus Perry fame. Ray claimed that there were several families of Bigfoot that lived on the mountain and Datus claimed that he had multiple encounters over a lifetime. It is a fact that Ray did fake a series of tracks in his lifetime but as a group that has his private notes from a lifetime in the woods, Ray knew some things that only a keep observer of the biped would know.
We traveled through Stevenson and up through Carson. Stevenson has most of the amenities you would need in a small community. The Skamania Lodge is one of the largest employers in the area, has a beautiful golf course and a gorgeous lodge. The place is pricey but it is first class. Carson has a four way stop sign in the town, a hardware store, gas station, antique store and that is about it. We followed the Windy River Road up into the Gifford Pinchot National Forest and were quite impressed with its beauty and its health. The timber industry hasn’t decimated the region too bad until you go onto Google Earth and look at the amount of clear cut that’s been done, brutal.
The weather in this region has been very hot, unseasonably hot, over 100 everyday. As we got deeper into the forest the woods got thick and the temperature started to drop. We were in a rented 4x4 and did take a few spur roads, not many, just to get a peak off the main roads. As our luck would start to roll, one of those roads took us to an on duty Skamania County Sheriff on patrol. We stopped and this led to a one hour conversation about Bigfoot.
We won’t name the deputy out of respect for his privacy but we will say that he was respectful, interested in our work and knew a little about Bigfoot. He was a 26 year veteran and had the high mountain patrol. He told us that it sometimes takes him 2 ½ hours to reach a location on a call for service. He had a region to patrol from Mt. St. Helens to the base of Mt. Adams to the city limits of Carson, absolutely HUGE (The county is 1672 square miles)! He did tell us that he had been on 3 Bigfoot calls in the last 6 years. He said that most calls have turned into nothing but the reports he has heard about screams in the area have been a little hard to explain. We asked if any deputies had a sighting? He said that there is a group that believe the biped may exist and then there are others that make fun of the idea, so, most wouldn’t say anything if they had seen it. We were quite deep into the forest at this time and he advised us that we were close to Skookum Meadows, he knew about the cast and we talked about it at length. He gave us directions, we exchanged emails and we were off for the meadow.
Approximately 2 miles from where we had met the deputy we were in the region of the meadow. The road was blocked by a USFS gate, but we did get close by going down another road. This area is very remote. We were at this location in the early evening and I can tell you for a fact that the bugs were horrendous. I’ve been to the Yukon Territory 4x where the mosquitoes swarm to form fog, this wasn’t far off from that! You can understand how a biped could live in this area unmolested for years. There was almost no vehicular traffic and we didn’t see anyone on any of the dirt roads we had taken. This area would remind a California resident of the upper reaches of the Siskiyou Wilderness.
Our trip into this region did turn up a few witnesses. One man said that he saw a Bigfoot at a distance of 20’ at the city limits of Carson 3 years ago. This was an interesting coincidence. At our ride back from the meadow, it was approximately 9pm and getting dark when we were approximately 3 miles from Carson we saw a herd of 10 elk on the side of the road. We stopped next to them and had a chat, they were not afraid and appeared very healthy. The males were just starting to grow their spikes and the females were very plump. We made it back to Cascade Locks at 10pm and had a great conversation about the trip!
It’s hard to believe what a great opportunity Oregon researchers have in their backyard. The trip from downtown Portland to Skookum Meadows is a 2 hour trip, approximately. It doesn’t get much better then this Bigfoot fans, a beautiful drive along the Columbia River, an easy drive on a great paved road up to the site, it’s worth the trip!
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If you’ve been following our posts this week you would see that we’ve added many pictures from the Columbia River Gorge on the Oregon/Washington border. NABS has a team in that area this week and they have been submitting updates as their week progresses. This report is draws comparisons between the Gorge and the four county region of Del Norte, Humboldt, Siskiyou and Trinity Counties in Northern California. In the Oregon/ Washington region we will be addressing Multnomah and Hood River Counties in Oregon and Skamania/Klickitat counties in Washington. Here are the categories we will be comparing;
Volcanic
• Oregon/ Washington counties have Mount Hood and Mount St. Helens with Mount Adams not far away.
• California- Mount Shasta sits in the middle of Siskiyou County. The Trinity Alps Wilderness has many other high peaks that are as treacherous as the volcanic mountains noted.
Native Americans
• Oregon/Washington- The Warm Springs Indian Reservation is located in Oregon.
The Watlala were the primary residents of the gorge in earlier times and lived on both sides of the river. The Clackamas and the Multnomah Chinookans also had a significant part of settling this area.
• California- The Yurok, Karuk and Hoopa were the primary tribal groups occupying the four county region with the Modoc and other groups living oin the fringe areas.
• Summary- As we’ve stated many times, there is a definitive relationship between the Native American population and Bigfoot. Where there are clusters of Native Americans, there are probably sightings of Bigfoot. Read David Paulides’ book, “Tribal Bigfoot” for an understanding of this relationship.
Rivers
• Oregon/Washington-The mighty Columbia is the primary river that drains the areas of northern Oregon and Southern Washington, it is huge. The Klikitat, Wind, White Salmon, Sandy, Hood and Deschutes rivers drop into the Columbia in this area.
• California- The Klamath River is a very big river but doesn’t come close in size to the Columbia, but, it has a major impact in Northern California. The Trinity (North and South Forks), Shasta, Salmon and other major creeks play a big role in the area.
•Summary- NABS has made the statement before that we believe that Bigfoot utilizes major rivers as a transportation mode. It’s well documented that they are good swimmers, they no doubt go into the water for fishing, cooling, clams and the collection of sea weed.
Fisheries
• Oregon/Washington- The Columbia has several runs of Salmon and Steelhead that migrate from the ocean up into the river and through to its tributaries. The Columbia is also home to the biggest finned creature in the river, the sturgeon. This monster can live to over 100 years old and has been known to grown over 20 feet in length and weigh over 1000 pounds. The sturgeon is a bottom feeder and doesn’t not have teeth. The Columbia also has Walleye, a fish not commonly found in the northwest.
•California- The fishery of the Columbia is a very, very close match to the Klamath. The Klamath has big runs of salmon and steelhead and also has giant sturgeon. The Klamath does not have walleye.
•Summary- All seasonal fish runs migrate up adjacent streams and creeks making the catching of these fish by local predators a relatively easy task, and a great source of protein throughout the year.
Wildlife
Oregon/Washington- The Columbia Gorge has a very diverse environment with a healthy wildlife population. Deer, bear and elk thrive in this region and are routinely seen by locals.
California- The further you get from population masses the more wildlife you will see. NABS routinely observes large herds of elk in this four county area as well as deer and significant bear populations. This area of California is one of the few that has an elk herd.
Coastal Zone
Oregon/Washington- The regions we are describing are within a 40 mile radius of the coast. The rainfall and snowfall in this area are significantly affected by the coastal zone and tidal influence on the river.
California- The four counties described are all within the 40 mile radius of the coast of California and are all affected by the same as is described above relationship.
• Summary- It cannot be denied that the distance from the coast plays an integral role in why each region has a thriving Bigfoot population. Sightings are routinely reported along each river from far inland until it empties into the ocean.
Wilderness Areas
• Oregon/Washington- The Mark Hatfield, Mount Hood, Salmon Huckleberry, Mount Adams, Mount St. Helens and Trapper Creek Wilderness offer protection zones for the wildlife in these areas.
• California- The Yolla Bolly, Red Buttes, Siskiyou, Marble Mountains, Shasta, Chancelula and Trinity Alps Wilderness offer hundreds of thousands of acres of wilderness zone for all creatures to escape humanity.
• Summary- Both areas have significant open space without continual human occupation. When the winters hit in these areas there is no way that humans are walking into the center of these wilderness areas. The big guys are having these areas completely to themselves.
Topography
• Oregon/Washington-The Columbia GORGE is called that for a reason. This place has vertical walls steep canyons, waterfalls and generally treacherous conditions. The ability to move easily through these mountains does not exist. If you are not a mountain goat or Bigfoot there is no way you can maneuver safely and quickly through and around the gorge.
• California- One of the first notations our team made when entering the Klamath Basin is how steep and rugged these mountains are. There are very few meadows but many steep canyon walls with marble faces that make hiking anywhere off the trail very dangerous.
• Summary- When you compare the topography between locations there a few similarities that beckon you, the steep walls and the lack of meadows. If Bigfoot were to survive in such an environment you understand the need for extensive muscular development in the lower and upper body. A biped would need to utilize upper and lower body strength to maneuver their way up and around the mountains and valleys.
The trip to the Columbia Gorge is a one hour car trip on a major highway (84) from Portland International Airport. During the ride you will pass many waterfalls that are all worth the stop. Highway 84 hugs the Columbia River during the trip and offers gorgeous views. The people in this area all know about Bigfoot and will talk about it. We have found several witnesses to the biped and all were very helpful.
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In “The Hoopa Project” we wrote about the relationship between Bigfoot and water and the possible reasons. We think it’s time to update this information.
We regularly have conversation with other researchers regarding topics of mutual interest. One of the men we regularly talk and exchange information with is Rob Alley in Ketchikan, Alaska. Rob has spent considerable time understanding the biped in his region and their association with water. There have been many fisherman cruising between islands that have seen the biped swimming along similar to how a frog would swim. Rob explains that witnesses do not usual see young Bigfoot swimming but they do see large mature bipeds. Boaters sometimes see them bobbing in the water and think they are logs, until they start swimming away. You can read more about Rob’s accounts of this activity in his book, “Raincoast Sasquatch”.
NABS has recently spent considerable time comparing sighting reports from across the United States with their exact location on Google maps. Once you get the map location, hit “terrain” and you will see the rivers, swamps, lakes, dams and creeks near the location. Once you commit significant time to researching these sightings you will immediately see that a vast majority of the sightings are very close to a major river, lake, swamp or large creek. NABS believes that there are multiple reasons for the bipeds to stay close to these bodies of water;
Transportation- We have heard many stories from locals and Native Americans that they have seen Bigfoot riding the momentum of the rivers downstream late at night. We have never heard of a researcher camped on an overpass watching a river with night vision, but, we would guess that there would be good results. NABS has documented stories from Natives where they have seen Bigfoot going down the Klamath River at night and subsequently see them walking a stage coach trail back upstream the next morning with kelp draped over their shoulders, yes, kelp!! Look up the medicinal qualities in kelp….
Ambush Position-If you compare the method and abilities of crocodiles and alligators with that of a Bigfoot, there are distinct similarities. Both creatures are lightening fast, strong and very agile in the water. We believe that Bigfoot probably uses water as an ambush position for prey as they go to the water at night. It would be an excellent tool to mask associated smells and odors that emanate from a Bigfoot and allow them to get extremely close to prey as they go to the water at night to drink. It might be easier for a Bigfoot to catch fish at night with the concealment of darkness.
Nutritional Source- The obvious reason for being close to water is for drinking and the capture of animal and plant life that may live in the water. This is obvious but it can’t be overlooked.
Environmental- We think that many would agree that Bigfoot does not enjoy extreme heat. The basin of a river or creek is generally one of the cooler climates in a forest. Staying near the water may offer a comfort zone for sleeping and maintaining a comfortable life style. This is not to say that they live on the water, just close.
We would encourage all researchers to pay close attention to their swamps, rivers, lakes, dams and salt water locations during the hours of darkness. We believe that this is one aspect of observation that has not been adequately exploited by investigators in the filed.
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We are in the middle of our research season and we can tell you that we are definitely making progress on each of our research and educational areas.
The Track Record
NABS purchased all rights and all available copies of The Track Record. This was a newsletter written by Ray Crowe in Hillsboro, Oregon. Ray was retiring and selling his research. Nabs immediately saw the need for some organization to take the Track Record, organize it and make it available to the masses at an economical price. We are talking 170 issues at approximately 18 pages per issue, nearly 3000 pages of Bigfoot sightings, articles written by every one of the major researchers in the world, etc, etc. The data that is found in these newsletters is truly unbelievable. In the next two months NABS will be releasing a special edition of these newsletters that will rock the Bigfoot world, stay tuned!
Laboratory Testing
From the inception of our organization we were committed to taking the scientific approach to Bigfoot, we have stayed on that track. We have accumulated several very valuable pieces of evidence and they are presently in stages of analysis by the best DNA lab in the U.S. We have hit obstacles and have had issues but the professionals in the lab have sought out answers where most would’ve quit. More on this in the coming year.
The Patterson-Gimlin Film
As one professional stated year’s ago, “This is the Zapruder film for Bigfoot.” We have committed significant resources towards understanding all aspects of this film and this effort has not stopped. Our Executive Director, David Paulides spent a day in Yakima with Patricia Patterson, the wife of Roger. Patricia answered every question that was posed to her and offered us much insight as to many of the unanswered questions. She is one of the most polite and sweet people you could ever have the pleasure in meeting. We will say that we have acquired transparencies and a recent rendition of the movie that has our experts very, very busy looking at segments of the film that have not been seen by the public. There are many, many facets to the filming of this footage that the public is not aware of, some were addressed by David Paulides in “Tribal Bigfoot”. Some of the issues are still being researched and we will make a statement about our findings as we get closer to concrete answers.
**We are still looking for the first generation copy of the PG film- If someone has an idea where we can purchase it, please let us know!!
Bigfoot Photos/Videos
We have recently seen two photographs of Bigfoot that our researchers believe are the “real” deal. We had to sign non-disclosure agreements to view them but they do aid in our research and we do appreciate the gesture of allowing us to view them. We WILL NOT violate anyone’s trust and we would like to see more pictures, not fuzzy images in trees, good clear photos where we can see details. We need these photos to continue our research and formulate a hypothesis. Please contact NABS directly and we will work on the arrangements to view the pictures.
Tribal Bigfoot
We are very excited about the new book released by David Paulides, “Tribal Bigfoot.” This book is revolutionary for Bigfoot circles and sums up our 5 years of research. The ideas and conclusions reached in this book were a cumulative effort of thousands of hours of researchers pouring over records, time in the field on expeditions and tireless effort pounding Bigfoot books and periodicals. We believe that this book will change the direction of many Bigfoot researchers approach to this very elusive biped. Major kudos to Harvey Pratt for his outstanding forensic art and age progression work done with Bigfoot!
I Fought The Apemen of Mt. St. Helens
You will notice that we added a book review to our website of this book, written by Fred Beck. While it isn't a very long book, it is quite an interesting read and it contains many useful pieces of information that have been altered through story tellers over the years. The above is a photo of Fred and the gun he used to defend himself during the Mount St. Helens altercation. For you who don't know, Fred owned a mine on the side of the mountain. He supposedly shot a Bigfoot and this led to others attacking the miners cabin in the middle of the night. We won't go into significant detail but to say that other researchers have interviewed Beck in detail and found his story compelling.
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NABS
Sometimes we wander through the year and forget what really makes our country the leader it is in the world, the country that others look to for direction and assistance when the chips are down.
1. The armed forces- Hundreds of thousands of our brave men and women are in foreign countries right now working to keep the peace in other countries. They do not get to have barbecues with their families, don’t get to call home and haven’t seen their kids in months. Don’t blame the policies our government has instituted on these brave men and women, appreciate their unbridled contributions. I say that we all need to walk up to the next man or women in uniform and tell them how much we appreciate their contribution to our lifestyle.
2. Firefighters/Paramedics- How many times do we hear about burning buildings and everyone is running out while the firefighters are running in, it’s unreal. In the Bay Area one of the most proactive search and rescue groups is the Menlo Park and Palo Alto Fire fighters. They routinely volunteer their time and money to travel to foreign countries during a national disaster to save lives, they don’t get allot of publicity but we do appreciate their gestures greatly.
3. Law Enforcement- Yeh, I know I hear complaints about this group regularly, but, when the chips are down who do we all call for assistance? Law enforcement work goes without significant appreciation. They do not get allot of pats on the back, even from their leaders! If your car cars off an embankment at 3am, the first emergency unit on the scene to save your life is probably a law enforcement officer. I have personally bought these public servants lunch without them ever knowing who did it. It’s a selfish gesture (it makes me feel good), they can’t take gratuities, but, they never knew who gave it so it works.
We do live in a great country. We can study what we want, where we want and write whatever we want, in many other countries these privileges are restricted. The U.S. does have their problems, obviously! As someone who has traveled throughout the world I have consistently heard many say how they want to travel to the U.S. and many would like to live here, there is a reason.
One last thought. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the hill. I believe this is true if you are referring to work, other countries, friendships or neighborhoods. Each new entity has their issues, problems and challenges. If we as a society stop, smell the roses, appreciate the environment we own, you’ll have the time to understand why red, white and blue are great colors, oh, orange, black and white aren’t bad either…..
Enjoy the great outdoors.
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During the last several weeks we have had an enormous amount of interest generated by our new release, “Tribal Bigfoot”. David Paulides and the NABS team has done a tremendous amount of valuable research to generate a book that will cause many in the Bigfoot arena to take notice.
There seem to be two different factions inside the Bigfoot world, one that believes Bigfoot is an animal and one that believes it is human, or a cousin to us. It has taken thousands of hours of research for NABS to come to the conclusions inside of Tribal. Many people will disregard this work because of the title while others who want to learn, who want to understand and who do have an open mind to research will be astounded. Many of the answers to this complex equation have been out there for decades but have never been brought in front of the public.
Tribal Bigfoot reveals two articles written in the early 1920’s that brings forth an idea about Bigfoot that has been spoken about but never directly addressed, we do now.
