A Thorough Analysis of the Missing 411 Map by David Paulides

Karst Map of the Conterminous (AKA Underground) United States - 2020

Public domain usage by Communications and PublishingMay 2020 (approx.) and found on the USGS website.

Preface:  I offer these insights and observations to any and to any and all studying the David Paulides books and Missing 411 map clusters, in the hopes that more and more frequent breakthroughs may be achieved.  In any case, I hope they're useful, but whadda I know?  I'm only one perspective, yet hopefully with some merit; the online map I'm using smudges some of the fine print, so if that throws me, please correct me—gently.

In any event, here they come.

Comparing the Missing 411 Clusters List to Reality

Just why are the Missing 411 clusters so closely linked to water? Having analyzed the map Paulides has made, I simply don't get it. Dave talks a lot about the jumbo dead spot running through the continent and the Great Plains, but if you take a look at he map, there are other dead spots to consider, too.

For instance, if water is so salient, what would you think of the Florida panhandle, flanked by sea and ocean? What would you predict? Well if you reasoned that it is teeming Everglade swamplands and USO hideout in both freshwater and offshore, you'd be sadly mistaken. The map done doesn't show any, including population-dense Miami, apparently.*

You want another one?  Another Missing 411 map cluster that ain't?  Very well,  my fine friends; look up and to Lower Michigan, provocatively wedged betwixt Great Lakes Michigan and Heron.  It had people, it has abundant water, but once again, the Missing 411 Map remains silent.  Why?  And why if water is so important, as the David Paulides books insist, are the essentially no cases across the Southern Coast, from Texas to Georgia?

What the Missing 411 Map Shows About Mountains

And now note the How come the southern coast is well-nigh clean record of vanishings where the Appalachian Mountain Range starts to shadow the US coastlines all the way up to Canada; pretty interesting, if you ask me.

Note that wherever the Missing 411 map shows coast clusters, it's always backed up by a rocky spine behind them, be it the Appalachians, Cascade-Sierras, or the less-noted Olympics upon the peninsula of the same name by Puget Sound; Dave has talked a lot about the connection betwixt water and rocks, but in the macro, it looks like mountain and water need to be in close enough proximity.

But why is this? What's causing this?

Obviously I don't know exactly, but for whoever's doing this, I know what this pattern looks like to me, and I'd call it a habitat range. These entities may have the ability to seemingly abduct at will, but they just don't seem to do it very from mountain ranges, and I find that very suspicious; consult a map showing elevation, or even better, a 3D map, super-imposing the Missing 411 clusters over them, and then tell you don't see what I do. Even just a simple eyeball comparison of the various maps makes my point, I think; from a continental level, wherever there is a spike in elevation, even with landlocked clusters, there tends to be a correspondent spike in cases. 

The pattern holds true for the northeastern part of the country too, doesn’t it?  We have a large mountain chain next to the largest population area in the US, combine them, and voila—the most vanishings in all the US in a nice, tidy package; such also explains to me the mass size of the Yosemite Cluster, just 170 miles from San Francisco, as well as the sea.

How I think the Missing 411 Map Can Make Predictions

But are there any counterexamples in my theory?

Well, in the western, southwestern areas there be lots of mountains, but not a lot of people are there.  As such and as you’d expect, there aren’t as many clusters, and duly lack girth, as well, when we encounter them.

Also, withing these mountainous badlands are sizable dead spots, leading to this offhand prediction:  THese abducting entities—whoever, whatever they be—would seem to need two things in their environment—high country and water—if only in the form of sufficient rainfall—to hang out, and the more overlap between them and people, there be more missings in consequence. As such, it would behoove someone, I think, to do a rainfall study, overlaying that data over a height map, and I think you’ll it a least a factor, coupled with the opportunities for entities to abduct people. If we, for instance, could find a dry mountain range near a large metropolitan area, say 150 or less miles, and yet no cases, well, I think that could go a long way to vindicate my theory.

This is why I think Dave’s Ogallala Aquifer  theory as to why adduction occur in the middle US, namely that it's because they live in the underground reservoir, doesn’t hold water. Simply put, it's too exotic, and the pattern is far simpler than to go there. The lush, verdant Great Plains water enough, but it doesn’t have mountains, and mountains are where you find the clusters, if only on the outskirts. This would explain, I think, those two deadspot peninsulas, namely Florida (no hilly habitat) and Michigan (next to none). Note, too, that standalone cluster around Arkansas; that also corresponds to an elevation bump.

Final Thoughts Upon the Missing 411 Map

As to whether this is bigfoot, I think not.  Bigfoot is seen all over, including the Great Plains and the Skunk Ape in Florida,  so I just don’t think this is his MO, unless it’s a subset of his species.  That said, some of these clusters look very much like inter-species territorial ranges, if you just happened to seek my opinion.

As to whether cattle mutilations are perpetrated by the entities behind the Missing 411 clusters, I've only witnessed one mutilation map (be it however dubious) and those cases are just way too scattered to fit the apparent pattern from the David Paulides books.

*What does the yellow on the Missing 411 Map mean? If those are listed abductions too, my thesis (obviously) would need.