eXtra-ordinary Cypress Hills Paranormal
T-A-K-E-N unusual disappearances
It’s a global occurrence, hundreds of thousands of people vanish all the time for various reasons. The reasons can be voluntary or involuntary. After assessing, determining, and accounting for the motive for their disappearances, hidden within the involuntary vanishings are a fraction of disturbing and unusual disappearances that are so odd and mystifying that they deify any logical explanation from the helpless law enforcement officials. In this blog, I will rely mainly on David Paulides’s work for people who have disappeared under unusual circumstances. Paulides is a veteran law enforcement investigator from Montana and has written numerous well-documented books and produced several documentaries on this subject. He also has select cases on his YouTube channel, Canam Missing Project.
David Paulides isn’t without his critics and nay-sayers. Many of his adversaries are shallow closed-minded arrogant individuals lacking the understanding and depth of the topic they are criticizing or investigating. There are also cover-ups from those who want to keep this information under wraps and discourage further investigation into these mysteries. There is even more disturbing information from Dr. Steven Greer who heads the whistle-blower disclosure project, and others that illegal rogue elements within the transnational Military Industrial Complex are involved in some of these abductions and disappearances. According to Greer, psychological operations involving fake alien abductions began sometime in the early 1950s. Since then the Military Industrial Complex has ramped up its operations using advanced technology from back-engineered captured alien craft which have become even more sophisticated in recent years to a point, according to Greer, where it’s difficult to distinguish between a man-made and alien abduction.
For years Paulides resisted reaching any conclusions about the unusual disappearances because his focus was on collecting facts but eventually concluded that some, if not all, of the cases in his books were somehow related to paranormal events. These paranormal interactions are complex involving unknown players that rarely reveal themselves, are not straightforward, and are confusing for law enforcement investigators to the point where some don’t want to deal with these cases.
Paulides’s work is of personal interest because of my abduction experiences in the Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan during my youth where I have no recollection of my involvement with my abductors but I was aware of something unusual happening around me. Luckily, most of my abductions had a positive outcome with only one negative experience. Had I offered to stay with my abductors or been forced under duress to stay, or had something happened where I became deceased and later my body discovered by searchers either whole or in part, I would have been classified as a missing person and/or having become deceased under unusual circumstances and probably ended up in one of Paulides’s Missing-411 books.
The Native Americans, Canada’s First Nations, and indigenous peoples from around the world have known about these paranormal events and their influences on their societies from time immemorial. Some tribal communities have developed protocols to ward off or minimize their harmful effects. Western cultures generally are oblivious to paranormal events and treat them as folklore, craziness, delusions, or myths. The actions behind these unusual occurrences can be many, but karma (good or bad), low-life entities exploiting the public’s ignorance, and living on cursed or highly charged (where several lay-lines intersect) land are some strong possibilities. Nefarious elements within the Military Industrial Complex are a recent actor in these mysterious vanishings. It’s also possible on a subconscious level, the abductees may be completely unaware of the deals they have made with their abductors before being abducted. The source of karmic expressions whether good or bad are complicated because they not only deal with actions from this lifetime but also previous lives before this one. The old saying, as you sow you reap transcends time and space and what goes around comes around.
We are currently faced with another dilemma when it comes to these unusual disappearances that is our level of consciousness. We are taught we live in a three-dimensional material universe as seen from the perspective of our waking, dreaming, and sleep state of consciousness. In reality, we live in a multidimensional universe where dimensions seem to periodically overlap. From the universe’s vantage point paranormal is normal and without this normalcy of the Grand Totality the universe couldn’t exist and what’s paranormal is from the observer’s viewpoint and their level of consciousness. We are not only influenced by what’s in our three-dimensional world but also by the multidimensional world. There is much more going on around us than what we are aware of. Developing our full potential by raising our consciousness would be a good step in the right direction. The gateway to and from other dimensions can be natural or artificial allowing entities to come through or leave. From our limited three-dimensional point of view and adding the negative and condescending social environment we live in, any disappearance and lack of closure can be devastating to family, friends, and the community but from another level, it may be a completely different story.
David Paulides has looked at more than 5000 cases of unusual disappearances globally and has distilled his research down to roughly 1200 cases that ended up in his Missing-411 books. He identified several profile points that occur repeatedly that are not coincidence or random.
1. Clusters of Missing: Fifty- two clusters of missing people were found in North America. One cluster completely encircles the Great Lakes Region and the largest cluster of missing people is at Yosemite National Park.
