David Paulides

wwkirk

Divine
Paulides will have a special on the History channel at 8PM ET on January 5.

Vanished
"Former police detective Dave Paulides investigates extraordinary missing-persons cases in and around national parks--ones which defy conventional explanation and whose victims are not just missing: they've vanished."
 

nivek

As Above So Below
tried anonymous navigation
dint work, this is very weird, his site is the only to have this problem

Many your country blocks his site...

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wwkirk

Divine
I was disappointed in the show. It devoted considerable time to portals and paranormal explanations. But David has usually steered away from these in favor of objective description. For this show he went along with the high strangeness interpretations. I don't know if this represents his authentic beliefs.
 

pigfarmer

tall, thin, irritable
I caught a very few minutes of this last night before the sandman came and knocked me out. He has a Very Big Watch.

Only saw one case so I can be certainly accused of being a bit premature but I have heard him on several podcasts. Sounds cool - good story teller just dripping with innuendo without exactly coming right out and saying that Bigfoot or the Wee People are kidnapping people. But propping the family of a missing person up in front of a camera and telling them that their loved one might've slipped through a portal is, in my opinion, heinous.

This is the former San Jose cop who is no longer a cop because of a fraud scheme involving celebrity autographs. It seems to be a relatively minor affair from 1996 but does serve to set the bar for his character. People who wrap themselves in authority and then use it for their own benefit, such as hawking books to pay the bills, are a difficult lot to contend with.
 
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humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
I was disappointed in the show. It devoted considerable time to portals and paranormal explanations. But David has usually steered away from these in favor of objective description. For this show he went along with the high strangeness interpretations. I don't know if this represents his authentic beliefs.
i am sorry to disappoint you but paulides has lost his credibily a while ago, it all started when he began to think that the fact children, old people and people with mental problems were the ones that disappeared the most was a anomaly, when in the fact, those people are obviously the most likely to get lost and hurt
he also thought that the fact those people were found naked was odd, when in fact its a know psycological phenomena that happens when a person has hypothermia
nowdays he think that all dissapearences that happen in the wild are anomalous and last i saw he was publishing chemtrail propaganda on his twitter page, so sadly his credibility is all gone.
is there a real phenomena? definitely! way back in the 60's people discovered that areas wich were going trough UFO flaps, had a huge number of disappearences of both people and animals
it seems like someone is harvesting earth, but why?
 

erickson

Honorable
We started to watch it late last night after returning home a National Monument where there were so few people - we saw as many foxes as human beings - that I told my wife that the mysterious forces behind Missing 411 must have been at work.

So like a previous poster, the sandman got to me shortly after we started started.

I remember thinking after watching the Missing movie that some of the cases (such as DeOrr Kunz) did not seem that mysterious to me. But if he makes the leap into portals or other phenomenon with this one, I am not surprised. It is the History Channel after all.
 

Ron67

Ignorance isn’t bliss!
I agree with others,in the earlier books he may have been on to something.I too think he was hedging towards Bigfoot.However as pointed out,he ignores obvious explanations,the hypothermia being an obvious example.And when he focused on missing in towns and cities he lost all credibility.He now is about selling books and making money.Don't blame him for that but he won't make a penny off me.
 

erickson

Honorable
I watched the show tonight. I have never been a fan of History Channel shows that want me to follow a chain of thought along the lines of "if it s true . . . And could it also be that . . Which suggests . . ." And isn't John Brandenburg better known for his theories that there was a thermonuclear war on Mars?

But putting that aside, the Stehling disappearance has room for very conventional explanations. He is described as being "directionally challenged" and took an unplanned hike on a very hot day - 0ver 100 degrees - with no water. All of that is a recipe for bad news. A hiker reportedly heard a voice of a man calling for help, but search and rescue could find no trace. From the little that was shown of the area, and various online descriptions, I think it's possible for him to have gone unfound without having entered a portal. Ultimately the show did little more than to make me want to hike the trail.

This article about the Mesa Verde filming was interesting: Documentary footage on missing Mesa Verde hiker filmed in Cortez

The Landers case is more mysterious to me. Landers was taking medication for the altitude and was sick when he set out. A ranger reported talking to an unidentified older man at Lake Helen about routes up the mountain. Grizz Adams apparently has a great reputation, but did Landers do something completely unexpected that put him outside the search area?

I wondered how much the History Channel or the producers dictated the direction of the show.
 

humanoidlord

ce3 researcher
I agree with others,in the earlier books he may have been on to something.I too think he was hedging towards Bigfoot.However as pointed out,he ignores obvious explanations,the hypothermia being an obvious example.And when he focused on missing in towns and cities he lost all credibility.He now is about selling books and making money.Don't blame him for that but he won't make a penny off me.
same case as linda molton howe
 
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