He never discusses the possibility of sinkholes or old mineshafts. He harps endlessly on rivers and ponds and swamps, but he never says whether someone could fall into a river and be swept downstream out of the search area, or whether there's quicksand. He never addresses the notorious and thoroughly proven unreliability of eyewitness testimony, nor the possibility that witnesses might be lying (either because they are actually murderers, because they were doing something illegal, for personal reasons of their own, etc.). (I'm using "occult" as a catchall for aliens, cryptids, Lemurians, ghosts, and whatever other agent you can think of, including Men In Black.) He almost never addresses the possibility of foul play (except in one case where it looks to me like the parents killed their child and beat the polygraph, but Paulides insists because they beat the polygraph their child must have been abducted by an unseen and unknown monster). The worst is probably that he goes straight for the occult answer. Paulides' desire to believe in the occult (like Mulder's I WANT TO BELIEVE poster, as amended by the kid in "Jose Chung's 'From Outer Space'" to read I BELIEVE) colors his narrative of disappearance in several ways. There are so many dubious leaps of logic and/or faith in this story that it's impossible to believe any of it wholly. Deputy says the sketch looks just like the location. Search there a second time, find the body. The deputy goes and shows the drawing to the locals, and a retired carpenter says he recognizes it, knows right where it is. Problem #4 (Wycoff): 1 psychic drew a sketch (not reproduced): "the picture appears as though you're looking down on a body and high grass, near a beaver pond and creek" (119), a description which is markedly generic for the area of the disappearance, Michigan's UP. Paulides is all more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger about the closed-mindedness of the brass but doesn't notice he's contradicting himself. OR "gave interviews saying he wasn't really involved in Larry's case but was ordered by supervisors to meet with the psychics who had volunteered and keep them out of the hair of the investigators on the case" (119). Problem #3: (more specific to the Wycoff disappearance) "I would never push assistance away" (emphasis added): but the deputy in this case "got five psychics to help him" (118). Problem #2: " assists in finding": not the same as " finds" Problem #1: "too many instances": none cited I would never push assistance away from someone who is a proven success in finding people" (118) I have seen too many instances where someone called a psychic, remote viewer, and so forth steps into a case and assists in finding the person. "I am one of the most open people you will ever meet when it comes to understanding missing persons cases. He says in his discussion of the disappearance of Larry Wycoff (116-119): He wants it to be Bigfoot or at least some sort of other cryptid (or maybe aliens. Paulides is getting worse at hiding his Bigfoot theory behind his claims of objectivity. This is a collection of missing persons cases, this time of hunters, almost exclusively male and almost exclusively white-and I don't know whether this is because white men are the predominant hunters in America, whether they're the hunters most likely to go missing, or whether it's unconscious selection bias on Pauldies' part, either in choosing to focus on hunters or in choosing the hunters he focuses on. The mystery and stories of the victims will baffle and confound the avid outdoorsman and seasoned hunter. The vast majority of the cases in this edition are new and they don’t appear in other books in the series. The incidents parallel other disappearances documented in prior Missing 411 books. Missing 411- Hunters explains a subset of the research and documents 148 cases of hunters who have vanished in four countries. The identification of over 59 geographical clusters of missing people in North America is one of the mysterious, unsettling and unexplained elements in the Missing 411 series.
The books have revealed the names and facts behind people who have disappeared in the national parks and forests of the world. Author David Paulides has released the sixth installment in his best selling series, Missing 411.
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