🎥 Anon Theatre Double Feature: Missing 411, and Missing 411: The Hunted
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Just FYI, approach Paulides' work with caution. I say this as a former owner of all of his books. It's more a good story in many cases than it is a factual story.
Most of the cases he covers are very matter of fact, exactly as local folks and on site investigators relayed them. He does not, outside the film series, dramatize these stories. A fair amount of drama is inevitable in film, even within the confines of documentary film making.
True, Paulidas does a fair amount of additional research into cryptozoology and sasquatch, but he never crosses the streams with his 411 research.
I have found his work to be extremely professional and meticulous. I respect that he leaves the theories and conclusions of these unsolved cases up to the viewer, and reader.
I found the opposite quite by accident when I was a fan of his.
He covered a local case that I was interested in and so did research on myself. He made certain claims that did not at all match the official newspaper reports of the 100 year old case in the town archives, but which tended to make it fit the profile points better for inclusion into the book as a weird case rather than a tragic one.
As an author myself I was suspicious why he does not sell his books on Amazon. I have run into Amazon's anti-plagiarism software a couple times on my own as people have cribbed my work for websites and it is very hard to prove something is NOT plagiarized when you don't even know what the software is claiming IS.
I hesitate to call anyone a plagiarist but I can say that SOME of his articles when compared to sites like Charlieproject.org and other articles, bore a STRONG similarity to the original published work which felt like he had possibly copy pasted certain sections.
This would dovetail with why one would not put their book on Amazon because your account is frozen if you are accused by the software of potential plagiarism and if one is unsure what one copied this would be an ever present danger.
I like his stuff, but because of these and other reasons I view him a bit more like a campfire storyteller and take his stuff with a grain of salt is all.