>>1410647As someone who has spent a lot of time outdoors and worked with predatory mammals extensively i can guarantee you a lot of these are the work of bears and mountain lions, specifically mountain lions who suffocate their prey and dont tear into them like pinatas. There is rarely sign of a struggle or blood or any telltale signs, they then carry their prey like a ragdoll up trees or cliff faces like nothing and eat in peace. Sometimes they dont even eat what they kill. Others are simply slips trips and falls, exposure, flash floods etc etc etc.
That being said,
there are a few oddball cases that stand out. Mainly the older ones from 1800s or those that involve people being found alive. Especially children who are found "too far" from where they were last seen or people who cant recall or recount what happened to them.
Take it all with a grain of sand though. Paulides goes through great lengths to never say "its bigfoot" but when you listen to him in radio shows and he says "we.dont.know." you really know hes setting up the yokels to say "WELL I DO KNOW! ITS SAMSQUANTCH!"
I mean after all, his first books were about bigfoot iirc.
And his later books are just unadulterated cash grabs and straw grasping. Like the one about people going missing near lakes and rivers. Theres a name for that... what was it.... oh yeah- DROWNING. He went on a radio and actually said "theres a mysterious connection, all these cases include men in their 20s, alchohol and bodies of water" and acted like getting drunk with your bros at the lake or river and then drowning was some sort of great supernatural mystery.
tl;dr there are a FEW head scratchers in there that do sound a lot like bigfoot but thats likey by design while the rest of these are easily explained and perfectly natural
