Marzulli Links Elongated Skulls and Bigfoot DNA to Nephilim Research
Posted Saturday, July 11, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So there's this interview floating around YouTube that any serious researcher needs to carve out time for. David Paulides, the man behind the Missing 411 phenomenon, sits down with LA Marzulli, and the conversation goes to some seriously fascinating places. Marzulli isn't just some armchair theorist either. The guy has 13 published books with a 14th on the way, 27 films in his catalog, and a team actively working in the field. That alone makes it worth tuning in.
One of the biggest reveals comes near the end when Marzulli mentions fresh footage coming out of Ohio. He describes what they found there as "absolutely mind-boggling" and says the film should drop early next year. Ohio has been a hotbed of strange activity for years, so anything new coming from that region is bound to get people talking.
But the meat of the conversation centers on the Paracas elongated skulls in Peru and the DNA work Marzulli's team has done. This is where things get really interesting. Marzulli and his lead archaeologist, Mando Gonzalez, traveled to Peru and secured 58 samples from 18 skulls across multiple museums, including the EKA ICA Museum and Senior Wan's Paracus History Museum. What sets their work apart from previous attempts is the contamination protocol. They used 42 different lab suits, changing out of full protective gear, blowing each other off with compressed air, and suiting up fresh for every single skull. Samples were typically taken from the underside of the skull near the foramen magnum, then immediately tagged and bagged.
The results? An overwhelming amount of mitochondrial DNA pointing to the maternal line, with haplogroups tracing back to the Levant, the Druze population, and Eastern Europe. Marzulli makes a compelling point about contamination claims. If everything was contaminated, why didn't they find nuclear DNA? The labs consistently returned U2E1, a haplogroup that simply shouldn't be present in ancient Peruvian remains.
Then there's the foramen magnum discovery, which Marzulli calls the "smoking gun." Rick Woodward, the team's anthropologist, did something nobody had done before. He flipped the skulls over and examined where the spinal column meets the base of the skull. In normal human beings, the foramen magnum sits dead center. In the Paracas skulls, it's pushed all the way back to the occipital plate. If it were any further rearward, it would be outside the skull entirely. Marzulli describes the moment on camera when they examined the iconic Chongo skull at the EKA Museum and confirmed this placement. His reaction, "Oh my gosh, it's all the way in the back," is captured on film.
What does this mean? Marzulli suggests there's an outside force, an outside entity, manipulating the genome. This is where the conversation takes a turn into territory that connects directly to Sasquatch research. Marzulli discusses the Bigfoot DNA project involving Scott and Dr. Ketchum, praising the science while criticizing the ad hominem attacks that researchers face when their findings challenge conventional academic narratives. He makes a solid point. Instead of name-calling, critics should address the actual evidence.
The theological framework Marzulli presents ties everything together through Genesis 3:15 and the Nephilim narrative. He describes a "seed war" between the offspring of the dragon and the offspring of the woman, referencing Gary Steerman's work on this concept. The Nephilim, described as the offspring of watchers (fallen angels) and human women, appear in Genesis 6 as hybrid entities. Marzulli's hypothesis is that the elongated skulls represent remnants of these beings from roughly 3,500 years ago.
For anyone following the Sasquatch research community, this interview hits on themes that keep coming up across different investigations. The idea that these creatures might represent something other than a conventional undiscovered primate species has been floating around for decades. Dr. Ketchum's DNA work suggested human-primate hybrid possibilities, and the physical characteristics reported by witnesses, intelligence, bipedalism, cultural behaviors, don't always line up with what we'd expect from a simple ape species.
Marzulli's work with the Paracas skulls provides some of the most tangible physical evidence for the hybrid theory. The foramen magnum placement alone raises serious questions about how these skulls came to look the way they do. Combined with the mitochondrial DNA results showing Middle Eastern and Eastern European lineages in ancient Peruvian remains, you've got a puzzle that doesn't fit neatly into mainstream archaeology.
The interview is long but worth every minute. Marzulli's passion for the subject comes through clearly, and his willingness to follow evidence wherever it leads, even into territory that makes academic institutions uncomfortable, is refreshing. With new Ohio footage on the horizon and continued DNA research, there's plenty more to look forward to from his team.
Check out the full interview on the Canam Missing Project channel. It's one of those conversations that will have you thinking for days afterward.