'Missing 411', by David Paulides: Tracking unusual missing persons cases

Laurs

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Since the end of December 2020, there have been at least 3 and maybe 4 strange missing 411 cases on the Portuguese island of Madeira.

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From wikipedia: Madeira Portuguese:, officially the Autonomous Region of Madeira, is one of two autonomous regions of Portugal, the other being the Azores. It is an archipelago situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, in a region known as Macaronesia, just under 400 kilometers (250 mi) to the north of the Canary Islands and 520 kilometers (320 mi) west of Morocco. Madeira is geologically located on the African Tectonic Plate, although its people are descended from Portuguese settlers. Its population was 251,060 in 2021. The capital of Madeira is Funchal, which is located on the main island's south coast.

When the C's said in the last session that especially German genes are in high demand by STS, i thought of having read about these cases in the newspaper and decided to check it out some more. It appears that David Paulides did a video on them some 2 weeks ago! Here it is:


At 24:30 he goes into the cases. It is known that 3 of the missing men were world level elite runners. Some 15,000 hectares of the 27,000 hectares large natural park on Madeira was declared an Unesco World Heritage Site, and consists of primary laurel forest. Paulides says that many cases happen on these kind of Unesco sites, which to him are a red flag.

The first case concerns fit German runner Jasha Paul Hardenberg, 28, who was running on 29th December in the mountains, when he disappeared without a trace. At 2pm on December 29 he sent a friend his georeference, saying he was lost – since then, nothing. Police conducted a 4 day search, and after finding nothing they gave up. David Paulides mentions finding it strange that one can not find a lot about this case online.

Next case concerns experienced mountain trail runner Michal Kozek (35), who is Polish but lives in Switzerland, and who disappeared on 7th July 2021. He was on holiday in Madeira with his wife and kids, and went running on a planned running route. But other than a ‘ping’ from his phone logged on a telecommunications mast at 8pm, there has been nothing to help searchers at all. In this case the search went on longer, with Michal's brother actively participating. They found absolutely nothing.

Then on 11th December 2022, ultra elite athlete Darren Kay (52) from the UK went missing, while running on a trail. He had some 20 years of running experience at elite level under his belt. When he went missing, the police launched a massive search. They were hindered by high altitude winds which were keeping flights down. After 10 days of fruitless searching, they called it off. Nothing was found.

With respect to the possible 4th case, Paulides mentions Benoit Way in the video but couldn't find much evidence that his case is part of this missing 411 'new cluster' on the island of Madeira (as he calls it, and he btw says that many missing runners were on islands surrounded by water), but in this online newspaper report there was an article about it. It concerns 35 year old French guy Benoit Way. He was hiking and was not an elite trail runner, and went missing on 1st September 2021.

There isn't much information and the main stream media do not connect the cases. It could be that Madeira doesn't want to scare off tourists, there were 1,5 million of those in 2019, and after the severe covid measures they has in place there, i can imagine they didn't want to jeopardize that income. At 42:20 in the video, Paulides wonders why residents of Madeira who are long runners are not going missing, perhaps it is because their genes are not useful for the nefarious purposes of STS...
 

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Some more details from the Julian Sands case:

The search for British actor Julian Sands continues nearly a week after he was reported missing while hiking in a treacherous area of California’s San Gabriel Mountains, where at least two other hikers have already perished this winter.

The search for the 65-year-old actor is currently being conducted “via helicopter only”, the San Bernardino county sheriff’s department said Friday afternoon, because the risk of avalanches around Mt Baldy has continued to make on-the-ground rescue efforts too dangerous.

There is currently no timeline for ending the search for Sands, department spokesperson Gloria Huerta said on Friday.

The Mt Baldy bowl area where Sands was hiking has been a deadly one this winter, with at least two hikers killed in the area after falling and injuring themselves in the past month, according to the sheriff’s department.

One of the two hikers who died, identified by local media as Crystal Paula Gonzalez, was an experienced hiker, known to family and friends as “the hiking queen,” CBS News Los Angeles reported. Authorities said that Gonzalez, who had previously summited Mt Whitney, one of the highest peaks in the United States, slipped and fell more than 500ft while hiking on 8 January, and died of her injuries on the mountain.

Search and rescue teams have responded to more than two dozen different incidents of lost or injured hikers in the Mt Baldy area over the past month, with authorities this week warning even experienced hikers to stay away from the mountain during “extremely dangerous” conditions.

