Some history
David Paulides is a former policeman who had to resign from the police force from his job as a court attendant after being caught scamming autographs from famous people using Police stationery. You can search this online there are plenty of links. He then went on to write books about Bigfoot and start the North America Bigfoot Search (NABS) LLC. After that, he started the Missing 411 series of books, which expound the theory that many disappearances within national parks are mysterious and cannot be explained by rational means. Interestingly Mr Paulides never promotes any particular theory for the disappearances and he says himself that doing so would greatly damage his integrity, he states he is just giving us the facts and letting us, the reader, make our own conclusions.
There have been numerous debunkings of the 411 phenomena, search for Kyle Polich 411 debunking, check the Wikipedia page, which Mr Paulides states contain many errors and is "disgusting" but which he cannot get changed, he points to a conspiracy at Wikipedia to undermine his work.
He also points to a conspiracy at the higher levels of the National Park Service for denying him access to lists of missing people. FOIA has been made by Mr Paulides and some have been refused this is true, but it doesn't mean there is a conspiracy just that the list doesn't exist or the cost to compile it would be too high.
An investigation into the first book, "Missing 411 Eastern United States - Unexplained disappearances of North Americans that have never been solved" was carried out by the user u/theOldUnknown on Reddit and details 12 cases from the book with original source material for reference, these cases contain numerous errors from Mr Paulides and in each case where the book states the outcome as unknown, the actual missing people are either alive and well or turned up dead.
Results:
Riley Amsbaugh missing 1902, found alive, Cause of disappearance: had Dementia. CANAM STATUS: Never found
E. C. Jones, 1903, Alive, Cause of disappearance: Marital jealousy. CANAM STATUS: Never found
Edward Gerke 1918 Dead, Cause of disappearance: Lightning or foul play (gasoline/kerosene)Found, CANAM STATUS: lightning is mentioned
Bernice Price 1923 Alive, Cause of disappearance: Domestic abuse. CANAM STATUS: Never found
William Pitsenbarger 1931, Dead. Cause of disappearance: Suicide Found, CANAM STATUS drowning is mentioned
George Bell 1936, Alive. Cause of disappearance: Anxiety. CANAM STATUS: Never found
Jewell Hinrickson 1948, Alive. Cause of disappearance: Visited her father's home. CANAM STATUS: Never found
Judd McWilliams 1948, Dead. Cause of disappearance: Exposure. CANAM STATUS: Never found
LeRoy Williams 1951, Dead. Cause of disappearance: Snowstorm (heart ailment?). CANAM STATUS: Never found
John Sweet 1953, Dead, Cause of disappearance: Heart attack/natural causes. CANAM STATUS: Never found
Louis Blair, 1956, Alive. Cause of disappearance: Monetary issues. CANAM STATUS: Never found
Anthony Holland, 2009, Dead. Cause of disappearance: Suicide. CANAM STATUS: Never found
Mr Paulides omits critical information from his stories, in the Aaron Hedges case he never mentions that Mr Hedges was a recovering alcoholic taking powerful meds to help with withdrawal symptoms. The dates in the movie are all over the place and inaccurate, the distances travelled are incorrect and so on. He lies by omission to suit his narrative and then makes wild correlations to make it look like something mysterious is going on. For example two women disappear decades apart but they both have three letter names beginning with the letter A.
Missing 411 is a virtual clone of the Bermuda Triangle but involves missing people, not ships and planes, and in areas of the National Parks of America and some other parts of the world.
His interest is in selling his books and making a profit, there is nothing wrong with that if they were factually accurate, but they are not, and they are aimed at the armchair detective whom Mr Paulides banks on not doing any actual research for themselves.
I would describe Mr Paulides as a mystery content creator writing books and making documentaries that are loosely based on actual events in an attempt to promote intrigue and mystery into what are pretty mundane and tragic circumstances. It is a shame that the families of the missing have to deal with the crackpot fringe pointing the finger at Bigfoot, portals, Lemurains, and aliens as having been responsible for the death or disappearance of their loved ones.
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