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Post by buzzbomb on Oct 15, 2019 0:29:23 GMT
Michael McClain fits the profile of a Paulides-type urban disappearance almost to a tee. He was an intelligent young man with a degree in criminal justice living in New Hampshire when he disappeared earlier this year at the age of 29. On the night April 20, Michael and two friends went to Nashua to check out the action at the Tropical Lounge on West Hollis Street. Michael was seen dancing with a woman who later got into an altercation with another female at the club. The women went outside after closing time and a crowd gathered in the lot to watch. Michael, although not having any known connection to whatever the fight was about, intervened not wanting to see anyone get hurt. The police were called, who hurried to the bar and the crowd scattered as soon they arrived.
Here is the strange part: Michael somehow disappeared in the crowd. His friends waited, thinking he would emerge from the crowd but he did not. By the time the crowd was gone, Michael was nowhere to be seen. His friends called out for him and searched the vicinity for about 45 minutes without any luck. They had also called his phone but got no answer. They went to his car which was parked about a mile away and it was still there—unoccupied. Not able to find him, the two friends went home without him. Michael did not return over the weekend, did not contact his family on Sunday which was Easter nor did he report into work on Monday even though he was very punctual nor did he call in. He was reported missing later in the day, April 22.
The police discovered that Michael left the Tropical Lounge at 1:45 am and placed a two-minute call to his boss four minutes later telling her, “They’re after me.” The phone disconnected and the woman was unable to reach him again despite several attempts—the last being at about 2:25 am.
Starting at 1:55, about nine minutes after hanging up on his boss, Michael sent this series of texts to a neighbor: “help lol r”, “whata stood aloof” (1:55), “eldridge bro” (2:15), “f**k ibitx u” (2:18). The obscenity was apparently auto-censored. Eldridge probably referred to a nearby street but if Michael had been on that street, he was wondering around aimlessly. He would have continued east on West Hollis to Main, turned north crossing both West Hollis and Main up a block to Eldridge and then east again probably to Spring Street and then turned south back to East Hollis (same street as West Hollis) and then crossed East Hollis again.
The last place police noticed a ping on Michael’s phone was at a 24-hour McDonald’s on East Hollis about half a mile east of the Tropical Lounge at 2:30 am. Several witnesses claim to have seen him there including an acquaintance. Police theorize that his phone battery went dead by this time and so they could not track him further by checking for pings. Michael did not seem distraught at the McDonald’s and made no attempt to call his friends or police concerning whomever was supposedly following him.
After leaving the McDonald’s, surveillance cameras picked up Michael at a Speedway station about a quarter-mile east of the McDonald’s. There, he asked to use a phone which seems to confirm his own phone was dead. No one is sure if Michael actually made a call or whom he called if he did make one.
The last known camera footage of Michael was taken at Bancroft Street. My source for this story stated there was a condo complex there but upon checking Google Maps, there is not. There are just a group of businesses in shabby buildings in an area that does not appear to even be well-lit. If Michael was afraid he was being followed, why would he go into this area when he could have headed straight for the bridges that span the Merrimack? It is not only dark but also turns into a cul-de-sac formed by a confluence of the Nashua and Merrimack Rivers. He wouldn’t be able to get out. Yet, he did get out. Footage shows him leaving Bancroft Street and heading in the general direction of East Hollis and Bridge Streets. East from there are the two bridges spanning the Merrimack. Michael could have walked across either bridge but there is no evidence he did.
So now we must ask the obvious questions about a wholly mysterious turn of events: Why did Michael walk away from his friends at the bar? How can that possibly be made sense of? Why did he call his boss while apparently still in the lot outside the bar and tell her “they’re after me”? Who did he think was after him? Supposedly, the ex-boyfriend of the woman he danced with was in the bar that night but there is no evidence this person threatened him in any way. Why could his friends not find him? They searched for about 45 minutes which would have taken them up to 2:30 at which time Michael walked into the McDonald’s. Michael appears to have gone down Main Street as stated earlier. If he had kept going, he would have crossed the Nashua River to Orange Street where his car was parked but instead he seems to have turned down Eldridge. Why?