NABS is one of the few organizations that actually submits articles to labs for scientific analysis. Two of our samples have astounding DNA returns and those reports are included in the book, just making it under the deadline by the publisher.
In the area of Forensic art there is no other organization in the world that is doing the work we have started and continued since “The Hoopa Project”. Harvey Pratt has done a tremendous amount of quality work in meeting with witnesses and drawing exactly what these people have witnessed. The work completely reveals what Bigfoot does look like, from California to Oklahoma; our work has crossed the U.S. We have interviewed many witnesses from different states, different ecological habitats, different climates, different tribal areas, all with remarkable results. There is no other research group in the world utilizing a trained law enforcement forensic artist draw what Bigfoot/Yeti/Wild Man witnesses have observed. Harvey has done something truly unique in Tribal, he has age progressed a Bigfoot, similar to what he has been asked to do with human abductees or missing persons, these sketches are quite revealing.
The Patterson-Gimlin film is an entire book unto itself. We will say that we have taken forensic art, applied it to the film and believe that this one piece of work will change many opinions of what we are dealing with in regards to Bigfoot, it is very revealing.
If you are looking for a comprehensive book on Bigfoot that takes a scientific approach utilizing proven law enforcement investigative techniques, Tribal Bigfoot will satisfy that craving. The techniques that NABS has utilized have proven acceptable as expert witness testimony in a court of law.
NABS DID NOT have a preconceived notion or idea when we entered the Bigfoot world. We took a very middle of the road angle to all aspects of Bigfoot, never trying to bite too hard on any theory. It was after hundreds of hours of research that we started to narrow our focus. Remember, we had the luxury of doing this research full time with resources, something that few before of have done. We also spent countless hours in libraries and universities examining special collections for that one piece of information that could help with our understanding, this has paid HUGE dividends.
We invite you to read Tribal Bigfoot, cover to cover. Tell us your thoughts and ideas and where you believe you want Bigfoot research to go from this point. We are continuing to pursue our lab testing and DNA analysis. We appreciate your support.
Enjoy the great outdoors.
NABS
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There are a few members of our research team that are hunters. Some have hunted for over 30 years and practice responsible hunting, positive field identification before they decide to pull the trigger. This is the morality code of every hunter in America, YOU MUST know and see what you are shooting prior to leveling the weapon and pulling the trigger. There are dozens of people shot every year in the woods of North America because of reckless hunters who don’t practice safe hunting. Many of these reckless hunters are charged with manslaughter and reckless endangerment because of their behavior.
When NABS first established itself we published our mission statement and goals for the organization. One item we published first and foremost is that we would not shoot a Bigfoot/Sasquatch or Wild Man. It is predominant on our website and its an emphatic position. If we don’t know what this biped is, how could you justify shooting it?
There are SEVERAL large Bigfoot organizations in North America that have not stated a public position on shoot versus don’t shoot a Bigfoot. NABS would challenge any members of these organizations to ask your board of directors how they could not take a position on this? This seems to be a fundamental basis for any Bigfoot organization, are you going to shoot a biped if you have the opportunity? If these organizations continue to balk at answering the question, we’d immediately separate ourselves from any involvement.
One of our members met with a group this last week and heard a story about how this individual gut shot a Bigfoot, it ran away screaming and they then heard other Bigfoot coming to its aid. The hunters left the area immediately. Let’s think about the possible ramifications of shooting a Bigfoot.
1. There is a chance that this biped is much closer to the DNA/human gene pool that many may believe. What if you shot one, got a look at the face and realized it looked human. What are you going to do then? If you report the shooting you may get charged with murder.
2. Name one worldwide renowned researcher that has ever proposed shooting an animal to prove its existence? I don’t believe Jane Goodall has ever proposed this! Reputable researchers know there are others ways to scientifically prove a creature’s existence rather then killing and taking a body.
In NABS new book “Tribal Bigfoot” there are some very serious parallels drawn between Native Americans and Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Wild Man. We doubt anyone could shoot one of these bipeds after reading this book. We also believe that every prosecutor who ever is placed in a position of charging someone who shoots a Bigfoot should read this book. NABS researchers would gladly be expert witnesses for the prosecution in any trial. Ignorance of the law is never an excuse to violate the law. Enjoy the great outdoors!
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During the years of Bigfoot research we hear our share of very interesting stories. Some of these escapades are believable, some far-fetched and some completely absurd. In an effort to continue to understand Bigfoot, their behavior and associated lifestyle and demeanor we routinely attempt contact with witnesses of some stories. It was during one of these efforts that we uncovered a truly BIG hoax, bordering on urban myth!
Many years ago we heard a story about how compassionate Bigfoot is, how they enjoy children and how they aren’t afraid of kids or women. We always look for stories that are unusual, can be confirmed and have associated names. Well, several weeks ago we pulled one of these stories and started the background work to either confirm and then attempt contact with witnesses or prove it’s a hoax.
The story dealt with a family from France traveling by light plane across the Rocky Mountains. The plane crashes, the adults die and a small child, boy, apparently lives. Rescuers travel to the crash scene and find the deceased but are unable to locate the young boy. Years later people in outlying communities start to make their normal observations of Bigfoot but this time it is with a human wild boy, sounds intriguing! One of the sightings is purportedly from a Vancouver dentist and his young daughter while they are camping, sounds credible now. They see the Bigfoot and the boy at the edge of the camp site apparently scavenging for food, now that pulls at your heart strings!!
NABS read the story and attempted to find a Vancouver area dentist with the name that appears in the article. We checked state dental registries throughout the Pacific Northwest and Canada, nothing. We checked for a light plane crash in the Rockies containing French visitors, nothing. We are now into this effort several weeks, working the project part-time while doing other NABS tasks. It was at this point that we decided to attempt contact with the purported writer of the article, Ken Kristian.
Ken was very gracious and to the point. He never wrote the article but he had seen it before. He attempted to confirm everything NABS did and was unsuccessful. He stated that it appears the article is a hoax. It is extremely doubtful it was ever a Weekly World News article.
The article is attached at the bottom of this blog.
The lesson to all Bigfoot enthusiasts, be very careful what you believe and always check your sources!
We have just reviewed the final version of “Tribal Bigfoot”. It is at the printer and we will make our 5/29 deadline of having it in our possession. We can tell you that it looks fabulous, Hancock has done an extraordinary job of laying out the photos and sketches with an entire color section in the center of the book.
Enjoy the great outdoors!!
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VANCOUVER, Canada - Excited researchers are combing the wilds of British Columbia in response to recent sightings of Bigfoot accompanied by a blond-haired boy!
More than two-dozen people claim to have seen the human youngster dressed in animal skins and loping along beside the towering man beast. Investigators speculate that the mystery boy may be the missing survivor of a plane crash that occurred in the area 11 years ago, raised from childhood by Bigfoot.
"This is the most tantalizing development in Bigfoot research to take place in decades," said Dr. Rob Worrier, a zoologist involved in the hunt for the elusive forest creature. "It suggests that Bigfoot is not some shambling monster as he is often depicted, but a gentle and intelligent being capable of nurturing behavior and compassion."
Dentist Dr. Arthur Gosten who was camping in the Rockies with his family first spotted the boy, described by eyewitnesses as lean and wiry with long, matted hair, in late March.
The Vancouver man was awakened in the early morning by the frantic cries of his 12 year-old daughter. When he emerged from his tent, he saw her pointing into the woods.
"She said that a 'wild boy' was stealing our food," Dr. Gosten recalls. "I looked where she was pointing and saw this half naked boy slinking off into the trees with an armful of canned goods."
Shouting after the child, Dr. Gosten gave chase and caught up with him at the edge of a clearing.
"I couldn't believe my eyes. The boy was standing next to an enormous, hairy, man like creature at least 8 feet tall," Dr. Gosten said. "The thing took some of the boys load, then they ambled off together into the woods, both of them walking with the same hunched over, ape like stride."
Since that sighting, at least 33 people have reported seeing the wild boy and his hairy companion. Witnesses have included clergymen, forest rangers and even members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
In many cases, the mismatched duo has been heard exchanging guttural sounds as if talking.
"This youngster has all the earmarks of a feral child. A child that has had no human contact and has been raised by an animal," said the Seattle based Dr. Worrier. "The fact that his gait is similar to the Bigfoot and that they can communicate is evidence that the creature is his surrogate parent."
Researchers believe that the wild boy Sightings may be connected to the 1989 crash of a private plane carrying a party of French tourists visiting the region. The crash left the pilot and four passengers dead including young mother Madeleine Dusoire.
The world of Bigfoot research is truly unique. Someday, maybe 300 years from now researchers will not be studying Bigfoot (that will long ago have been proven) but they will be studying the researchers. There is truly no other space in the world that is as unique as the world of Bigfoot researchers, none. You have trade professionals that believe they are journalists, thus giving them a right to bash their peers, you have the unemployed claiming they are investigators, you have people that have great intentions acting like research islands. The groups are so fragmented, so ego centered, so unable to see anything other then their cause, it’s a truly sad state.
NABS has been proud to have never discounted anyone’s research, no one! We will and we have listened to everyone’s ideas and theories. To think that any one group or person has the answer is beyond crazy. We will state that after 5 years of intense research, we have narrowed the field. There’s an old statement that many of you have probably heard, “if you can’t attack the research, attack the researcher.” This is occurring in our community on a daily basis, let’s think why…..
The last 40 years of Bigfoot research has not been very eventful. There haven’t been many big discoveries, videos, and, or new evidence that’s made a splash. There are probably over 100 Bigfoot people that consider themselves world-class researchers. You can hear those hundred on internet radio, Monster Quest, etc, on a daily basis. Most are pushing an agenda, want to be in the spotlight, we don’t care, truly. There is nobody from NABS that has the agenda of wanting to be in the public spotlight. If we are asked, and the host is a professional, we will take the invitation. George Knapp is a prime example of a true radio and TV professional. When George calls, we answer the bell.
The lack of significant research breakthroughs in the last 40 years can be directly related to the fragmentation in our community. There are many “CEO’s” but few workers. Many people post a site but few have the resources or incentive to make significant progress. Times are changing and that makes a few of these longtime researchers quite nervous and uncomfortable.
In the last 18 months NABS has been quietly working behind the scenes on many, many fronts. You haven’t heard us boasting about what we are doing, where we are going or what we propose, that’s not us. We will always promise little and deliver big, and that’s our montra.
On 6/1/09 Hancock House has promised the delivery of David Paulides 2nd book, it will be ground breaking. The research is solid, the theories are based in facts and the science is real. It will no doubt cause immediate dissention in our community and the rumblings have already started. This past summer we made several appearances at Bigfoot conferences and we can honestly state that our reception from you, the public, was overwhelmingly positive, period. We were told that we were highly professional, our presentations were riveting and our ideas were solid. Well, behind the scenes, some of those organizations that invited us didn’t like what they heard. We received over one hundred e-mails from people thanking us for the presentations, but, they apparently weren’t heard by the powers to be.
As the only group in the world doing research 100% of the time on the topic of Bigfoot/ Sasquatch/ Wild Man you’d think we’d have something interesting to present every year, right…. The part-time researcher may have enough data to take a public spotlight every 2-3 years, well, as in professional politics, we have the politics of Bigfoot. The administrators and officials of those Bigfoot organizations are taking a stance and not inviting NABS this year. They have told us that we could rent a booth and sell our books, we’ll pass, thanks. Now, think hard, why wouldn’t we be invited, we are the only group in the world doing this full time, with significant resources…? Our answer, start looking at websites and you’ll immediately see an agenda, and, therein lies the answer.
Let’s talk now about the pending conference in Yakima in the next few weeks. As the only organization who has written a book, specifically about the area of Bluff Creek and Hoopa in the last 10 years, you’d think we’d get an invitation, no (Don’t they want to hear about the years of research into that area?). There is an explicit agenda to that meeting and everyone who attends is playing into there hands. You will hear a one-sided diatribe about “the great” Bob Gimlin, he does come across as a very nice person, Bluff Creek and how the Bluff Creek film has been analyzed by Bill Munns. He will present an analysis of a film from Bluff Creek utilizing angles, numbers, etc, it should be interesting.
Going back to the last 18 months of NABS research, we know much, much more about the politics, facts and research that surrounds what is occurring in Yakima and, unfortunately we cannot support any of it. We did ask for a platform to present our findings and Tom Yamarone (nice person and organizer) turned us down. We got into this field to find the facts, and, people in Yakima know we are quickly uncovering the truth and several of the key players are very nervous, very nervous. As technology continues to evolve and we continue to press that technology envelope in regards to existing Bigfoot research, much of what everyone thought was fact 20 years ago is simply NOT fact. Stop, we do believe that Patterson and Gimlin did catch a Bigfoot on film at Bluff Creek but that’s all we believe, period. More about this in the coming months.
Twenty years from now the public can look back and question why NABS took such a passive approach with the Bigfoot public spotlight, understandable. The reality is the agenda. We truly do not care what promoters think of our research, and, it’s the promoters that put on the conferences, purely financial based. Until the public steps forward and demands professionalism from the Bigfoot arena you will continue to get a healthy dose of “the good ole boys”, a 16 oz beer and a puffed up chest. Don’t expect any significant revelations based on professional research. NABS will promise you unbiased results, professional demeanors and competent analysis.
We truly appreciate all of the emails and questions. We will be releasing information about book #2 in the next 10 days and there is more publishing work to be released in the next 3 months, a second book-NO, but, something even more valuable and interesting, more on that in the next 45 days. Like we said, NABS is the only group in the world to put research in front of the public and allows them to come to their own conclusions, publishing project #2 is directly related to the effort of educating the public and is a very long-term project destined for release no later then 8/1/09.
If you are going to Yakima for the conference I would recommend what the great Ray Crowe stated, “Keep your skepticals on!”
Have a great day and enjoy the outdoors.
Questions and opinions are always appreciated.
nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
As spring is in full swing we hope that you get to the outdoors and appreciate the natural beauty that nature presents during this time of the year. Flowers are in bloom, colors are magnificent and our Bigfoot friends are starting to move with more frequency.
NABS has been working diligently during the last three years towards a hypothesis about our big friends. That hypothesis comes from thousands of hours of research, which includes reading the works of past researchers, going into the library and reading miles of archive tape looking for something unique, looking for something to jump out at us. After compiling hundreds of documents, riding the waves of work from past researchers, some items start to become quite clear. While we don’t claim to have all the answers, we do believe that we are tracking the right direction. More about our hypothesis and the direction our organization is taking will be presented in our second book, release date 6/1/09.
George Haas, we hope you are enjoying George’s great work. We are continuing to post his newsletters and we will point you in specific directions that in the 1960’s George had penned and centered on. I would direct you to the most recent addition to our site under “The Bigfoot Bulletin,” Newsletter #4 page 2, “1917 Washington Report”. This story clearly states that the Bigfoot/Sasquatch was making an appearance as early as 1917 at the Cowlitz River area of Washington, which, is still a hot spot for activity.
An area that NABS has continued to research is the relationship between our big friend and Native Americans. On April 30 1969 Haas pointed his readers to “Indian Magazine” (Page 3, Newsletter #4) where an article appeared about a Native American and a Sasquatch in 1897 near Mount Shasta, California in a region near Tule Lakes. What is completely astounding is the names the local called Sasquatch and what it was called in Tibet. Remember, communications were much different in the 1960’s compared to what they are today!
The great work that Mr. Haas and his team did will not be lost or forgotten. We will continue to post his newsletters and will also continue to encourage readers to look to past research documents and peruse them for data, hypothesis and information. NABS has been overwhelmed at the research work done during the 60’s and 70’s and are equally confounded that this work is not spoken about in the 21st century. It would appear that casual researchers are continuing to roam the woods for a sighting, yet don’t have a plan for what they specifically want to accomplish, if they want a sighting, that’s good, but, that’s not research.
You will find that NABS may not move like lightening, may not be on television every week, may not be on every radio show in the U.S., but, we will bring you research that shows a commitment to the subject, an analytical approach and a focus on scientific data and approaches that help solve the puzzle. June 2009 will be a new page for Bigfoot research.
Enjoy the great outdoors!
Questions and comments are always appreciated.
nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
One of the edicts that North America Bigfoot Search set down in stone when formed was that we would do everything possible to ensure that our website gave the public a balanced forum for understanding Bigfoot. We didn’t want to espouse one viewpoint of one organization. To facilitate that understanding we embarked on a path of purchasing the research of others who had retire and continued to search for others who were retiring from the arena.
One of the first purchases we made was of the Ray Crowe research. Ray had been dabbling in Bigfoot since the early 1960’s and had made close friends with a variety of investigators from around the globe. He didn’t restrict himself to one path, he allowed everyone to contribute to his newsletter. Peter Byrne was a big supporter of Ray and Peter had contacts with some older and established researchers in the western U.S. One of those established researchers, George Haas established the San Francisco Bay Area Bigfoot Organization. This group spent a great deal of time in the woods, much more then many others. George had a very good mind and surrounded himself with intelligent people who had a great deal of common sense that was reflected in his newsletters and writings. George has since passed away but his work still stands.
Peter Byrne accumulated much of George’s work and gave these to Ray. Ray in turn sold the research to NABS. After reviewing all of the Haas newsletters, NABS can guarantee there is allot to learn from the work. We have never been a group that wants to re-invent the wheel. If we can learn from what others have done, let’s read it and apply it. There are many, many groups on the web that claim to be doing research, attempting to advance the science of Bigfoot, but, we don’t see their results and they don’t publish their findings, puzzling. We can only guess that theses groups are either obtaining no results worth publishing or they are hoarding their results and don’t want to share with the community, we aren’t sure which is happening, neither is good for the world of Bigfoot.
