Boningtonshire t1_jacqcrj wrote on February 28, 2023 at 2:30 PM

I believe there are large flying reptiles similar to a pterodactyl, they are also in Papau New Guinea, and other places.

But that’s not what’s causing all of the Missing 411 cases. Sometimes people walking in a group will be victims of a missing 411 incident in which the first or last in line will go around a corner on the trail and be out of view for just a second even though they are still very close to the person maybe 15 to 20ft away and while they are out of sight the victim will just vanish, no screams, no sounds, nothing. Almost as if they walked into a portal. If a giant flying reptile with a huge wingspan were to blame people would hear the victim scream, hear the creature’s wings flapping and there would be blood from the talons or beak ripping into the person. There is never any blood in any of his cases.

Now if you spent any amount of time reading his books or even just watching the numerous videos on the subject you would know this.

Great story but there isn’t any one cause we can point to because for every theory there is a case which disproves that particular theory. Even Paulides himself admits this. It is a total mystery, and it doesn’t even appear to be one cause, it appears to be many causes combined.

Saint_Circa OP t1_jacwfjj wrote on February 28, 2023 at 3:13 PM

I've spent way more hours than I care to admit reading through his stuff. It is true that not every case can be attributed to this theory, but eagles are quick. They can easily move forty miles an hour, and swoop in at even faster speeds.

They're also ambush predators. They wait for exactly the right moment and strike when they know its safest.

and there are several cases where there is a "whooshing" sound that's heard before people are even aware their friends are missing. The case of Thomas Messick being the most notorious.

15-20ft is not a fair gauge of distance. When you consider that almost all of these cases involve the victim being well out of sight, mostly kids and elderly folk, who the people they were hiking with swear they only "Turned their backs for a minute." realistically that was probably more like 3-5 minutes, more than enough time for a large bird of prey to swoop in and snatch a small prey. You're not going to find a lot of blood as the result of talons plugging the wound they've created. Unless they kill their prey before they take off, but that's unlikely as it wouldn't be opportunistic of them to do so.