2. Canines/Bloodhounds: When brought to the scene can’t find a scent or refuse to search. This is almost a universal fact. Canines are an invaluable tool in the search effort and should be put to work immediately while the scent is still fresh. If the person disappeared into ‘nowhere’ the canines will stop and go no further.
3. Lack of Memory: Victims who live to survive their disappearance cannot remember key parts of their ordeal. They are found in a semiconscious or unconscious condition. When pushed hard for details, they normally cannot remember.
4. Loss of Time: Victims who cannot remember large gaps of time. When victims are found in the water, they weren’t in the water the entire time they were missing.
5. Water: Many of the cases involve victims being found in or near creeks, rivers, swamps, and lakes. The center point is water.
6. Intellect: Unusual disappearances involve a high percentage of people with high intellect, college-age men with high levels of athletic achievement. It’s like a culling of the best of the best from a very specific portion of North America.
7. Found in Location Previously Searched: Many times victims and evidence are found in locations that have been previously searched. The same areas were searched dozens of times. Paulides cautions his readers that the searchers were not inattentive. The news media and searchers admitted that the victim was found in a location that was previously searched.
8. Loss of Clothing and/or Shoes: This is a common occurrence, victims are found without their shoes, pants, etc., and under conditions that can’t explain that loss. There are also incidents where belts are placed on pants in an unusual way that can’t be explained. How and why the victims are losing these items is unexplainable. Sometimes one or more personal effects of the victim are found by hikers and hunters strewn over several hundred meters completely out of character with the victim’s movements. The same applies to the victim where they have disappeared and where they are later found is a complete disconnect with their movements and abilities to get into those locations.
9. Missing from Inside a Building: Many investigators in the past have missed this point. For instance, children that went missing from inside their homes had alarms activated, but never went off. Another example, there are several cases where people are seen going into a bar on camera (assuming film footage is continuous), but not coming out. Other instances where a camera is panning a river, observes a victim and pans away. When the camera comes back, the victim is gone.
10. Whether hiking, hunting, or with friends there is a point of separation where the individual leaves their companions or the main group and is on their own. It’s almost like the unseen abductor is singling these individuals out for the very purpose of an abduction.
11. GHB (Gamma-Hydroxybutyrate): A central nervous system depressant that occurs naturally in the body in very small amounts. It is also a manufactured drug as a “date rape” drug. Some victims, mostly young college males, found in water in urban areas have unusually high GHB in their blood which is uncharacteristic for the victim. Autopsy toxicology reports usually don’t contain GHB testing but should since it can shed more light on the investigation and cause of death.
12. Many of the people disappearing in the Missing-411 books have Germanic surnames.
13. This profile point is characteristic of older people, many have some sort of disability or health issue.
14. Missing Person Case Is Suspected of Being a Crime: Relatives and family members make statements that they believe a crime has occurred.
Demographic statistics of the 1127 missing persons cases obtained from the first seven of Paulides Missing-411 books (Rezny, 2023):
1) 853 males (75.7%) and 274 females (24.3%).
2) 479 (42.5%) are 0–17 years old, 625 (55.5%) are 18+, and 23 (2%) are of unknown age.
3) Of the confirmed adult victims, 199 (17.7%) are 18–24, 113 (10%) are 25–34, 73 (6.5%) are 35–44, 69 (6.1%) are 45–54, 62 (5.5%) are 55–64, and 106 (9.4%) are 64+.
4) 269 (23.8%) were found alive, 355 (31.5%) were found dead, and 501 (44.5%) were never found.
Striking comparisons between the demographic statistics:
1) Vast majority of those found alive were minors, 247 out of 268.
2) Young men between 18–24 years of age were found dead much more often than the rest of the adults (64% versus 13–40% for all other adult gender+age groups).
3) The elderly have the highest rate of not being found (81%).
4) Women, both minors and adults, are found more often alive than their male cohorts by roughly 10–15%.
Profile points statistics of the 1127 missing persons cases:
1) Dogs failed to find scent and track the victim in 81% of cases.
2) 86 victims (7.6%) were found alive and 198 (17.6%) dead in or near water.
3) 61 victims (5.4%) were found alive and 124 (11%) dead in a place previously searched (59 of those found alive were minors).
4) 417 victims (37%) disappeared in the afternoon between noon and 8:00 p.m. and 205 (18.2%) in the remaining 16 hours of the day (the rest of the reports presumably don’t include precise time of disappearance).
5) Bad weather adversely affected 381 search and rescue missions (33.8%), but the search outcomes were almost identical with cases where bad weather wasn’t involved.
6) 220 cases (19.5%) involve reports of missing clothing, 176 case descriptions (15.6%) mention shoes or socks specifically.
