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Skeptoid, 'Why You Needn't Worry About the Missing 411'
Brian Dunning's 2021 episode comparing Missing 411 to the Bermuda Triangle: ordinary tragedies given an aura of mystery.
2021 CE · 33.54, -117.78 · status: official
The account
Dunning reviewed Paulides's background, the FOIA story and the profile points. He noted that the cases cover all federal land, not just parks; that paradoxical undressing explains missing clothes; and cited a review of 243 cases finding most were middle-aged men, many with health problems or on dangerous routes, not the very young or old. He concluded that Paulides never shows that disappearances happen at an unexpected rate.
Connections in the atlas
- Paradoxical undressing and terminal burrowing
- Kyle Polich's data analysis of Missing 411
- The Missing 411 'profile points'
- 'Missing 411' and Yosemite