PEOPLE ARE GOING MISSING from our forests and National Parks! Noted author to speak on this VERY REAL mystery

David Paulides, a former lawman turned investigative journalist, will be at the Unitarian Church on Moorpark Drive on October 14th, 2014 to present evidence uncovered during the research for his most recent book “Missing 411-The Devil is in the Detail”. Hosting the event will be UPARS LA. See http://www.meetup.com/UPARS-Los-Angeles

This is David’s fourth book on people who have disappeared from the national parks and forests of North America and nine other countries. David’s team works for the CanAm Missing Project. Their group has received tips from throughout the world about missing people that fit the profile which their tam has established. In fact, a profile of facts that surround over 1200 cases have been investigated by the team.

One of the elements that will baffle audiences is that there has been a proliferation of intellectuals and scholars that have disappeared in the forests and parks. Many of these people have never been found. Another group that has the same notoriety are rural runner/joggers, many of these people have disappeared under identical circumstances. The teams work has documeted 52 geographical clusters of missing people in North America.

You can purchase books from David after his presentation, and he will sign them there. DO NOT purchase from Amazon.com as they are asking much more for the same book he will sell to you for $24.95.

You can read about the project at www.canammissing.com.

The bulk of David’s presentation will be devoted to material from his book, “Missing 411” which deals with the peculiarly large number of anomalous vanishings in our national parks and forests. A tip from a national park ranger let David to begin a three-year plus, 7,000 hour investigation of this phenomenon. Paulides now has 450 such cases. Acknowledging that animal attacks and accidents do occur in the forest, he contends that these disappearances are different because they provide no clues that suggest such prosaic causes.

The Missing 411 research depicts 28 clusters of missing people across the continent, something that has never been exposed before and which shocked researchers. This is not a phenomenon that has been occurring over just a few decades. Clusters of missing people have been identified going as far back as the 1800s. Paulides details instances where people have vanished within minutes, never to be seen again, and where bone fragments of victims were found, as if they’d been eaten, yet their clothes had been carefully removed.

One bizarre trend amongst the cases is that the victims often appear to have traveled vast distances. There is one case involving a two-year-old boy named Keith Parkins, who vanished near Umatilla National Forest. The child was eventually found 19 hours later, an astounding 12 miles away from where he disappeared, after being gone for 19 hours. The journey in question would have required the toddler to cross two mountain ranges, not to mention fences, creeks and rivers. This case is just one of many where people have disappeared and later been found ”several hundred percent” outside of the search grid-system customarily used by search and rescue teams. Another common theme in these cases is that it will often rain or snow following the disappearance, but when the victim is later found, they will be wearing clean, dry clothes and “there’s no way they could have been outdoors while they were gone.”

Paulides is reticent to offer a specific theory as to what is behind this rash of disappearances. Interestingly, Paulides expresses considerable suspicion over the government’s lack of interest in these events. “There’s got to be some type of cover-up going at the federal level, because there’s no reason in the rational world why the Parks Service wouldn’t be tracking people who disappear inside their system.” To that end, he cites two separate instances where a person went missing and teams of Green Berets showed up in the area, made no contact with the other searchers, and proceeded to conduct their own search ”as if they were on their own private mission that no one else understood.”

WHEN: October 14th, 2014, 8 PM (get there a half hour early for a good seat)

WHERE: Unitarian Universalist Church, 12355 Moorpark St.., Studio City, CA

Come join us for what will likely be a barnburner of a talk!