Missing 411

well it's interesting my name is brendan brown and i founded the what is the catskill appalachian research collective and it started out as an investigative group kind of like nids did with skinwalker ranch in the first when they first did that stuff is i wanted to do some independent studying on some strange stuff i.e high strangeness spirits and ghost ufos obviously bigfoot got in there a lot um bigfoot got in there a little too much actually for my own liking and seeing that once we had everything up and running Seeing that I kind of live, I only live a couple hours from Warren County, right, where this case actually took place.

And like you guys, I got roped into the whole Paulinus missing 411 thing with the Hunter's film.

I think the Hunter's film was the cinematography was excellent, right? It was really done well with how they shot it.

But the storyline left a little bit desired, right? It was a little too much creepypasta for me.

And every time he gave an answer that David didn't like, they just kind of erased it, and he didn't use it.

And then the captain from the fire department got interviewed, and he didn't say anything that was creepy enough, so they just left him out of the whole interview.

I had to promise to put him in the film because he got left out of the missing 4111.

So he's like, I'm not going to do an interview if nobody puts me in the damn film, because he didn't fit the narrative of what David was saying.

Hey, George, nice to see you.

I got a chance to read the new book, Missing 411 Alaska.

It's terrific, as always, filled with really fascinating cases, in particular, a new focus on missing planes.

I want to start, though, with a Nevada case, because although the focus is on Alaska, The whole world goes to Alaska to hunt and see the scenes and do tourism stuff.

Nothing made any sense.

And they thought they actually were in that specific area because of the matchbooks they found.

How many thousands of cases, missing 411 cases, do you think you've researched over the years and the criteria that you've developed to put them into your categories?

I've read over 10,000 cases, and I've narrowed it down to about 1,800 cases that I've written about or documented.

"He told me the family curse wasn't about becoming a wolf," Jeff later recalled.

"It was about what would happen when the wolf finally stopped hiding." Years later, Jeff began connecting Daniel's disappearance to the missing person cases investigated by David Paulides through the Missing 411 series.

There's no verifiable evidence, public or otherwise, establishing Daniel Leonard as a documented 411 case, but Jeff became convinced that his son's disappearance belonged to a much larger pattern of people vanishing without explanation.

Sally reportedly kept one of Daniel's old photos beside her bed.

It was so bizarre at the time, I never discussed it.

I began reading the Missing 411 stories a few weeks ago and realized what I encountered fits into the Missing 411 profile.

Additionally, since many of the Missing 411 stories border on the unexplainable and bizarre, I feel what I encountered was not unique, that it was part of an actual phenomena.

Here's my story.

I was visiting my girlfriend in Chicago.

I've carried this experience around for 12 plus years being unable to talk about it because it was so exceptional and unexplainable.

It's a relief to read similar stories of unusual encounters and disappearances.

After reading many Missing 411 accounts and the profile of disappearances, I believe I narrowly averted being snatched by whatever that thing was.

But they'll report on it because they know that there is a community there that is, is willing to, to watch it.

That's the, I, the Missing 411 stuff, that's probably the best example I've ever seen of that really.

Oh my God.

I, and I bought into it hook, line, and sinker.

They're never gonna find me.

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See, I'm not, like, okay, I have to, for legal reasons, I have to say this is my opinion, but in my opinion, the whole Missing 411 franchise and phenomenon exists for the sole purpose of getting people to spend money in, uh, investigating Bigfoot.

Get, get some... [laughs]