Missing 411

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
The only things I am certain of about these cases: there are quite a number of people going missing in the US National Parks. The Park Services do not like to publish these facts for obvious reasons. And lastly, there is a degree of strangeness tied to a number of these cases.

Paulides is probably these wrong person to be leading the charge on missing persons. If you have investigated all these cases, you have to have some theories as to what happen to these people. Paulides doesn’t wish to offer his thoughts to the public.

Shooting from the hip here - but Paulides was a cop who either quit or had to resign, lost his pension, over sports memorabilia fraud. Police officers are human but having taken an oath I think the stink of a crime committed lingers longer on them. We all make mistakes.

But he humps his law enforcement background, stopping short of saying why it ended and conveys a lot through pregnant implication when he speaks about missing people. Not really arguing with what he is saying - there are a lot of people that go missing but when you factor in the #s of people, the size and nature of these enormous Parks themselves it doesn't sound particularly paranormal to me. People do a lot of weird inexplicable s**t and he's humping the most useful angle that sells books.

The accounts of little kids who have traveled unlikely distances and who speak of hairy men - well that all sounds very interesting and to my ear, more plausible than fey people or the like. For the other 99.9999999999% of missing 411 it's human nature at work.
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Some people want to disappear from society, for whatever reason...

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JahaRa

Noble
The only things I am certain of about these cases: there are quite a number of people going missing in the US National Parks. The Park Services do not like to publish these facts for obvious reasons. And lastly, there is a degree of strangeness tied to a number of these cases.

Paulides is probably these wrong person to be leading the charge on missing persons. If you have investigated all these cases, you have to have some theories as to what happen to these people. Paulides doesn’t wish to offer his thoughts to the public.
My opinion is that his books sell because he doesn't offer any of his thoughts. So he can imply that a missing person case is a big mystery by leaving out some pertinent details and everyone can make up their own minds about what it is, it fits anyone's picture of reality in relation to paranormal. Like faeries, aliens, big foot etc.

And him being an ex cop does not recommend him as an investigator.
 

Standingstones

Celestial
There is one amusing aspect to Paulides’ videos. He has commented that other people are now producing missing persons videos. He seems to have his nose out of joint now that he has some competition. I have not seen any of these videos but Paulides has implied that these people are copycats and have stolen some of the information coming directly from his videos.

He should have known that someone would come along and try to reproduce what he has done previously. He needs to step up his game if he wants to stay on top, so to speak.
 

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
There was a case that he talked about, may or may not be in one of his books concerning a blind young woman being abducted by human trafficers at a campground near Chiracauhua park in Arizona. He made it like it was a mystery but the things that witnesses said were different from what he claimed. Two of us in that audience knew the details of the case but he was trying to turn it into another case for his book, but it wasn't. If he did that for one case he has done it for others.
Be more specific. I would love to look into that.
 

SOUL-DRIFTER

Life Long Researcher
There is one amusing aspect to Paulides’ videos. He has commented that other people are now producing missing persons videos. He seems to have his nose out of joint now that he has some competition. I have not seen any of these videos but Paulides has implied that these people are copycats and have stolen some of the information coming directly from his videos.

He should have known that someone would come along and try to reproduce what he has done previously. He needs to step up his game if he wants to stay on top, so to speak.
I cannot totally disagree with that.
 
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