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Hi folks, anyone here familiar with Missing 411 and/or David Paulides?
He's a former cop, now an investigative journalist. When he was in a national park, a Park Ranger asked him to look into a Missing Person case, and from there it expanded into a huge, and I mean huge series of disturbing finds. I think there's 4 books he's compiled now.
I can't remember specifically how I first heard about it, but I found a lot of the interviews Paulides has done on Coast To Coast AM with George Noory. To say it's strange is an understatement.
Primarily he focuses on missing persons cases that have happened in United States National Parks. The further he looked into it, he found these clusters around National Parks where people would go missing, either being found dead or never heard from again.
What gets particularly disturbing is the manner in which many of the recovered bodies have been found. For example a toddler goes missing (I can't remember how old, but it's in a couple of the interviews at least), and is then found perhaps a couple days later, a valley over and 1,000 feet elevation difference. Something beyond the physical capabilities of a child that size or age. Edit Having listened to the interview again, Les Stroud (Survivorman) called Paulides, remarking on the case of a 2 year old boy in Oregon, who, over 11 hours, traveled two mountain ranges (valleys) - 9-12 miles - Stroud stated even he didn't think he could do that.
That's just a basic one off the top of my head, but there are numerous other cases, 4 books worth at least.
Perhaps even more unsettling is the response Paulides has been faced with when requesting information from the National Park Service for information on these disappearances. As an investigative journalist he'll request document information through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Request, but is then told he has to pay an exorbitant amount for said documents.
In his interviews Paulides is very reluctant to present any conclusions. He's pretty straightforward with presenting the facts as is. I've never had much of a huge interest in paranormal stuff, but occasionally it does interest me.
With the missing persons aspect of it, and it being particular to National Parks I've found it really intriguing. Thought it would be a good topic for BF.
I'm wondering if there's anyone on the forums here who's familiar with Search and Rescue type work or National Park Services who've heard about any of this.
Here are some of the Youtube links. I hope I'm not stepping on any toes here, but it interests me, and was wondering if anyone else here is too.
I think this is the most recent for Coast to Coast AM - (It starts with him, but really gets to it almost right at 9:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh1yKqsnulY
With the last interview I saw that there's a Kickstarter for a movie they're trying to get off the ground, I think by now it's pretty well funded, but again, if anyone has any interest in it.
He's a former cop, now an investigative journalist. When he was in a national park, a Park Ranger asked him to look into a Missing Person case, and from there it expanded into a huge, and I mean huge series of disturbing finds. I think there's 4 books he's compiled now.
I can't remember specifically how I first heard about it, but I found a lot of the interviews Paulides has done on Coast To Coast AM with George Noory. To say it's strange is an understatement.
Primarily he focuses on missing persons cases that have happened in United States National Parks. The further he looked into it, he found these clusters around National Parks where people would go missing, either being found dead or never heard from again.
What gets particularly disturbing is the manner in which many of the recovered bodies have been found. For example a toddler goes missing (I can't remember how old, but it's in a couple of the interviews at least), and is then found perhaps a couple days later, a valley over and 1,000 feet elevation difference. Something beyond the physical capabilities of a child that size or age. Edit Having listened to the interview again, Les Stroud (Survivorman) called Paulides, remarking on the case of a 2 year old boy in Oregon, who, over 11 hours, traveled two mountain ranges (valleys) - 9-12 miles - Stroud stated even he didn't think he could do that.
That's just a basic one off the top of my head, but there are numerous other cases, 4 books worth at least.
Perhaps even more unsettling is the response Paulides has been faced with when requesting information from the National Park Service for information on these disappearances. As an investigative journalist he'll request document information through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) Request, but is then told he has to pay an exorbitant amount for said documents.
In his interviews Paulides is very reluctant to present any conclusions. He's pretty straightforward with presenting the facts as is. I've never had much of a huge interest in paranormal stuff, but occasionally it does interest me.
With the missing persons aspect of it, and it being particular to National Parks I've found it really intriguing. Thought it would be a good topic for BF.
I'm wondering if there's anyone on the forums here who's familiar with Search and Rescue type work or National Park Services who've heard about any of this.
Here are some of the Youtube links. I hope I'm not stepping on any toes here, but it interests me, and was wondering if anyone else here is too.
I think this is the most recent for Coast to Coast AM - (It starts with him, but really gets to it almost right at 9:45)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh1yKqsnulY
With the last interview I saw that there's a Kickstarter for a movie they're trying to get off the ground, I think by now it's pretty well funded, but again, if anyone has any interest in it.
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