His friends wouldn’t have gone east to look for Michael. They likely never thought he would go in that direction—what for? That is something we notice frequently in the Paulides-type urban disappearance: the victim is seen walking AWAY from the general direction of his living quarters or from his vehicle in the early morning hours with no explanation of where they are going—especially at such a time. Why in the world was Michael walking east towards the Merrimack River when he didn’t live that way? He lived to the north in the city of Manchester, New Hampshire. To get home from the bar, he would have headed north on Main to get his car and then go west to Route 3 heading north. He could never have walked all the back to Manchester—especially after crossing the Merrimack to the east. That’s way too far.
Why did Michael ignore the phone calls from his friends? They search for him for 45 minutes calling him repeatedly while he walks east and ignores their calls. If someone was really following him, wouldn’t it have made sense to answer the phone, tell them where you are and to hurry? But that still doesn’t answer the question of why he walked away from them in that parking lot in the first place. Instead of answering their calls, he’s texting nonsense to a neighbor. Michael’s father believes Michael was probably, as it were, butt-texting, i.e. Michael activated the text button by accident and was talking and the phone was picking it up and trying to make sense of it. I doubt this very much. The very first text said, “lol” which isn’t something one would say but would type. He typed those texts but why? And why did he send them to a neighbor? Nothing makes sense here but in a Paulide’s-type disappearance, that’s how it is—nothing makes sense.
Another thing that fits a Paulides-type urban disappearance was that this happened near major bodies of water. However, the bodies turn up in the water. Thus far, we have found no trace of Michael McClain for some six months now. If it does turn up in the water, that will also be hard to explain since Michael wasn’t suicidal and yet the rivers are well isolated from pedestrians and it would take effort to climb over the obstacles and fall in. The police have also concluded that no one was following Michael that night. So just what DID happen?
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Post by buzzbomb on Oct 15, 2019 12:17:29 GMT
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Post by buzzbomb on Oct 16, 2019 15:19:42 GMT
www.wthr.com/article/minnesota-boy-6-goes-missing-after-getting-school-busThis one could be an ordinary type abduction. Not enough info given here. But it bears one salient trait of a Paulides-type: the boy disappeared with a dog. This happens so much, it's crazy. Nothing is said about the dog's whereabouts currently. As I said, not much to go on here and maybe it's perfectly explainable. Whatever the case, I hope they find him alive and well.
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Post by buzzbomb on Oct 17, 2019 21:27:12 GMT
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Post by buzzbomb on Oct 21, 2019 11:02:29 GMT
www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/us/skeleton-found-mount-williamson.htmlMystery skeleton found on Mt. Williamson in Sierra Nevada. No clue as to who it might be or how long they've been there nor how the person died. They thought the skeleton might be Matthew Greene who has been quite a topic on boards about mysterious disappearances but this has proved not to be the case. Greene is still missing (2013) and this skeleton remsins unidentified.
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Post by buzzbomb on Oct 21, 2019 16:42:30 GMT
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Post by buzzbomb on Oct 24, 2019 11:53:28 GMT
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Post by buzzbomb on Nov 10, 2019 1:37:52 GMT
www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/wayne-county/2019/05/13/body-resurfaces-detroit-river-wyandotte/1187858001/Odd story. An abandoned car is found on the MacArthur Bridge in November of 2018 that leads to Belle Isle in Detroit. Footprints from the car go to the railing of the bridge. No sign of the occupant. The Coast Guard spots a body floating face down in the water (which means it is a man since men always float face down and women always float face up). But when they try to pick up the body, it disappears back into the water!! Is that normal? Never heard of that before. When they float, it means they are bloated with gases which means they can't sink back down because they are very buoyant. It's like trying to push a fully inflated balloon underwater but there could have been other circumstance, I suppose. Then nobody sees the body again. Not until May of 2019 is the body found washed up on the shoreline. That's six months! They ID'd the body of a 49-year-old man but provided no details of how or why he ended up in the water. Suicide? Somebody drives up onto a bridge, parks, gets out and walks to the railing and jumps 30 feet to his death. Okay. I suppose that certainly could happen but that certainly also seems strange.
