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The reason why amnesia always seems contrived in TV shows and movies when used more than minimally is that it is rare in real life. Or it’s supposed to be, anyway. In contrast, hallucinations should be much more common. This is why it seems very suspicious to me that in Missing 411 cases, the majority of people who are found alive have amnesia and only a minority reports something strange happening. The proportion of the two should be inverse. Subjects being seen or found in places that are unusual, seemingly too far away from the point where they got lost, or places that they otherwise shouldn’t have been able to get to. The Missing 411 books talk about true stories that impacted real people. They contain months or probably years of research on the mysterious disappearances in various areas. The author seeks to establish the truth in all those situations. I know I said I won’t to go into detail on individual cases, but it would be difficult to comment on the coincidences that Paulides points out without pointing them out. The main two cases involving multiple odd coincidences are the disappearance of Dennis Martin and the death of Elisa Lam. In the Dennis Martin case, the Martin family went on a hike into a forest, and in the forest, they met another Martin family. Dennis disappeared while Martin kids were playing with the other Martin kids. Meanwhile, after Dennis went missing, the Key family, looking for bears some distance away, saw a dark man-type figure carrying something on its shoulder, a key piece of the puzzle.

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Regardless of how you choose to listen, I think you’ll find the podcast fascinating and eye-opening. It’s definitely worth a listen if you’re at all interested in the disappearances of people in national parks. Which National Park Has the Most Disappearances? Still, others believe that the disappearances are the work of aliens or other beings from another dimension. Whatever the cause, there is no doubt that Lake Mead is a place where people have mysteriously vanished without a trace. How Many Missing 411 Movies Are There? On this count, I would very much like Dave to publish exact tables showing how significant (meaning frequent) each of the correlating factors is in the Missing 411 sample of cases, ideally in comparison to tables of what is normal for a representative sample of normal missing persons cases. For example, in a random sample of a thousand normal missing persons cases, how often do people go missing with a dog, in contrast to how often that happens in a sample of a thousand Missing 411 cases? So far, as far as I know, Dave made the clusters map and the table of how far away small children were found. Which are great, so please, Dave, do more of that. 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? Missing 411-North America and Beyond: Stories of people who have disappeared in remote locations of North America and five other countries.

Right off the bat, it is important to distinguish coincidence from correlation. When Paulides subtitled one of his book A Sobering Coincidence, I’m pretty sure that he was talking about correlations — elements of the cases repeating in multiple cases. Coincidence is not the fact that something keeps repeating or happening in similar ways, it is a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection. An isolated concurrence so unlikely that it’s suspicious by itself.Of course, proving that the times and dates at which people get lost mysteriously are normal times at which there’s an opportunity to get lost doesn’t prove that the disappearances are entirely mundane. If there’s an intelligent perpetrator behind any Missing 411 disappearances, they are likely to know when to lie in wait for people — at the times and dates when there’s the most opportunity. However, they may not follow that perfectly. 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.

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. 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. However, if you are running some sort of medical experiment, the three most logical things to do are to get a DNA sample (ideally reproductive cells), to perform a neurological exam, and to get a stool sample, which includes the gut bacteria. Anything to do with poop may be inherently silly, but as recent advances in medical science show, gut microbiome is essential for our physical health and it interacts with our brain, affecting our mood. Not surprisingly at all, these types of things are reported by alien abductees. Of course, that says nothing about who these “aliens” are, only that they’re organized.How storms, berries, swamps, briar patches, boulder fields and victim disabilities play a role in the disappearance 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. Paulides, David (2011). Missing 411 Western United States and Canada. North Charleston, South Carolina: CreateSpace. pp.ix–x. ISBN 978-1466216297. The only conventional explanation for reliable amnesia is when it is induced by some sort of chemical. Making the target unconscious or suggestible immediately and wiping their memory after the fact would be desirable tactics for any type of predator, if they can pull it off. Besides chemicals, one could make an argument for an uncommon EM, other type of radiation, or infrasound-based technologies, but nothing should be 100% reliable. Finally, being associated with Bigfoot research also doesn’t disqualify everything that you say about anything. Especially if it was research, like going places where Bigfoot might live, interviewing witnesses, collecting samples and sending them for laboratory analysis, and so on. That’s what Dave was doing regarding Bigfoot. Assuming that Bigfoot doesn’t exist, this is still a completely reasonable activity. Research is how we get to know things.