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The unexplained disappearance and whereabouts of more than thirty men, women and children who disappeared from an Eskimo village in the first half of the twentieth century near Lake Anjikuni.
Lake Anjikuni is rich in pike and trout. It is located along the banks of the Kazan River in one of the remote regions of Canada. This region is rich in legends about evil spirits. The more fascinating and mysterious is the story of the disappearance of local residents.
The whole story began in November 1930, when the Canadian fur hunter Labelle arrived in an Eskimo village, and to his surprise found that the huts were empty. But just a few weeks ago it was a hospitable, noisy settlement, in which life was in full swing. Now he was greeted with deathly silence. The hunter failed to find a single inhabitant of the village. Of course, he wanted to know what happened. However, his search yielded no results. He went around the whole village, looking into every corner.

The kayak boats of the local population were in their usual place, on the pier, and all the necessary household items and weapons were left in the houses. In the houses, the hunter also found pots with a traditional dish - stew. All stocks of fish were also in place. Everything was exactly the same as before, except for the people. The tribe, which numbered more than two and a half thousand people, disappeared without a trace on the most ordinary day. The hunter did not find any signs of a struggle.
Another detail that added to the mystery of the situation was that there were no traces of the village.
According to Labelle, he felt an inexplicable fear and tension in the abdomen, and immediately rushed to the telegraph office and sent an alert to the Royal Canadian Mountain Police. Since no one had ever heard anything like it, the police immediately sent a whole expedition to the village. The search for residents stretched along the entire coast of the lake. When the police arrived at the scene, several more facts were discovered that indicated that the disappearance was of a mystical nature. First, the Eskimos did not take sled dogs, as the hunter had originally assumed. Their icy skeletons were found deep under the snow. They died of hunger. Moreover, it turned out that the graves of the ancestors were opened, and the bodies of the deceased disappeared without a trace.
These facts baffled the local authorities. It was clear that neither of the two modes of transport people used. In addition, if they voluntarily left the village, then, in extreme cases, they would not leave the dogs tied, they would let them go, giving them the opportunity to find their own food. But the second mystery seems more strange - scientists are confidently burning that the Eskimos could not disturb the graves of their ancestors, since this is prohibited by customs.

And besides, the earth at that time was so frozen that it was simply impossible to tear it apart without the help of special equipment. According to one of the police officers who took part in the search, what happened in the village is physically absolutely impossible. Seven decades later, no one has been able to challenge this assertion. Until now, the Canadian authorities have not been able to solve the mystery of Lake Anjikuni. Moreover, they could not find the descendants of the members of this tribe. And everything looks as if this village never existed in the world.

Such at least a strange disappearance of an entire village defies any more or less reasonable explanation. Even if someone had attacked the tribe, the police would have found the remains of people or traces of confrontation, but nothing of the kind was found ...
However, this is far from the only case; history keeps many more such legends. In Kenya, in one of the tribes, researchers heard a legend about the island of Envaitenet, on which a large tribe lived for a very long time. It was engaged in trade with other tribes. But one day the trade just stopped. Scouts were sent to the island, who brought information that the village was empty, while all things remained in their places. But, again, a completely logical question arises: How and, most importantly, why were the inhabitants of a whole tribe able to cross the lake unnoticed and where did they disappear to? After this incident, the island, whose name means "irrevocable", is considered cursed.
Similar disappearances also happened in Russia. A lot of reports of similar cases appeared in the media regarding Lake Pleshcheyevo. According to history, once upon a time a beautiful city of Kleshchin was built on this lake, but one day all the inhabitants left it just like the Eskimos left their village. Legends say that this city was cursed by the Spirit of the Lake. Therefore, the city of Pereyaslavl-Zalessky, which was built later in this area, was erected away from the lake. And although these are just beautiful legends, however, Lake Pleshcheyevo still inspires fear in the local population. Residents believe that the fog that often appears on the lake is very dangerous. And if you get into it, you can find yourself in a parallel world and return after a few days, or even disappear altogether.
Something similar is happening in the Irkutsk region. In 1997, in the Nizhneilimsk region, not far from the Dead Lake, three local police officers disappeared. And five years earlier, in the same area, a whole train disappeared along with all the people accompanying it.
The Pskov region also has its own anomalous place. This is an area near the village of Lyady, which is crossed by a ravine. It was there that the brigade sent for logging disappeared.
All these stories are united by the fact that they all have explanations, even if not entirely plausible. But how to explain the disappearance of people in front of a large number of witnesses? So, for example, the story that happened to the farmer Lange, who disappeared in front of five eyewitnesses, is widely known. And such stories also happen very often. Even in the annals of the seventeenth century there are records that during the meal Monk Ambrose literally disappeared into the air.

