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.