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Missing 411

Western United States and Canada

by David Paulides · first published 2011

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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 and 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 4+ years and a 9000 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 o

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  • jim_bailie · Jan 18, 2019 · Recommends

    If you're really interested in peeling back the layers of these stories, you're going to have to watch and read all the material published by David Paulides. Type "Missing 411" in your favorite search engine and watch him on the Youtube. He is a long-time LEO and his books are incredibly well researched. They're not on Amazon and only available on his website. Let me just…

    on “Is a Serial-Killer Gang Murdering Young Men Across the U.S.?” ↗
  • eropple · Jan 14, 2018 · Critical

    For those who don't know, the author of Missing 411 is David Paulides, a Bigfoot crank. It's been beaten up pretty good by people in the sanity-based community, here by the host of the Data Skeptic podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQhv3dEMFOc

    on “The Encyclopedia of the Missing” ↗
  • nephihaha · Jun 27, 2026 · Critical

    Ironically National Park deaths in the USA have been getting a lot of publicity over the last few years, thanks to David Paulides' "The Missing 411". For various reasons, I strongly disagree with Paulides – it is very easy to get lost in wilderness, and very easy for a body to be missed in thick brush – but it's clearly enough of an issue for Paulides…

    on “The National Parks Were Reportedly Told to Stay Silent on Deaths” ↗

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