Reprted Cluster Regions of Missing Persons according to David Paulides

There are places all over the globe you should never visit alone or even with company, but we’ll concentrate first on America. Why? The preponderance of disappearances mysterious deaths, or the presence of dangerous wild animals that makes your presence a potential death sentence. Thanks to people like David Paulides, former detective and police officer who took an interest in disappearances after he was approached by two park rangers who had noted not only missing persons, but a reluctance of the Park and Wildlife authorities to investigate and keep records! This would lead to series of the 4-11 Book Series that illustrate a disturbing trend of vanishings and strange deaths that don’t make logical sense as dozens of people disappear in our national and state park systems every year with little effort at solving the mystery.

Number One: Port Lock, Alaska

This now abandoned village located on the shores of the Kenai Peninsula, was once the scene of a pioneer settlement back in the early 1800’s that became a fishing cannery, post office, general stores, and a population of hearty townspeople who also worked in the lumber industry. However, as time went on a series of horrific murders took place where those who had ventured by themselves into the woods would not come back, and later be found mutilated and even crushed beneath heavy machinery that a single person could not have lifted! All kinds of explanations popped up such as evil curses, serial killers, but finally what was arrived at as the major fiend was Sasquatch!

Despite investigations by local sheriffs and state authorities, the killings persisted to where the townspeople remained inside never allowing their children out of the house and then, ultimately, abandonment of the town all together! By the early 1950’s only a handful of residents stubbornly remained, and they too were eventually spooked out! Today the occasional curious investigators will visit, but all of them feel an eerie presence that they can neither explain nor ignore! Stay away!

Number Two: Yosemite National Park

This famous northern California national park has a documented reputation for the most unexplained disappearances! As David Paulides has determined as a commonality among people becoming missing persons are granite boulder fields. Perhaps the mineral content of magnetic properties cause some type of disorientation among hikers, climbers, and campers, but witnesses have reported distortions in time and the in the recollection of landmarks when trying to remember where one has just been and suddenly seeing land features strangely being re-arranged! One a person goes missing rarely are their remains ever located. Some people say that alien abductions, fault line pressures, or dimensional portholes are responsible, but even local Native American tribes have reported these disappearances going back centuries there. Don’t go!

Number Three: The Bennington Triangle

Since the first recorded disappearance, a young female college student out for a walk in 1945, the area named by an investigative author, seems to have been the scene of a number of missing persons that have never been solved! The Bennington Triangle is a fictional region in southwestern Vermont. Coined by author Joseph A. Citro in 1992, the name describes an area centered around Glastenbury Mountain and the towns of Bennington, Woodford, and Shaftsbury. Between 1945 and 1950, five mysterious disappearances occurred here, sparking folklore about the paranormal. Courtesy Wiki Encyclopedia. To date, there are 5 reported missing persons all within close proximity with the former city of Glastenberry has been abandoned and is now a ghost town! Rumors and local folklore allege paranormal activity and even Bigfoot sightings. Best stay away.

Number Four: Appalachian Trail

Beginning in Maine and following a path into the Great Smoky Mountains for 2,190 miles this popular hiking and expedition of nature cuts through extremely dense wooded areas so thick that merely straying a few feet from the trail clearing can result in disorientation and getting lost. There are a disturbing number of missing “Cold Case” files where everything from experienced outdoorsmen, visitors from the city, former police officers, children, and elderly simply vanish without a trace! The typical explanation is a person stumbling on a slope and falling into dense undergrowth, those with health issues collapsing, children wandering off the trail, or wildlife incidents with predators such as bears or cougars though officials claim all these circumstances are rare! According to David Paulides, the refusal by Park Ranger bureaucracy and even federal agents to share files with investigators like himself points to a much more sinister conclusion that officials are hiding from the public! When planning for such visitations David Paulides strongly recommends advising friends and family of when you plan to go and when you plan to depart! Carry a personal locator which is a beacon for emergencies, a GPS directional finder, and rations in case of getting lost, having to endure the elements, and blanket or poncho for survival. If you’re inexperienced, reconsider!

There are other high risk regions that I will discuss at some later date, but for now, these regions seem to qualify as well known yet as very likely places to disappear into! People have a tendency to disallow precautions that could make the difference between life, death, and never being seen again!