While the circumstances surrounding each case are unique, there are some common factors that often contribute to a successful outcome.

They may run away from home, take a trip without telling anyone, or get lost while hiking or camping. He also limited the number of copies for each release to make it harder for counterfeiters to reproduce them. As a result, the books are hard to come by, even in popular libraries. Alaska has the highest rate of missing persons in the United States. 41.8 people out of every 100,000 go missing in Alaska. The latter option seems especially plausible, since in none of the recorded calls were any of the victims able to relay any coherent, useful information. At most, they managed to say that someone is following them, but not exactly who or where they are, or if they described a specific location, they were already gone within moments (if the location they gave was accurate in the first place). Mostly, they just managed to say something like “oh my gosh”, or “my phone is about to go dead”, or gave out unsettling noises. a b Cossins, Dan (February 15, 2013). "Bigfoot DNA is Bunk". The Scientist. Archived from the original on February 8, 2017 . Retrieved February 8, 2017.One of the most famous is the case of Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat who vanished in 1809 while on a journey from Perugia to Vienna. To this day, no one knows what happened to him or where he went. This is a fairly strong profile point, given that there is no good explanation, conventional or otherwise, for why or how any of this should happen at all. People don’t have good reasons to lie down on their faces and Paulides is correct to point out that corpses in water can offer a lot of reliable information about the deceased person. Specifically, when, where, or how they died.

The main analytical problem with using this as a profile point is that while it is a good place to start, the fact that the person wasn’t found is a better indicator of which variables prevent people from being found, more than it is an indicator of why or how they got lost in the first place. I will discuss this in more detail when I get to related profile points like the role of bad weather. This is five times the rate in California and three and a half times the rate of Arizona, which is in second place. The most likely explanations for the high rate of missing persons in Alaska are its large rural area and its large indigenous population.Some say that the vast size of the lake makes it easy for people to get lost and never be found. Others believe that there are underwater caves or tunnels that lead to other parts of the world and that people who enter them are never seen again. Unfortunately, there are many people who go missing and are never found. What Can You Do to Help Find Missing Persons? Perhaps the only type of thing that Dave tends to do that’s somewhat less than ideal is that in his descriptions of the cases, he sometimes omits facts that point toward more mundane explanations. But still, even assuming that they’re intentional omissions and not just Dave not knowing a fact or Dave keeping a fact to himself in the interest of the family of the victim, it’s very human. It makes for good storytelling, and beyond that, it’s important to understand that everyone has a bias. Scientists do this all the time. Unwrapping the Enigma Subjects found deceased having no identifiable cause of death, or an unexplained fever if found alive If the person was seen, say, falling of a cliff, then that would be an explanation, just like it should be easier to find someone when you’d seen where exactly they entered the forest, at what speed, and in what state of mind. Though there are Missing 411 cases where that didn’t help, like when a person was seen chasing a dog into the forest, which only helps explain how people can get lost more often while walking a dog.

However, that leaves a number of seemingly unnecessary attributes without any apparent logic behind why they should make someone a target or more likely to get lost mysteriously. These are mainly the German connection, the religion connection, and the military connection, or a combination of two or all three. This invokes a motivation or mentality that either has something to do with genetics or culture, or a specific grudge. Paulides got to work and uncovered several lines of evidence that suggested negligence of the park service for failing to locate the missing people. Yes, you are supposed to be thinking of Dirk Gently. The concept of a holistic detective may be a fiction invented by Douglas Adams, but the interesting aspect of his science fiction ideas is that while crazy-sounding and hilarious, they are logically consistent and potentially realistic. Like his idea of a probability-based engine — many macroscopic physical “laws” are only aggregates of chaotic movements and interactions going on at the subatomic level. Objects can spontaneously teleport, it’s just very, very, very unlikely. This is perhaps the main area in which I would like Dave to release tables with exact percentages of just how common various traits among the missing people are, as the first step that needs to be taken in any serious study is to compare the composition of Dave’s sample with the standard distributions of variables in the normal demographics of the involved states or countries. Without that, we simply don’t know if any of it is significant. Throughout history, there have been many mysterious disappearances that have baffled investigators.At the moment, these are the only two documentary films about the Missing 411 cases. However, given the growing interest in the phenomenon, it is likely that more films will be made in the future. Are There Feral People in National Parks?