In an effort to further the investigative abilities of all, make information available to the masses, NABS will be publishing all of the George Haas newsletters, their name, “The Bigfoot Bulletin.” They will be placed on our website under a special section “The Bigfoot Bulletin.” We will be adding newsletters occasionally to keep the flow intact. We have already posted George’s paper, “Bigfoot and Tarzan as Folk Heroes”, and a lengthy paper he wrote, “ The Present State of Bigfoot”, we don’t know what year that was written. Both papers are very well scribed and entertaining. While NABS does not endorse everything George writes and supports, we do feel he was on the right track in his research.
New Hoopa Project Book Review
Occasionally we will post a review that was under “The Hoopa Project” that we feel the author took exceptional time and effort to publish. One just recently added by another Bigfoot site is added to our review section. We would like to thank “Ty” for taking the time and effort to understand the work and publish his opinion.
NABS appreciates constructive criticism of our research from everyone in our community. There are no experts in this category of cryptozoology/Hominology, we are all learning as we push forward. The hypothesis that is/are proposed are all theories based on research and opinion, hard science is still evolving. We like to believe that we will always have an open mind to others ideas and thoughts and would hope that others keep an open mind and a positive framework to their opinions. We don’t see scientists and professors from academia throwing pointed barbs at each other and the Bigfoot arena would do well to do the same.
Many of you have sent inquiring emails requesting updates as to NABS projects, well, we are sorry we have been negligent. We have been working 14-hour days to get many of these projects on track and rolling.
Project #1- When a book is written, there is a 6 month lead time before it is ever released for public sale. We finished our second book and it is destined for release 6/1/09. There have been many addendums, changes and updates and there will continue to be until it goes to the printer. We can tell you that it picks up where “The Hoopa Project” ended. You really need to understand our strategic approach that we outlined in Hoopa and continued on into our next book. Without the base knowledge we supplied in Hoopa, our second book may be very difficult to understand. This has been another multi year project and we are VERY pleased with the result.
Project #2- There was a specific intent when NABS purchased the Ray Crowe Bigfoot collection of research, literature and various paraphernalia, casts, etc. Our intention was to make the material available to the public at many different levels, we have successfully fulfilled one of our goals, display of the materials. The Bigfoot Discovery Museum under the guidance of Mike Rugg has taken temporary custody of Ray’s casts, photos and displays and is designing them into a collection that will be highlighted at his museum starting in the next month. Mike has done a great job supporting Bigfoot research and we are pleased that he’s taken on the project of displaying the Crowe research. The Bigfoot Discovery Museum is located in Felton, CA and further information can be found on our website under, Strategic Partnerships.
Project #3- Ray Crowe didn’t just collect casts and walk in the woods. He produced a newsletter every month for 15 years. The letter contained some of the most fascinating research by Peter Byrne and others that can be found in no other location that Ray’s “Track Record”. When our team members started to read the hundreds of pages of documents, they were literally shocked at the content and information that was found, it’s truly unbelievable. NABS took the Track Record and is designing it into something that is truly a must have for every Bigfoot researcher and enthusiast. We know that the information in the Track Record is valuable because we know for a fact much of it is absolutely accurate, because, we’ve researched much of it. We won’t say allot more then this project has taken us months, we still are not completed but we are ecstatic over what we are accomplishing.
Bigfoot research is definitely a mixed bag. We greatly appreciate the 99.9% positive feedback on our book, ongoing research, website and personal contacts. Every person on our team believes that you treat people with dignity and respect, it’s too bad that some researchers treat each other with such little respect. We believe in working in the field and making our own roads to research. We appreciate all of your leads and assistance and we will continue to follow the path that will lead to understanding.
Enjoy the great outdoors.
Emails: nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
Behind the scenes in the Bigfoot world there is usually a flurry of activity that a majority of the public never hears about. Most of the stories are harmless, some have a little flair and a few are quite interesting. Last week one of those stories that was interesting hit the wires. NABS dropped what we were doing, three researchers applied themselves and we got to the bottom, we think, of the story…
Here is the link to the article that started a fire-storm of activity
The article first got our attention because investigators felt that there was justification to ask for a coroner to respond, thus feeling this might be a human body. Once the medical examiner was on scene, they obviously felt there was cause to transport the body to his office for autopsy.
Let’s review, according to the article, two hunters observed the body through their scopes and felt it was suspicious enough to call the police. Hunters usually know when they are looking at a deer, cow or a human and because of that are given a hunting license to roam the countryside with a loaded firearm. These hunters felt there was enough justification to call the police, they felt it was a human body.
The Big Black River straddles the border between Warren and Hinds County Mississippi. One side of the river is Hinds and the other is Warren. Warren County originally received the call from the Hunters and they did respond. According to the article 20 law enforcement officers were on scene, including the Hinds County Coroner. As nature and currents move bodies, this body apparently was on the Warren County side of the River yet Hinds County responded the most officials.
After it was determined that the body was really in Hinds County, they responded with a detective and a contingent of crime scene officials.
Now we will start the story of the NABS investigation.
NABS heard of this event and immediately called one of our contacts in Mississippi, briefed him on what we knew and asked for him to start the investigation. This was interesting to NABS because we’ve had information of Bigfoot activity near the Big Black and the story of this event that was proliferating through the press wasn’t making allot of sense. NABS also contacted a law enforcement official that works with us to see if he could find a method to get through official channels and determine the facts of this case.
Simultaneously to the efforts listed above, we had one of our directors working the phone and attempting to contact the records department at the Hinds County Sheriff to request a copy of their police report. The Police Report of the responding officer is public information and certain details contained in that report are mandated by law to be released.
The first Call to Hinds County records department was met with clear acknowledgement that the lady on the phone knew what we were speaking about, the specific incident. She told me that she couldn’t give me any information about the report unless I had the report number. We asked her if this was the “records department”, she stated “Yes”. We then asked her that the records department is usually the location that does the search for information that she was now requesting from us, was that correct, she stated, “well, yes and no, you need to call the dispatch center.” Ok, this woman didn’t know that she was talking with a 20 years retired law enforcement detective, but, that’s ok, the story didn’t make sense but we’d play the game.
NABS called the dispatch center supplied by the records department. We were initially asked why we wanted the information, we stated that we were writers and wanted information about the incident. Incidentally, it’s none of law enforcements business why someone wants to view a public document, but, we were polite and continued to play the game. After 5 minutes on hold, the dispatcher told us that he couldn’t release any information about this and we’d have to call records to get the report number. We explained that we just were transferred to him from records and all we wanted to know was the report number, he tersely said “no.” We called records back and spoke to the same woman. She now stated that we should call the investigations division and maybe they would talk with us, she transferred us. A very polite woman answered the phone and we again asked for the report number for the body investigation on the Big Black River. This woman stated that there was nothing of value found and she didn’t know the report number. She said that we should speak with records and she immediately transferred us back to records.
At this point most people would probably give up the search, but, NABS has some pretty stubborn researchers and we now saw this as a challenge!
As we were now back on the phone with Hinds County Records, we explained that we had been transferred to three different units and nobody is being cooperative on a simple request for a report number. This woman stated that there probably wasn’t a report written. She stated that if a report was written an investigator should know, she now transferred us back to the criminal investigations unit. Again, the same woman gets on the phone and we politely interrupted her. We told her we wanted to speak to the investigator that responded to the scene and made the decision to bag the body, there is no response and we were put on hold.
After several minutes of holding, Hinds County Sheriff Detective Greg Lewis answered the phone. NABS politely told Deputy Lewis that we just wanted to know the report number on the body at the Big Black. He immediately stated that nothing was found out there and he didn’t even think a report was written. At this point there was a group of us listening to this conversation and we could sense we were getting the BIG LEAGUE run around. Our person on the phone told Lewis that he was retired law enforcement officer and that he knew a report had to be written to get an autopsy requested by the coroner. Lewis asked if we were recording the conversation, we said no, the conversation immediately started to take a different tone.
Deputy Lewis stated that he responded to the scene along with other deputies and crime scene officials. They took over 100 photos of the body and the scene. The body was very decomposed, there were no limbs, just a torso. He stated that nobody could determine if, or where a head should have been on the body and nobody could determine what it was they were examining. A determination was made to take the torso to the coroners office at the State Crime Lab in Jackson. He stated that he attended the autopsy where it was determined that the torso was not human. We asked what it was? He stated that it wasn’t determined and the general consensus was that it might be a deer or cow, hmm. He also confirmed that there was a report written, probably several. We asked where the torso is now? Deputy Lewis stated that he had no idea what the coroner did with the body but that since it wasn’t human, he didn’t care.
We did press Lewis for additional information about the physical characteristics of what they observed. He stated that the torso weighed 69 pounds, had very large ribs, no limbs or other identifiable features, hmm.
NABS first must state at this point that Deputy Lewis was very cooperative once he knew he was talking with a retired law enforcement officer. There was an extreme aura of cover-up that proliferated throughout the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department when NABS was merely requesting a report number, something we are legally entitled to. It is true that Lewis lied to us when the conversation initially started, stating that there wasn’t a report written, but, at this point we are forced to believe what he stated. He wasn’t required to give as many details of this case as he did, and, we appreciate his cooperation. Since there was a coroner on the scene, he/she probably made the ultimate decision on what they were looking at. They probably were not sure and played on the side of caution (which is what we want as a society) and stated there would be an autopsy. It is a little surprising that the coroner didn’t call wildlife officials and tell them what’s floating in their river. Heck, maybe they’d want to do a necropsy to see why large mammals are dieing and floating in their river?
The bottom-line on the Big Black River body, we don’t know what it is. We don’t know where the body is. NABS spent several days on this case and we probably got as much information on this issue as is possible.
Keep notifying us of any unusual incidents in your area and we will get a researcher on it as soon as possible.
Have a great day.
Enjoy the great outdoors
North America Bigfoot Search
nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
Blog # 51 Research/ Peter Bryne
Several weeks ago we received a request from noted Bigfoot researcher Peter Byrne asking for a copy of David Paulides’ book, “The Hoopa Project”. Peter offered to send us a copy of his book, “The Search for Bigfoot, Monster, Myth or Man”. NABS was delighted to provide Peter with our book and even more excited to receive a copy of his book. We did have an old copy of the book that we had read years ago but we agreed to screen it again,
After reading dozens of books on Bigfoot you tend to notice that there aren’t many new angles to the story, Byrne’s book is different. First printed in 1975 by Acropolis books, the story starts with Byrne explaining “The Ultimate Hunt”, “A Look Back in History” and then “A Look at the Present”, a flowing account of Bigfoot in 1975. Byrne was the first person to start a full time research group to investigate Bigfoot with their central location is in The Dalles, Oregon. Byrne had supplemental financial support from the Boston Academy of Applied Sciences.
As the story moves forward Byrne includes eyewitness reports and investigations concluded by Byrne’s team. His background as a professional tracker, hunting guide and outdoorsman bodes well for Byrne. He has the ability to relate well to witnesses working in the Oregon, Northern California and Washington regions.
NABS does not look for parallels in others research with our own. We do look for similarities when they strike us as obvious. One item that we’ve noted is that Bigfoot does not appear to be afraid of children. They don’t fear them and they appear to be comfortable in their presence. On page 62 of Byrne’s book, he writes about a series of sightings at a school for emotionally disturbed children in British Columbia. The leader of the school had a sighting of Bigfoot. Byrne writes, ”It walked slowly toward the fire and then stood and looked at him. Jones (witness) kept quite still. The creature, manlike in stance and in facial appearance, was in view perhaps three- four minutes.” This notation is important for a variety of reasons. The idea that most Bigfoot witnesses describe the primate as “ape” in appearance is continually put down by witnesses who have a close encounter, an encounter close enough to describe facial features. This specific sighting is also important as it was made next to a school for kids.
On page 84 of Byrne’s book he describes an encounter in 1965 between two prospectors and Bigfoot in the Pitt Lake area of British Columbia. They were working in a very rugged and desolate region east of Vancouver with very little humanity anywhere in the area. The prospectors were near a lake, smoking when they saw the primate 10 yards away looking at them. The description the prospector’s supplied, “It seemed to have almost no neck. It was thickly covered with hair all over, and the color was a uniform, dark brown, almost black. The face seemed to be hairless, but it was difficult to say because of the distance.” The description supplied by the prospectors closely parallels drawings made by our forensic artist for, “The Hoopa Project.” Remember, this sighting was made in 1965 yet it was recounted in 1975, 8 years after the Patterson-Gimlin footage. If the witnesses wanted to be publicly accepted they would have stated that the primate had hair completely covering its face, as in the PG footage, they didn’t do this, they explained exactly what they observed. Nearly the exact same description was supplied to Byrne by a highway maintenance foreman in the squeamish area of BC in 1971. On page 100 the witness states, “It was of massive build and had a large, protruding stomach. It was dark reddish brown in color and completely covered in by hair with the exception of the face.” There are more examples of the above listed descriptions but suffice it to say that what Byrne has documented supports what NABS has recently discovered. The descriptors supplied by witnesses over the last 50 years need to be carefully examined for a rational of what researchers are investigating. Rather then to continue to walk the path of "North America's Great Ape", maybe researchers need to take a fresh look at this primate and do some thinking outside the box, more on this in a future blog.
Byrne does state in his book that he believes with 95% confidence that the Patterson-Gimlin film does document a real primate caught in the wild. He makes this statement in 1975 when there wasn’t a digital enhancement of the film that further validates the films validity. NABS continues to find it interesting that the PG film documents a primate with a full face of hair while witnesses rarely describe a sighting of Bigfoot with that feature. It is also extremely rare to find a witness who has a close sighting of the primate (close enough to describe facial features) where the witness states, “the face looked just like an ape”, from the files of NABS, this has never happened to us.
NABS would like to thank Peter Byrne for his book and the addition to our growing library. We would also like to wish him continued good health and happy travels as he is now flying back to Nepal and work on his personal projects of goodwill. The Bigfoot world need more gentlemen like Peter who are willing to dedicate years of their life to the sole issue of the Bigfoot phenomena. In the 1970’s there was less support from the academic community about the possibility of Bigfoot’s possible existence. The ridicule and jokes are countless even today, the 70’s were worse. We applaud Peter for his persistence and professional documentation of the primate and wish him the best in his coming years.
Enjoy the great outdoors.
Questions and Comments to: nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
During the last several weeks there have been rumors surfacing throughout Washington and British Columbia that the RCMP have had a Sasquatch that they recovered as road kill and that it was being kept in a freezer at RCMP headquarters, somewhere. Well, thanks to the good work of a BC newspaper reporter the story was tracked down and the details are listed below:
RCMP deny Sasquatch capture
Published: January 19, 2009 3:00 PM
Updated: January 21, 2009 8:04 AM
The buzz on some Internet sites of late reported a rare Sasquatch sighting on the highway “this side of Cache Creek” just after Christmas.
The report was made by someone who claimed their father was following behind a pickup that hit the creature. Both drivers got out, “and there was this big hairy thing laying in the road, arms halfway down his legs and huge hands and feet and was walking upright before the guy hit it.”
The report goes on to say the men loaded the creature, still alive, into the back of the pickup truck, “and they were taking it to the RCMP in Cache Creek.”
Ashcroft RCMP Sgt. Dave Prentice says he’s seen plenty of Sasquatches in Harrison Hot Springs - “That’s a hotbed for Sasquatches down there!” - although none of them have been real.
“I have never seen one here to the best of my knowledge,” he said, “and no one is admiting to having seen one here.”
Both the RCMP and The Journal received inquiries asking whether the story was true, from as far away as the state of Washington. Some have been good natured while others were quite serious.
Rumours persist that the creature is being kept “on ice” somewhere in the dark recesses of the RCMP Detachment. Prentice says the only cooler they have is the little fridge in the lunchroom. They keep blood samples in it as well, but no Sasquatches.
“It’s a good lesson that just because something is on the Internet or in print, you don’t have to believe it,” he said. “I guess it’s fun to believe.”
Lesson:
Over the course of the last four years NABS has heard a plethora of stories about Bigfoot being shot, Bigfoot being kept in a cage, Bigfoot living n someone's house, none of these stories have any truth from what we can decipher. Everytime a story such as the one above starts to float the news wires we attempt to get the truth. Unfortnately, there is an aura around Bigfoot that tends to draw the fringe element and they tend to exaggerate a little, ok, maybe alot. Our advise to all of our great readers, don't believe anything about Sasquatch, Bigfoot or the Wild Man until NABS put their foot on the ground and states it's true.
Early in our inception several our team went to the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton, Ca. The museum sits in the picturesque Santa Cruz Mountains in close proximity to the Pacific Ocean. Mike Rugg is the owner/curator and has spent years gathering artifacts, stories and other Bigfoot paraphernalia to supply the museum. He has done a great job of supplying the museum and accumulating stories of Bigfoot sightings from throughout the area!
The Santa Cruz Mountains have a colorful history that includes railroads criss-crossing the ridges, stage coaches traveling to Los Gatos and even Bigfoot making appearances at a variety of settings from Watsonville to Portola State Park above San Mateo. Mike has carefully interviewed many of the locals that have wandered into the museum and has a map that sits on the wall in the heart of the building. The map is highlighted by several pins that indicate precise locations in the county where Bigfoot has been reported, there are quite a few pins!
