The
Cupertino Courier
(via the
S.J. Mercury News
)
has a story
about a private investigator named David Paulides, who has a book coming out Aug. 1: “The Hoopa Project: Bigfoot Encounters in California.”
Paulides is head of
North American Bigfoot Search
, an outfit devoted full-time to researching our friend. (Even if you absolutely loathe Bigfoot, or Bigfoot news, or both, check out the website to see the poignant painting of Bigfoot as well as a bitchin’ badge.)
Paulides has been full-timin’ on the Bigfoot beat for four years, a healthful portion of that time spent in the Hoopa Valley talking to tribal elders and others. He seems to be a real stickler for credibility: He made every purported Bigfoot-sighting witness sign an affidavit before he and his team would bother to research the sighting. He told the
CC
:
The witnesses appreciated the professionalism.
Meanwhile
, in related Bigfoot news (’tis the season, with the anniversary of Bigfoot’s christening coming up, and we wonder is the
T-S
throwing a party?), someone is trying to
hawk his/her superior Bigfoot researcher skills on ebay
, according to
a post yesterday
on Boing Boing. And, whereas our fellow above, Paulides, approaches his game with an eye for delicacy and detail, and skillful promotion we might add, our “big game hunting outfitter in Wyoming” bluntly states his qualifications, and you can take ’em or leave ’em dammit but just send the money:
With all the stories and rumors surrounding the legend of Bigfoot,I think it is time to have the right person hunting (searching) for the real answers.Most of the Tv shows,books,and articles covering the search for Bigfoot are a joke.Nothing but pure amatuers.Most searches involve people setting up trail cameras,etc.,in stationary settings,this is totally the wrong approach.My methods would be covering lots and lots of territory in very remote country.I have been a big game hunter nearly all of my life and am an experienced big game hunting guide and am currently employed by a big game hunting outfitter in Wyoming.Contact me if you would be interested in funding an expedition that will get results.
Starting bid: $150,000. Alas, bidding ended today. (No bids. Maybe NABS is hiring?)
This article appears in Return to Black Bear.
Bigfoot sightings are now a feature of Google Earth.
We recently sold a copy of “The Hermit of Siskiyou,” a small book published in Crescent City in 1896 that has the earliest known reference to Bigfoot on the North Coast. The book, published by the editor of the Crescent City Record, is an epic poem in rhyming verse. Here’s the relevant section:
You may have heard the story, too,
Of how upon Mount Siskiyou,
Was seen an ape, or spook, or tramp,
In region near to Happy Camp—some years gone by—
That was of stature taller than
The ordinary height of man
Who fed on berries, roots and brouse,
And from whose eye
There gleamed the fierceness of the beast…
Of course, their first thought was to shoot it but it looked too human, and thus began the legend.
i wonder what important community issue was shelved to make room for this stupid, worthless blog entry…
Thank you to Heidi for writing the first post. Bigfoot has been in the Humboldt community for over 200 years. North America Bigfoot Search has been studying the four counties surrounding Hoopa for the last 18 months and the results are still pending. Eureka Books entry regarding “The Hermit of the Siskiyou” is a good starting point for researching Bigfoot and talks about a hunter in the Marble Mountains that observes a creature identical to Bigfoot described in “The Hoopa Project.” The importance of Bigfoot to the scientific community would be immense thus our intensive research into the hominid. We are the only group in the world studying Bigfoot with a full time research team.
when i heard about the most recent Bigfoot sighting it really got my hopes up…