100 Bigfoot Nights: A Chilling True Story

As a note:First: I have not yet read Book 2, but it is the next in line on my list to read.Second: I believe in Bigfoot, so do not misunderstand my comments here as being a naysayer.I think this woman is suffering from PTSD. I don't know from what, or why or when it started. But, I believe she had something happen in her life that set her off. She comes off in this book as obsessive and over fearful. She jumps to an overwhelming amount of conclusions and seems to have only one thing in her mind that any shape, shadow, movement, noise, whisper, etc...could be. She thinks everything is Bigfoot.This first book is full of coincidental evidence. I will agree that some of the audio is interesting, but most of it is filled with white noise and unrecognizable sounds. The thing calling "mommy" - I wonder if a neighbor has a dog named "Mommy" that is out calling it. Being in this sort of area, it is not uncommon for people to let their pets out without a leash for a few minutes to go to the bathroom then call them to come back in. I do it with my dog in the middle of the night all the time. The fact that this was repeated makes it even more likely that it was a neighbor out calling their pet back in.Now, for the main parts of this...She repeatedly talks in the book about how dangerous these animals are, how much of a threat they are. Yet, nowhere in the book does she give any situation that says these creatures are posing an immediate and imminent threat. From the book, it appears if they are there, that they are merely observing and moving around their territory when they can freely do it without being impeded by people. This tract of housing was undoubtedly put into an area that was previously forest. Maybe they are in the area that was originally their area and they have yet to leave. There was little evidence provided in the book that these creatures approached humans directly. One evidence to this is the time when Mr. Hill spent the night in the forest and having nothing happen. I've heard the woman on "Bigfoot Chronicles" and she talked about this house being in shambles when they bought it, pointing to the idea that she believes all the damage to the house was caused by the Bigfoots while it was abandoned. If they were aggressive, angry and spiteful, they would have reacted by forcing the family from the home after they moved in because of taking over the Bigfoots area. But, the Bigfoots didn't. Other than moving around the neighborhood in the dark, they made no blatant threats or aggressive moves toward the family.I fully agree that these creatures are wild animals and will attack in defense or when provoked. But, from most encounters that I hear, these creatures tend to leave people alone. I think as long as you go about your business and have respect for them and the other animals in the forest, you will come out well enough alone.Mrs. Parker stated many times in the book where she was in a compromising position. If they wanted her, they could have had her. For example: when she or others would get out of the car at night on the forest side, or - when the neighbor went into the woods looking for the cat, or - when she was near the edge of the ravine in the snow, believing there were Bigfoots under the brush beneath her, or - when her son saw them in the entrance to the forest after checking the car light. These things had plenty of opportunities to take their vengeance against the humans. Yet, they kept their distance and merely observed.She talked about her dogs being provoked by Bigfoot. There are accounts of these creatures swiftly ending the lives of many four-legged creatures. If they wanted to hurt her dogs, they could have (if they were really there). When I go walking at night, I can't stand dogs barking at me when I pose no threat. Sometimes I will egg them on, for no other reason than they piss me off and I am hoping the owners get in trouble for keeping a loud dog in their yard at night. The evidence in this book tells me the Bigfoot was egging the dogs on. These creatures are like many creatures, and are easily amused.Overall, I think this area may have activity, but I believe much of what is provided in this book was in the author's head.Note to Mrs. Parker: I feel for you. I know what it is like to be brought into a topic so abruptly that your imagination takes hold and all you can see is what you fear, even if it is irrational. I hope that you can recover from your ordeal and go on to live a happy life with your family. I really mean none of my review as a personal attack or to demean you in any way, even if it comes out that way. I believe you are a sweet woman that does the best you can for your family. Even though I believe in Bigfoot, my review here is merely meant to be an unbiased review of your book. I fear Mr. Hill may have some of these beliefs himself judging by the way you described his handling of some of the contact you had with him.

