David Paulides tells supporters to stand tall, results from Bigfoot DNA study will come

David Paulides, the leader of the organization that started the Bigfoot DNA project likes to send out messages from his blog periodically. On Blog #110, he tells supporters to disregard attacks, and ignore the disinformation coming from other Bigfoot research groups.

"This bigfoot world is an amazing place with equally amazing people. As the leader of the organization that started the Bigfoot DNA project, the organization that has supplied the most specimens and the person who is sitting on the sidelines watching statements made about our supposed results, I am highly disappointed in some people, people that asked to join the project, people who were embraced and given opportunity and specified access," wrote Paulides.

Frustrated with one blogger's attack on Dr. Melba Ketchum ethics, Paulides was forces to make a rebuttal and posted a snippet from the actual NDA form all participants agreed to sign:

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The photocopy above was in response to this comment by the blogger (a woman we're unable to link to):

"I am not a fan of Melba Ketchum because I find her NDA's unethical. She is being paid to conduct DNA testing and that does not give her ownership of the samples."

Paulides wrote in his response:

"Dr. Ketchum does give her ownership of the samples. This is 100% false, see the attached. I have placed a photo of the first paragraph of everyone's NDA in the DNA Project. EVERYONE owns their samples, from cradle to grave, this never changes. Dr. Ketchum never claims ownership of the samples and has never asked. After the tests are completed, the supplier of the sample still owns the sample."

You have to respect David Paulides for putting up with all the rhetoric coming from those in the Bigfoot community or the "old guard" is what he calls them. "The old guard in the bigfoot world has lived in their penthouse for many years. They haven't been questioned and their beliefs have been held as gospel for decades," he wrote. His group (NABS) has been working on this study for 3+ years, and he tells his supporters and those involved to stand tall and not to respond to the critics and naysayers and not to lower themselves to their level.

Here's the rallying cry he wrote to his supporters:

Blog #110 Stand Tall

We’ve received dozens of emails questioning the DNA study, attacks leveled at DNA researchers and the constant diatribe by bigfoot bloggers. These attacks were expected from the same segment of our world that has a long history of attacks when the victim has information that cast a shadow on their hypothesis, emailers don’t fret.

The bigfoot/sasquatch world has been trapped in a 1960’s mentality for almost 50 years. The last great photos or footage of the biped was in 1967 and no group has made a substantial push to scientifically validate the biped, at least publicly.

NABS purchased the research of Ray Crowe when he retired. Ray had extensive information on a variety of topics, most people ignored or put no credence. NABS knew that Ray had a gold mine of information in a newsletter he published, “The Track record.” Every month for 17 years Ray wrote the newsletter and distributed it across North America (TrackRecord). Prior to purchasing Ray’s research, NABS had read ALL of the Track Records and knew exactly what we were getting. We understood that people had difficulty accessing specific information in the Track Record because there was no index. NABS spent almost a year indexing the Track Record and scanning it into a CD format, 3000 pages of documents on many unusual anomalies. We use the Track Record index on a daily basis because of the value of the reports Ray wrote.

The information in the Track Record assisted in giving NABS direction in our research. Ray wrote many credible articles about Native American beliefs and how they related to a variety of crypto topics. A question we routinely ask ourselves is why the old guard of the bigfoot research world completely discounted the Native American and Native Canadian beliefs about bigfoot/sasquatch? It seems this old guard went completely Ape and discounted any idea that the biped could have a predominant human dimension. This old guard wrote countless books proclaiming the biped was an ape or gorilla and still make presentations pushing that hypothesis.

During the review of the Track Record, it quickly became obvious to us that somewhere or somehow the old guard either didn’t read, didn’t research or put no credibility in the Native Canadian or Native American belief and history with the biped. They decided to push their own belief system and attempt to squash, humiliate, embarrass or bully any other researcher with a contrary view (As is being seen today with the DNA study).

