There is a huge amount of information available about the
Bigfoot mystery; books, documentaries, websites, social media pages etc.
Thousands of people dedicate their lives to searching for it in the wilderness,
including some personal friends of mine. David Paulides' new film is very
original because it breaks the assumption that all Bigfoot encounters are
cryptozoological phenomena, simply the presence of an unknown animal. Paulides is
best known for his investigations into mysterious disappearances of people, the
"Missing 411" works, but he has always had an interest in Bigfoot,
what he calls more often by its Amerindian name Sasquatch. He has always tried to find connections between
different mysteries, such as UFO's and missing people in his previous movie,
see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjVrcpPT1kY.
In this new production he looks for the link between Bigfoot and the paranormal.
I was as surprised as he clearly was when I first found out, but such a
connection definitely exists, at least in some instances. David interviews
numerous people who have seen Bigfoot, but at the same time have seen UFO's,
orbs, and other strange occurrences. Of course, the paranormal happens also in
the absence of Bigfoot, but it's surely not just a coincidence when the two
mysteries independently manifest together so often. I've also talked to people
who have had similar experiences, see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2018/02/deborah-hatswell-and-ben-emlyn-jones.html
and: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-beast-of-lye-valley.html.
What's more a very recurrent phenomenon is when portals appear in the air and
Bigfoots walk out of them, demonstrating a direct link. This happened most
famously at Skinwalker Ranch and David includes an interview in the film with
Colm Kelleher, the leading NIDS researcher into that location. Sometimes
Bigfoots just appear and disappear into think air. He also brings back Ron
Morehead, a hunter who was featured in David's 2019 film Missing 411- The Hunted and whose book I recently reviewed, see: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2026/01/voices-in-wilderness-read-party-review.html.
Strangely enough, another researcher called Adam Davies also encountered a
flying rod of light like Ron did, but this time the phenomenon was far more
dramatic and frightening. David reports that spooky things happened to the crew
while they were making the film. They saw UFO's above the trees and orbs. Sometimes
their equipment inexplicably failed. Along with Bigfoot, sometimes humanoids
are encountered that appear translucent, semi-transparent yet distorted. Witnesses
have compared them to the creature in the film Predator that uses a cloaking device to bypass light rays around
itself and so making itself partly invisible. Jan Maccabee, who also starred in
Missing 411- The Hunted, ran into one
of these; and not in the remote wilderness, in some woods in a town a hundred
yards from her back garden, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTgxm2BBm6E.
The ideas in this film have triggered a controversy in the
Bigfoot research community not unlike the one in UFOlogy between the "nuts
and bolts" vs the "high strangeness" tendencies. In my view
these two models are not mutually exclusive. As with UFO's and ghosts we may be
dealing with more than one phenomenon that we have generically categorized into
a single one by mistake. There's no doubt Bigfoot is a physical being. It
leaves footprints and specimens like hair, and it has DNA. It can be seen,
heard, smelled and even touched. It may well have a higher level of
intelligence than its recognized simian cousins. I think some Bigfoots are genuine
and literal cryptids. There are too many sightings of it without anything else
weird attached; but there is an adjacent phenomenon that resembles it, but is
actually not it. It comes under what Jonathan Downes (the go-to author on this
subject I think) called "zooform phenomena". Such beings are a bit
like the cases of aliens that look very human, sometimes indistinguishable from
ordinary people, but are in fact not human nor from the earth. I've noticed
another parallel with UFOlogy, government conspiracies to suppress public knowledge,
for example see: https://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.com/2022/11/keeping-bigfoot-secret.html.
If there is an overlap between this mysterious creature and aliens then that
could be a reason why. Representative Tim Burchett is featured as well, and he
is currently best known for his stance on ending UAP secrecy. He makes the same
point very perceptively. American
Sasquatch is well worth a watch, whether you agree or disagree. Even
skeptics might like it because at the start it appears to debunk a very famous
recent piece of Bigfoot footage. You can get in on Amazon. Its rental price in
only about two thirds of the purchase fee, so you might as well buy it. Like
all movies, you can get more out of it by watching it more than once.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo.blogspot.com/2022/11/cryptozoology-portal.html.






