![]() Many disappear forever, never to be found alive again. But as I'm reading this book, learning about the ways in which people, especially children (specifically, boys), go missing in the USA + Canadian wilderness, I can't help but wonder *who* is taking these people. You can also find them in some libraries.more Other retail sites occasionally have these books listed at exorbitant prices, but they are priced very reasonably on his site. ![]() One last note - if you are looking for these books, the author does NOT sell them on any site other than his own, which you can find easily by doing a web search. My copy also had some loose pages, so be careful not to lose any if yours is the same! There are typos, as in most of these books, but IMO not enough to take away from the experience of reading it. As always, Paulides provides as much information on each case as possible, while raising interesting questions about what is happening to these people. Missing 411 series#Imagine the shock of discovering your child has somehow travelled such a distance and you had no idea he was even missing!Īs far as I can tell, all of these are new to the series and not in any of the other books. When the boy was found, police contacted his parents, who assured them their son was fast asleep in his bed. My favourite case this time around involves a young boy whom the police believed to have SLEEPWALKED over a hundred miles (their theory also involves him hopping a train as well, all the while never waking up) in something like 4 hours. When the boy was found, police contacted hisĮven more baffling stories of people going missing, primarily from National parks and forests, but also from rural areas, as well as a couple echoing Paulides' "A Sobering Coincidence" cases from suburban/ urban areas. The story has been featured on several primetime newscasts and on hundreds of ratio stations across the country.Ī collection of David Paulides interviews is available here.Even more baffling stories of people going missing, primarily from National parks and forests, but also from rural areas, as well as a couple echoing Paulides' "A Sobering Coincidence" cases from suburban/ urban areas. These clusters formed the basis for four Missing 411 books that have garnered widespread acclaim and multiple 5 star ratings on. The result? The identification of 52 geographical clusters of missing people in North America. He devoted six years to investigating missing people in rural areas. ![]() Thousands of missing people.ĭavid’s instincts told him this was a story that needed to be told. Victims’ families are left without closure and the Park Service refuses to follow up or keep any sort of national list and/or database of the missing people. People of all ages have been disappearing from National Parks and Forests at an alarming rate, all under similar circumstances. It bothered David enough that he began asking questions yet he got no answers. ![]() Following this initial week -long effort there was almost always an immediate halt to the coverage, a discontinued search for the victims and no explanation from the search authorities. The Ranger explained that during the first 7 - 10 days of a disappearance he would witness massive Search and Rescue activity and significant press coverage. Over his years of involvement with numerous search and rescue operations at several different National Parks, he had detected a trend that he couldn’t understand. ![]() A National Park Ranger told writer David Paulides a troubling story. ![]()
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