Paulides details instances where people have vanished within minutes, never to be seen again, and where bone fragments of victims were found, as if they’d been eaten, yet their clothes had been carefully removed. Clusters of missing people have been identified going as far back as the 1800s. This is not a phenomenon that has been occurring over just a few decades. The Missing 411 research depicts 28 clusters of missing people across the continent, something that has never been exposed before and which shocked researchers. Acknowledging that animal attacks and accidents do occur in the forest, he contends that these disappearances are different because they provide no clues that suggest such prosaic causes.
A tip from a national park ranger led David to begin a three-year plus, 7,000 hour investigation of this phenomenon. The bulk of David’s presentation will be devoted to material from his book, “Missing 411” which deals with the peculiarly large number of anomalous vanishings in our national parks and forests. As a result of his work with NABS, Paulides has written two books, “The Hoopa Project” and “Tribal Bigfoot.” He will be updating us on the results of Bigfoot DNA Project initiated by his group. Over time, NABS team members not only located such evidence, but they networked with five other bigfoot organizations to obtain bigfoot hair samples from around the country, hoping to assemble a detailed genetic profile for the creature. One of the group’s primary goals has been to locate physical evidence, such as hair from a bigfoot, that could be DNA tested in order to prove the biped’s existence scientifically. This privately-funded group, which concerns itself with scientifically proving the existence of the “biped” as they like to call him, is unique because NABS investigators are willing to revisit or stay in various hotspot locales for extended periods of time, pursuing the cases exhaustively. Some had had their own bigfoot encounters.
The seven year old NABS was begun in the Silicon Valley area by a group of technology executives with a pronounced interest in the bigfoot subject. Paulides is the Executive Director of the North American Bigfoot Search (NABS) organization.