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Post by buzzbomb on Nov 10, 2019 1:58:58 GMT
www.iheart.com/content/2018-04-05-missing-cdc-employees-body-found-in-chattahoochee-river/This guy vanished last year. For months, the cops searched for Timothy Cunningham without success and then his body turned up in the Chattahoochie River in Atlanta. The last he was seen, he was leaving for work at the CDC. What's weird is how he planned to get to work. Police searched his residence and found his keys, wallet, cellphone, credit and debit cards, his passport, etc. He had left everything behind. He had recently been passed over for a promotion and was disappointed but people don't usually commit suicide just for being passed over--definitely not the end of the world. About 24 hours after he vanished, his parents received a "disturbing" text but the cops are mum about its content or who had sent it since Cunningham had left his phone at his residence. What happened and why?
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Post by buzzbomb on Nov 10, 2019 2:17:33 GMT
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Post by buzzbomb on Nov 10, 2019 6:41:16 GMT
I just watched the news and they had an update on this case. The police revealed what she told the person she called. This person is described as a family friend. She told this person that she had just been involved in a shootout. She claimed she shot it out with two men and shot one in the face. Police searched the cabin thoroughly and claimed that there were bullet holes in the windows but no evidence anyone had been shot. The cabin was deserted when they arrived and there have been no sightings of this woman since. So now this ups the ante, as it were. Who were these two men she allegedly shot it out with? Why were they there and what precisely did they want? Why call a friend all the way back in Warren instead of calling 911? Again, in the Paulides-type disappearance, these people frequently claim someone is after them but nobody else knows who they are referring to and the victims never give names. In one case, a man claimed to see one man shoot another as he sat in his car and now he and another person were running for their lives. When police arrived, they claimed there were no cars at the spot the man claimed to be in, no bullet casings, no blood, no nothing. That man also disappeared after his phone call. In the case of this woman, she must have fled Warren thinking people were after her. This is how it usually is in this type of incident. But why would you go to a cabin in the woods over 300 miles away? If they find you there, who is going to help you? Why didn't she go to the police before fleeing and tell them what was going on? None of this makes sense but that's how these cases go--they don't make sense. I am reminded of a story I saw on a rerun of "Unsolved Mysteries" from the 90s about a girl who began working as an actress and started cracking up. She told her family that people were after her and that she had witnessed a murder but there was no proof of anything, no names or locations given by her. While on the set of "Scar Face" in which she had been given a role, she freaked out and started screaming when they were filming a murder scene where a man is shot. She was sent home where her behavior continued. Finally, at one point, her boyfriend was driving somewhere when she became very irate and started screaming at him and an argument ensued. She demanded he stop the car and let her out. Unable to tolerate her behavior anymore, he did as she asked. She stepped out the car and walked away. Strangely. in many of the forest disappearances of 411, the victims leave their shoes behind or their bodies are found without shoes. Maybe it's just a coincidence but when this girl stepped out her boyfriend's car, she walked away barefoot and did not take her shoes with her. Her boyfriend drove off in a huff and she was never seen again.
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Post by purr on Nov 10, 2019 9:45:29 GMT
Buzzbomb, thanks for adding the info, and reading through your listing of cases I find it plausible at least some fit the definition of alien abduction (perhaps indicating different factions of Others are taking human specimen samples, are 'farming' or 'hunting' us for various purposes, ranging from benevolent to extremely hostile). Actually I've always thought it sufficed if there was 1 real True UFO and/or 1 real Alien Abduction in all of history for us to be studying real phenomena. And there there seem to have been plenty more of both. The problem with all this (linked to the need by the PTB to debunk, even completely suppress the absolute best missing-by-abduction cases) is damage to the Tourism business, the risk of general panic and mankind deciding to avoid the great outdoors altogether (unless in tightly organized groups armed to the teeth, ready to spray their surroundings with automatic rifle fire at the least sign of sumtin weird ). Takes the fun out of the experience, at least for me, I spent days hiking through European forests for many years and in all seasons by my lonesome, I even have old and wise (in my personal belief!) tree 'friends' I have revisited year after year and given a heartfelt hug. This knowledge isn't easy to deal with: if everybody believed people were routinely taken from the woods and wilderness... well.. it seems impossible to continue normal EASYGOING life and maintain ones basic sanity. (Nowadays when I enter a great forest I will add extra preparations just in case I encounter Mondo Weird stuff, then kinda put this entire subject out of my mind!).
purr
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Post by nyx on Nov 10, 2019 18:09:23 GMT
Wow, hiking for years, purr.
