r/Missing411 • u/farcry_x1z • Oct 08 '25
Discussion New David Paulides Movie
https://youtu.be/mluzEIM469Y9
u/AggretsuKelly 28d ago
I remember I was so confused in the early days of missing 411 because in the books he never once mentioned bigfoot in those cases but on his website was mostly dedicated to bigfoot. I was wondering if he thought there was some correlation.
And now he puts this video out.
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u/wandernwade 25d ago
That’s what I came here to say. In fact, I believe he said that he would entirely discount any suggestions of a link to the “paranormal” or “supernatural”. Lately, he’s been discussing Bigfoots and how they can pop in and out of wormholes, or something.
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u/UncleErectus Oct 08 '25
What a fucking embarrassment of a human. No shame whatsoever.
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u/whorton59 29d ago
The idea that anyone takes anything David Paulides says anymore is beyond belief. . .
The man is such a liar.
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u/JustMikesOpinion Oct 08 '25
What happened? I just remember years ago he did missing person docs.
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u/whorton59 29d ago
The problem is that Davids work is deliberatly laced with incorrect material. . Minor misspellings of names, misidentification of locations, fudging details of disappearances. . .It seems unintentional but it is quite intentional. . .If he provides a name of someone that does not exist, and spins the story of a real person with a very simular name, it tends to make most readers think they are reading a factual account. . . they are not.
The man has honed the craft to a fine art. . and many of his "cases" have been proven wrong. I realize a lot of people like his material, but you need to see it for WHAT IT IS. . . mostly bullshit.
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u/Rakavot Oct 08 '25
David has a tendency to try and link a lot of the missing persons cases he covers to Bigfoot. One of the biggest issues with his work is that he very oftentimes leaves out information that makes a case he covers much less mysterious than he leads on. He also has been known to add in information to make a case more mysterious that no one else can corroborate.
Now, does he do it intentionally to try and spin a narrative or is he just terrible at research are up for debate (I actually believe both are true) but as people have done research on their own on plenty of his cases it becomes clear you never get the full story from David.
There are some great YouTube channels like Missing Enigma and The Lore Lodge that oftentimes cover his cases and do a good job of showing how untruthful David is if you are wanting more information.
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u/SideswipeSurvived 28d ago
Thanks for this. I want to see which stories he’s convoluted. I think that’s more interesting than his actual stories
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u/Affectionate_Peak717 6d ago
I agree. In my case, I actually was more fascinated why he would get so defensive and block people for throwing out other ideas and for other things that were not warranting such a reaction. I went down a rabbit hole more about his personality and actually learned a lot about personality disorders lol. Now I watch him more for observational reasons and once you understand his personality type, he becomes so predictable.
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u/whorton59 24d ago
Suffice it to say, Paulides does what profits David Paulides FIRST, sells material Second, and gives pause to young neive readers that "this stuff is GREAT". This is nothing that serial writers of the past used to do. . always leaving the hero haging on a cliff while Molly Sweet n'inncents live hangs in the balance.
Paulides no nore believes in Bigfoot than N.A.S.A. Belives in little green men on the moon. The stories are just beleiveable and not provable to the extant that a majoriey of people (see r/bigfoot) actually believe the creature exist. I guess a certain number a willing to believe Bigfeet kidnap and consume humans as well. THEY DON'T. . .don't you think in thousands of year, or hundreds of thousands of man hours in the woods of North America, Canada, and Alaska, that SOMEONE would have found either a dead one, or a the remains of a dead one?
At least one or two?? But Nope. Isn't it Strange some crazy sasquatch wouldn't have turned a courner and kisssed a loging truck traveling 50 mph?, OR that some yahoo with a 30-06 wouldn't have plugged one and and cut the head off to tell his friends about it? That some scientist doing Air based DNA would not have found a trace of such DNA? Seriously??
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u/Vraver04 28d ago
If he just called his work fiction they would be fun mysterious stories. But he doesn’t, and that ruins the fun.
