Tuesday, October 01, 2013

THE SON OF THIRTY-ONE DAYS OF HALLOWEEN! DAY 1: MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES!




Years ago, I wrote a blog post a day during October, each dedicated to a topic that fit the tone of the Halloween season. That first "Thirty-One Days Of Halloween!" has been lost to the Internet ether, but like every classic horror movie monster, its spawn lives on! Over the next thirty-one days, I'll be your tour guide through lands of shadow and mystery, horror and terror, both real and fictional, and environs in between.

Today, I begin with a recent discovery I made while listening to the often spooky and always fascinating Coast To Coast AM. Monday morning, I tuned in an in-progress interview with David Paulides, a former law enforcement agent who has researched and investigated the Bigfoot phenomenon extensively. That research led Paulides to a far more disturbing discovery: a large number of unexplained missing persons' cases, stretching back over a century both in the US and across the globe. The persons missing are often children, and in most cases they are never seen again, nor any evidence that they had ever been in the last place they were seen. Other cases involve the finding of a body, though all cases involve a dog in the presence of the person who goes missing and the context of a national park or forest.

Paulides has written three books on these disappearances, which can be found on his website. He continues to work with other retired law enforcement officials, former park rangers, and search and rescue personnel in researching cases new and old, as well as informing the public about these incidents and the commonalities among them.

As a sort of "primer" on these cases, watch this short (under six minutes) news report on Paulides and his work:

Missing In Parks: David Paulides

Below are links to various audio episodes of Coast To Coast AM featuring Paulides as a guest. These are riveting interviews with chilling details about these unsolved missing persons cases.

This past Monday's episode:




Another episode from March of 2013:


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