Sands, an avid hiker and longtime resident of the Los Angeles area, was reported missing around 7.30pm last Friday. Pings from his cell phone logged in subsequent days only showed his movements on 13 January, the sheriff’s department said late Friday.

Initial ground and helicopter searches of one of his possible locations that day did not locate any evidence of Sands, the department said. Further analysis of Sands’ cell phone location data is ongoing, but, “Thus far, no workable leads have been developed”, the department said.

At this point, there is no data that indicates Sands’ whereabouts after Friday, the day he was reported missing, Huerta said. His vehicle was located in the Mt Baldy area, and has been towed by his family, she said.

“Additional air searches will be conducted,” the department said.

As California has been buffeted by winter storms, weather conditions in the mountain have inhibited attempts to assist missing and injured hikers, including Sands. Rescue crews looking for Sands on the ground had to be pulled off the mountain on Saturday night because of the dangerous weather. Weather conditions also inhibited the efforts to evacuate Gonzalez, the injured hiker, off the mountain to a hospital, a medic told CBS News Los Angeles. She left behind five children, the news outlet reported.

More than 21 people have died across California in the storms of the past few weeks, and others, including a five-year-old boy swept away in flood waters, remain missing.
So he's gone missing in a place, and at a time, where bad weather has caused other experienced hikers to die recently, so it's too early to say whether it's a likely 'Missing 411' case.
 

cholas

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For entertainment purposes only, we found Howard's Mill (mockumentary) to be a very good watch. Saw it on tubi.

It certainly appears that the creators are familiar with Missing 411. Very well done.
 

c.a.

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c.a.

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This week we welcome author and filmmaker David Paulides of the Missing 411 series. David is a former police officer and investigator who spent the greater part of the last 20 years documenting unsolved cases of people who have gone missing in the national parks and wilderness of North America. Who or what is taking people without a trace? The creator and producer of three Missing 411 documentaries, David just released his most recent project, Missing 411: The UFO Connection. In this groundbreaking film, he presents empirical evidence connecting UFO phenomena to a subset of mysterious disappearances. Join us as we chat with David about his theories and insights into these fascinating and bizarre cases, the irrefutable connections between these missing people, and find out how his investigations and interviews around these mysterious disappearances have changed his views on what is happening in the wilds of North America.

 

hiker

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Dave interviewed an ex FBI guy, who was with the bureau for 25 years and among other things, specialized in paranormal cases.
His name is Fox Mulder? :D

The ex FBI guy, John DeSouza (unfortunately he wasn't named Fox Mulder :lol:), was interviewed at the premiere of "The UFO Connection": Dave posted the discussion on his youtube channel today.


A few things mentioned in the interview:

- Apparently there is currently a huge number of Inuit women disappearing in northern Canada and Alaska: it would fit the Yukon area.
If memory serves, I think it was mentioned in a Cass session(?), that there is an apparent "4D STS" influence in the Yukon region.

- The interview was interrupted by a fire alarm after it had got going. Not surprising, as often there is "something" that doesn't want the topic being investigated/talked about.

- The higher up folks at the FBI didn't let the field agents see the results of the samples, which were taken at the cattle mutilation sites (by special teams). They hid the results to prevent the extra work, which would be required if the cases were investigated further.
Evidently the coyotes and wolves don't go near the carcasses, as they sense that something "supernatural" has taken place.

-The disappearances and other shenanigans are connected to "extra dimensional beings", who somehow gain access to our reality.
DeSouza has written a book about the subject: "The Extra-Dimensionals".

- DeSouza was involved in the 9/11 investigations and clearing of the rubble at the WTC. He says that they found no plane parts amongst the debris, not even a single wheel strut which weigh tons. Later during the Q&A, he clarified that some kind of high tech hologram, which had "solidity" involved in it, was used to depict the planes hitting the buildings. He seems to be in the "no planes" camp.

- It looks to DeSouza, that if a person gets "disappeared", s/he has to be unobserved for a period of time, meaning that no one is having a direct view on them. For instance, he mentions the "going to pee" example: there is a bunch of people, and someone goes to take a leak behind the bushes, is unobserved and disappear. Dave concludes that probably 98-99% of the missing cases are exactly like that: the people are alone with no eyes on them.
 

Cosmos

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The ex FBI guy, John DeSouza (unfortunately he wasn't named Fox Mulder :lol:), was interviewed at the premiere of "The UFO Connection": Dave posted the discussion on his youtube channel today.