I really have to give this book five stars, because the subject matter is so compelling, and the author does such a great job of relating her numerous personal encounters with the mysterious hirsute bipedal forest dwellers that frequent the heavily wooded area just across the street from her home. But in all honesty, the writing style is really nothing to get overly excited about.There are also the usual bevy of eBook spelling and syntactic errors to overlook, of course, but overall, this first volume of Christine Dela Parker's 100 Bigfoot Nights is a delightfully chilling true tale of contemporary suburban terror. Actually, there's more of a undercurrent of ongoing and really quite palpable high anxiety running throughout the narrative than anything resembling actual terror (since there are very few face to face encounters with the creatures, and most of the "action" takes place indoors, with the author crouched behind a night vision scope), but that really doesn't detract all that much from the fantastic details related in the book.And given the author's predicament, and all her fretting about the quite possibly very real boogie men that haunt both her neighborhood and psyche, both day and night, all her obsessive angst on the subject is certainly perfectly understandable. I mean, how would YOU feel if you suddenly realized one day, that there really ARE unclassified giant hairy primate species roaming around in North America (and other places around the world)? And they're not just the usual CGI crafted Hollywood creations that populate the latest monster movie either!Forget lions, tigers and bears! Sasquatches and Dog Men! Oh my!Of course, after reading the very last page, I simply had to immediately buy the follow-up book in the series (after being oh so vigorously prompted to do so at the end of the book, no less). Which... made me feel more than just a little strung along, actually. 'Cause, like... couldn't she just have made the book longer, instead of going the painfully, obviously commercial multiple volume route? Hmm... But then this whole 'increase the fledgling author's earnings by kicking out micro book after micro book' approach has really started to become a pretty typical scenario in the eBook publishing industry nowadays, has it not? I mean, if you can generate enough interest to sell one book or movie to the public, then by all means, why not serialize your efforts for maximum profits, right? Ah, the wonders of capitalism! And make no mistake: Bigfoot sells, baby!Okay, okay. To be fair, if 100 Bigfoot Nights wasn't such a fun and fascinating foray into the fog enshrouded unknown, there's no way I'd have fallen for all of the above, now would I? But never mind all that! The real question is, did I learn a lot from this book? Does 100 Bigfoot Nights add significantly to this particular field of paranormal/scientific research? Actually... no. Nah. It really doesn't. But it sure is fun to read! And until we have definitive proof that the Bigfoot species really does exist, isn't the fear and fun factor all that really matters anyway?So I guess I really must highly recommend 100 Bigfoot Nights to anyone even remotely interested in the Bigfoot phenomenon. Seriously. 'Cause it's a pretty neat little book, after all. Just be sure to watch out for the hard sell tactics at the very end. And don't expect to see much more hard evidence presented than the usual Sasquatch footprint photos, and other assorted more or less blurry imagery (that doesn't even so much as show a composite sketch of what the author claims to have so often seen firsthand).But hey! The book features plenty of bonus links to audio recordings that purportedly feature the real sounds made by all those real (but frightening and pesky) Sasquatches. None of these extras are particularly earth shattering or groundbreaking in and of themselves, but the author would certainly have been remiss if she hadn't included them, of course. So then, who's complaining? Not me! In fact, I can't wait to find out what happens in the next volume. Which means I really must be sold on Christine Dela Parker's 100 Bigfoot Nights writing project, I guess. Hopefully, that's not necessarily a bad thing at all. One thing's for sure though; if even half of what she reports in her books is true, then this is a story that really should continue to be told. So the truth really is out there, folks. And so are those pesky Bigfoot creatures, apparently. So beware!

An interesting read with some good video evidence

A great read. Kept my interest all the way through.

good

An interesting account which part of me wants to believe and part of me doesn't! I find it hard to imagine that so many Bigfoot would be in that one area of forest without the entire neighborhood knowing about them. In fact who would want to live there if such a creature existed? And there are daytime and nighttime Bigfoot creatures? Why hasn't it made big time in the media and some attempt made to capture one? Interesting but lots of questions to be answered!

A great read - couldn't put it down - but leaves to many questions unanswered. If we are to believe that this is fact rather than fiction then more evidence is required. I feel sorry for this poor woman's family she bordered on obsessive in her search. Would make a great film though someone should get Spielberg to read it.