But in those days, such incidents were explained very simply - by the machinations of evil spirits and witchcraft. In the early 1800s, British Ambassador B. Bathurst disappeared in exactly the same way. At first, his disappearance was not given due importance, writing it off as Napoleonic intrigues. However, numerous eyewitness accounts confirmed that Napoleon had nothing to do with this case.
A more modern case occurred in our time, when the wife disappeared almost in front of her husband, just getting out of the car to wipe the windows.
But not always people disappear without a trace. Sometimes it happens that people who disappeared in one place, after a certain period of time, appear in another, completely unfamiliar place. So, for example, it happened in the second half of the twentieth century with one of the military pilots who had to eject because his plane crashed. When he came to his senses, it turned out that the place of the accident was about one kilometer away. And one of his colleagues claims that the plane simply disappeared.
The Chinese town of Guilin, known for winding branching caves, can also "boast" of cases of disappearances of people. Guides who conduct tours of the caves are forced to count tourists after each trip to the cave. And the reason is not only that someone can fall behind or get lost. In 2001, a very strange, but rather funny story happened. A new tourist joined one of the excursions, whom no one had seen before. It turned out that this man himself believes that he is in 1998, and he caught up with his group, from which he lagged behind, deciding to take a little rest in one of the caves.
In 1621, the royal guards of Mikhail Fedorovich captured the detachment of Khan Devlet Giray, who went on a campaign in 1571. What amazement was read on their faces when they found out what year they were in. According to the soldiers of the detachment, together with the Tatar army they took part in the storming of Moscow, on their way there was a deep ravine covered with fog. They managed to leave it only after half a century.
According to scientists, such disappearances can be explained by the existence of temporary "black holes" through which a person can get into a parallel reality, but getting back is almost impossible. Such gaps in time arise due to geophysical anomalies, such as faults in the earth's crust. No less frequently used is the version that people are abducted by aliens to conduct their research.
Teleportation is an unpredictable phenomenon, so it is impossible to know in advance exactly where this anomaly can take a person. Scientists also argue that residents of religious tribes, the main part of whose life is meditation, as well as Tibetan yogis, can demonstrate such miracles. Teleportation can also be explained by the fact that under certain circumstances, paranormal supernatural abilities can “wake up” in a person, in particular, the emergence of a danger to life and a great desire to leave a certain place. This assumption was proved experimentally - a dog was set on a cat. The cat was so frightened that he hissed and ... disappeared. Only the collar was found on the spot, and the animal itself was found a few days later on the roof of the church bell tower.
Similar cases are recorded almost every day. And even despite the fact that most of them have a prosaic, ordinary explanation, nevertheless, some of them really defy any logic and amaze with their mystery and mystical background. You can be sure that most of the cases will never get on the pages of the media, because there will simply be no one to tell about them ...

edited news Nine tailed fox - 18-12-2012, 16:13

As soon as a person or a group of people disappears without a trace, the construction of the most diverse, sometimes supernatural versions of what happened begins. The people in this collection have disappeared once and for all, and their stories have already grown into legends and rumors.

When a person disappears, and even worse - a group of people, it always raises questions. And also gives rise to a bunch of rumors. Sometimes this is how urban legends and other incredible stories appear. Most of the people on this list have disappeared for unknown reasons, and their whereabouts - dead or alive - have never been revealed. But if the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle can still be explained logically, then how could a man in a wheelchair who had a stroke disappear, leaving behind only a coat?

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1. Intrepid explorer Percy Fawcett was last seen in 1925 leading the search for an ancient lost city in the jungles of Brazil with his son Jack. Many suspected that they were killed by local residents or torn to pieces by animals. Even more absurd versions were also put forward, for example, that Fawcett became the head of the tribe. His image partially inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create a literary character - Professor Challenger.

