Bigfoot Book Review: "Missing 411,Eastern United States"

Emotion-Based Review: Oh, my God! This dude has hundreds of examples of Bigfoot kidnapping and murdering people, even babies !
Can you freaking believe that? Slam Bam! I'm never going near the woods again! Talk about sharks? They're nothing compared to Sasquatch!
Knowledge-Based Review: All the above is true, but my emotions will be stronger and richer if I read the book, absorb some of the information and think before I emote.
 Many of David Paulides' examples are old, and if they are true, they represent Bigfoot learing about a new phenomenon: the European armed with a gun instead of an Asian with a primitve bow and arrow or a spear. Bigfoot, like the moose and the elephant in Africa has learned that the result of his charging a human could result in his grievous injury or his death. Consequently, he as a species, has gradually become less likely to charge or even expose himself to man over 400 years.
 On pages 49-50 there is an account of a Mrs. Herman Belgrin in 1910 living in McMillan, Wisconsin seeing a huge black bear carrying off her son. She chased the "bear" three blocks before he encountered a wire fence and dropped the two-year old baby. He was unhurt. Bears don't pick up animals without first attacking them. They carry creatures by using their teeth. A baby picked up and carried three blocks by a bear wouldn't be unhurt. Paulides won't say it, and this creates tension on the macro-level of the book, but it is obvious that Bigfoot is involved.
 Two-year old Kate Flynn in Wallaha, Michigan in 1869 went missing. Searchers jumped a huge "bear" that jumped into a river  (Bigfoot's transportation system) and disappeared on the other side. Kate was found by the river. She told her father that she had been playing and a big "dog" walked up to her, held out its paw, she took it, and the two walked away into the woods. The dog left her for a while and then returned with berries which they shared. Then the creature scraped up leaves and spread them around her. Finally, the dog lay down next to her and covered her with his body to keep her warm. I'd like to have that breed of dog! I could probably teach him to clean house and go to work.
 Edward Woefle, 15 years old, in Boulder Junction, Wisconsin went out to set seven wolf traps. The experienced trapper carried a pistol and a shotgun, perfect self-defense tools for close range protection. He never returned home. "Footprints" were discovered, but the bloodhounds refused to follow them. I have read only of a few dogs who were not terrified of Bigfoot. The local sheriff ended the search incredibly stating that he thought the boy had gone to Alaska. Guess that got the monkey off his back. To be continued  Pete Nickerson, 352-359-0850 If you live in the Gainesville, Florida area, please call me if you want to share gas expenses and Bigfoot hunt in Ocala National Forest with me.