It’s not a reason to start hating a person and dismiss everything they have to say about everything else, it’s a reason to start talking to them. He’s not putting forward his theories in the books, only data.Īpart from this (the fact that a personal attack is a logical fallacy, not a counterargument), if Dave incorrectly interprets some data point or a causal relation, it’s an error, not a crime. Does any of that mean that you should dismiss the evidence that he’s bringing forward? No, the evidence is the only thing that matters. Before I get into the things that connect all the cases, like profile points, geographic clusters, and the possible logics behind victim or perpetrator behaviors, I feel I should first address all the ad hominem attacks leveled at Dave (he keeps calling himself Dave from the point of view of third persons, and I’m a third person, so why not).ĭave may not be the best scientist or statistician, he may have lied or cheated in his life at least once or twice, and he was trying to find evidence for the existence of Bigfoot (plural) before he was approached to look into missing people in national parks. Yes, I have also watched Good Omens recently. What I will try to do is use my social science education and research methodology expertise to try to bring some clarity into how all of the variables in these cases seem to be connected. In this analysis, I will not be going in depth on any of the individual cases, since that is covered quite well by many different videos on this subject that you can find on YouTube, including many hours of interviews with David Paulides on various paranormal podcasts. Some of these factors are inherently unusual, requiring at the very least a sudden psychotic break or a chain of bad decisions, while others are unusual through the rate at which they correlate with these cases, and yet others seem utterly impossible all by themselves. Beyond a mere lack of explanation, Paulides has put together a profile which includes a specific list of factors, most of which tend to be present in all of these cases. Or there at least isn’t enough evidence for any of these.īut there’s more. When I say strange, what I mean is that, for starters, all of the usual suspects have been ruled out, like animal predation, human crime, voluntary disappearance, drowning, etc. Speaking of bizarre and inexplicable, these books and documentaries describe a growing number of cases (now in the low thousands) of people going missing or being found under strange circumstances.
MISSING 411 PLUS
I especially recommend the most recent documentary, Missing 411: The Hunted, as I have never seen such great visualization of movement through an area, plus the cases selected for this documentary are some of the most bizarre and inexplicable there are.
MISSING 411 SERIES
In case you’ve never heard of this series of books written by an American ex-detective David Paulides, I believe there’s eight of them at the moment, plus two documentary movies. Like the Missing 411 cases.Īnd yes, I also rewatched Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, obviously. And oh my, is there a lot of anomalous data in the world that serious scientists tend to ignore or refuse to engage with. I’ve been trying to find the best data that doesn’t fit with the dominant paradigm of what is or isn’t supposed to be physically possible. In case you were wondering what I’ve been doing for the last couple of months instead of writing articles here, I guess you could call it research. A high-level analysis of patterns behind these strange disappearances
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