The stasis option might sound the most sci-fi, but there are multiple Missing 411 cases in which the body was found in a surprisingly pristine condition for how long it was supposedly dead. Better yet, there are a few cases in which the body was reported to be completely frozen, in a non-freezing environment. Which is scientifically speaking the most basic method through which to do stasis, especially if you don’t care about the subject dying. The mysterious part is how the bodies got to where they were found. As of August2021, [update] Paulides has written at least ten books on this topic. According to A Sobering Coincidence, he does not yet have a theory on what is causing the disappearances, although he indicates that the "field of suspects is narrowing." Paulides advised his readers to go outside of their normal comfort zone to determine who (or what) is the culprit. [15] [16] [ failed verification] 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 Missing 411 series consists of David’s self-published books and documentaries that document cases of people who have gone missing in national parks and other places. He started this series after the commercial success of the bigfoot series. Paulides, David (2011). Missing 411 Western United States and Canada. North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace. pp.ix–x. ISBN 978-1466216297.

After leaving the police force, Paulides wrote books on the topic of Bigfoot, as well as on the disappearances of people in national parks and elsewhere which he attributes to unspecified, unknown causes. Missing 411 books are primarily expensive because of their content. The books talk about real situations that affected real people. Their high demand and different price markups by vendors also contribute to the high prices. As a result, most readers prefer to get the original books with raw information before the spinoffs, reprints and new editions distort them.

He said that the missing people were disappearing in mysterious circumstances and wanted David to investigate.This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources. Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. The exotic options would all be variations on the person entering some sort of portal or spacetime warp or legitimately teleporting. While phenomena of this type are not strictly speaking ruled out by theoretical physicists, they would at the very least expect them to be substantially more rare, if they were to occur strictly naturally. In any event, I believe that Dave is correctly focusing on the cases where the most inexplicable travel speeds or distances took place. Yes, you are supposed to be thinking of Dirk Gently. The concept of a holistic detective may be a fiction invented by Douglas Adams, but the interesting aspect of his science fiction ideas is that while crazy-sounding and hilarious, they are logically consistent and potentially realistic. Like his idea of a probability-based engine — many macroscopic physical “laws” are only aggregates of chaotic movements and interactions going on at the subatomic level. Objects can spontaneously teleport, it’s just very, very, very unlikely. Therefore, people are willing to pay top dollar for the first edition of Missing 411 books to avoid reading contaminated information in the future. 3. Different Prices From Vendors Similarly, some traits like high intelligence, excellent physical condition, or relevant expertise and preparation are inherently suspicious, even if they happen in statistically insignificant numbers. After all, if there is an intelligent perpetrator behind at least some of these cases, they can be smart enough not to kidnap and kill too many people. But if they’re after exceptional (and therefore potentially valuable) targets, they can’t hide that, or even necessarily be able to do without specific targets, however unlikely those target people are to get lost or succumb to the elements.

According to Paulides, he began to work on this series when he was doing some research in a park and an off-duty ranger expressed concern over a few recent disappearances. Here I have to give credit to Seriah Azkath and the Snake Brothers, who pointed out the likely direction of causality regarding this profile point on a recent Where Did the Road Go show. Put simply, this profile point is something that makes it harder to find a missing person and easier for people to get more lost. That’s probably why it correlates so much with cases that remain unexplained. They even mentioned a hunter explaining that some hunters follow bad weather intentionally to catch more prey. If you think that this whole scenario is crazy, then you haven’t watched enough Star Trek. There are multiple instances of Starfleet observing pre-warp civilizations (which it is not allowed to interfere with due to the Prime Directive) from a secret base cloaked as part of a mountain. If we can already think of that, and undoubtedly would do it ourselves given the opportunity, it’s not crazy. What’s weird is that this is not happening in all of the parks equally, suggesting that a thorough comparison should be made.There has been no proof or evidence that wild people live in National Parks. Every now and then, someone reports seeing a feral person in a remote area of a park, but these sightings are unconfirmed and there is no concrete evidence that feral people actually exist. If the person was seen, say, falling of a cliff, then that would be an explanation, just like it should be easier to find someone when you’d seen where exactly they entered the forest, at what speed, and in what state of mind. Though there are Missing 411 cases where that didn’t help, like when a person was seen chasing a dog into the forest, which only helps explain how people can get lost more often while walking a dog.

The film interviews the families of the missing children, as well as some of the search and rescue teams who looked for them. It also includes footage of interviews with David Paulides, the author of the Missing 411 books. This profile point doesn’t sound necessarily unusual to me, since in any scenario, it has to be much more likely that a missing person’s case will remain unexplained when the person disappeared while being alone and out of sight, while any intelligent perpetrator would wait for that moment. While our current medical science is far from perfect, the real number of truly unknown causes of death appears to be quite low, somewhere in the range of 1.34 per 100,000 (in the U.K.) and 15 per 100,000 (in the U.S.). The U.K. study also suggests that the truly undeterminable deaths (called the “sudden adult death syndrome” there) can be incorrectly misdiagnosed as a different cause of death as much as two thirds of the time. This article looks at Missing 411 books and why they’re so expensive. Keep reading to find out where you can get them for a reasonable price. Who Wrote the Missing 411 Books?Polich, Kyle (2017). "Missing411". Dataskeptic.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021 . Retrieved June 20, 2017. Peterson, Judy (March 12, 2012). "Los Gatos author explores 'Missing 411' from national parks". The Mercury News. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021 . Retrieved November 29, 2018. a b c Gerbic, Susan (February 3, 2017). "Local Skeptical Outreach & Activism: Monterey County SkeptiCamp". CSICOP. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Archived from the original on February 3, 2017 . Retrieved February 11, 2017. Perhaps the only type of thing that Dave tends to do that’s somewhat less than ideal is that in his descriptions of the cases, he sometimes omits facts that point toward more mundane explanations. But still, even assuming that they’re intentional omissions and not just Dave not knowing a fact or Dave keeping a fact to himself in the interest of the family of the victim, it’s very human. It makes for good storytelling, and beyond that, it’s important to understand that everyone has a bias. Scientists do this all the time. Unwrapping the Enigma Strange coincidences occur in connection to some of the cases, typically involving names of the people involved