One of the most fascinating parts of the museum is the accumulation of videos and photos that Mr. Rugg has collected from throughout the country. The famous Patterson-Gimlin footage is part of his collection and is a definite highlight of the trip. There are also skulls that show the associated sizes of purported Bigfoot and other creatures, some are huge. Ask Mr. Rugg to see his life size version of what Bigfoot may actually look like, it’s baffling! A guest of the museum brought in a tooth that was found near Scotts Valley, it’s a very large tooth, ask to see it. It’s part of the unexplained phenomena that the Bigfoot Discovery Museum has been able to highlight through its great displays.
Every summer the Bigfoot Discovery Museum sponsors a Bigfoot Discovery Day where they invite top researchers to give speeches, sign their books and eat great barbecue. The setting is gorgeous, the guests were hospitable and the stories were superb. We are looking forward to next years event , still to be announced.
**Mr. Rugg has just finished completely renovating a beautiful house that the museum is marketing as the “Bigfoot Riverside retreat”. It has an idyllic setting amongst the redwoods and would be a great place to make base camp for your central coast Bigfoot expeditions, or, just spending a stress free day walking through the redwoods and reading your favorite book. Details are on the Bigfoot Discovery Museum website or contact can be made through www.vrbo.com/194162 or 831-335-4478.
You can join a special group supporting the museum and their cause by going to the website: www.bigfootdiscoverymuseum.com
The Museum is located:
Bigfoot Discovery Museum
5497 Highway 9
Felton, CA
831-335-4478
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Blog # 48
Researchers
Bigfoot research is truly a fascinating environment. The researcher can enter the woods, enjoy the beautiful environment, see nature on their terms and reap the personal rewards that come from tranquility and our natural environment. Now, back to reality. As we’ve stated in previous blogs, the Bigfoot research arena needs to change. There is entirely too much back-stabbing, name calling and research bashing, something we’ve never seen in the highest realms of technology or law enforcement, ever! As a team we have talked about this environment and taken a position that we won’t publicly oust anyone or give them additional notoriety. It is obvious to everyone involved that many of these individuals (yes, individuals) are working alone claiming they run an “organization”. Many of these people are very much individuals and don’t do well in a team setting. They don’t have a history of collaboration or original research, they follow the work of others.
Be very cautious where you spend your money and which articles you put credence in!
Governments
During the last several months we’ve received a variety of reports from multiple sources about oddities occurring in our National Forests, sightings of dead mammals where the cause of death isn’t via the standard predator, odd footprints found near the deceased, strange sounds and incidents occurring near campsites in the early morning hours. A few of these reports have been in areas where the government has been conducting their own studies of various species. Answers about what the government is studying, why they are there, what they are looking for are not readily available but are obvious to anyone “in the know”. Until government agencies are willing to work with groups who understand the issues, who the predator is and is willing offer assistance, our state and federal agencies will continue to sneak around the woods and “accidentally” will bump into NABS researchers. No, we aren’t wearing our shirts and we don’t tell who we are, but, we are there. We are sharing the same space, researching the same issues and probably have the same answers, who knows. Heck, we might even be utilizing the same labs! It’s actually a humorous scenario that plays out regularly, almost a cat and mouse game when the two groups meet.
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Enjoy the great outdoors!
North America Bigfoot Search
Blog # 47 The Sierra Nevada Mountains/ Elevation Association
During the last eight months NABS researchers have been working the region in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California from Northern California south to the Fresno area. We did a comprehensive analysis of past sightings in these areas and then attempted to understand a variety of factors that may have relative significance to the sightings, similar to what we did with the Northern California Bigfoot Map Project.
Starting in Northern California we focused on the region near Oroville. This region has a history of sightings going back to the 1960’s, some earlier. A vast majority of the sightings fall into our elevation theory, sightings in California predominantly fall into a range focusing on 2400 feet with the majority 1600- 3200 feet. The sightings in Oroville, around the lake and into the mountains seem to fit these criteria. The sightings are predominantly near water, sometimes its a lake, creek or major river as the water source.
NABS has had a researcher accumulating sighting reports near the American River just outside Colfax. There has been a variety of behavior commonly associated with Bigfoot in this area and its been reported from different sources. A team was in this area last week and we canvassed the area for witnesses and found many. There were multiple occasions where witnesses reported seeing three Bigfoot of varying sizes in the area. Hearing there were three Bigfoot is a very odd occurrence, hearing the same information from multiple sources is really odd.
One of the people we contacted indicated he had a friend that was mining just outside Iowa Hill (south of the American River site). Three Bigfoot that overturned his equipment ran the miner off the site. He left and stated that he never would return. We went to Iowa Hill and were directed to a house that sat at the peak of a long ridge, an ideal place for Bigfoot sightings and a beautiful view of three surrounding valleys. The resident was home and stated that it was the first time in 3 years anyone made the long dirt road drive to his residence without specifically knowing him (NABS will canvass neighborhoods no matter how remote they may be). The resident described hearing a sequence of screams coming from different sides of his valley in the last three years at differing times of the year. He stated that he had no idea what was making the sounds but the yells were unsettling. Just by coincidence, he also stated that just below his residence there were the relics of an old Native American village.
**NABS has continuously stated that there is a relationship between Bigfoot and Native Americans.
Approximately 6 miles south of Iowa Hill is Foresthill. The city of Foresthill is very small yet has numerous Bigfoot related sightings and encounters. Most of these incidents were found on the BFRO site and were directly in line with sightings further north, all were in the same elevation range.
Extending our search further south into Nevada County. NABS researchers were in the region just east of Fiddletown and had been contacted by a witness who had a Bigfoot sighting. Further follow-up also indicated that Bigfoot had been screaming, yelling and eating various foods in the area. This is a very credible sighting that you will hear more about in the coming months, an affidavit was signed in relationship with the incident.
The Tule River Indian Reservation is located at the base of the Sierra’s just east of Porterville. The reservation has a pictograph of a Bigfoot drawn on a huge rock deep inside the property. You need a special permit to travel on their land and we encourage people to go to the Tribal Chairman’s office to get a permit and view this great piece of art. You can see photos of this in our “photos” section of the website. The Tule River Natives have a history of Bigfoot sightings going back hundreds of years. This entire region has Bigfoot sightings from the San Joaquin Valley floor up into the higher elevations of the Sierra’s. The region just above the Tule River site is a prime area for Bigfoot.
The list we just described is a small example of the ongoing analysis NABS conducts on a regular basis. This is also another example of the elevation association along the western United States. NABS IS NOT saying that Bigfoot sightings and incidents are confined to this range, we are merely stating that an abnormal amount of sightings are in this range. Whether the sightings in this area are attributed to moderate weather conditions (near the snow line) or there is specific food sources available only in this area is unknown. We also find it quite a coincidence that many of the Bigfoot sightings and encounters are in areas close to Native American encampments.
Enjoy the Great Outdoors.
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NABS would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone in our Bigfoot community a joyous holiday season and a great New Years. We know that we come from a variety of cultural and ethnic backgrounds yet we all share a common bond, Bigfoot, and that is joyous.
Knowing that a majority of the NABS team comes from a law enforcement and technology background, we thought we’d talk about something that’s important during this time of year, relationships. Without relationships we really don’t have much of a life. Relationships are something you consistently need to apply energy, people’s feelings are injured, some feel slighted, others feel ignored, etc. With the advent of email, we have another form of communication that didn’t exist 20 years ago. Email is a difficult mode of communication when you’re trying to send a sensitive message, it’s not easy.
During our tenure in your community we’ve learned that there are many internal struggles taking place. Some of these issues occur between Bigfoot groups, some between researchers and some are personal vendettas. We’ve had husbands take a swipe at NABS while their wives continue to publicly support us, we’ve had some rank and file groups support us at every level while their leader won’t return a call.
During a point in our technology career a famous CEO from Silicon Valley once told me to “never burn a bridge, never.” The world is too small, the landscape too fragile and the arena too compact to afford this selfish response. When you work for/with an organization, you are their representative; you represent the greater cause, not your own personal mission. I can remember many times in business meetings where a top executive would go on a rampage and members of our company would look at each other in humble silence but inside laughing at the selfish tirade. Persuasion is the key ingredient in any business endeavor and it’s hard to persuade while your yelling.
NABS has made it a policy to never publicly criticize another Bigfoot group or researcher. People who find the need to publicly humiliate or criticize are usually fragile in their own space or feel threatened in the niche they’ve created. NABS has no idea how long we’ll continue this project but we know that we’ve been successful in our past careers and we will continue to be successful in the future. As we’ve stated in many other blogs, we sincerely wish that others would put down the swords and arrows and come to the table and progressively work towards solving this equation. NABS doesn’t have an ego that believes we can solve all of the Bigfoot issues by ourselves, far from it. We do believe that several groups hold key elements to the equation and they won’t share, we will and we’ve done it through the release of our first book. There have been several Bigfoot researchers that have had major Bigfoot projects for years but they won’t release their research for others to study, not sure why. NABS has contacted them and requested to view their results but have been refused.
As the new kid on the Bigfoot block, we will continue to keep our eyes open and our mouths shut and attempt to understand a research culture that hasn’t had a major development since 1967. If any of our readers has substantial Bigfoot evidence, contact us for our involvement. We are working major cases through labs on Bigfoot DNA and we’ve had many photos forwarded to us purporting to be a Bigfoot. We hold all evidence in strict confidence and will sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement on anyone who requests the document.
We sincerely wish you and your family a great holiday season.
North America Bigfoot Search.
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To say that we’ve been busy at NABS in the last month would be a huge understatement. Our team has been working on issues at multiple fronts trying to gather intelligence from a variety of sources. We have several research projects that are ongoing and involve over 14 months of continuous work. Here are some of the recent highlights at NABS;
The Bigfoot Disclosure Project
NABS has had many reports over the years from a variety of sources that indicate the government is interested in Bigfoot. Some reports tell of NASA officials on sites of Bigfoot encounters, others tell us that fish and game officials are subtly compiling data on the biped.
One group that continued to be brought to our attention was the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG). We knew that certain retired Wardens that had the territory near Bluff Creek (Hoopa) had an interest in the biped and would casually (sometimes not so casually) arrive at sighting locations, take notes and quietly leave. People in the community had told us that they had become friends with the Wardens and were told that the DFG in Sacramento had a file on Bigfoot but that it was supposedly confidential and not be to spoken about.
In November of this year NABS made initial inquiries to DFG through their directors office. We had asked for an interview with the director but were told he would delegate to a subordinate. After several delays and lost messages, we finally were able to meet with Eric Loft, Chief of the Wildlife Branch of the DFG. Eric is a very polite administrator with years of knowledge. He answered all of our questions directly and offered assistance in any other avenues that we may want to travel. He gave us unencumbered access to the Bigfoot file that DFG maintains, and, he allowed us to copy all its contents.
The DFG Bigfoot file contains sighting reports (not many), newspaper articles, handwritten notes and a proposed policy written by a DFG employee on how to deal with the Bigfoot issue. In our opinion, the most interesting document in the file was #52 (refer to the disclosure project section and go to the list of the documents). This document was sent to DFG in the 1970’s from an individual who had multiple Bigfoot encounters from the early 1900’s. He was asking for DFG to develop legislation to protect the biped, but, the interesting part of the correspondence is the description the individual offers of the Bigfoot he observed, they “look human”. There are many other interesting aspects to the file and we will discuss them in future Blogs.
Book of the Year, “The Hoopa Project”
The people inside NABS are not professional writers, didn’t major in English and have never made their living through the use of a pen. David Paulides did a great job describing the research and putting the team together to conduct a full investigation to the region around Hoopa, the return is “The Bigfoot Book of the Year”, awarded by Loren Coleman at Cryptomundo. The idea behind the book is to allow the public to follow our progress and to educate others about the facts behind the biped. Our research has continued since the writing of The Hoopa Project”, we haven’t stopped. We have continued to utilize the services of Harvey Pratt and his forensic sketch expertise and we have utilized specific aspects of the sketch process in regards to Bigfoot that has never been attempted by anyone in the past, more on that in the future.
Thank you to Loren and his team for the recognition.
Spending thousands of hours in Bigfoot country you start to develop informants and confidants that feed us valuable information on a regular basis. One of our friends called many months ago and told us that he had heard from a retired California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) employee that there was a file maintained in their offices on Bigfoot. We documented the information, filed it in our “to do” list and continued on with the expedition. Several weeks ago we received another call from a different individual telling us that the DFG has a file on Bigfoot that they’ve maintained from the early 1960’s but they are reluctant to talk about. NABS decided that we would make attempts to view this file and interview DFG.
NABS took our informants seriously and contacted the Director’s office at California DFG. We were initially stalled, promised phone calls, never responded and then, finally received a call from the Chief of Wildlife. A meeting was set and our Executive Director, David Paulides met with DFG on Monday. They did produce a large file that they maintained on Bigfoot and their chief did speak openly on the topic. It was an enlightening conversation! The full version of the meeting, the Q & A and the documents they allowed us to copy from their file will be explained and discussed on our website in the next week. We can guarantee that this is the first time anyone has interviewed DFG at this level and had them speak openly about Bigfoot!
The recent talk amongst the world elite Bigfooters has been habituation and claims that our big hairy friend speaks a language. I’ll first address habituation and the issues surrounding it. Habituation
In the past five decades there have been several people who have claimed that Bigfoot has visited their cabin, home, barn, and vacation residence over a prolonged period of time. Those visitations prompted some observers to document their sightings and later chronicle and later share them with the public. A scientist has never made the observations from the academic arena and as such they have never been printed in a scholarly journal. At the present time there are several habituation sites that supposedly are being regularly visited by the biped and are being formally recorded by the observers. The owners of these sites want strict anonymity and refuse to allow a neutral third party to document the incidents and visitations. This refusal has caused many in academia to discount the reports and refuse to include them in any reports that may be printed in a journal. The claim is that there needs to be a neutral person who is able to observe, document and later report the findings.
Females have predominantly managed the habituation sites, occasionally there is a male. It appears that Bigfoot is far more comfortable with a female presence then any male. The reports indicate that the process of getting the Bigfoot’s trust is a very long process, they are very aware of change, visitors, cameras and sometimes, some residents believe they have the ability to read your mind. When trust does occur the observers claim to see family units, children and even young adults. Does NABS believe that this is possible, absolutely. Do we believe that this process takes time, needs to be managed and later observed by a neutral third party, absolutely. We also believe that anonymity is crucial to the long-term study of the biped.
Many of the researchers in our community want cameras placed at the habituation sites and the behavior placed on film. It would appear from the many cases of Bigfoot visiting specific locations and the installation of cameras, this causes the biped to cease its visitations. The exact reason they stop visiting these sites isn’t understood. A constant video feed with background music may be the key to this dilemma. Bigfoot is enticed by music, music may drown out any “buzz” in the air and this may be successful. Game Cameras have never worked to anyone’s satisfaction and video offers much more data, but, there is a new generation of game cameras coming onto the market that may break the mold of long-term failures. Language
One of the cornerstones for many of the Bigfoot scientists to believe Bigfoot is human and not animal is language, followed by use of clothing, fire and maintenance of a family unit. There have been many documented cases of witnesses claiming they heard Bigfoot communicating with each other. In some instances witnesses describe the language as gibberish, some claim it’s a type of Native American dialect and others claim they can mimic anything and the language sounds almost human.
In “The Hoopa Project”, David Paulides documents a case on the Hoopa Reservation where a witness hears two Bigfoot talking with each other in a language he can’t quite understand, almost, but not quite. Others have described communication occurring by use of stick knocking over long distances, our NABS team experienced this last summer at 3am in he middle of the Siskiyou Wilderness in Northern California. There have also been several recording by credible researchers where Bigfoot has been documented yelling, speaking and it would appear, talking. A few of these recordings have been sent to academic institutions where the sounds could not be identified as anything known to live in the woods of North America. Wrap-Up
To be a credible researcher in any arena you need to be careful with whom you align and associate. You need to be diligent in your work and you need to keep an open mind on all aspects related to your cause. If a strong statement is made, you put your foot on the ground and stomp in your position, you better be able to back it up years later, here is the situation for several big name researchers in the Bigfoot arena. A few of the researchers have stated for many years that Bigfoot is a type of ape. They’ve made their career on the “ape” hypothesis and as additional evidence starts to roll in they continue to press their point, sometimes to extent of leaving friendships and organizations. We have several great minds that have dedicated their lives to the research of Bigfoot and a few are reluctant to even entertain a different idea or hypothesis, its unfortunate.
Recently NABS has received many inquiries and reports about extremely unusual activity associated with Bigfoot. We find that these reports are quite interesting and there are too many to ignore. Reports have included paranormal activity associated with other factors that are equally unusual. NABS has consistently stated that we will listen to any and all reports associated with Bigfoot and we appreciate the contributions from our supporters. We are also actively researching many incidents where a Bigfoot was shot and escaped from the area. We have never found a credible case where the creature was shot and put down. We WILL NEVER support anyone going out with the intent of shooting a Bigfoot, but, if one is accidentally shot and a body is recovered, this would be a huge scientific incident. NABS will sign a non-disclosure agreement with anyone who wants to contribute a story with associated validation of the site and body. We DO UNDERSTAND that Bigfoot may look very human to anyone who observes it at a close distance and there may be reluctance to come forward to legal authorities and document the incident. We have worked with a legal team and developed protocol where the witness can be protected, body recovered and the world would never know the identity of the witness. This is something we have been developing for many months and it has come to fruition. If you know of someone who has been placed in this unfortunate position, contact NABS and put the gears in motion to have the witness clear their conscious and their minds. We will handle any situation in a very professional and discrete manner.