A few things mentioned in the interview:

- Apparently there is currently a huge number of Inuit women disappearing in northern Canada and Alaska: it would fit the Yukon area.
If memory serves, I think it was mentioned in a Cass session(?), that there is an apparent "4D STS" influence in the Yukon region.

- The interview was interrupted by a fire alarm after it had got going. Not surprising, as often there is "something" that doesn't want the topic being investigated/talked about.

- The higher up folks at the FBI didn't let the field agents see the results of the samples, which were taken at the cattle mutilation sites (by special teams). They hid the results to prevent the extra work, which would be required if the cases were investigated further.
Evidently the coyotes and wolves don't go near the carcasses, as they sense that something "supernatural" has taken place.

-The disappearances and other shenanigans are connected to "extra dimensional beings", who somehow gain access to our reality.
DeSouza has written a book about the subject: "The Extra-Dimensionals".

- DeSouza was involved in the 9/11 investigations and clearing of the rubble at the WTC. He says that they found no plane parts amongst the debris, not even a single wheel strut which weigh tons. Later during the Q&A, he clarified that some kind of high tech hologram, which had "solidity" involved in it, was used to depict the planes hitting the buildings. He seems to be in the "no planes" camp.

- It looks to DeSouza, that if a person gets "disappeared", s/he has to be unobserved for a period of time, meaning that no one is having a direct view on them. For instance, he mentions the "going to pee" example: there is a bunch of people, and someone goes to take a leak behind the bushes, is unobserved and disappear. Dave concludes that probably 98-99% of the missing cases are exactly like that: the people are alone with no eyes on them.

I watched it, highly interesting!
 

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Nicola Bulley has turned up, dead (RIP).

Guess where they found her? By the river, close to where she was last seen, in a spot that had already been thoroughly searched weeks ago.

This missing person case has been all over UK news these last few weeks, with the British media giving it full-on 'sensational' coverage, complete with muckraking, gossip, hacking and an endless parade of experts.

Something tells me they're going to regret that, because they've gone and brought nation-wide attention to what is very likely a Missing 411 case.

From Metro.co.uk

A body found in the River Wyre has been formally identified as that of Nicola Bulley.

The mother-of-two was found on Sunday a mile from where she was last seen, walking her dog in St Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire, three weeks ago.

Her death is still being treated as ‘unexplained’ while post-mortem examinations continue. [...]

The find concludes a major search of the area which saw specialists comb a large stretch of the river for days on end. [...]

Nicola’s body is understood to have been found among reeds, making it difficult for experts to find her.

That's hard to believe. The river bank where she was found is small, the 'reeds' flattened, and an open road passes close by, with a clear view down the small slope to the river:

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As you can see, it's a narrow (and shallow) river.

Police and other rescue services used everything from grid searches to dogs to boats to high-tech scanners in their search for her.

Teams like this went right past the spot where she was eventually found, and probably did multiple such sweeps during the time she was missing:

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The above Metro article continues:

Specialist divers who volunteered to scan the riverbed with state-of-the-art equipment said she was ‘categorically not’ in the section where police believe she fell in.

Specialist Group International (SGI) said they searched the bed near where Nicola was eventually found ‘for four hours on our first day’ but that they were ‘not involved or tasked with’ the search of the riverbank, which includes reeds.

Another report specifies:

Peter Faulding has previously shared how the area where Ms Bulley was found WAS searched before. The specialist diver, who was called in by Nicola's family to help search for her, said: "I was there for three days as a volunteer. The police search teams walked that river every day. Up and down, up and down."

In typically British fashion, the media has 'outed' the person who found the body - presumably, after it 'reappeared' - and revealed him to be a 33-year-old 'medium' who walked the river to 'sense' if he could locate Bulley. He has since given a statement to the press:

"I was not asked by the police or Nicola’s family to become involved in this case, but having seen the wild speculation and hurtful commentary that has been ongoing, and having previously assisted in the recovery of Michael Brooks, I decided to use whatever 'gift' it is we mediums possess to try and locate Nicola Bulley."
Another curiosity about this case: Bulley was 45 years old. 45 years ago - to the DAY (27 January) - a teenager named Roger Jones went missing in the same stretch of river as Bulley. In his case, however, there appears to be a 'down-to-Earth' explanation: he was thrown from his motorcycle and was only found weeks later and much further downstream.
 
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