“Missing 411: The Hunted” & Mysterious Hunter Disappearances
It’s a must-watch for outdoorsmen…only maybe after you’ve already come home safely.
Although we sportsmen refuse to allow 2020 to keep us out of the fields, even dedicated outdoorspeople like to watch TV on occasion. The latest reality-TV obsession is an Amazon Prime documentary called “Missing 411: The Hunted,” and if you’re as big a fan of outdoor mysteries as I am, it’s a must-watch. This isn’t just one mystery, though; it’s hundreds of them stretching out over hundreds of years. “Missing 411: The Hunted” details a little-known American secret: Our hunters are being hunted, and we don’t know by whom or what.
Without delving too deeply into the disturbing details of Missing 411: The Hunted, the central mystery surrounds bizarre hunter disappearances. These disappearances are happening in clusters centered over certain spots (such as the Crazy Mountains), and are difficult to explain. One of the common themes of the disappearances is that they happen to very experienced outdoorsmen, and that they happen in areas where there is a lot of igneous rock. It just gets weirder from there.
Another common factor is that the disappearances tend to happen when the hunter has been very temporarily separated from their group, often only by a couple hundred yards. Eerily, tracking dogs seem to be almost useless in these disappearances; they tend to lose the scent at more or less precisely the same place the hunter was last seen. We’re talking about dogs like the bloodhound, which is capable of scenting a human corpse through 6 feet of loam or following a track that’s 300 hours old, losing a clear and recent track. And then the outdoor mysteries of “Missing 411: The Hunted” get even creepier.
One of the primary draws of “Missing 411: The Hunted” is that it features some audio and film evidence of very strange “supernatural” events. Of course, there’s really no such thing as “supernatural,” because if you saw it in Nature, it was natural. But if you’ve ever been curious about what a Bigfoot’s mating call might sound like, or if there really is such a thing as a “Predator,” you’re definitely going to want to have a watch.
Of course, it’s difficult not to follow our logical and skeptical natures. One of my questions as I watched was whether or not any of the search-and-rescue teams ever looked up. Anyone who’s ever hunted from a treestand knows that being up high just kind of makes you invisible, and that goes double if you’re wearing camouflage. That would also explain why tracking dogs stop right at the tree where the hunter was last seen. We do know that mountain lions are fantastic climbers that are more than equal to the task of killing a human and then stashing the remains in the fork of a tree for later snacking.
Another possible explanation is that people can and do act very strangely when they’re hypothermic. The second stage of hypothermia can cause confusion, and the scary part is that if it’s happening to you, you will not know it. (Yes, I have this from personal experience.) In the end stages of hypothermia, people will do two things that generally confuse the heck out of Search and Rescue: They’ll take off all their clothes, and they’ll hide. It’s tough to find a hunter who has suddenly started behaving as if he doesn’t want to be found.
Have you watched “Missing 411: The Hunted”? Have any theories of your own? Tell us in the comments!
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Any chance he had a reason not to be found?
So how then does an experienced and well armed hunter just disappear without a trace? No evidence of a struggle with an animal, nothing left behind and has conversed with another member of the hunting party an hour before. No yells for help, no warning shots fired, just vanishes. That doesn’t happen unless there are some malevolent forces at work. Maybe some other intelligence can cross over into our dimension unseen to abduct people or maybe the military is playing with a new toy stolen from aliens that can beam someone up to a ship.
Fleash eating bacteria infected with covid………
Beam me Up Scotty
This subject is covered in a scary but interesting way in a novel called “Species Unknown” available on Amazon. The story is fictional but the science questions in it are real. Did you know about 8 million people worldwide year vanish without a trace annually never to be heard from again? About a quarter million disappear in the U.S. alone? Weird but true according to police reports and missing person databases. Anyway, probably not a book to read alone in the woods but check it out.
I haven’t watched it but if they’re showing a hunter with a really nice rifle disappear with the rifle too, well, I’m not sure I could watch it. Or worse yet, the hunter is gone and Big Foot bent the barrel and left it there. Why that would just bring me to tears…
Especially if it was a custom Bagarra Rifle
Shades of Jerry Rivers on the trail of Capone’s treasure under a Chicago hotel. Yep, I’ll pass.
Another Hollyweird cable alternate reality boob tube show based on the model of internet click bait to peddle commercials for the likes of Starsucks, and Target. What will they almost find next week? Tune in at the same hour to prove an I.Q. of below passing grade in pre-school.
The show is like the “missing” hunter, it leaves you off in the middle of nowhere!
Haven’t watched it yet, but Missing 411 is a whole series of books by a former detective that took up cases gone cold and found tens of thousands of cases with similarities that are weird, not just hunters. I didn’t know that this movie focuses on hunters. Or is that just the aspect that this Outdoorsman author zeroed in on?
I know where these hunters are—or were😉. There’s a group of alien Amazon women who periodically need to infuse their bloodlines with new male DNA (as well a a tasty meal later on). They figures hunters are naturally strong, successful survivors (at least up to that point ☹️).
No the title of the movie was definitely “Mars needs women” Maybe the tables have turned?
Another BS reality show.
So when’s the last time you actually heard of an actual hunter who actually went missing and actually wasn’t found ? I’m sure this show will be one of those with excruciatingly long blurred footage and weird music while an announcer tries to sound mysterious as he reads an urban legend. I think I’ll pass.
Unlike you, I’ve read the books so I’m aware of hundreds of them. And this is not a “show.” It’s a series of books with a couple of associated documentaries. Carry on with your baseless assumptions however.
I have not watch any shows…..but I’m going to now!