Enjoy the great outdoors!
North America Bigfoot Search
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North America Bigfoot Search had its Executive Director (David Paulides) on Coast to Coast AM on Sunday night. We would like to thank George Knapp for the invitation and his gracious assistance in promoting our book. At the top of his show George told the audience that he rated “The Hoopa Project as one of the top three books on Bigfoot Sasquatch ever written. He said that it took a methodical approach in its research and he thought it was a valuable addition to the topic, thanks George.
If you'd like to read about the interview or listen to the podcast, go to the follwing Coast to Coast link and download the broadcast:
One of NABS’ directors is on an email list that contains the top Bigfoot researchers in the world. The list regularly discusses a variety of current topics and some very controversial. We will guarantee that there is not uniform agreement on every topic but there is a respect and admiration for each person’s beliefs. One of the topics recently discussed is habituation.
The story discussed on the email dealt with a woman that claimed to have many years of contact with Bigfoot. She writes in a very intelligent and revealing style. She will not acknowledge who she is or where she lives (even the continent). She does occasionally write to one of the researchers and describes activity that she has observed. Much of what she has described is consistent behavior with what we know of Bigfoot and much is new and interesting. As you would guess, the researchers have asked for access to the woman or even to personally question her, all requests have been denied. She has stated that she won’t put up cameras and is attempting to leave her area as natural as possible and thus as comfortable as reasonable for the Bigfoot.
Many hard-core scientists don’t believe a “commoner” could possibly be a reliable observer or documenter of facts. They’ve stated that the observations she describes can’t be science until it’s validated by a second party, we agree. This is one reason why NABS has required our witnesses to sign n affidavit on every Bigfoot sighting that is claimed.
Does NABS believe this woman is making Bigfoot observations, absolutely. Do we believe that there should be a second person brought in to validate the sightings, definitely.
Police Officers and Professional Investigators are trained observers. They are also experts at documenting facts that they directly observe and what they uncover from witness statements. The reason they must be experts is that these statements are reviewed and analyzed in court on a regular basis. The documenter of facts is one of the most important elements in our legal system. If this portion of the system fails, the case falls apart and the criminal or civil element is expunged and the documenter impeached. This is the rationale why NABS believes that a retired city, state or federal investigator/police officer should be one of the individuals invited onto the property and allowed to document their observations and findings, remember, it’s not just making the observation, it’s documenting the incident so that it can be clearly described and later examined by a formal group (jury or scientists). We also believe that a Non-Disclosure agreement must be signed for this research. The agreement must include on all aspects of the woman’s identity, location, etc. We also believe that the secondary observer should be a woman. It has been shown that Bigfoot is more comfortable around women and with one already at the residence, another would be less distractive and more acceptable.
We would be interested in your viewpoint.
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Enjoy the great outdoors.
North America Bigfoot Search
You may have noticed a change and a new addition to our website. Some of you may actually recognize the sketch, if not, keep staring. We would first like to thank Chris Murphy for the use of his beautiful portrait the last several years, but, times have changed and we decided to modify our look.
In the world of Bigfoot research there are mainly two camps. One camp believes that Bigfoot is from the ape family and it possesses a modified appearance of an ape. The other camp believes that Bigfoot has more human qualities that parallel with a “Wild Man” look. As a group that’s only been researching Bigfoot for four years we can’t claim to be experts on anything, but, we are the first group to ever put a Bigfoot witness in front of a trained law enforcement forensic artist. Those results have been consistent and do follow a “Wild Man” pattern.
When we delve into historical records of this biped the vast majority of the written articles talk about a “wild Man”, an entity that people routinely say looks too human to shoot.
In several recent incidents NABS researchers have received some backlash because of our findings and our website. Many established researchers abruptly stopped communicating with us because of our sketches and research. There haven’t been words exchanged, they merely stop talking. As a group of professionals that have worked at the highest levels in the technology sector, we find this behavior very surprising. When professionals have differences, they discuss them, attempt to find neutral ground and then work forward building on the relationship,,,, not here.
Many Bigfoot researchers have put their personal stake in the ground claiming that Bigfoot is a type of ape, and, because of their public statements and presentations are reluctant to change their position. When NABS originally started our research, we understood that there were few good facial photos of Bigfoot and we felt it would be beneficial to understand what we were dealing with, thus the forensic artist. One of the biggest names in Bigfoot research recently watched us interview a Bigfoot witness and subsequently sketch a face of the biped. This researcher initially didn’t feel that Harvey Pratt was sketching the Bigfoot to the specifications of the witness. They also felt that another research group was utilizing a trained forensic artist, they aren’t. The other group’s artist is drawing a creature that looks much different then our sketches. Part of this artists issue is that the drawings are done via mail, slight adjustments are made and then they are sent again, this process is very long and cumbersome We are the only group that’s gone to the expense of putting a trained forensic artist with witnesses. The researcher saw the end result of our sketch, the witness was elated with the result and the researcher didn’t say much, needless to say the sketch did appear much more human then ape.
Another anomaly in the Bigfoot world is the reluctance of researchers to come forward and admit they’ve witnessed a Bigfoot. Two of the BIGGEST names in the research world have seen a Bigfoot but they won’t publicly admit it. One of these people has talked to NABS and confirmed that what they observed closely matches our sketches and is nothing close to an ape. This researcher will not publicly make a statement but will privately engage us. The other individual is highly touted and has been around for many years and recently had a Bigfoot sighting. The rumor that is floating in the Bigfoot arena is that this person will not publicly talk about it because what they observed flies directly in the face of what they have believed Bigfoot is, an ape. The person’s sighting may well look more human then they are willing to admit.
Does NABS need others to validate our findings, absolutely not. We did not enter this arena with pre-conceived notions about where we wanted the research to take us. We are traveling down the road where the research, witnesses, drawings and historical data are taking us. If “researchers” fail to look under every rock and only look where they know they’ll find answers that fit their agenda, they’re really not researchers. Is there a possibility that there is an ape-like creature wandering the North American continent walking on two feet, absolutely, especially in areas near Florida and the South. Is an ape-like creature wandering the forests of California, Oregon and the western United States, doubtful.
NABS may not be invited to many Bigfoot conferences in the next few years because of our controversial findings and the publicity behind our research, but, we would be hypocrites if we pandered to a specific agenda. The witnesses who have seen these creatures need to have their voices heard. NABS is 100% positive that we are tracking the correct direction in our research and our efforts are fully supported by every Bigfoot witness we’ve ever met. It should also be stated that many of the rank and file researchers in some of the BIGGEST Bigfoot organizations have contacted us privately and told us that we are going the right direction and they are supplying us with many great leads…Thanks
Enjoy the great outdoors!
NABS
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Research: During the course of writing "The Hoopa Project" there were many researchers who expressed strong beliefs about Bigfoot and attempted to to sway the content of the manuscript a certain direction. NABS took the position that they would support the book as long as it stayed to the topic and stayed with the research that we uncovered. There are several items in the book that go against the belief system of many researchers who have spent MANY years investigating Bigfoot/Sasquatch and the Skunk Ape. Our theories are not something that were developed overnight or in a vacuum, they evolved from reading countless books, interviewing hundreds of people and applying a certain level of common sense and field research.
During the last several months our director (David Paulides) has presented our findings at three different Bigfoot conferences and several REI groups. While the audience has overwhelmingly approached and emailed him with supportive comments, there is an element in the Bigfoot community that are not happy. They don't like the proposition that Bigfoot may be more human then the general research community has proposed in the past. Just for clarity, we haven't stated IT IS human but what we are saying is that it has characteristics that appear more human then any other animal in North America and that's excluding the fact that it's a biped. There is much more to this story and our research is evolving daily.
Support: One of the best websites on the web for Bigfoot researchers is Bigfoot Encounters (www.bigfootencounters.com). The site is owned and edited by Bobbie Short. She has spent decades conducting her own expeditions into Wilderness Areas, doing her own research into the creature and accumulating a mountain of valuable data on Bigfoot/Sasquatch/Yeti/Yeren, etc. You could spend hours browsing her site and reading about this amazing creature. She is also one of the people that has her finger on the pulse of the Bigfoot world, she knows who is doing what and what is coming down the Bigfoot pipeline. Bobbie also produces a monthly newsletter that keeps the Bigfoot enthusiast informed on all of the latest happenings.
The Bobbie Short Bigfoot newsletter for the month of November was released yesterday. Bobbie did NABS, "The Hoopa Project" and David Paulides a great service by putting a stake in the ground supporting his book. The following statement is directly from her newsletter:
"The Hoopa Project," a new book by Dave Paulides is receiving rave
reviews the likes of which I have not seen before in BF books.
Since the last newsletter, these comments: "Book of the year,"
"A must read!" "Excellent read, we enjoyed it," "...best realistic
BF sketches," Paulides did his homework," "Damn good," and
"...who is this Paulides guy, he writes one helluva book?" "We
recommend it highly." The only complaint is that Hancock House
was in some instances very slow with delivery. Most comments
from readers who have seen a Bigfoot are raving on re: the "human
likenesses" Harvey Pratt was able to capture in his sketches. Of
course that is a feature I've been vocal about for thirteen years…. "
As you can decipher from the paragraph, Bobbie is a believer that Bigfoot does appear more human then animal. Our sketch artist, Harvey Pratt has the ability to deliver a sketch from a witness that appears as close to a mirror likeness of what they saw as nothing else NABS could develop. Harvey and Dave were shocked when the first drawings showed a creature that looked much more human then the Patterson-Gimlin creature. As more drawing were completed, they continued to closely matched the first. At this point in our research, it's hard to imagine that Harvey (and the witnesses that are supporting his work) is wrong, it wouldn't make sense. The witnesses who assisted in drawing facial sketches went against the grain of public knowledge and acceptance (the Patterson-Gimlin Creature). We sincerely thank Bobbie Short for writing such a supportive statement about NABS, "The Hoopa Project" and David Paulides. You can reach her and subscribe to the newsletter through her website.
Shipping: We aren't sure what is happening or did happen through Hancock House reagrding the shipment of "The Hoopa Project" but NABS has a healthy supply of the book and we do get orders out by the next day. Our fees match all other shippers and we guarantee our product. Please check our store for details on many other Bigfoot related products.
Thanks again to Bobbie Short for all of her support!
North America Bigfoot Search-nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
During the last week one of our researchers was in the Mount Shasta/Burney/McCloud area. He was out doing followup on some older sightings and decided to take an afternoon break and visit MacArthur-Burney Falls State Park. As he pulled in the fron gate he was greeted by the Park Ranger and given a newspaper. The paper contained a variety of articles about the park and a lengthy article about Bigfoot and the region. To say that our researcher was pleasantly surprised would be an under statement. It would appear that the California Satte Park system is starting to loosen its reigns and is starting to allow its people to speak about taboo topics. NABS has reporduced the article below. Unfortunately, nobody signed the article as its author..!!??
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Burney Bigfoot
Do you believe in Bigfoot? Skeptics are quick to discount the existence of the Bigfoot. They explain away the possibility because there is little or no evidence. To the skeptics I say “what’s the fun in that?”. To believe in something that most scientists will argue does not exist may be foolish but then again, what if?
Do you play the lottery? Do you believe that you will actually will a million dollars each time you play? And if you don’t believe, then why play? People play because it’s fun. It’s fun to dream, what if?
To believe in the mystical, the unexplained, or the unknown is to believe there are still mysteries to be discovered. It lifts us from our day to day grind and allows us to hold onto our youth and provides an adventure for the soul.
In 1910 a Dutch pilot crash landed on a rugged Indonesian island. When he was rescued he told horrific stories of giant lizards that ate goats and pigs, nobody believed him. The island is known today as Komodo; home of the Komodo Dragons.
In 1938 near Cape Town South Africa, the fishing trawler “Nerine” caught a coelacanth. A lobed finned fish believed extinct for more then 350 million years. The coelacanth was found in a local fish market, so a complete scientific examination was not possible. Scientists quickly discounted the find until in 1952 when a living sample was found.
Sightings of Bigfoot like creatures have been recorded as far back as the 1800’s. Many of the earliest inhabitants of North America and Native American cultures have words that describe a hairy giant wild man of the forests. The name Bigfoot is a journalists term that has become accepted and synonymous for “Sasquatch” (an anglicized Native American form of Sesquac-meaning “wild man”). Other names associated with similar creatures include the Yowie, Yeren, Yeti, Skunk Ape, Sisemite, Old Yellow Top, Momo, The Honey Island Swamp Monster, Barmanu, Almas and the Abominable Snowman. All refer to a man-like creature 6-12 feet tall covered in hair. In the Pacific Northwest of the United States the creature has become known as Bigfoot. Bigfoot (or which other name you prefer) sightings have been recorded in every state of the union except Hawaii. The majority of the sightings have occurred in California, Texas, Washington and Florida. Some of the tales and eyewitness accounts are unbelievable. Some of the stories are so unbelievable you go to kinds wonder just what medication they were on. But these are a small handful and the majority pf accounts are from believable reliable people from every profession and occupation.
So what about Burney? My research into sightings of Bigfoot unfortunately came up with no recorded sightings of a Bigfoot here at Macarthur- Burney Falls. (I did come up with a sighting of a two headed deer and even a UFO, but I’ll save that for another day). Sorry no Burney Falls Bigfoot; however there have been a few local sightings.
In 1955 giant 3 toes footprints (similar to the reported Yeti footprints) were reported on Mount Shasta at an elevation of 11,000 feet. Again, footprints were reported by a Redding man in 1958. In 1962 a woman reported watching a Bigfoot give birth on Mount Shasta. In 1976 a logger claimed to have come across a huge bad smelling creature near cascade gulch. Later, two men drinking beer at Bunny Flats (Mount Shasta) reported Bigfoot gave them a crystal and then disappeared into the forest. Okay, that one does smell a little of alcohol. (Everyone knows that it probably wasn’t Bigfoot but more likely one of the mythical Lemurians known to live on the mountain. 1976 reported to be the year for strange reports on he mountain. That same year a Redding woman claimed that she was kidnapped by Bigfoot. No other details were given. I would have to presume that she escaped, was released, or the ransom was paid.
The next report I found jumps way up to 1992. In the fall of 1992 residences on Hudson Street in Burney were awakened by strange screams they likened to a cougar or bear and howler monkey rolled into one. Another resident reported seeing a silhouette of an upright bipedal creature walk past her window. The witnesss estimated its size to be about 8-9 feet tall. The most recent report came in 2005 on Clover Mountain 10 miles southwest of Burney where two brothers reported finding tracks and a week later, in the same general area sighting the big guy himself.
Although once thought to be a hoax, a mass hysteria, some reputable scientists and anthropologists are taking a closer into the Bigfoot mystery. The U.S. Forest Service has even included Bigfoot into some of their environmental impact reports on logging issues. So what do you think? To borrow an old cliché’ from the television show X-files, “The Truth is out there.” Do you believe?
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During the last several weeks NABS has extended in an attempt to join forces with other Bigfoot associations to work on Bigfoot research, this request was prompted by several members inside these organizations. At times NABS is stretched thin and have requested assistance in specific parts of the U.S. for follow-up on activity. Each request that was sent was ignored. In follow-up with researchers from those organizations they were embarrassed and upset at the position of their group.
In the last three days we have been deluged with emails from individuals/researchers voicing concern over their organization. There seems to be an under current of anxiety inside a few select Bigfoot organizations and its amazing to us that their management either doesn’t recognize it or doesn’t care. Most of these researchers contact us regularly and are currently assisting NABS on current cases. It would appear that some groups that consider themselves “research” groups have forgot to conduct “research” and support the “researchers” that are doing their hard work. Many of these researchers have been with their organizations for years yet their management refuses to acknowledge them, baffling!
The TBRC (Texas Bigfoot) is one of the most professional groups that NABS has had the pleasure to work around, they sponsored the Texas Bigfoot Conference and invited NABS to present our findings, a gracious offer. Craig Woolheater (Director) has taken the time to put together a group that is attempting to “do the right thing”. NABS met many of their members in Texas and it was a very refreshing event.
Since NABS’ presentation in California, Texas and Oklahoma, researchers from the top Bigfoot groups in North America have contacted us with precedent setting information. They have been frustrated with their groups and the “stifling bureaucracy” that exists at some levels. Many of these people have since left and presented to us some of the most sobering research NABS has ever seen. We know that some researchers have joked about weekend investigators, ha, these individuals have done some of the best research NABS has ever been privileged to witness. It appears that these people have patiently been working alone on their theories and waiting for someone they trusted to come along, well, in walked NABS. We want to thank everyone for coming forward and trusting us with their work product. We guarantee that they will get the acknowledgement when we go public with these finding. We have teams working on many of these issues and this has become very time consuming, but, that is research.
We want everyone in the Bigfoot arena to be their own judge of what they want from a research organization. We’ve been told that they want responsiveness, honesty, professionalism, acknowledgement and updates. We attempt to answer all of our emails (there are a lot!), try to keep you updated over the web, we contact every witness who is reporting a sighting and we believe that professionalism is as important as honesty. If you have any recommendations for our group, please send us a note. If you’re disgruntled in your organization, be patient, voice your concern and be a catalyst for change. Develop synergy in your group and push the envelope of what YOU need from that group, that’s why they exist. NABS has no interest of being the only Bigfoot research group in the world or being the largest, it serves no purpose. We need all Bigfoot organizations working in harmony to solve this complex equation. If some of the directors can put their egos aside, we would make tremendous progress in actual Bigfoot research!