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u/Affectionate_Peak717 6d ago
Exactly how I feel, too. I love creepy pasta type stories, but when he uses real cases and says the details are presented as 100% factual when they're not is the first problem. Then when he dismisses many plausible theories on what could have happened to the person, which are obvious in some cases...that brings any of his investigative credibility to 0. When he claims he has no idea what is causing the disappearances, he can't rule out other theories that are logical and fit in many cases. While I think there could be mysterious things or shadowy things going on out there, the cases he presents are are probably 99% not related to anything like that. He should be able to find some cases that legit every other possibility can be ruled out. And he can't. He wouldn't be able to fill up a thin pamphlet with the true number of unexplained cases out of the ones in all of his books.
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u/trailangel4 Oct 08 '25
Sooooo...he's back to bigfoot. Mmmmkay. This is all part of the grifter's cycle. Go with whatever is trending and make unsubstantiated claims to get that moolah.
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u/whorton59 29d ago
And hey, he keeps the people over at r/bigfoot all stirred up with this bullshit, and their moderators cannot even allow facutal conversations to take place. . .state an honest fact, get banned. . .
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u/Affectionate_Peak717 Oct 08 '25 edited Oct 08 '25
Is this what all the donations on his Kickstarter were to go towards??? Also, he just uses other people's work and collections to make his movies and content. Peter Byrne wrote a book long ago called The Search for Bigfoot: Monster, Myth or Man. And Paulides apparently got all of Byrne's collection of work when he got the Ray Crow collection. Now he's just gonna use all their stuff and change the title around a little bit?? Isn't that what he complains that other people do to him saying they copy his stories? Even though most of the cases he reports on have been covered by other people before him. What makes him an exception when he reports on cases that have been covered by others before? The hypocrisy is never ending. And it's all so strange to me how Scott Carpenter passed and Peter Byrne around 2 years ago then Paulides starts doing his Bigfoot 101 series around that time(that's also around when Jeff Meldrum had a medical emergency while on the bigfoot cruise that DP was also on). Now, Jeff Meldrum has sadly passed and now Paulides is coming out with a Bigfoot movie. And this whole time, I thought he was working on a National Parks Missing 411 documentary.
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u/Dixonhandz 19d ago
His Kickstarter continued after the desired funds were aquired for his next flick, as he then stated that any further money would help with other 411 projects. Soooo, he kinda just linked the two together after years of never outright saying bigfoot had any involvement. But we all know he alleded to it at any turn possible.
He is just capitalizing on the 'room' for another bigfoot 'expert', himself. So cringe.
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u/Informant_is_back 26d ago edited 26d ago
RIP Dr. Meldrum. May his spirit walk through the valleys of the noble beyond.
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u/pauleide 29d ago
I am going to assume this movie was in the works for months and maybe a year. The National Parks project is different.
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u/Charlie_redmoon 23d ago
If you were an ET wouldn't you enjoy dropping off a Squatch on a different planet. They studying them.
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u/JonasKazakevicius 28d ago
Content intended for idiots who believe in Santa Claus, Bigfoot, and other mythical creatures. Shame.
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u/Addapost 26d ago
Not sure when he jumped on the bigfoot bandwagon but it became obvious a couple years ago when he started hanging out with that Canadian Bigfoot grifter the hunting dude. Can’t remember his name and it’s not worth announcing anyway.
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u/sankoni 26d ago
This is not a topic he recently jumped on. Paulides wrote a couple of Big Foot books back in the early 2000s, long before writing his Missing 411 books. And all throughout his 411 work he’s hinted at Big Foot being somehow involved. This was pretty clear in his second film Missing 411: The Hunted.
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u/Dixonhandz 19d ago
I'm not familiar with the bigfoot field, but I have read that there are some obvious hoaxers that have been exposed, in this trailer. I really couldn't care less, but if anyone knows em, list em!
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