Have you seen anything unusual like BigFoot, UFOs, leprechauns, banshees, or fairies?
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Post by buzzbomb on Nov 10, 2019 18:50:08 GMT
Buzzbomb, thanks for adding the info, and reading through your listing of cases I find it plausible at least some fit the definition of alien abduction (perhaps indicating different factions of Others are taking human specimen samples, are 'farming' or 'hunting' us for various purposes, ranging from benevolent to extremely hostile). Actually I've always thought it sufficed if there was 1 real True UFO and/or 1 real Alien Abduction in all of history for us to be studying real phenomena. And there there seem to have been plenty more of both. The problem with all this (linked to the need by the PTB to debunk, even completely suppress the absolute best missing-by-abduction cases) is damage to the Tourism business, the risk of general panic and mankind deciding to avoid the great outdoors altogether (unless in tightly organized groups armed to the teeth, ready to spray their surroundings with automatic rifle fire at the least sign of sumtin weird ). Takes the fun out of the experience, at least for me, I spent days hiking through European forests for many years and in all seasons by my lonesome, I even have old and wise (in my personal belief!) tree 'friends' I have revisited year after year and given a heartfelt hug. This knowledge isn't easy to deal with: if everybody believed people were routinely taken from the woods and wilderness... well.. it seems impossible to continue normal EASYGOING life and maintain ones basic sanity. (Nowadays when I enter a great forest I will add extra preparations just in case I encounter Mondo Weird stuff, then kinda put this entire subject out of my mind!).
purr
Even if all these cases could be shown to be perfectly natural and explainable, it still means the wilderness is very dangerous, that you can get lost and never be found quite easily. And you definitely can. I've been in deep woods by myself and found myself confused about where I was and how to get back. I'm good with the compass though. I also use bright orange dye to mark certain trees as I walk. When I'm coming back, I can look for those trees. Once I find one, I can find all the others. But then, I mentioned that weird dark patch of woods I ran into once. I told a coworker about that incident, he's a avid hunter and fisherman, and he said he and some buddies ran across very much the same kind of patch in Canada. I don't know if it means anything but he agreed that it was very eerie out there. He likened it to Pet Cemetery and I suppose that it is a bit like that. As for UFOs and aliens and Bigfoot and Dogmen, I don't know what to think about that. I may have seen UFOs once or twice. Never saw Bigfoot or aliens or Dogmen or Mothman or anything else. I've never experienced the Silence either. That's where you're in the woods and suddenly everything goes deathly quiet for 10 seconds, 20 seconds, a minute. I believe it happens because I know people who claim to have experienced it and they are not the type to lie but I don't know if it's a natural thing or not. I'm told it's quite alarming when it happens. All I know is, something isn't right about all this. This shouldn't be happening.
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Post by nyx on Nov 11, 2019 21:31:36 GMT
The “silence” or long time British investigator, Jenny Randles, coined the term, “the Oz Factor”!
Jenny called Oz Factor the most puzzling of a all in UFOs and abduction.
A person might not be able communicate to other family members, or other family may be in trance.
There is a silence, no noise.
One feels out of touch with reality, and their normal senses.
One feels everything is in slow motion.
All this happened to me when I was abducted when I was young.
My black and white TV stopped, remembered those in the past.
Humanoids could travel on white light through solid walls.
One had a feeling of a different parallel dimension going on at the same time.
Jenny documented many OZ Factor cases over her long years.
She claims E.T.s like dogs, watches( they are always asking for time ), strawberry ice cream, and ball point pens.
My wife loves strawberry ice cream.
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