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NABS would first like to thank Craig Woolheater and the entire TBRC group for their gracious invitation to our Director, David Paulides. The conference was very professionally produced and executed to perfection. All of the speakers were timely in their start and finish and much of this was thanks to Brian Brown who was the master of ceremonies. Brian did a great job of mingling with the crowd and talking with speakers.
The conference had approximately 10 different tabled setup from various groups and organizations, NABS had two. One of our tables was selling “The Hoopa Project”, maps and hats. Gina and Harvey Pratt who were selling Harvey’s artwork of Bigfoot, GREAT work that got alot of attention, staffed the adjoining table, refer to www. Harveypratt.com. Dr. Jeff Meldrum had a table where he was selling and signing his book as well as selling cast Bigfoot tracks, some quite interesting.
Part of the fun of attending these events is meeting people from different parts of North America who have a Bigfoot sighting to tell. One individual came to us and explained a Bigfoot sighting he had in the middle of a winter storm driving through a pass at 9000 feet, unreal! We are going to follow-up with this gentleman and document his story.
This is the third conference that NABS has presented at and each assembly is a little different. The sponsoring body for this event was the TBRC and there were many members wearing nametags. Many of these individuals are quite well versed in Bigfoot and some know probably more then some of us. At the conclusion of David Paulides’ presentation several members of the audience and TBRC members came and thanked him for his professional presentation and conscientious work. It was a great gesture of kindness coming from a very nice group of people.
Bigfoot research is filled with people who have years of experience, solid research backgrounds with varying expertise and educational backgrounds. As we all know a degree doesn’t give you common sense. A college degree does give you the foundation to properly document your thoughts so others may understand your research. If you don’t document your work for others, some may never appreciate your contribution to your chosen project. NABS wants everyone to know that we won’t degrade anyone’s work on any topic. We may publicly comment on research but it won’t be a personal swipe at their integrity and hard work. We are knew to the Bigfoot arena and don’t want to be viewed as “pushy”, “entitled” or “experts”, because we aren’t. In general, we are pretty shy people and as such we keep to ourselves when in a public setting. We are eager to talk with anyone who approaches us and we will gladly answer any and every research question that may be posed.
On Friday night of the Texas conference we were invited to a late night gathering of speakers. We were blessed to have Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Dr. Henner Fahrenbach in the kitchen alone with us for almost an hour. The conversation centered on Bigfoot, thoughts and opinions about recent research and how we could assist each other (mainly them assisting us) on research that is unfolding. Both of these individuals were very helpful, open and constructive on their thoughts and opinions. We patiently listened to each other’s ideas and while there were differences in opinion, there was a sense of constructive dialogue with researcher helping researcher. It was an honor to spend time with these two great researchers and we appreciated the productive atmosphere, and great deserts supplied by Craig Woolheater.
NABS has several outstanding projects presently working their way through the research arena. One project deals with a hair sample taken from the region north of the Siskiyou Wilderness Area. The story of how we obtained it is intriguing and is documented in our second book, hopefully going to the publisher in the next month. The sample has slowly been working its way through an associated lab for several months. The director of the lab has had many different samples of purported Bigfoot hair, tissue, etc come through their lab and they state that this is the first time they’ve ever had anything survive their research testing that’s associated with Bigfoot. The hair has many traits that no other hair possesses and many thought it was initially synthetic. The lab sent the sample to a hair and fiber expert and they confirmed its an “unknown primate hair”. Inhibitors have stood in the way of DNA extraction and the lab is working furiously to overcome those obstacles. The director has an interest in new fields of research and this is the first time anything from the Bigfoot arena has caught their attention for a prolonged period of time. NABS spoke about this research in Texas.
We would like to thank every attendee and speaker that approached and spoke with us in Texas; you were all very polite and gracious, thanks. Again, a special thanks to Craig Woolheater and the board of directors of the TBRC for inviting our director to speak, it was much appreciated.
If you ever have a question or comment about our work or this website, please contact us at nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com. We take every Bigfoot sighting seriously and if you request anonymity in your submission, that will always be granted.
Enjoy the great outdoors!
North America Bigfoot Search
Well, a trip utilizing planes, airport trains, buses and eventually the rental car aided us as we made it to Jefferson, Texas,,,, after an 8 hour trip…. We are here for the 2008 Texas Bigfoot Conference. NABS’ director, David Paulides was invited to make a presentation on his research and book, “The Hoopa Project”. The conference (Saturday 9am-6pm) is filled with some of the biggest names in the Bigfoot field culminating with a benefit dinner Saturday night that is headlined by Dr. Jeff Meldrum. Our director is the first speaker after lunch Saturday with the event being staged at Jefferson High School. Past Bigfoot conferences in Jefferson have attracted up to 500 people!
As part of our research and preparation for Texas NABS did some searching for specifics on the area surrounding Jefferson and why Bigfoot may be calling this eastern Texas city home. Paulides’ book makes several associations with Bigfoot and sightings, one of those associations is precipitation. Regions in Northern California that have had the most Bigfoot sightings/encounters have fifty inches or more of annual precipitation. A search of Jefferson City, Texas shows that they have averaged 49.26 inches of precipitation for the last 20 years. June is their largest rainfall month with over 4 inches. Dr. Meldrum made a presentation in Honobia, Oklahoma two weeks ago and presented findings on his trip to China in search of their Bigfoot, The Yeren. Dr. Meldrum indicated that the region they were studying had over 50 inches of annual rainfall. While rainfall is just one indicator on the grand scale it is ironic that Jefferson came in with this number.
A walk through the woods of Jefferson shows many similarities between Northern California and this Texas town. The woods are filled with moderate size Pine trees, vegetation is very thick and there is water everywhere. As we were driving into town we drove over many “bayous” that were filled with water. Water and the proximity of sightings to water is also a common thread between Jefferson City and Northern California.
On a sad note, noted Bigfoot Researcher Peter Byrne fell while conducting research in Northern California and seriously injured his knee. Peter was to be one of the speakers at this conference and was replaced at the last minute with Dr. Meldrum. NABS wishes Peter a speedy recovery and hopes that he’s back conducting research quickly. Peter is a man of extreme integrity and has added much to Bigfoot research over the years. Refer to the “Guest Columnist” section of this website for an article he wrote for NABS.
We will keep you updated.
NABS
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We are writing this blog from our hotel room in Oklahoma City. We just completed the 4 hour drive from Honobia and the final day of the Oklahoma Bigfoot Conference.
The premiere speaker for this event was Dr. Jeff Meldrum from Idaho State University. Dr. Meldrum made a presentation on Friday on his trip to China and the search for their Bigfoot, the Yeren. It was a very interesting talk about the similarities between their Yeren and our Bigfoot. It was great to hear some of the behind the scenes stories between the Chinese government and the expedition. He spoke about the relationships that were developed between the researchers in China and the team from the U.S. He had great photos and some interesting casts that were presented. They even interviewed a few of the witnesses tro the creature.
On Saturday Dr. Meldrum changed gears and talked about Bigfoot footprints, the specifics that set them apart from other prints, the Patterson-Gimlin prints and much more. Both presentations by Dr. Meldrum were interesting even to the seasoned researcher. The public should appreciate someone entering the Bigfoot arena from the world of academics and essentially putting his credentials on the line. I know that everyone in attendance appreciated his time and passion for the topic.
NABS researchers David Paulides and Harvey Pratt were two of the presenters on Saturday. David spoke about the story behind “The Hoopa Project” and some specifics about a few of the stories contained in the book. He also touched upon the history of NABS and where they are headed for 2009. Harvey followed Dave and spoke about his decades in law enforcement and specifically forensics sketches. He explained how he does facial reconstruction and how that applies to Bigfoot. Harvey had the audience riveted with some very explicit slides explaining the need for his work in law enforcement. It was obvious to everyone in attendance that Harvey Pratt is a seasoned professional and quite adept at giving a riveting presentation, NABS appreciated his work.
After NABS presenters hit their seats and a break occurred in the presentations, they were deluged with contact from the audience. Many fascinating Bigfoot stories emanated from these contacts and much follow-up will occur because of them.
Paulides and Pratt covered many miles of Oklahoma in the week prior to the conference. They were in the field contacting witnesses, taking statements, looking for evidence and doing sketches. As luck would fly their way, they actually were on the scene at a residence 12 hours after they had Bigfoot contact the night earlier. They documented sightings in some counties of Oklahoma where other organizations have no sightings listed, an interesting side note…
Oklahoma is a very different environment from California. They don’t have big trees, huge rivers and big valleys. The idea that Bigfoot has adapted to this environment intrigues the researchers and we are sure that this trip will occupy their time for weeks to come.
NABS would like to thank the Honobia Chamber of Commerce and specifically Farlan Huff for extending an invitation to their event. They were very hospitable and engaging, NABS appreciated the opportunity that was extended.
As a final note, Harvey’s wife (Gina) did an extensive search of the area around Honobia for a place for researchers to stay. She found an outstanding Bed and Breakfast in Talihina, Hootie Creek House Bed and Breakfast. The owners took a crippled building and through an effort of love built a beautiful B & B, it was only surpassed by their hospitality and breakfast they put out the next morning. If you are in the area, please stay at the Hootie Creek House Bed and Breakfast.
If you have a Bigfoot sighting or incident, we would like to hear from you. Send any emails to: nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
Enjoy the great outdoors!
NABS
We thought we would give our readers a status report on North America Bigfoot Search. We will report on the progress we are making on Bigfoot research, public relations, upcoming presentations and finally, where we are headed as an organization.
Bigfoot Research- As John Green and Ray Crowe have told us, Bigfoot research has many, many twists and turns and what seems obvious, isn't. We can guarantee that their statements hit home with our team. Bigfoot doesn't respond or react like any other animal researched in the wild. They don't appear to have migratory tendencies that are predictable. They don't appear to follow a routine, if anything, their routine isn't routine. They almost appear to specifically think about behaving opposite of what a researcher would expect. The Bigfoot's ability to "think" is something we believe is being minimized by many research groups, thinking is the cornerstone to this creatures behavior.
Our research started with NABS attempting to understand what we would be dealing with in regards to Bigfoot. Are we going to target an ape, neanderthal, orang, human or, something else. We've had many meetings in the last several months and we believe we are marching in a progressive and understandable manner that is slowly untangling the web of mystery. NABS found the best forensic artist in the world (Harvey Pratt) and we've had him make two appearances with our witnesses and draw exactly what they observed. This was important to our understanding what people are viewing. At this point we would warn the public to be careful with the hype they may read from other authors and organizations. Harvey went directly to the witnesses, there was a direct dialogue about what looked correct in the sketch and what didn't. Harvey didn't take any artistic liberty to change the drawing to what "he felt" Bigfoot should look like. Harvey is the consumate professional and the 35 years of law enforcement and expertise shined through with each witness contact. The result of the two rounds of drawings are stunning, revealing and not what we expected. We have taken those results, interpretted the findings and are actively working to make sense of what we've revealed (Refer to "The Hoopa Project" for details). NABS has always worked under the belief of under promising and over delivering, which we will. You and I have heard from many groups in the past that have made public statements claiming that the Bigfoot mystery will be solved, well, we believe that it will be.
Public Relations- NABS did not make any public appearances for the first four years of our existence. We didn't have anything to say, our research wasn't complete and we felt it would compromise our integrity to make statements we couldn't backup. We did make our first appearance at the Bigfoot conference in Felton, CA. David Paulides (NABS Exec Director) represented NABS at this event and made his presentation on his book, The Hoopa Project. 100% of the contacts made to NABS after this event were overwhelmingly positive. Many of these contacts involved members of other research groups. some with significant notoriety. They told us that David stated things in his presentation that haven't been said in the past and were right on key, they needed to be said. Several members from other groups have asked to work with us because their past organization has become overwhelmingly dictorial and they aren't allowing seasoned researchers to state their opinion publically.
Prior to making any public appearances NABS researched the researchers. We observed significant discontent amongst many researchers in the Bigfoot arena. Some were stating negative things in the press about others, some were attempting to circumvent the work of others, almost 90% was negative. Well, NABS has taken a stance of not participating in the mud slinging. There are many sites on the web that allow this behavior to proliferate and any new kid on the block is open game, as we have been. No, nobody is willing to say anything to us directly, they sit on the sidelines and take shots across our bow. You'd think that these individuals would call, engage in progressive dialogue, all in an attempt to further Bigfoot research, no chance. NABS has taken a position of stating our findings, pursue the leads and follow the path to an ultimate conclusion. The beliefs of others really don't come into play in our research, we follow the facts. Those "facts" appear to have rubbed some the wrong away and is in direct conflict with their belief systems, for that, we are sorry. Rather then berate each other over innocuous issues, lets engage in a progressive conversation where everyone benefits!
Upcoming Presentations- NABS will be presenting at the Honobia, Oklahoma Bigfoot Conference, Jefferson, Texas Bigfoot conference and numerous presentations at REI Department stores in California. We will have Q & A's at each presentation and encourage any and all questions (refer to "upcoming events" on this website for details). Anyone who is a researcher and has questions about our procedures, results, strategies, etc, we will gladly meet with anyone and discuss where we've been and where we are going, contrary to almost any other Bigfoot Research organization. We have nothing to hide and believe that a dialogue amongst researchers is critical to everyone's success. NABS would like to thank REI for their progressive stance they've taken with NABS. we are the first Bigfoot research group that they've ever invited into their establishment to be keynote speakers at their stores, it's appreciated!!
Next Steps- We are well on our way to phase three of our research plan, a plan developed four years ago. Again, NABS is not hiding anything and will gladly share our research, as David Paulides did in "The Hoopa Project". David's second book will be headed for the publisher in the next month and is something that will truly make the Bigfoot world pause and re-think what Bigfoot really is.. NABS research is highlighted in this work and the book is 100% supported by our organization. We will continue with our field work, aggressively in the future. You will see us in the midwest in the next few months, interviewing, sketching and walking the trails of the forests in the area. You will continue to see our presence in Northern California and Oregon. If you do happen to see us in the field, please stop us and say hello!
Blog # 34 Expedition Report/ Northern Siskiyou Wilderness
One item that has become apparent through our polls is that you wanted to see reports from our expeditions. This is the first online report we will file.
Location: Northern Siskiyou Wilderness/Northern California
Date: September 8, 2008
NABS received numerous reports over the last several years involving first person sightings of Bigfoot in the northern region of the Siskiyou Wilderness. This area is very intriguing for many reasons. Its wilderness status allows it to connect unencumbered the area of Blue and Bluff Creek and the Elk Valley. The area is directly adjacent to the Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area to the north and the Marble Mountain Wilderness area to the south, all receiving numerous Bigfoot sightings. The northern section of the Siskiyou Wilderness is one of the most remote wilderness areas in the state of California, It is a seven hour drive from the San Francisco Bay Area and gets few visitors compared to other regions of the state. The closest city to our access point was Gasquet, CA. We took the Knopki Creek access road northeast of Gasquet to the Young’s Valley Trail head where our vehicles were left behind.
USGS Maps: NABS has historically utilized USGS maps in all of our expeditions. This trip highlighted the need for the USGS to update their maps as the trails, elevations, mileage and trail locations were quite different on the trail then on the map. There are several internet sites that address this region and we found each of them following guidelines listed on the USGS maps, many are incorrect.
The trail starts with a very long downhill walk on an old four-wheel drive trail down into Young’s Valley. This is approximately 2.5 miles long, almost all downhill, straight into the valley. Once on the valley floor it is a level walk through many groves, old growth and beautiful meadows. Approximately one mile after the start of the meadow the trail starts a slow ascent for another 1.5 miles until you come to a fork in the trail. One trail points towards Cyclone Gap and there are no signs for the other trail. THE OTHER TRAIL GOES TO RASPBERRY LAKE. The first night we hiked another 1.5 miles to the gap. This is a perfect location to view two huge valleys. The area is very windy (thus the “cyclone” name) but beautiful We set camp and immediately went to sleep. Be advised there is no water in this area!
We woke at 3am and immediately heard two rounds of wood knocks, each 3 strikes 10 minutes apart. These sounds emanated from a valley to our east where it shows a trail leaving our location and going into the valley and above an old mine. We did follow the trail but it evaporated away after ½ mile. It still shows on the USGS map but it doesn’t exist. We feel that this valley has exceptional potential for later study as it is very desolate. The knocks sounded similar to wood and almost sounded like a pick hitting the ground three times. Just as an FYI there was nobody in this area and no other cars at the trailhead.
The next morning we took the trail and hiked back, downhill to the fork and took the unmarked route for approximately 2-3 miles, mostly uphill. This route can be treacherous as it is partially on a cliff. The map shows one very slight incline and then a short walk to Raspberry Lake. The map is wrong. There is a very steep hike up a granite face of approximately ½ mile and then a steep downhill hike of equal distance down to a small valley and then another steep uphill hike of a ½ mile and then the last ½ mile downhill to the lake. This is a significant error on the map and can cause the hiker to be quite confused of the exact trail location. Be ready for loose rocks, narrow trails but beautiful views. There are NO signs indicating where the lake trail is located.
Once arriving at Raspberry Lake you should be ready for a gorgeous setting. The lake is surrounded by steep cliffs, huge rock faces and old growth forests. There is a small gap where the outflow of the lake goes down a steep valley. We found that the lake holds a significant population of Rainbow and Brown trout up to 14”, the largest we caught. Bring red Mepps and black Panther Martin lures. Fly fishing with a small beed works very well.