During the last decade there have been several DNA tests done by a variety of people, some with the ape hypothesis. ALL of the studies have shown a more human genetic profile for the biped then anything close to ape or gorilla. The interesting part of this story is that each incident stops short of a complete genome series being completed, quite odd. Considering that some of the ape theorists are scientists and understand DNA testing, but they want us to believe that they never completed the process to understand the genetic alignment. NABS believes that genetic testing has been completed by at least one of these scientists and they didn’t like the results, it didn’t fit his hypothesis and the results were concealed from public view.

When NABS started to walk the path for DNA testing we knew we’d need specimens. We initially thought that this must be a very formidable task since no other bigfoot research group had been successful even with LARGE funding from a benefactor. NABS had a series of meetings with researchers, most not known to you, we developed a theory of how to subtly take hair off the biped without causing injury and to continue to take their hair without them knowing it was occurring, it worked. It has worked dozens of times in several states across North America. Our system involved getting the root with the hair, as a bigfoot hair without a root is useless for DNA extraction.

Dr. Ketchum was working on extracting DNA (bigfoot_dna) from our hairs when we started to realize that we would like a wider swath of genetic history from more states and provinces. Dr Ketchum and Dave Paulides went on George Knapp’s Coast-to-Coast radio show and made a public plea for more bigfoot hair, oh we hit gold. People understood we were mounting a serious effort and they contributed, other bigfoot research groups and individuals that had been rebuffed in the past by other groups all contributed validated bigfoot hair.

This study has been a lesson in understanding and compassion for people who had a belief. A few of the participants were labeled by other groups as not credible (Yes, the people who believe bigfoot is an ape), yet it was these people that gave us great specimens and specific insight into bigfoot behavior that we can guarantee is factual and valuable to our research. Many of these people have been in the background for too long and their views have been ignored, that will hopefully soon change if the study supports their beliefs.

NABS has told many supporters not to respond to the critics and naysayers and not to lower themselves to their level. In a yelling match the person screaming the loudest looks like the fool, not the person who calmly and quietly attempts to speak their mind. Trust me, the critics will get louder and more vocal as their perceived expertise is threatened and their income stream comes to an end. We knew the attacks would happen and will continue to happen as long as the public gives them a podium in which to spout.

The DNA project will not be the final project for NABS. We are 80% completed with a parallel study on bigfoot/sasquatch behavior that will cripple the belief system of many of the researchers in the ape arena. This has been a three+ year study that has revealed astonishing data that nobody has ever touched. We have never been an organization to put forth hollow promises and this will be another valuable piece to the bigfoot/sasquatch puzzle.

There are so many pieces to the bigfoot/sasquatch puzzle that few are addressing. We aren’t sure what supposed “professional” bigfoot researchers have been doing in the last 50 years as they haven’t met a scientific criteria for acknowledgement of the biped and aren’t sure why this hasn’t been pursued, or has it and you haven’t been told? We are speaking of the researchers that have been supported through documentaries, funding from other wealthy researchers (Yes, there is one very wealthy researcher that has been building his base by paying others) and sales of their own products.

NABS has received several inquiries from visitors about why we haven’t done a documentary or TV series. We won’t participate in an effort where we don’t have editorial authority over the final product. We won’t allow our research to be manipulated or edited to the point of bending the truth. We won’t enter into a contract where the audience is taken into the woods and the effort doesn’t produce an educational experience for the viewer and researcher. There are too many shows where the audience is manipulated, lied to and there is NO RESEARCH occurring on screen, we won’t be a party to this type of production and we won’t allow this topic to be used as humor. How can we make these promises, because we know we can continually produce an educational experience based on specific locations we are studying.

We need to stand together, proud and professional as the DNA study gets closer to being released. The result of the study is the star of the show, not the researchers. We cannot fall into factions and start to lose sight of our efforts and goal. Adversaries want us to fight, want us to fall apart and appear to the public to be bottom feeders and uneducated crypto creeps, don’t bite. The vast majority of the public doesn’t read or visit the websites that are in the business of causing turmoil, don’t worry. We sincerely appreciate the hundreds of emails supporting this effort!