I'm gonna file this site under "disreputable".
Gems from the article:
> "Most of those who have disappeared are children ages 20 months to 12 years and the elderly ages 74 to 85. Not one person carrying a firearm(and only one carrying a transponder device) has disappeared."
Also, not one person carrying a pack of condoms has disappeared.
> "in most areas where the disappearances have occurred, huckleberries are almost always in great abundance."
> "Many of the areas that people have disappeared from carry such names as Devil’s Gulch, Devil’s Lookout, Twin Devil Lake and Devil’s Punch Bowl., perhaps named to reflect the evil people have sensed in these places over time."
> "On a recent appearance on the radio show Coast to Coast AM, Paulides listed some ideas, such as sasquatch, large birds and extraterrestrials, but he also mentioned demons as a possible cause"
Posted here so someone can possibly explain how this strangeness is not strange at all. Unfortunate that I picked a "disreputable" website.
Why does this strange statistic exist?
Do you have another link, preferably one that's not written from a "want to believe" standpoint? (If there aren't any, my conclusion would be that whatever "strangeness" there might be is attributable entirely to coincidence, which is both plentiful in the universe, and fodder for conspiracy theorists.)