The team set a staged area approximately 700 yards down the creek outflow into the valley. In this area we utilized aroma attractant and visual stimulators to attempt contact. We were unsuccessful in bringing in anything other then a deer. There were numerous bear and deer tracks throughout the area. To our surprise, the tracker on our team also found several large elk tracks in the swail below the lake. We also found several suspicious tracks that appeared very similar to Bigfoot tracks but were inconclusive. There also appeared to be a healthy population of badgers living in the valley. The one oddity of our trip was that nobody saw one large mammal, this has never happened on any other expedition. We did see chipmunks and squirrels.
Follow-up: We would definitely go back to Cyclone Gap and conduct follow-up research via audio and aroma attractant. The remote nature of the valley coupled with the wind generated through the pass make this an exceptional opportunity.
Please go to the “photo album” section of this site for pictures of our expedition.
Thanks for your interest in NABS.
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It's no surprise to NABS that Tom Biscardi's website has admitted this morning (8/19/08) that the entire Georgia Bigfoot Body is a hoax. That's correct, a Georgia Police Officer and a former Georgia Department of Corrections Officer pulled off another scam on Mr. Biscardi and his group of "researchers."
The idea that a group of grown men, calling themselves "researchers" can't determine if something is a costume or a Bigfoot corpse is mind boggling. As stated in earlier emails, NABS has had dealings with the Biscardi organization in the past. Many of the people across the U.S. who align themselves with him are nice, decent folks, no doubt. NABS would hope that these people do their own research on the Biscardi organization and understand the 747 load of baggage that goes with that association. It's not our intention to humiliate the Biscardi group but, this isn't their first major mistake, there are many. This isn't a minor mistake, this is major. This doesn't hurt just the Biscardi group, it sheds a negative light on all of Bigfoot research because Biscardi is calling himself a researcher. At this point we are going to move on and hopefully the world can put this behind us, lets move to more positive ground.
Blog #32 The Press Release-The Bigfoot Body
In the annals of Bigfoot history there have been times when the professionalism has hit all time lows, the path that Tom Biscardi is taking with his purported Bigfoot body makes little sense and challenged the intellect of many casual observers, check the local section of todays San Francisco Chronicle.
Matt Whitton is a Clayton, Georgia police officer that is on administrative leave from the department after being shot during an on the job altercation, this is not to be joked about. His life as a police officer is one of integrity, HONESTY and credibility.
Rick Dyer is a close friend of Matt’s. They have made U Tube videos together, walked the backroads of Georgia as friends and most recently purported to have found a Bigfoot body, yes you heard that correctly. Allegedly, In June of this year they were walking the backwoods, found the body on the ground and attempted recovery. The Bigfoot is supposedly over seven feet tall and pushing 500 pounds. They claim to have carried, dragged the creature to a point where they were able to place it in their truck and drive it away. Stop here and take a breath.
There’s an old saying regarding carrying something, it’s called “dead weight”. Five hundred pounds of a dead animal is a load, even for two young, big men. The effort to carry this 200 yards would be monumental, to carry it several miles is superhuman. The thought of carrying it at all would be gross. If it had intestines hanging out of the chest (as they claim), the animal would have had to possess maggots, bugs, and every other horrible flying creature living in the Georgia back woods. They never made much of a statement about this effort, just that they did it, seems a little odd.
The boys then put the creature in a large cooler, filled it with water and attempted to freeze it. It’s unclear why they filled it with water, doesn’t make any sense, just freeze the carcass! It was at this point that the boys made a major decision, one that might haunt them with reputable Bigfoot researchers, they called Tom Biscardi.
Tom lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the world of Bigfoot, some have called him a “responder.” He hears about a Bigfoot sighting somewhere, anywhere, he responds and attempts to find a money-making opportunity to the event. He doesn’t stay long, he does bring his posse and he claims he’s the world’s best researcher. NABS has suffered from the wake of Tom Biscardi. We have gone into a community where the first question we are asked, “Are you associated with Tom Biscardi, if you are, leave now.” His past has included big promises on the George Noory (Coast to Coast AM Radio Show), promises that have included he had a Bigfoot in a cage, promises that he would get a Bigfoot on stealth cams, nothing has ever materialized other then the fact that Biscardi hasn’t followed through on his promises. It could be a series of bad luck, maybe he was duped, maybe he’s gullible, maybe other things…..Even his Bigfoot expertise has been challenged. Tom has supported claims made by Ivan Marx in the past, involving evidence of Bigfoot. Experts have shown that there is no credible evidence/photos, but, Tom has continued to claim they are the real deal.
The boys stated that they had DNA testing completed and one of the results came back human. This wasn’t reported on a lab report it was an email. How do we know the chain of evidence of this sample? Matt is a police officer, understands chain of custody, where is it, explain the chain, they never did. Heck, this sample could’ve been a cuticle off Matt’s shot hand and accidentally got mixed in with the possum they were eating for lunch. Yes, the other DNA test came back as Possum, figure that out. Another interesting note is that Matt, Rick and Biscardi put the lab they were using under a non-disclosure agreement. OK, we’ve used NDA’s when we are on someone’s property and they don’t want the world to know we are there, understandable. Putting a lab under NDA only appears odd. If the results come back as a dead dog, we (Matt & Rick) are the only ones that can claim it’s a possum, not the lab, maybe that’s their thought pattern. Maybe they don’t want the lab stating their opinion on the professionalism, chain of custody, compromised tissue samples, or, something else.
It would be safe to state that Matt and Rick picked Biscardi for a specific reason. Maybe they didn’t want him to dig too deep, maybe they didn’t want him asking technical questions, maybe they liked his style, why they picked Biscardi, it’s one question that nobody asked at the press conference. It’s obvious why they didn’t pick NABS or another top research group in the Bigfoot arena, we would’ve taken a methodical/scientific approach, necropsy, lab tests, noted professionals, bring the body, have experts in the field answer questions, etc, etc.
There is a poll that has been on our website for the last 3 weeks that involved professionalism in the Bigfoot landscape. The results are what we expected and it goes to the nature of the people, not all, some. We have received countless calls and emails in the last week about this event and we’ve responded with a straight forward approach. We don’t take this seriously.
Summary:
No body was publicly viewed.
No laboratory report was presented.
Nobody from the scientific/academic community is involved.
The location of the discovery wasn’t disclosed.
Matt and Rick have an admitted history of making U-tube video spoofs.
No affidavits regarding the events have been supplied.
Biscardi has a history of making big promises being unable to deliver.
Biscardi wouldn’t disclose where the body is or when the public can view it.
Conclusion
Matt Whitton’s professional life as a police may have been forever compromised if he doesn’t turn over a Bigfoot body. We can just imagine the cross examination of Matt by defense attorneys as they embarrass him with his promises, statements and allegations about Bigfoot. His ability to stay stoic, not be embarrassed and testify as a credible police officer will forever be challenged, it’s too bad. I doubt that he contemplated this situation as he made the call to Biscardi.
We study history in school for a reason. If history is any indicator of Tom Biscardi’s conduct and ability to follow through with his promises, we will have seen Tom’s last press conference. It’s important in life to admit what you don’t know, look for the professionals who do know and follow their expert opinion to success. To continually claim that you are the best at everything and never deliver anything of substance only will bring embarrassment to a community that drastically needs professionalism.
We sincerely wish Rick, Matt and Tom all the best, just not at cost of the community’s opinion of credible Bigfoot Researchers.
Over the years there are have been many who have claimed to possess a Bigfoot body. One of those cases involved two young girls out for a morning hike near Happy Camp, CA. This supposedly occurred over 40 years ago....The girls were walking on an old logging road, came across a decompossing body, in the snow, ran back to their house and kept quiet about the incident. The body was suppose to be close in description to what you'd believe a Bigfoot body would look like, supposedly... This story stayed in the background of many investigators minds for decades. It was first reported by one of the most prominent and honest of Bigfoot researchers, John Green.
Recently NABS spoke extensively with Mr. Green and obtained the contact information for the girls (now women). NABS spent two days tracking down one of the witnesses to the supposed Bigfoot body. She was a very polite, mature woman at this time in her life. She apologized for the work that NABS went through but stated that she needed to clear the air, there was NO body. There was one small piece of skin with hair on it that probably came from a bear. There was no bones, skeleton, frame, long hair or teeth, nothing to be exclusively indicative of a Bigfoot. She stated that she has heard the stories over the years and was never quite sure who to contact to clear the air, she is now doing just that, air cleared, no Bigfoot body was found in Happy Camp 40 years ago, period.
There has never been a Bigfoot body found, at least that's been released to the public... NABS has discussed how we would handle an incident involving a Bigfoot body and its quite different then most would believe. We would first have an autopsy conducted by a noted private physician/coroner. There would be a paralell process of lab testing, DNA analysis and access would be granted to a team of noted Veterinary pathologists. All answers regarding whether the creature was a human or animal would be answered, privately without a public spectacle. Once the scientists had agreed on what they were examining, the lead physician would hold a press conference explaining what they did, what they found and the results. NABS would only be a support mechanism in the process, not the center of the spectacle.
We've never been a group that's relished the public spotlight or endeavored to be in that spotlight, contrary to a few out there. NABS doesn't conduct Bigfoot tours, doesn't take groups into the wild and has no plans to do this at any point in the field, that's not our expertise. NABS will continue to search for answers regarding the Bigfoot phenomena and utilize methodical, scientific approaches to our research. If you are looking for a flashy, high profile group to follow, you are probably in the worng place. We do promise to keep you informed and educated about what we do, we feel that's part of our obligation to the public. We will be making a series of public appearances at REI stores that are free to the public and we appreciate your attendance and your great questions. As the famous Editor of "The Track Record" Ray Crowe told me when I questioned him about a Bigfoot story making headlines across the U.S., "keep your spectacles on!" Good advise, we are!!
Emails are always appreciated at : nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com
NABS was at the Bigfoot Discovery Days 2 on August 9, 2008. It started at 11am at the Bigfoot Discovery Museum with a tasty barbecue and book signing. Hosts Tom Yamarone and Mike Rugg did an outstanding job organizing this very social event. Dave Paulides (NABS), Kathy Strain and Jeff Meldrum were at the barbecue signing copies of their books and were available throughout the day for Bigfoot conversation.
The big surprise for everyone attending was to see Bob Gimlin at the event. Tom Y. drove Bob into town and Bob was his usual gracious self and signed countless books, posters and other artifacts and also stood for innumerable photos. The Bigfoot community is lucky to have such a polite and hospitable elder statesman as Bob, a BIG thank you for attending!
The day continued at 6pm at the Felton Community Hall where Meldrum, Strain, Paulides and Richard Noll gave presentations on their latest research. The Hall was a sellout with standing room only available. Each of the presenters did a great job engaging the crowd, taking questions and addressing various angles of the Bigfoot mystery. Countless other Bigfoot investigators from throughout the U.S. attended including Craig Woolheater, one of the organizers of the TBRC Conference in Jefferson, Texas, October 18, Dave Paulides from NABS will be one of the presenters at that conference. This is the first time that Dave Paulides (NABS) has met Craig and was impressed when he arrived with a full contingent from Texas. Danny Perez (Bigfoot Times) was also on site handing out complimentary copies of his monthly newsletter, a very engaging person with extensive Bigfoot research experience. We met many of the top researchers at this event and we don’t want to leave anyone out of the blog, so, we won’t name more people but will ask all of you to stay in touch and we appreciate your contribution to Bigfooting! Overall we would call Bigfoot Discovery Days 2 a HUGE success with a big thank you to the Bigfoot Discovery Museum members and staff for the professional atmosphere and outstanding organizational skills they demonstrated at the event.
Blog #29 The Sound Anomaly North America Bigfoot Search (NABS) has strived from its inception to maintain an open viewpoint on all issues related to Bigfoot research. Many research groups refuse to listen to several viewpoints on Bigfoot and as such limit their ability to maintain a neutral position on all conditions related to Bigfoot. Many groups have built in biases to a variety of sightings and reports. Researchers from the academic arena need to keep their investigations confined to an area where their peers and administration will accept their findings and recommendations. NABS is an independent group that has always looked at the “Big Picture” and will continue to keep all aspects the Bigfoot search in play and open to investigation.
During the last two years we’ve investigated Bigfoot reports in some very, very remote areas. Many of these reports have come from residents who have lived in the area for decades. During the course of the investigation and on site research, witnesses start to develop a relationship with the researcher and start to talk about a variety of issues that confront them in everyday life. They are reluctant to talk about these issues with some researchers because (as the witnesses have told us) the researchers come to them with a very narrow focus and are reluctant to see the “big picture.”
One issue that has been brought to our attention by remote residences (specifically in mountain regions) is a humming, turbine or motor type sound that emanates from under the ground. They explain that the sound seems to turn on and off at irregular intervals but that it is distinctive and can be heard from everyone who visits. Our investigators have heard the sound on multiple occasions and it does appear to be coming from under the ground. Each of the regions that the sound has been heard is in an area that accumulates over 50 inches of rainfall annually and is below 4000 feet in elevation. Everyone take a deep breath, we are not saying that this is in anyway associated with the Bigfoot sighting in the area, we are merely reporting an anomaly associated with the region we were investigating. We would be interested in other reports from witnesses who have had the same conditions prevalent in their area. We do know that witnesses in Oregon and California (specifically) have encountered this condition and each of these areas have had significant numbers of Bigfoot sightings. The area where this sound is heard is very remote. There are no businesses, mines or other people anywhere inside of ten miles. It is this remote quality that has our investigators interested in the sound.
