© David Paulides
The book tries not to offer reasons or how these people vanished but evidence putting together a peculiar puzzle of how it happened. No one knows what happened to these people. Some would speculate common facts like kidnappers etc., but as you read more and more into the book you begin to wonder if it's something supernatural or even weird. But David never goes into this on his radio appearances or in the book in honor of the families who are having to go through these tragedies.
Because this is about the missing people and to turn into a circus side show of speculation of strange stories would be a dishonor to the people missing and the emotions of their loved ones and families. After speaking to David myself on the phone and asking him what he thinked happened. He explained this to me and I found it honorable that he would not divulge that information publically in respect of those going through the ordeals of losing loved ones in such peculiar unexplained ways.
Once I read this book I knew I had to get David on The Church Of Mabus radio show to discuss this. So me and Guy Weddle have made a special Sunday prerecorded show that will be placed on the archives after wards on April 1st Sunday. We hope you will tune in and help get the word out and pick up the book and visit the websites below to learn more and share this article on your walls to help raise awareness about this subject.
About the book and project of Missing-411
Missing-411 is the first comprehensive research about people who have disappeared in the wilds of North America. It's understood that people routinely get lost, some want to disappear but this story is about the unusual. Nobody has ever studied the archives for similarities, traits and geographical clusters of missing people, until now.
A tip from a national park ranger led to this 3+ years and a 7000 hour investigative effort into understanding the stories behind people who have vanished. The book chronicles children, adults and the elderly who disappeared, sometimes in the presence of friends and relatives. As Search and Rescue personnel exhaust leads and places to search, relatives start to believe kidnappings and abductions have occurred. The belief by the relatives is not an isolated occurrence; it replicates itself time after time, case after case across North America.
The research depicts 28 clusters of missing people across the continent, something that has never been exposed and was a shocking find to researchers. Topography does play a part into the age of the victims and certain clusters have specific age and sex consistency that is baffling. This is not a phenomenon that has been occurring in just the last few decades, clusters of missing people have been identified as far back as the 1800's.
The manuscript for the research was extremely large so the story was split between two books, Missing 411 Western United States and Canada and Missing 411 Eastern United States. The Eastern version will be released in late March and will include a list of all missing people in each edition and a concluding chapter that draws both books together for conclusions.
Some of the issues that are discussed in each edition:
- The National Park Service attitude toward missing people
- How specific factors in certain cases replicate themselves in different clusters
- Exposing cases involving missing children that aren't on any national database
- Unusual behavior by bloodhounds/canines involved in the search process
- How storms, berries, swamps, briar patches, boulder fields and victim disabilities play a role in the disappearance
- The strategies of Search and Rescue personnel need to change under specific circumstances
Major news organizations do a deplorable job of covering stories and issues which are deemed too unusual or too far outside the box. Chances are, they will find a way to trivialize or ignore the disturbing evidence accumulated by David Paulides, a former lawman turned investigative journalist. The paper trail uncovered by Paulides through sheer doggedness is impressive, the evidence indisputable.
People are vanishing without a trace from our national parks and forests, yet government agencies are saying nothing.
At a minimum, this story deserves space on the front page of every newspaper in the country, and it warrants a formal high level inquiry by the federal agencies whose files leave little doubt that something very strange is unfolding in our wilderness.
George Knapp, Host, Coast to Coast AM
After reading this book, you will forever walk in the woods with a different awareness.
This is the link to the authors site Secure Site where the book is sold: http://www.nabigfootsearch.com/catalog/item/6180213/9227229.htm
**The "Missing 411 Extra" page on this site includes photos and maps that were cost prohibitive to include in the manuscripts of either book. The password to enter this area is the last two words of the last sentence on page 242 of the western United States version.
http://www.canammissing.com/missing_411.html
This brings to mind the Australian film Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Synopsis:
Picnic at Hanging Rock centers around a trip by a party of girls from Appleyard College, a fictitious upper class private boarding school, who travel to Hanging Rock in the Mount Macedon area, Victoria, for a picnic on St. Valentine's Day in 1900. The excursion ends in tragedy when three of the girls, and later one of their teachers, mysteriously vanish while climbing the rock. No reason for their disappearance is ever given, and one of the missing girls who is later found has no memory of what has happened to her companions. A fourth girl who also climbed the rock with the group is of little help in solving the mystery, having returned in hysterics for reasons she cannot explain.
The disappearances provoke much local concern and international sensation with sexual molestation, abduction and murder being high on the list of possible outcomes. Several organized searches of the picnic grounds and the area surrounding the rock itself turn up nothing. Meanwhile the students, teachers and staff of the college, as well as members of the community, grapple with the riddle-like events. A young man on a private search locates one of the missing girls, but is himself found in an unexplained daze โ yet another victim of the rock. Concerned parents begin withdrawing their daughters from the formerly prestigious college and several of the staff, including the headmistress, either resign or meet with tragic ends. We are told that both the College, and the Woodend Police Station where records of the investigation were kept, are destroyed by fire shortly afterwards.
The film is renowned for it's haunting atmosphere.