411 the hunted series#

He broadened his investigation to include missing people from across the world, and this led to his belief that he has uncovered a mysterious series of worldwide disappearances, which he said defied logical and conventional explanations. Paulides obliged, and asserts that he uncovered multiple lines of evidence suggesting negligence on the part of the park service in failing to locate the missing people. The ranger knew Paulides' background and asked him to research the issue. įollowing his work on Bigfoot, Paulides' next project was Missing 411, a series of self-published books and two documentary films, documenting unsolved cases of people who have gone missing in national parks and elsewhere.Īccording to Paulides, his work on this subject began when he was doing research in a national park and an off-duty park ranger found him and expressed concern about the questionable nature of some of the missing person cases which occurred in the parks.

The Scientist magazine also analyzed the paper, reporting that the analyses and data fail to support the claims of existence of a human-primate hybrid, but rather, 'analyses either come back as 100 percent human, or fail in ways that suggest technical artifacts.' The website for the DeNovo Journal of Science was set up on February 4, and there is no indication that Ketchum's work, the only study it has published, was peer reviewed.

Hill's report concluded that the paper was of poor quality, stating that 'The few experienced geneticists who viewed the paper reported a dismal opinion of it, noting it made little sense.' Two months later, in the inaugural issue of DeNovo: Journal of Science, the paper was analyzed by Sharon Hill of Doubtful News for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. On November 24, 2012, DNA Diagnostics, a veterinary laboratory headed by Ketchum, issued a press release prior to peer review claiming that their DNA sequencing study confirmed the existence of a hominin hybrid cross between modern humans with an unknown primate. Ketchum to conduct a study of bigfoot DNA.' The resulting paper documented the analysis of 111 samples of hypothesized Bigfoot DNA and was written by 11 different authors. We orchestrated the search that led to picking Dr. Paulides has said North America Bigfoot Search was instrumental in the genesis of a paper published in 2013, which claimed that Bigfoot was real: 'The world needs to understand that North America Bigfoot Search was the organizer of the study. In his pursuit of Bigfoot, Paulides self-published two Bigfoot-related books and founded the research group North America Bigfoot Search, for which he serves as director. InvestigationsĪfter leaving the police force, Paulides wrote books on the topic of Bigfoot, as well as on the disappearances of people in national parks and elsewhere which he attributes to unspecified, unknown causes.

While working as a court liaison officer in December 1996, Paulides was charged with a misdemeanor count of falsely soliciting for a charity. In his online biography page, Paulides states that he received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of San Francisco, and in 1977 he began a 20-year career in law enforcement, transferring in 1980 to the San Jose Police Department, working in the patrol division on the SWAT Team, patrol, and Street Crimes Unit, and a variety of assignments in the detective division. Missing 411 is a series of books and films, which document cases of people who have gone missing in national parks and elsewhere, and maintain that these cases are unusual and mysterious, contrary to data analysis which suggests that they are not actually statistically mysterious or even unexpected. Self-published writer on topics such as Bigfoot and missing personsĭavid Paulides is a former police officer who is now an investigator and writer known primarily for his self-published books dedicated to proving the reality of Bigfoot, and establishing the Missing 411 conspiracy theory.