In our quest to understand the underground sound we have spoken with biology, seismic and geology experts and they are all at a loss to explain the anomaly. Some bird experts have stated that the sounds may be caused by the wings of an owl or other bird, hmm, only if the owl can fly continuously for 10 hours. It doesn’t appear that the sound is affected by season as witnesses have described the noise in every season of the year in almost all weather conditions. NABS did conduct a literature review of the sound anomaly and did find several notations in “Track Records” going back to the mid 1990’s. People have described a sound similar to what we’ve supplied and all were in remote areas where researchers were investigating a Bigfoot sighting. If you have any additional information about these underground sounds or you are experiencing these sounds on your property, please contact us so we can make an on-site visit. Enjoy the great outdoors!! nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com FAX: 408-356-3324 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Blog #28 North America Bigfoot Search is on target with our implementation plan and communication tools designed to keep the public informed. Our first step was the website followed with several tools inserted on the site. The next phase was developing working partnerships in areas where we are actively in the community. Our first book, “The Hoopa Project” centers on a region in Humboldt County, California. We are centering our current research efforts in a four county region surrounding Humboldt and thus our partnerships are evolving in this area. We are still responding to areas throughout the U.S. but we are pursuing current, active leads in that four county area around Hoopa. This is a fascinating region with great residents who are supporting our efforts. This past week we established several locations in NW California that are carrying our product line. Some locations are carrying shirts/hats, some maps, some trinkets and others books. Please call the location closest to you and see what they have available before making the trip. If you don’t see what you want, tell the proprietors and they have access to anything you need directly through us. We have given many interviews to a variety of radio, newspaper and magazine representatives about “The Hoopa Project.” The reviews have been outstanding and the comments applaud the efforts we’ve made to bring a fresh life to the research surrounding Bigfoot. We are currently utilizing research started in the first book and evolving it into a larger, more diverse region. The results are mind-boggling and the research is personally rewarding. The more we have dug into the historical accounts of hominids described like Bigfoot, the more support exists for its existence. If you are a retail location and would like to enter our partners program, please contact us at nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com, or fax us a request at 408-356-3324. Partnership Locations Carrying NABS Products: Crescent City Blue Fountain Harbor/ Harbor View Grotto Gift Shop 150 Starfish Way, 707-465-5765 Garberville Legends of Bigfoot 2500 U.S. Highway 101, 707-247-3332 Happy Camp Parry’s Market 143 Davis Rd, 530-493-2621 Hiouchi Hiouchi Hamlet-Market 2100 Highway 199, 707-458-3114 Klamath Trees of Mystery 15500 Highway 101 N., 707-482-2251 Mount Shasta Shasta Base Camp 316 Chestnut St, 530-926-2359 Piercy Confusion Hill 75001 Highway 101, 707-925-6450 Willow Creek Willow Creek Museum Highway 299-Downtown Willow Creek, 530-629-2653 Comments or requests are always appreciated: nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com Enjoy the outdoors! NABS _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Blog #27 Minnesota Trip Our team was recently in Northern Minnesota for a second straight summer studying various aspects of the Bigfoot issue. NABS has spent considerable time studying the region in Northwest California and has completed the second round of forensic sketches for the region. We can guarantee that we never would’ve believed the results we have achieved, they are mind-boggling. Harvey Pratt (Our forensic artist) is an unbelievable artist and interviewer. The NABS trip to Minnesota was as much a fact finding tour as a trip to understand any relationships between California and Minnesota sightings. I can tell you that initial findings are showing that there is a correlation regarding the physical features of the hominid. Considering the differences between the two states, topography, weather and food source, this is a stunning finding. More about this in a later issue. The next state that is high on our list to visit is Oklahoma. It is the home of our forensic artist, Harvey Pratt, and it’s home to many Native American Reservations. There does seem to be some relationship between Native Americans and Bigfoot. We are actively researching all the various angles to this relationship and are having results at understanding some issues. We look forward to a visit to Oklahoma late this summer. We have to expeditions on our agenda this summer, northern and southern Siskiyou Wilderness. We have been to both regions several times and this summer we are going with a stronger team, different objectives and will be in an area that a witness has had multiple sightings, should be exciting. We are routinely asked if we’ve seen Bigfoot, the answer is no. Our objective is not to view the creature, we know they exist, our goal is to understand the bigger picture, behavior, food source, areas of frequency, migration, etc. I know many of you may not understand this objective but a thorough understanding of all facets of the creature are more valuable to NABS then a one time, chance encounter of 20 seconds of fleeing Bigfoot. Keep those questions and comments coming. Enjoy the great outdoors. NABS nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Blog #26 The Store Opens!! This is a big day in the history of North America Bigfoot Search. It has been over 12 months in preparation and many more in the planning and idea stage, but our Bigfoot store is now open. We know there will be hitches in the store as there is in any new phase of business operations but expect a quick response and great customer service. We were going to have T-shirts available this week as well but our vendor didn’t get the color correct on our logo so they will not arrive till later next week. We have attempted to offer you a wide variety of materials that will hopefully appease the Bigfoot enthusiast in all of you. In the last two weeks a team has been in northern Minnesota doing follow-up work that was initiated last summer. The region has a history of Bigfoot sightings, some in the middle of winter when it was -30. The area of the sightings are thick, boggy with lots of wildlife. It makes for a very interesting and different environment to study Bigfoot. During the last month we have also been working sightings in the Santa Cruz Mountains between San Jose and Santa Cruz. This region has many big redwood trees, has areas that are quite remote and when you dig deep has a long history of Bigfoot activity. The Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton is a central point where people from the community come and report their sightings and they have a large peg board in their display area that shows sightings from throughout Santa Cruz County. This summer we have trips planned for both the northern and southern portions of the Siskiyou Wilderness. If you have any recommendations, information or merely want to ask a questions, please forward it to: nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com Enjoy the GREAT outdoors. North America Bigfoot Search ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Blog #25/The Bigfoot Store/ When we first started this organization the thought of launching a multi level retail internet store front never entered our mind. We had committed ourselves to researching Bigfoot, documenting our findings and developing a venue/website that was a communication tool between our witnesses, friends and work partners. As we made more and more field contacts we realized that there was a consistent theme being communicated, people liked our organization and they wanted to feel aligned with us. We were routinely asked how they could purchase t-shirts, hats, work shirts and books related to NABS, well, we can only say "no" so many times. By the end of this week you will see major changes to our website as we enter the next phase of our business implementation. We have consistantly listened to your requests by adding specific web pages. The next page we will add will definately be the most cumbersome in implementation, our store front. The Bigfoot Store will include many of the items you have asked for (shirts, hats, stickers, belt buckles and many books). Many of the items we are selling were acquired through the purchase of Ray Crowe's research and inventory. We are not selling items that were given to Ray as gifts, we are only selling items that Ray was selling inside his store. It's been an interesting endeavor as the store has come together. Understanding how every item sold in the store must be ground tracked when sold or the credit agency won't insure the shipment, realizing consequences of sales tax, obtaining a re-sale license and complying with state jurisdictional issues has been complex. Our first book, "The Hoopa Project" has been delivered to NABS. We were very fortunate to receive a limited first printing from Hancock House and we will be the sole source for the book until August 2008. We have a limited supply so don't wait too long to get your first printing copy. The intial feedback has been strong with many commenting on the beautiful color sketches by Harvey Pratt, interesting stories from witnesses and the numerous photos throughout the book. The orange color of the cover is an eye catcher. We'd like to personally thank Theresa Laviolette, a true team player (Editor Hancock House), Ingrid Luters (Developed the Cover and much, much more) and Mia Hancock for her tireless work in putting the photos with the story and laying the book out to perfection. These people do not get adequate recognition for their great work and out goes a huge- THANK YOU-THANK YOU!! Keep your emails and snail mail coming, we respond to everything. North America Bigfoot Search nabigfootsearch@yahoo.com _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Blog #24 The Bigfoot Mapping Project As you probably already know NABS has put a concentrated effort into far Northern portion of California, specifically the region of Del Norte, Siskiyou, Humboldt and Trinity Counties. This is a region that has a long history of Bigfoot sightings/encounters and was a natural place to start out research. Well, the four years produced many fascinating results and one book, “The Hoopa Project”, due out later this year. One of the most amazing men we have met during our research was Al Hodgson, Willow Creek. Al is essentially the Curator of the Bigfoot museum in town and an individual has tremendous integrity and credibility. He is the center post of all Bigfoot activity for the area and is someone we have grown to deeply respect and admire. As we have gotten to mutually know each other, Al communicates with us regularly about the museum and local activity. Approximately 6 months ago Al told us that the museum wanted him to develop a map of all Bigfoot sightings and encounters for the area around Willow Creek. Al told me this in passing and really didn’t make much of the issue. Please remember that Al is a very humble person. Al won’t talk about family medical issues, his tough struggles around his residence or the management issues regarding his property, he keeps a lot inside. As I walked away from one of my meetings with Al I remembered he mentioned the Bigfoot map that the museum wanted him to create. Well, someone needs to do something to assist Al, NABS stepped to the plate. We have always kept a “pin” map of sightings in the four counties identified above and we had never gone public with any of the data, until now. In consultation amongst our group we decided to help Al on a much larger scale. NABS has produced the first Bigfoot Sightings Map of the four Northwestern most California Counties (Humboldt, Del Norte, Siskiyou and Trinity). We have also included the far southern tip of Oregon and smaller portions of Mendocino, Tehama and Shasta Counties. We licensed a driving map from a major car club and then transplanted our sightings/encounters onto the map. 349 different locations are identified and cross-referenced on the backside of the map with a short one or two sentence explanation of the incident. Almost 90 of these locations were developed through NABS and they are cross referenced to either our first book (The Hoopa Project) or to our second book, still untitled. The map hasn’t been released as of yet but it has been reviewed and the initial results are phenomenal. The first copies of the map will go to Al Hodgson and the Museum in Willow Creek, obviously. This is really the center of all Bigfoot activity on the map and it will act as a great center point to start the Bigfoot search for any adventure seekers. The map will be available through our site effective June 5th and at stores and museums across California in the very near future. We would recommend purchasing our book (The Hoopa Project) simultaneously with the map and you can float back and forth understanding the topography, wilderness areas and roads of the area and how this relates to the mapped sightings. 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Bigfoot Blog #23
As many of you now know NABS has purchased all of the research material, Track Records and associated Bigfoot related documents from Ray Crowe. Ray is having medical problems, wants to retire and wanted to ensure his materials went to an organization that would carry on his great work.
Ray spent a large percentage of his life researching this great mammal and much of his research is contained in a newsletter he published and you subscribed, “The Track Record”. Almost every major researcher in the world contributed articles, photos and opinions to the newsletter before the internet was a major player in the distribution of information. Ray’s insight into making formidable contacts, extracting information and following leads was a stellar piece of work. But, Ray wasn’t the best at maintaining a useful database or cataloging information. He was great at keeping almost every letter that anyone ever sent to him. He would get the correspondence, read and probably respond and then put the letter into a box. We have MANY boxes that we still haven’t read threw. I will say that what we have started to catalogue is like finding the “Mother Lode” of Bigfoot information. We’ve found letters from almost every big name in the Bigfoot world, some very amusing, each letter containing an opinion or insight that is unique and valuable.
One of the objectives in purchasing Ray’s work is to make it available to all of our researchers in a quick ready-reference form. We are not so astute as to believe we should re-invent to the Bigfoot wheel. Ray researched many of the angles in the Bigfoot mystery and untangled much of that web. We need to understand what he did, how he did it and how we can benefit from his work and the work of his contributors. I can guarantee that what we have found in just the last week in materials we have started to review have saved ourselves years of research, really! Some of the letters, research papers and general correspondence point to a members of the public that have done great research and are not being recognized, maybe not even contacted. The contributions by way of copied articles, memo’s about older books and Native American stories are priceless. We’ve found some older books that were copied and sent that offer insight into the Native American struggle with Bigfoot that we’ve never seen. Many of you are great researchers!
We probably have another two months to get the project to the point where information is readily available. If any of you know Ray you may want to contact him and wish him the best in his retirement and let him know that he’ll always be a recognized and respected figure in the world of Bigfoot.
Keep those letters and e-mails flowing. You’ve asked some great questions and we appreciate the input.
June 1st is the release date of our first book published by Hancock House. It is a very detailed look at a small area of California where we spent 3 years on site conducting research. A forensic sketch artist personally met with many Bigfoot witnesses and the resulting drawings are riveting. This is the first time that an author, a professional FBI trained sketch artist and eyewitnesses met and jointly documented a story, a sketch and a book. “The Hoopa Project”
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Blog #22- NABS is in the process of a huge transition. We are going from a completely stealthy organization to very public in a matter of 5 weeks. This transition has been almost 4 years in the making and has been carefully orchestrated to follow a specific path. When we originally started our quest to understand Bigfoot we didn't want to be hindered by the opinions of others. We didn't want to be pushed any specific direction in our hunt to find the truth. It would be premature to say that we've solved the Bigfoot equation but it is fair to say that we've taken major steps towards our goal.
NABS will issue a Press Release on Wednesday, April 30 indicating the start of our constructive change. The statement of April 30 will announce a major purchase we've been negotiating for several months and the complete acquisition of a major Bigfoot related assett. One of our goals is to educate the public about the facts behind Bigfoot. If we found that Bigfoot was a complete hoax, we would've announced that, this isn't the case. We will start our process of education with the announcement on Wednesday, it will be something that is good for all Bigfoot researchers, interested members of the public and science in general.
June 1st, the publishers of our first book will be releasing it for sale to the general public. The first 20 copies will be sent government officials as part of the edict in our mission statement to enact legislation. We have agreed in principle with our publisher to aggressively market this book throughout the United States as it will have significant impact on the world of Bigfoot. It will cause turmoil even though the results are based on forensic science. Please keep checking our site for further details. We apologize that we haven't kept our readers updated on a more consistent basis of our progress but we are in the busiest time of our young life. Keep your e-mails flowing, we respond to everyone.
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50 Years of “Bigfoot”
Blog #21
We’ve just been notified that Humboldt County (Calif) is going to celebrate 50 years of the word “Bigfoot”. The word was first coined in 1958 when huge human looking footprints were found in the Six Rivers National Forest in Northern California. Humboldt County is going National with their campaign so start looking for literature on their celebration. We do know that Willow Creek is going to start their summer celebration on June 15 (Sunday) with a Chili Cook off and Bigfoot book signing commemorating the 50 years. You may also want to mark your calendar now for Labor Day weekend in Willow Creek, Humboldt County Calif. They are also going to celebrate 50 Years of Bigfoot with a 3 day celebration that should be the biggest Bigfoot fair, bonanza, conference, etc anywhere in the world. The Bigfoot weekend will include a special speakers section, displays, Bigfoot museum, book signings and more.
As the only organization conducting full time research into Bigfoot there are several aspects to this creature that are confusing and difficult to track. We’ve recently received reports of a Bigfoot type creature in the dessert of Southern California. Many aspects of the sightings parallel typical Bigfoot sightings in the north but the climate, food source and overall atmosphere of this region is polar opposite of the north. It would appear that there are several possible reasons for the sightings and rationale for the creature migrating to this area.
1. The creatures being seen in the dessert are a different species then ones being seen in the north.
2. The creature’s got lost looking for food source and accidentally went into the dessert climate.
3. People are hallucinating.
4. UFO’s dropped the creatures from the sky.
While we don’t think or treat Bigfoot is a joking matter, the issue of UFO’s are something that continually come up. If anyone spends time in the dessert you will notice that there are some very strange aerial phenomena that occur in these regions. Granted, the dessert is a very dark place and our ability to see much more at night is a partial reason for seeing more. Is there any one region of North America where UFO’s are more famous then a dessert environment? While we do not have any evidence that Bigfoot is related to UFO’s it was something that has continually been reported to us by locals and something we needed to place in this blog.
If you read a skeptic’s account on Bigfoot you will read that many witnesses are hallucinating or plainly lying. As someone who has personally interviewed hundreds of Bigfoot witnesses I have no doubt that 99% of the people I’ve met are completely grounded, normal people with 20/20 vision who reported what they saw, period. Bigfoot is not a case of mass hallucination.
Bigfoot has always exhibited superior intellect coupled with amazing athletic feats. The idea that this creature is lost in its search food source is irrational. In 50 years of attempting to obtain better footage of the creature everyone has been unsuccessful. Considering that nearly 1 in every 2 American families has a video camera, it’s amazing that the best footage we have of Bigfoot is from 1967 where two cowboys caught it while on horseback riding through an area where they accidentally saw it. Bigfoot has never been caught, never been captured on film for more then a few minutes and a specimen has never been found. Somewhere, somehow and someplace there are quite a few deceased Bigfoot buried or lying in our forests. This creature is VERY intelligent and it’s not going to be accidentally captured or make a mental mistake any time soon.
The species in the dessert is different then the Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest. The Pacific Northwest is known for being wet, rainy, isolated with a rainforest atmosphere, quite different then the dessert. The physical needs of a creature in the Pacific Northwest are almost opposite then a creature of the dessert. If you carefully read the physical accounts of a dessert Bigfoot versus a Pacific Northwest Bigfoot you will start to notice the differences. These are different species. If you are a casual reader of this article, well, read on and file this away. If you have a serious interest in Bigfoot then start to pay close attention to the physical details in every Bigfoot report you read. The differences are not acute, some are subtle, but, they are there. The differences start with size, hair, facial features, mouth, teeth and regional distribution. We’ll discuss more of this at a later time but felt that many groups don’t discuss this issue yet we feel it is important. Keep an open mind and keep reading.
All comments are appreciated.
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Blog #21
Locals & Bigfoot Sightings
This past week has been one of the best 7-day spans in the history of our organization. Maybe it was the sunshine and everyone was in a great mood or it might be that we were finally able to get into some isolated spots and make much needed contacts.
We recently reviewed 400 Bigfoot sighting reports for a variety of data. One item that became blatantly clear is that a vast majority of the reports were from people VISITING an area, they were tourists. They were obviously shocked to see a Bigfoot and looked for a place to report their incident. There are very few reports from locals who talk about sightings in their neighborhood.
In the last 3+ years we have had an opportunity to visit some of the most remote towns the U.S. has to offer. I personally cannot remember an incident where I wasn’t greeted warmly and offered all the assistance we might have needed. I must also state that there were occasions where locals thought we were nuts, but, they were respectful and helpful.
In the past week I made a several cold contacts and was immediately enveloped by a local community. One storeowner made a few calls and in the following 60 minutes there were a handful of Bigfoot witnesses standing in a small market. The community had been harboring their story and didn’t know which direction to turn or who to trust. Many in the community were retirees and didn’t have computer access and as such didn’t know about us or other Bigfoot organizations. What transpired over the course of the following days were stories that were truly amazing. The trust level amongst the locals and researchers continued to rise until more and more witnesses came forward. The conclusion to this story is that Bigfoot had been visiting this community for over 30 years and little information had ever leaked. Another witness in a community 50 miles away gave us information on this community and explained that people will not “jump” to report but you have to gain their trust. This is not an isolated incident!
In the last several years the above story has repeated itself again and again. The locals are not looking for publicity (they like their isolation and that’s why they live there), they are not getting paid (we don’t do this) and they definitely know what they saw. We do not know of any Bigfoot Organization that proactively contacts local residents and searches for evidence. Granted, we do not go into every community and start asking questions, there must be some valid reason why we are there. We do ask several open-ended non-specific questions that usually open the door into Bigfoot.
The experience we had this week continues to fuel our speculation that there are many more witnesses to Bigfoot then anyone realizes. There is a statement on our site that says there are more reports of Bigfoot sightings in California then Mountain Lions, after this week our comfort level to this statement continue to rise. The public acceptance of Bigfoot continues to increase as series such as “Monster Quest” make it “OK” to believe in a huge, hairy creature roaming the woods. As the public becomes more educated on the creature we believe that the number of sighting reports will continue to rise and researchers will gain vital information.
We acknowledge the great contribution that volunteers have made into Bigfoot research. They walked on ground early in the story that science refused to trek. We are slowly seeing that mainstream science is becoming more involved in Bigfoot research and with this will come research dollars and with that will come answers. Volunteers must have jobs to afford to conduct their weekend missions. Only making contacts in two-day increments greatly reduce anyone’s opportunity of developing synergy. We are very fortunate to have the ability to stay on site and develop trust, integrity and subsequent contacts.
Many of you have made statements regarding our website and the specific lack of sighting reports. This is a decision we made early in our infancy and evolved from information found on other sites. There are several Bigfoot organizations that have great sites that accumulate sighting reports. Almost all of the reports are taken via phone and few witnesses ever have a visit from a volunteer researcher. We do congratulate these sites for their vast accumulation of data!
North America Bigfoot Search has made it a policy that every sighting report that is submitted to our site will get a complete follow-up investigation. We will speak with you on the phone; obtain specific information about the incident and then attempt to find an agreeable time where we can personally meet. In 99% of the sightings reported to this site, we have personally gone to the location and met with the witness. We have found valuable evidence by visiting the location and asking the witness pertinent questions relative to what we discover. We have found that this personal contact has assisted us in gaining community confidence and in determining additional evidence of each sighting.
We are not interested in being another warehouse for Bigfoot reports; there are plenty of those sites. We are committed to being the one location on the web that will distribute factual, professional and timely research information on Bigfoot.
We always appreciate contact with our readers and your comments are always appreciated.
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