I recently read Paulides' second book, Tribal Bigfoot, which is the follow-up to the Hoopa Project (haven't read that one) both of which were investigations into the Bigfoot phenomena, in particular major hot spots in and around the area of the Hoopa Native Reserve and surrounding areas in Northern California. The famous
Patterson-Gimlin footage is from the same area in Bluff Creek and Paulides travelled all along the area. It's a fascinating book that follows the same methodology and style of his later Missing 411 series, just the facts and information with a few theories, and he really gained the trust and acceptance of the people who live in these small and remote communities who have seen and experienced a lot more than what they are normally willing to talk about, let alone with their neighbours for fear of being labelled a quack. But because of Paulides professionalism and sincerity in investigating, people opened up to him about it and he brought along a professional sketch artist to that fills the book with accurate depictions of what they actually saw, up close and personal.
And what they saw, as Paulides notes several times, looks very human-like in their facial features. The accounts are way too numerous and unusual to put in a post but suffice to say they range all the way from driving down the highway and coming into contact with one to some very strange and unusual circumstances either out in the wilderness while hunting, near and around their properties, Bigfoot coming up to people's houses, articles and accounts from the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. In some instances, seeing UFO's in the area, hearing strange metallic or humming sounds deep in the woods or coming from underground which was noted by some people who had multiple sightings around their property rather than one chance encounter.
Paulides really does his best to hone in on common patterns of sightings and came to the conclusion that an average elevation of 2400 feet seems to be the middle ground for sightings to occur and especially around ridges as he believes they like to perch up there which allows them to quickly move down if they want to head off any potential prey. A lot of the sightings by people are because their properties are close to or connected to rivers or game trails that BF uses regularly to travel and hunt through.
They definitely know and understand all about human surveillance technology. One woman who lived near a game trail had multiple sightings at her home where Bigfoot were hanging around and once even came up to her window and stared at her while she slept. She woke up because of a horrid smell and saw it looking right at her. Dave Paulides suggested she set up a motion-detector camera on her property as it seems to keep them at bay, and after that never saw or heard anything afterwards.
Different people give different impressions and vibes from what they saw. Some people said they felt relaxed and totally fine with the encounter. That it was benign with no sense of danger involved and that they were being playful or curious in some way. Others said the forest and surrounding area would go completely quiet with no sound whatsoever and that they were overcome with a feeling of dread, being watched, and wanted to get into their home and lock the door. From the encounters described in the book, I tend to think the dangerous situations were probably all adult males, and the more benign encounters were adolescents and females.
One strange encounter was a man who went hunting with his friends and he stayed behind at the camp site while his friends went off for the day. They had goats for carrying gear that were tied up, and he went off to do a little hiking only to hear the goat off in the distance and thought it had chewed through its rope and escaped. All of a sudden the 'bahs' were followed by deep gutteral screams and then a gibberish language he couldn't make sense of. Finally, it sounded as if someone was saying 'hey, hey' to him and then everything in the woods went totally quiet. He was terrified, wishing he had a bigger gun with him and made his way back to camp only to find the goat still there and that whatever it was mimicked perfectly the sound of other creatures and people. In another incident, one person described seeing a full-grown buck beside a BF as if it were in a daze and hypnotized and Paulides theorizes that they might be able to release some sort of pheromone (or have some extra-density ability) to immobilize their prey.
NABS has collected hair samples and sent them to laboratories to get tested and it seems there's some kind of inhibitor or blocker in the hair that doesn't allow them to extract the DNA properly. Another interesting thing to note is that a lot of people said that whatever they saw looked far more human-like than what appeared in the famous Patterson-Gimlin footage and that Native Americans believe they are trans-dimensional and can change their appearance based on what they want someone to see. So very much in line with what The Cs said about them being bi-density.
