The Hoopa Project: Bigfoot Encounters in California
by David Paulides
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Author: David PaulidesIllustrator: Harvey Pratt
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-31
ISBN: 0888396538
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Hancock House
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Book Review: Great sketches of a mythical being, not so great investigating
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a huge fan of all things Bigfoot. Movies, books, cast replicas of famous tracks, etc. I've always been frustrated by the lack of good sketches that accompany most reports. Either the witness can't draw for squat, or a subsequent investigator tries to replicate it without directly discussing it with the witness, or (most frequently) there's simply no sketch at all. That's why this book ROCKS!
Sketches abound! Some look like homeless guys with bald heads and beards, a few look like Harry from 'Harry and the Hendersons,' most look like surly bikers wearing furry vests. All are fascinating to look at. Do I believe these witnesses saw what is portrayed in the sketches? Not really. Do I think it's cool that someone's finally drawing Bigfeet in an honest attempt to capture what people IMAGINE them to look like? Hell yeah! Just like everyone has their own take on what Jason Voorhees or Godzilla looks like, this book shows that everyone has their own impression of Bigfoot. For the sketches alone, the book is more than worth the price.
*******BE WARNED! In at least one example, a SINGLE sketch is attributed to 3 DIFFERENT witnesses on 3 different pages. While this is no doubt due to a publishing error, an editor should really have caught this and the numerous typos that pepper the text.*******
For Bigfoot enthusiasts, this book will definitely force them to reconsider the now 50 year old theory that giant, Asian, Pleistocene apes are the root of the legend. After all, if eyewitness reports are credible (as enthusiasts believe), then Bigfoot's essentially a tall, hairy Homo sapiens complete with prominent nose and lack of heavy brow ridges. Of course, if all these eyewitnesses, living in such a small geographic area are credible..WHY NO PHOTOS? The obvious answer is that you can't photograph a legend.
As for the "investigation" part...well, the author's self-proclaimed expertise as a police investigator are surprisingly slip-shod. For example, he first states that the Patterson film was shot on 35 mm film (it was in fact 16 mm), then later in the same paragraph states that it was on tape (it was on movie film, not tape). In another example, he somehow associates a small fire started on the banks of a stream with Bigfoot (!) even though he admits there's no footprints or any other indication of the creature's presence. The author blindly accepts various peoples' tales of vandalism and half-remembered "sightings" as if they were gospel. Most surprisingly, he seems completely unaware that the first "full body" sketch of a male Bigfoot is essentially identical to a sketch made by Roger Patterson in 1966, to the point where it looks almost like an exact mirror image. Clearly the "eyewitness" who described the alleged Bigfoot was remembering seeing Patterson's sketch. To the credit of the forensic artist, he seems to have captured the description perfectly. To the discredit of the "investigator" and author, he never even bothered to check out the back-stories of the "witnesses" or compare their "sightings" to well-documented images that are widely available. Is this really how police investigators work? If so, it's incredibly scary. Scarier by far than the prospect of 8 ft tall nudist bikers lurking in the woods and pulling down clotheslines or throwing pumkins at car windshields. I got the distinct impression that the author wasn't really after the truth, but wanted to pass off a series of tall tales as somehow being valid (the business about signing affidavits was amusing since John Green did the same thing in the '60s). It's all very much like a 'mockumentary.'
For a fan of Ghost Stories, monsters, and legends in the making, this book is a welcome change from the tired rehash of other Bigfoot books that endlessly talk about footprints, fossils, and theories. It's a fun collection of campfire stories and cool sketches that are a great way to spend a few hours here and there. For a sociologist or someone interested in cultural beliefs and myths, this book is probably a wealth of information/
Summary of The Hoopa Project: Bigfoot Encounters in California
David Paulides, a former police investigator, has applied his skills to questioning Bigfoot witnesses. The results he has achieved in gaining access to witnesses and getting detailed information from them is both remarkable and intriguing. A commissioned forensic police artist meet with witnesses and sketch the creatures as they saw them. These drawings provide insights into the creature's nature never realized before. On October 2, 1958, Jerry Crew, a road construction worker, found unusual, large human-like footprints near his bulldozer, in a road under construction, near Bluff Cree in Northern California. He had seeing same type of footprint before, but this time he made a plaster cast to preserve the evidence, and reported the findings to a local newspaper, referring to the creature that made them as Bigfoot.The Newspaper story was picked up by the Associate Press wires and the word "Bigfoot" became the common name for the large creature in the United States of America.
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