It's no surprise that people do sometimes go missing in the wilderness, including America's

National Parks.

But one notion called the Missing 411 claims that inside the parks that number is much

higher than it should be, and that the National Park Service covers up these disappearances.

Is this true?

Or does the data say it's just another unfounded conspiracy theory?

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The Missing 411.

You may or may not have heard of the so-called Missing 411 conspiracy theory, but whether

you have or not, it does make what initially appears to be a compelling case.

Missing 411 is the creation of David Pellides, a Bigfoot evangelist, and it's the name he

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