Missing 411 & The Future Of Missing Person Research
Added 2024-04-03 05:00:28 +0000 UTC
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I think DP uses this as his cash cow. The obvious solutions to many disappearances is human crime. He ignores that. I find it hard to believe he was a police officer.
Overthinker
2024-12-29 21:51:35 +0000 UTCI was fascinated by Missing 411 - The Hunted. The stories were so perplexing they stayed with me for quite a while. Then I stumbled upon your channel and realised 411 was not telling the entire story and would guess it was to make them more mysterious to the average person. I don’t listen to them anymore bc I think the truth is more interesting. Even “solved” cases like Dale Stehling have aspects that are unknown and keep one thinking. Anyone arguing for Paulides is not interested in the truth, just entertainment. Love your channel.
Chi
2024-11-11 06:07:47 +0000 UTCI understand your reservations, but when there's work of a magnitude such as Missing 411, influential and baseless in equal measure, there comes a time when those operating in the same space, catering to the same audience, have a responsibility to take a stance. You're free to disagree, but I think there are times when our gifts come with them implicit responsibilities. Your rare intelligence, all the more rare in this particular slice of YouTube, forces upon you a choice: implied acceptance or even support, or, to make explicit what is apparent every one of your videos: for creative and curious people the world is a more than interesting enough place AS IT IS. I watch Paulides's YouTube videos regularly, and he regularly portrays himself as an arbiter of critical thinking. He has an obvious, albeit, much like his Elk-Stealing Predator-camo Bigfoot Portal Dwellers view, mostly unsaid political perspective which oddly folds into his missing persons work (his name was mentioned casually on Fox News recently). He uses his appearance to manipulate vulnerable people into believing everything our civilization is founded upon is a lie. I will abruptly cut my comment off here as it's already thrice as long as it should be, but please post this publicly!
Jesse
2024-10-01 20:40:28 +0000 UTCWARNING! LONG POST AHEAD! I came across your channel while looking for more information on the Yuba County Five, covered in an early episode in the podcast Dark Histories. I liked your presentation and watched a few more. I heard you kept mentioning something being a "Missing 411 case", a term I had never heard before and had to look it up... Oh boy. Coming from a country where hiking and outdoor life is fairly commonplace, stories about people going missing, getting lost or die in freak accidents are not uncommon, especially among the inexperienced. "Suicide by nature" is also a well-known phenomenon, where typically older men go into the wilderness one last time to die. Looking to aliens, bigfoot or other paranormal explanations is perhaps all in "good fun", but for me it feels like yet another symptom of the craziness and detachment from reality that seems to be spreading in your country. Which is so incredibly sad to see. So many people are so removed from nature these days that they are liable to believe just about anything. This makes your videos all the more important, and that was what made me want to support you. It was a pleasant surprise to see that the first thing I saw after becoming a patreon was a video of you dealing directly with some of the things your videos had only been implying previously. That is not to say I don't find paranormal stories fascinating. I used to really enjoy them when I was growing up. Sadly(?), once you look more into them, you generally find that they are either exaggerated, leave out important details or are just made-up whole cloth. Incidentally, Dark Histories, the podcast that brought me here is another podcast that set out to cover "paranormal" and "mystery"-stories, but as the guy goes back and looks at old sources, they generally tend to fall apart. But that doesn't make them not entertaining. And, when some of the stories don't seem to be as easily explainable, at least I can feel some confidence that the podcast has not tailored the story to make it a "good scary story". And these stories also don't need that to be interesting, at least not to me. Your stories are good mysteries that can tickle the mind even if they don't suggest anything supernatural, and also serve as good cautionary tales of the dangers of nature. That being said -- should you publish it? I don't know. I should say yes. More people should know how they are being deceived and manipulated. Then again, I would rather you keep making videos than getting overworked by becoming the target of hordes of nuts who see you as going after their prophet. Perhaps it is just better to keep posting videos on individual cases and let people come to the conclusions themselves when and if they are ready. Then again, would that be backing down and accepting we live in a world where we have to suppress well-meaning rational arguments in fear of "prosecution"?
Rolf Regensburg
2024-08-15 11:40:21 +0000 UTCI am receptive to pretty much anything so long as there is evidence, or in the case of Sasquatch, maybe even a compelling witness. Though, physical evidence certainly carries a greater weight with me. I don't get sent many stories or testimonials or anything on that subject.
The Missing Enigma
2024-08-01 17:53:43 +0000 UTCThank you for providing this information. I also have had reservations about the information given in the 411 books and movies. I very much appreciate the research you do on these cases, they are fascinating on their own even without being impossible, mysterious disappearances. I hope you someday release this video, for those who have questions or are on the fence about missing 411.
Tina Bailey
2024-07-11 02:10:29 +0000 UTCHi Nick, you seem to be receptive to the possibility of Sasquatch and I’m wondering if you have supporting stories for a future episode?
Wjonespitsch
2024-07-08 20:44:08 +0000 UTCReally a good work. Thank you for your rational and honest approach.
john smith
2024-05-02 22:43:01 +0000 UTCI’m clearly late to the game but I think this is an extremely important video to post—it brought me over to being a Patron.
Chad_the_Inhaler
2024-04-29 01:03:04 +0000 UTCI do think this is/was an important video to post. Missing 411 cases usually have some sort of possible and plausible explanation rooted in reality. I also appreciate that you go to some of the locations as it makes it much easier to visualize the situations.
The Oddball
2024-04-17 20:44:42 +0000 UTCI came to the same conclusions you have. I don't have any I'll will toward David Paulides. I think he probably believed in these things and then went looking for supporting stories for his conclusion. But regardless, his premises are shaky. Most of his stories are absent of evidence (or wrong evidence) and those are used as evidence of something paranormal because "it can't be explained." That doesn't mean anything to me though. I can't presume anything from nothing. I also don't trust eyewitness accounts as much as the cryptic community does. I literally saw an article last month where some kids trail running were misidentified as a sasquatch. By the way, if it makes you feel any better about your channel, I stopped listening to missing 411 and the other unexplained mystery type channels for the most part because there wasn't as much substance to them. You don't have to get in a fight with people but you can still voice your opinion and people will receive it. Keep it up. 🤙
Christopher Stiles
2024-04-16 20:12:28 +0000 UTC
