The Basement: Dave Paulides | Missing 411 and Cases the Government Won't Let You See

The National Park Service (NPS) actively resists releasing comprehensive lists of missing persons, demanding exorbitant fees (e.g., $1.4 million for a national list or $34,000 for Yosemite) and claiming such lists don't exist, despite internal knowledge and the ability to easily compile them. This obstruction hinders independent research into unexplained disappearances.

David Politis's FOIA request for missing persons lists was met with a $1.4 million quote, which a special agent confirmed was a deliberate attempt to 'screw' him, estimating compilation would take only 1.5-2 hours per regional office. The NPS tracks deaths since 1897 but claims not to track disappearances. After Politis compiled his own Yosemite list, the NPS eventually released a similar one, confirming his data.

The NPS demonstrates significant inconsistencies in its search and rescue efforts and information disclosure, treating similar missing persons cases vastly differently without clear justification. This disparity raises questions about transparency and potential biases in investigations.

In the case of Jacob Gray, the NPS refused helicopters, drones, and canines, despite his father's insistence he wasn't in the river as suggested. Conversely, a similar case eight air miles away in the same park received multiple helicopters and drones. Furthermore, the 2,000-page file for Stacy Aerys, missing since 1981, remains classified under an 'active criminal investigation' exemption.

The disappearance of Gilbert Gilman, an Army intelligence veteran fluent in six languages (including Arabic, Chinese, Russian), points to a potential government-orchestrated 'extraction' rather than a typical missing person case. The extensive search resources and subsequent FBI actions suggest a high-level interest in his status.

Gilman, despite being dressed for leisure, received a 'huge search' involving 5,000 federal hours, unlike many other missing persons. His mother's Chicago apartment was searched by FBI agents without a warrant, who specifically took a yellow tablet with Arabic writing and two books. His girlfriend indicated she 'couldn't talk about' his ties to the CIA, and his mother believed his disappearance was a planned event orchestrated by the government.

Mount Rainier serves as a significant 'cluster' area for a range of unexplained phenomena, including numerous missing persons cases, early UFO sightings, Bigfoot encounters, and orb activity, often defying conventional explanations.

The modern UFO era began with Ken Arnold's 'flying saucer' sighting near Mount Rainier while searching for a crashed Marine plane. Politis's film documents Bigfoot sightings, including footage of a creature appearing to enter/exit a 'portal' at the base of Rainier. Disappearances around the mountain consistently lack scent trails, tracks, or bodies, and FLIR technology has detected numerous unseen objects flying in and out of the area.

Evidence from DNA analysis, linguistic studies of vocalizations, and native legends suggests Bigfoot is not an ape or gorilla but a human-like, intelligent species with unique characteristics, potentially capable of advanced communication and interaction with its environment.

Ron Morehead's Bigfoot vocalization recordings were identified as 'perfect language' by a Navy cryptolinguist and 'hominid' by a linguistics professor. Politis's DNA study, though controversial, found unique 'scaled' hair unlike any known animal, yielding human mitochondrial DNA and unclassified nuclear DNA. Russian scientists, who extensively studied the topic, concluded Bigfoot is human and may have bred with humans. Native elders describe Bigfoot as a 'tribe of people' with supernatural powers, capable of bending light.

Researchers investigating UFOs and Bigfoot phenomena often experience the 'hitchhiker effect,' where anomalous occurrences follow them home, sometimes affecting family and friends, suggesting a non-physical or interdimensional aspect to these phenomena.

Politis, a MUFON investigator, notes that many abductees have reported seeing Bigfoot on UFO crafts. He describes personal experiences of finding single, perfect Bigfoot tracks at his residences in different states, and a deer leg mysteriously placed on a trail, which he interprets as messages. This effect is also reported by physicists at Skinwalker Ranch, indicating a persistent, non-localized phenomenon.

A peculiar pattern exists of physicists, predominantly of German origin, disappearing in remote locations, with some cases featuring reported UFO sightings in official police reports, suggesting a non-coincidental connection.

Politis identifies four missing physicists: a German Fulbright scholar in Olympic National Park, a German university professor at Lake Arrowhead, a German physicist studying heavy ion research in the Little Colorado River Gorge, and an American ionospheric physicist of German heritage in Antarctica. He notes he cannot find other missing physicists globally. The cases of Kchner and Dish include sheep herders reporting lights in the sky above Kchner's camper and rumors of lights and a call from Dish years later, with 'abducted by aliens' noted in Kchner's police report.