The Government Mandated Lockdowns across the country has had a silver lining, people are spending more time reading books, and watching videos that educate and inform themselves. One of the documentaries I, Publius Jr, have watched quite a bit of is the David Paulides Missing 411 stories.
David Paulides is a former Police Officer who has written a series of books called Missing 411. He has a YouTube Channel called CanAm Missing Project.
This is a description from the Channel:
CanAm Missing is a group of retired police officers, search and rescue experts (SAR) and other professionals that are dedicated to researching, on scene investigating and generally understanding the issues associated with people who go missing in the wilds of North America. This has typically been a project that is intensely worked by search and rescue teams starting when the victim is reported lost and usually continuing for the following 7-14 days, the case then flounders in a file cabinet. After years of reading thousands of SAR reports, speaking with dozens of victims, we believe the paradigm of this effort needs change.
Law enforcement and the media usually do not publicize concerns of kidnapping or abduction when the missing can be explained through traditional means. There are too many of these cases to ignore and there is a consistency to the stories.
Missing in State & National Parks
David Paulides tells of numerous stories of regular people and rugged experienced outdoors people who will go missing and leave no trace, or they are found alive or dead several miles outside of the search area under mysterious circumstances. Some of the best experts in SAR are baffled by these cases. There’s an endless number of cases that oddly occur in our National Parks, State Parks and even in rural areas where people hike, fish, hunt, or do other activities.
Some speculation falls into the paranormal and talks of Sasquatch & Dogman (listen to Steve Isdahl of The Facts By HowtoHunt.com, and Scott Carpenter) and other odd things the Government may know more than they are telling us. Something is happening that defies conventional logic and reasoning which is why there is a lot of imagination about what might be happening.
The most amazing quality of the response from the Federal Government especially concerning missing people in National Parks is a feeling of indifference. They never keep records of where, when and who goes missing in their parks. It has a feeling of a cover-up. The amount of money to just have a database of keeping track of missing people in these parks is a fraction of a fraction of the money taxpayers have given to foreign groups in the last two Covid related Stimulus Bills.
This is one of the reasons why I, Publius Jr, am posting this article to try to get legislation enacted in Minnesota to inform and to help those wishing to enjoy the outdoors be prepared before they go to a State or National Park or outside of the city limits.
Minnesota is one of the few states that has a specific sales tax that goes to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Some of that money could be used to bring awareness and help people be aware of these mysterious occurrences.
If you go to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources website you can look on it to see if there’s talk of Personal Locator Beacons. There is nothing on their site that mentions it. They do encourage people to wear personal floatation devices when out on the water, but if you get lost in the woods there is nothing said about how to get help. Cellphones don’t always have the range or coverage. So don’t rely on them.
According to David Paulides, GPS devices do nothing to help someone find a missing person. He strongly recommends a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB). He suggests you can get them on Amazon.com, but a DuckDuckGo search shows Cabela’s and other outdoors equipment stores carry them. REI has an article about the difference between PLBs and Satellite Messengers, there are links to purchase at their site.
Perhaps at State & National Parks they could rent them for the time the visitors are at their park.
Missing 411 Criteria
People go missing everyday and usually are found, but in the cases David Paulides lists as Missing 411 Cases there are some criteria that the cases have that delineate them from regular missing persons cases. The criteria below do not show up in every Missing 411 case.
- Point of Separation
- Time Disappearance
- Boulder Fields (Granite Fields)
- Near Water
- Weather Event
- Disability or Illness
- Canines can’t track
- Found in Area Previously Searched (if they are found)
- Missing Clothing
- Unknown Cause of Death (if they are found)
- Geographical Clustering
The last Criteria is chilling, Geographical Clustering. People who vanish under the Missing 411 Criteria tend to go missing in or near another location another person went missing. From his two documentaries which can be seen free on YouTube Movies, Missing 411, and Missing 411 The Hunted, there is a National Map of Geographical Clusters. Two of these clusters happen to be in Minnesota, with another in Northern Wisconsin, and one north of the Lake of the Woods in Canada. There is a Cluster in the Itasca area where the Mississippi River begins, and another it appears near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area.
Missing 411 Geographical Clusters
David Paulides doesn’t have the answers, but in his investigations of these cases he has come across stonewalling by the Federal Government, specifically the National Park Service which seems to want to keep the American People from knowing how dangerous their parks are. Yosemite happens to have the highest total of Missing 411 cases of any National Park. In the documentary Missing 411 The Hunted, about Hunters who vanish he mentions how the FBI may show up to document the cases but as they don’t investigate missing persons cases they are doing something in which they won’t reveal. It seems suspicious their actions in the cases they visit.
Use the Dedicated Money to the DNR to Inform People
Minnesota has a dedicated tax to the Department of Natural Resources. They also have money from the State Lottery system as well for DNR projects. Wouldn’t it be wise to advocate and inform people to be safe in the outdoors? Minnesota can boast about it’s beautiful natural vistas, and activities outdoors such as hunting, fishing, hiking, and boating. It’s a major industry in the state, but the DNR doesn’t advocate for Personal Locator Beacons on their website, and they should. They don’t rent them out at State or National Parks. There is no database for people who go missing in the state or national parks in our state.
If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail~~Benjamin Franklin
So contact your State Representative to ask them to educate people going into State & National Parks and invest in Personal Locator Beacons for your family.
See also this related article: “Get a Personal Locator Beacon and a RECCO Reflector When You do Outdoor Activities.”
The article was posted to inform people about mysterious occurrences that have happened in the state of Minnesota. We at Saintpaulrepublicans.us urge you to look into purchasing a Personal Locator Beacon instead of a Satellite Messaging device. Follow David Paulides on his YouTube Channel and take his advice about what to take into the outdoors. We are not associated with him, nor do we get any sort of compensation from posting this article. ~~ Publius Jr.