>>2062488I've read some excerpts and seen dozens of videos on his stuff. He presents the findings from the cases without the important conclusion that the vast majority of these cases - the vast, vast majority - are not statistically significant at all. He also doesn't ever bother to inform you that a large, predatory cat can jump 12+ feet straight through the air, silently; snatch you by the neck in such a way that you can't make a noise, silently; and then jump 12+ feet straight away, through the air, silently.
If you don't believe me, feel free to watch safari park videos of big cats not so dissimilar to a regular old cougar/mountain lion snatching up warthogs and just jumping 15+ feet straight up into a fucking tree in a split second, without the warthog even realizing it's grabbed before it's being eaten alive.
Hate to be anti-fun, but that's where the vast majority of our folklore about things in the woods disappearing people comes from, and this is pretty well researched and written about. We literally invent monsters to soothe our lack of understanding and scare children into not wandering into the woods, alone, to be eaten by predatory land mammals. inb4 you reeeeeee about science and academia existing
That's really the issue there. Paulides wants to sell something to your fear of the unknown, so he doesn't bother to point out that absolutely nothing he reports on is actually unexplainable at all, and he doesn't bother to give you reasons how it is reasonably explained. He says nothing, to let your imagination run wild, so you'll buy more books.
