I like a good "strange disappearance" as much as anyone, but it bothers me when people regurgitate another tertiary source like they're an expert, especially if they don't admit that's what they're doing. Lore Lodge is really eager to make "flesh pedestrian" or "feral people" a thing.
Stumbled on "The Missing Enigma," who's made some de-sensationalized videos about "Missing 411" cases. He's gone out to film at some locations, but more importantly, he requests official documents (and throws them onscreen). n.b. his art is hideous, but sincere.
For example:
Missing Enigma covered Aaron Hedges, a hunter who disappeared in Montana and had belongings found in eyeshot of a ranch.
Lore Lodge version was spooooky; Missing Enigma got the police reports which mentioned that some of his friends' hedging about locations was because they were routinely hunting while trespassing on private land. Oh, and also the guy was an alcoholic who went hunting
while on a Librium taper but still drinking, and would have simultaneously run out of benzos and booze shortly before he vanished.
That's awfully pertinent, and I'm skeptical of a "historian" who would decide not to mention it in order to advance a skinwalker theory. Same as Wendi not admitting "hey I don't know about illegal drugs" but instead making things up, like heroin insta-kills people at random. I'm not mad, just disappointed.
