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I also spent some time in a cluster area, and did not know it at the time. Now I never go into the woods alone. When I do go into the woods I always have my dog and my friend tucked into my belt! The books are well worth reading.
I think you will find the best price is buying them direct.
What do you think the problem/cause is?
I watched some of his Missing 411 videos on YouTube but I never formed a clear impression of what he though the cause was. Is any explanation required beyond people getting lost, accidents and animals, etc?
The recent badger discovery helps explain some of the missing bodies too, I think. Badgers are burying the corpses of large animals to create a private food supply.
This type of book is right up my alley. I usually get books like this on Amazon for two or three bucks but not these. 25 bucks a book is retail price. I did buy the first two to see if they're worth it. Maybe if some of us buy the others we could sell them to one another or trade as we finish them. That would sure alleviate the burden of spending 150 bucks for all the books and another chunk of change if you want to see the movie.
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If the people that are selling his book is any indication on who he thinks might be the cause, is it's pretty evident.
Not to me. I got a whiff of Bigfoot and a pinch of falling into the 5th dimension from the stuff I watched.
I'd guess it's more like the odd serial killer, falling down mineshafts and eaten by animals.
If you read the Missing 411 book on hunters, read the last case about the bow hunter in the tree stand carefully. The author does not say this is the cause of the missing, he only reports the case. It made my skin crawl reading it. I came away with the idea there are things on this Earth we humans do not know about, and are much larger than ourselves.
Is that really possible? I like a conspiracy theory as much as anyone but the idea there are unknown populations of large....creatures....aliens, whatever....in the USA is hard to swallow.
I could be persuaded but it seems likely to me that Paulides has built a franchise of what amount to modern day ghost stories around a statistically tiny number of incidents - millions of hunters and a handful of disappearances.
But this stuff is fascinating so if anyone has a clear idea of what Paulides is implying please lay it out there.
Edit: been clicking around on Reddit and there are a number of stories of sightings of red-eyed, optically cloaked, telepathic tree people with mind control abilities.
Anyone seen anything like that?
@mibro - My personal opinion is that there are portals or vortexes into alternate layers of existance.. thats just my personal opinion based on the sheer weirdness of some of these disappearances. The first 5 books have approximately 1200 cases of really strange disappearances.
I'm open to the possibility that something really strange is happening but our current understanding of our world leaves absolutely no room for portals or anything like that. But there are so many stories, as you say, where it's hard to come up with an explanation other than something supernatural.
I don't know anything about this guy or his books, but I am certain that our current understanding of the world is incomplete. And the supernatural is just a way of explaining what we don't understand. If you read a bit into quantum mechanics you will find a lot of really smart people who believe things that are very different than what we were taught. I'm not intelligent enough to wrap my head around it completely. But to me that is just further evidence of why we were never taught it. A lot of it is pretty scary stuff. These links just scratch the surface of some of the topics that are very interesting to me.
If anyone is interested, the video is now available for "on demand" viewing. Go to canammissing.com. Then go to "current events", where there is a link.
Did the movie include the story of the college girl that went missing in NH a few years ago? It was in the winter and I think she was traveling from Mass to Vermont. Her car slid on the ice and had a minor accident, and she vanished without a trace.