Having laid out a brief background for these unusual disappearances, this brings me to the point of this blog, a local case involving a young man, Byron Watson, who disappeared on November 26, 2023. I’m not saying that this case is one of Paulides’s Missing-411 cases nor am I saying that the young man was abducted during a paranormal event. However, after having been introduced to David Paulides’s work I began to wonder if there was anything unusual going on in and around the Maple Creek area at the time of his disappearance.
Was there paranormal activity in and around Maple Creek, Saskatchewan in October- December 2023? Interestingly enough, there was.
A lady from Maple Creek was walking along a trail at the Cypress Hills Park, Saskatchewan when she came across what looked like Sasquatch tracks. The sighting was originally posted on Facebook: Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, October 31, 2023. The exact location at the park is unknown. The post was removed shortly after being posted. The shoe is a lady’s size 9 US (24.6 cm or 9.7”). The experiencer gave little information, however; she did post two images of footprints roughly 46 cm (18”) long and 20 cm (8”) wide in fresh snow and solid ground. They look recent but not fresh as seen by some blowing snow in the track. The footprint on solid ground seems to indicate the individual was very heavy leaving soil turned up at the ball of the foot as it walked. There has been no follow-up to verify the sighting or to confirm the tracks’ authenticity. There was no indication that this was a Halloween prank; however, after providing more information about Sasquatches in the area on the Facebook post, it was promptly removed either by the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park page administrators or the experiencer. The presence of Sasquatch almost always indicates there is paranormal activity in the area.
Sometime around November 26th, 2023, I went for my evening walk between 7:00-8:30 PM near Byron's aunt's house. I did this regularly and always made a habit of looking up into the sky. I’m sometimes amazed at what I see up there. One night around this time I noticed a bright object about the brightness of Venus. The object was stationary in the clear black sky. Just when I had the thought that the bright object must be Venus the object started to slowly move and then fade out. It’s almost as if it read my mind. Whether it faded out by moving away or by slowly dimming out I don’t know. The object was not a meteorite, jet, plane, space station, satellite or anything like that. I didn’t note the time and day of the sighting and more or less forgot about it until a couple of weeks later I wondered if it had anything to do with Byron’s disappearance. Around the middle of December 2023, I anonymously gave a write-up of what I saw to the Maple Creek RCMP. I’ve since lost my copy and this entry is a recollection of what I had written.
Byron Watson was from Nekaneet Cree Nation, and Maple Creek where his aunt lives. Byron was 23 years old when he went missing, 5’8” in height, 175 lbs, brown eyes, and black hair. He was last seen leaving his aunt's house on Lonsdale Street, Sunday, November 26th, 2023. Surveillance video footage between 9:30 AM-5:00 PM on the 26th was requested by investigators. He was employed at the Maple Creek Livestock Auction Barn and the Friday before he went missing he attended his brother’s hockey game to lend support. The family picked up his last paycheck from the Livestock Auction Barn and were monitoring his bank account.
Just before his disappearance on November 26th Byron left his aunt's house saying he was going to ‘peace out’ and would be back later. There was nothing out of the ordinary. It was a regular Sunday and he had no plans. Byron was described by his family as happy-go-lucky, quiet, ready to lend a hand to anybody, and had plans to go back to the oil field in January. It was uncharacteristic for him to go missing and he always kept in touch with his family.
When Byron went missing on November 26th multiple ground searches led by family members and Nekaneet search parties were done in the following weeks and months in Maple Creek and the surrounding area including the nearby Nekaneet First Nation. Maple Creek RCMP assisted in multiple air searches using drones. Police canines were also used turning up nothing. A total of 170 sq km were covered turning up nothing and the RCMP informed the family they had no new leads. He simply disappeared. In mid-December 2023 CP Rail Police had a surveillance image of someone they thought resembled Byron, but upon close examination by the family members, it wasn’t him. Byron wore blue jeans and not sweats and the boots didn’t match what he was wearing at the time.
Byron’s grandmother thought something was not right and tried to file a missing person’s report November 30, 2023, and at 1PM that day, she got a call back from the RCMP saying he was not missing and probably at a house in Nekaneet First Nation. His grandmother called a family member to check on the home in Nekaneet First Nation and he wasn’t there. Another missing person’s report was filed on December 1, 2023, with the RCMP and this report was taken seriously.
It’s been over a year now and there are no new leads. Byron is still missing. His picture is still posted at various locations in Maple Creek with the hope he is found.
Saskatchewan Crime Stoppers 1-800-222-8477 www.saskcrimestoppers.com
Maple Creek RCMP 306-662-5550
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Charles Kuss
2025
Updated: 1-8-2025
