By Matthew D. Heines | Encounters USA
The blood in the tent wasn’t the end of the story. It was the beginning.
That unexplained evidence from June 2021 in the Northern Cascades launched one of the most fascinating — and frustrating — investigations of my career: the Cascade Bigfoot Blood Mystery series.
Here’s what happened next.
From Campsite to Experts
Unable to get answers through conventional means, I reached out to people who operate outside the normal channels: remote viewers (including military-grade viewers), a professional psychic, a hypnotist, and a lie detector administrator.
The results were startling.
In Cascade Bigfoot Blood Mystery III: Remote Viewed, the remote viewers and psychic delivered results that pointed in one very unexpected direction: Bigfoot may be connected to alien phenomena.
Then came the science.
In Cascade Bigfoot Blood Mystery IV: Blood Trails, I sat for a full polygraph examination. Every question.
We also explored hypnosis and discussed DNA testing. The blood trails led us deeper into questions about what (or who) left that evidence inside our tent.
The Frustrating Part
Here’s what still bothers me:
The University of California Davis Veterinary Lab showed no real interest in testing the sample. Despite repeated efforts, the mystery was met with shrugs rather than serious scientific curiosity.
A pool of blood (or distinct drops) appears inside a sealed tent in the middle of nowhere. Two men are present. One is a well-known Russian Bigfoot researcher. The other is me. No one was injured. No one saw anything. And the lab that could have helped identify the source… wasn’t interested.
That silence speaks volumes.
Where We Are Now
The blood mystery didn’t just give us one documentary. It gave us an entire series.
This isn’t just a Bigfoot story anymore. It’s a story about evidence that refuses to go away — and institutions that refuse to look at it when it doesn’t fit the expected narrative.
“Be Grateful For It”
The blood in that tent changed everything for me. It launched years of work, new collaborations, and a documentary series that’s still unfolding.
In the end, were Tish Paquette’s words or advice more like a prophecy for the future when she advised me near the end of Cascade Bigfoot Blood Mystery Remote Viewed…
“It’s not about who will see your video that’s important. What’s important is you had contact. Be grateful for that.”
Naturally, the gratitude I have felt from the beginning was to explain who or what did this, how they did it and most of all why. A number of what would be classified as non-conventional methods were employed and they mostly said the same thing…
I did learn one thing in my journeys that is as true as this incredible story.
You can’t solve mysteries inside or outside of the Bigfoot world unless you are willing to look at all the evidence.
Watch the full series:
- Cascade Bigfoot Blood Mystery Trailer
- Part III Remote Viewed Updates
- Part IV Blood Trails (includes the polygraph examination)
Website: encountersusa.com
Matthew Heines is an author and veteran of the US 82nd Airborne Division with over twenty years of experience teaching in the USA, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Sultanate of Oman. Matthew Heines has six books currently in publication titled, My Year in Oman, Another Year in Oman, Killing Time in Saudi Arabia, Deceptions of the Ages, The Rainier Paradigm and Heinessights: Wisdom for the Ages. Currently living near Seattle, in Washington State, Matthew Heines is active in politics and has run, and is currently running for the US House of Representatives.
