Missing 411-Western United States & Canada: Unexplained disappearances of North Americans that have never been solved: Volume 1

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Paulides' books publicized the fact that the US National Park Service does not keep an independent list of people that go missing in their parks. [6] While there is a database for incident and criminal reports, it is not widely or consistently used and it doesn't interface with other criminal databases. [6] In response, a petition was created to make the department accountable. [17] Paulides, David (2014). Missing 411 The Devil's in the Detail. North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace. p.xiii. ISBN 978-1495246425.

Some say that the vast size of the lake makes it easy for people to get lost and never be found. Others believe that there are underwater caves or tunnels that lead to other parts of the world and that people who enter them are never seen again. This is perhaps the main area in which I would like Dave to release tables with exact percentages of just how common various traits among the missing people are, as the first step that needs to be taken in any serious study is to compare the composition of Dave’s sample with the standard distributions of variables in the normal demographics of the involved states or countries. Without that, we simply don’t know if any of it is significant. If these coincidences seem pedestrian or contrived to you, brace yourself. In the case Elisa Lam’s death, around the time of her death, NIH was using a test called LAM-ELISA in the area to deal with a tuberculosis outbreak. Not only that, the details of her death, especially how she was found dead in a water tank on the roof of a hotel, mirrored the plot of a Japanese horror movie called Dark Water from 2002, remade in 2005 (Elisa died in 2013). Sure, random things happen, even extremely unlikely things. How often you run into people with the same first name or surname as you is a function of how rare it is. When a Smith family runs into a Smith family, it’s probably no big deal. When Paulides runs into a Pavlides when on one of these cases, a thing that has never happened to him before or since and which doesn’t have to happen over an entire lifetime at all, that counts as a bit odd.a b c d Emerson, Sarah (October 29, 2017). "How America's National Parks Became Hotbeds of Paranormal Activity". www.vice.com. Archived from the original on November 12, 2020 . Retrieved July 5, 2021. Brown, Diana (September 26, 2017). "Hundreds Have Vanished from National Parks. Is Bigfoot to Blame?". HowStuffWorks. Archived from the original on November 30, 2018 . Retrieved November 29, 2018. Paulides, David (2011). Missing 411. Western United States & Canada: unexplained disappearances of North Americans that have never been solved. North Charleston, South Carolina. ISBN 978-1-4662-1629-7. OCLC 793231911. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link)

The books publicized the fact that the National Park Service does not keep a comprehensive list of people who go missing in parks and although there’s a database for criminal and incident reports, it’s underutilized and doesn’t interface with other criminal databases. Even if the name was selected purely on the basis of bad feelings, it may indicate that dangerous terrain, gases, radiation, or infrasound can be found in the area. Something that could be invisible and undetectable without very specific instruments, but nevertheless entirely normal and real. And even if the name is just related to the remoteness, more remote and hard-to-get areas would mean the most difficult search environments. These coincidences may of course ultimately mean nothing, or they can have nothing to do with what caused the disappearance or death even if they by themselves are more than just a fluke of random chance. But I myself am very interested in what could be called the science of coincidence, so let’s talk about what coincidences may mean for a bit. With the emphasis on “may”. Unusually high percentage of subjects being male, very young, college-age, or old, with some kind of apparent or hidden injury or disability, or with exceptionally high or low intelligence (including specifically academically accomplished people like physicists or physicians, very physically fit people like runners, athletes, or soldiers, or people connected to religion or Germany) As of 2021, there are two documentary films about the Missing 411 phenomenon: The Lost Kids and The vanishing.

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The first books containing the mention of an idea or theory are always valuable. Conspiracy theory books like the Missing 411 books often get many spinoffs once they become popular. Dave may not be the best scientist or statistician, he may have lied or cheated in his life at least once or twice, and he was trying to find evidence for the existence of Bigfoot (plural) before he was approached to look into missing people in national parks. Does any of that mean that you should dismiss the evidence that he’s bringing forward? No, the evidence is the only thing that matters. He’s not putting forward his theories in the books, only data.

You can also search for missing persons yourself, or provide information to law enforcement if you think you may have seen the missing person.

From that point of view, this profile point should always be analyzed together with other variables. If a criminal group with the same unusual means and methods of abducting people in a forest setting is taking advantage of bad weather to kidnap and do god knows what with people in the same unusual ways, then the bad weather compromising searches should correlate more often with cases that contain other unusual elements to them than with normal cases of people going missing in a forest. The religion and military connection may also be connected to a specific cultural grudge, but what they imply to me is that maybe any targeting would be more of an issue of neurology rather than genetics. Especially since weird perception and memory issues are common among the Missing 411 cases. If there is someone out there with some kind of tech doing this, the tech clearly should involve remote brain or full-body scan capability (to ascertain hidden health issues or intelligence), perception altering, and memory editing. And even if the issue was some natural phenomenon, state of mind or mentality can affect awareness and behavioral responses.

The vastness of Alaska’s rural areas makes it difficult to search for missing persons, and the cold climate means that bodies are not as likely to be found. At the same time, if we ignore abject cruelty, when some major injuries were identified as the cause of death, those might have been done to cover up an invasive medical procedure. For example, the cases in which the missing died of major head trauma, of what was described as a possible propeller strike, even through a helmet or when there was no height to fall from hard enough. These could have involved a more invasive examination or procedure focused on the brain, and while they fortunately seem rare, especially to the extreme of cow mutilations, there are such cases. Which makes you think what could have happened to those who were not returned.According to Paulides, every person should be found, especially if they are a small child or if they’re mentally or physically disabled and therefore presumably unable to travel long distances. Paulides also keeps mentioning that he doesn’t question the thoroughness of the searches or the dedication and skill of the searchers, or effectiveness of canines or helicopters with FLIR. And sure, tests have to be named something and there is a limited number of letters in the alphabet. Granted, Elisa Lam is a rare name, so it’s a case of a rare name of a test that is the same as a human name, which was the same as a rare name of a person who died unusually, while the test was being used at the time and place where they died. That’s roughly a bit odd to the fourth power. The unusual death following a plot of a movie, an unusual plot, moves this coincidence to about a bit odd to the sixth power. How odd is enough? However, if you are running some sort of medical experiment, the three most logical things to do are to get a DNA sample (ideally reproductive cells), to perform a neurological exam, and to get a stool sample, which includes the gut bacteria. Anything to do with poop may be inherently silly, but as recent advances in medical science show, gut microbiome is essential for our physical health and it interacts with our brain, affecting our mood. Not surprisingly at all, these types of things are reported by alien abductees. Of course, that says nothing about who these “aliens” are, only that they’re organized. Brandabur, Michelle (June 4, 2021). " 'I am not afraid of the park. I am terrified': TikTokers are freaking out over just how many people are disappearing in national forests". The Daily Dot. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021 . Retrieved July 5, 2021. Regarding this profile point, I tend to agree with a number of people who say that Dave overestimates the weirdness of people leaving essential items behind, as you can easily do that when you don’t think you’ll be gone long or when you just have a standard brain fart. But I totally agree with Dave that the disappearing-while-on-the-phone stuff is weird. Especially in the one case when the phone was later found shattered into a million pieces.