2. In the late 16th century, a group of English colonists founded a settlement on Roanoke Island, in present-day Carolina. John White, an artist and friend of Sir Walter Reilly, was appointed governor. In 1587 White sailed home to England for a short period, then returned to Roanoke three years later. Arriving on the island, he found the colony deserted. Everyone disappeared without a trace, including the first English child born in the New World, Virginia Dare. To this day, no one knows what happened to the "lost colony".

3. In 1809, Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappeared in Germany while staying at a hotel. Various versions of his disappearance were discussed in the press: it could be murder, kidnapping by the French government, or suicide.

4. In 1763, a scandal erupted in the quiet village of Shepton Mallet. Owen Parfitt, 60, who suffered a stroke and was barely able to move, disappeared while sitting in a chair at the entrance to his sister's house. All that was left was his coat. The investigation of the incident did not lead to anything, the mystery remained unsolved.

5. Royal Navy diver Lionel "Buster" Crabbe disappeared mysteriously in 1956 when he was sent to spy on a Soviet ship. Later, a Russian claimed to have killed Crabbe when he found him planting a magnetic mine on the ship's hull. Some believe that he was captured and taken to the Soviet Union.

6. One of Britain's greatest unsolved mysteries is the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers on the Scottish island of Flannan in December 1900. Versions of their disappearance ranged from alien abduction to murder. But, most likely, they were simply washed out to sea during a storm.

7. British traveler George Bass became famous for his explorations in Australia. In February 1803 he went on a voyage to Tahiti and the Spanish colonies on the coast of Chile and did not return. Some historians suggest that he may have been recruited into the smuggling trade with Chile and killed there. In this photo you can see his image on a postage stamp.

8. On November 8, 1974, the day after his children's nanny was found beaten to death in his ex-wife's house, the British Lord Lucan disappeared. Although reports of him came from all over the world, he was never discovered. In 1999, he was officially declared dead.

9. When Edward IV unexpectedly died in 1483, his brother Richard III succeeded to the throne, declaring Edward's two young sons illegitimate. They were put up in the Tower of London and disappeared shortly thereafter. Popular legend has it that Richard killed the children, but the mystery remains to this day.

10. In 1948, a British plane with 31 passengers on board disappeared in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. During the investigation, no debris or bodies were found. The researchers involved in this case admitted that they did not have to solve a more difficult task than this. A year later, another British plane disappeared into the air somewhere between Bermuda and Jamaica.

11. The mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie for 11 days in 1926 is the same mystery as those printed in her detective novels. The writer, who was eventually discovered at the Harrogate Hotel, never explained why she disappeared. Popular versions are considered a nervous breakdown and a desire to embarrass or worry her husband (who then announced his desire for a divorce). Others believe it was just a publicity stunt.

12. Victor Grayson, who became the first socialist elected to the English Parliament, mysteriously disappeared one evening in 1920, telling friends that he needed to stop by the Queen Hotel in Leicester Square for a while. There were rumors that the deputy had made quite a few enemies in the highest echelons of power. It is assumed that he was killed to stop an investigation he was conducting into government corruption.

13. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin and his team of 128 disappeared after they went looking for the Northwest Passage. It is not known exactly what happened to the crew. An analysis of human remains found on Beechey and King Wilhelm Islands in the 1980s suggests that after their ships were stuck in the ice, many of the people died from disease, starvation and lead poisoning. There were also cases of cannibalism.

MOSCOW, May 20- RIA Novosti, Viktor Zvantsev. Thousands of volunteers, rescuers and police officers can search for one missing person. Some large-scale search operations stretch for years, but people are never found. Moreover - it is not possible to find any traces, not a single clue. In such cases, even experienced investigators shrug and say: as if aliens abducted. RIA Novosti talks about the most high-profile and mysterious disappearances that have occurred in Russia in recent times.

Chain of disappearances

In November 2013, two brothers disappeared in the village of River Kirov Region: eight-year-old Seryozha and eleven-year-old Volodya Kulakov. The boys went for a walk and did not return. Local residents, volunteers, rescuers and police combed the entire area - to no avail. Investigators considered several versions, including an accident and a crime. Thousands of people were interviewed, hundreds of examinations were carried out, but nothing was clarified. It is believed that the children could become a victim of an unknown maniac.

A few days earlier, a local doctor, Anatoly Galkin, had disappeared in the village. He went to the forest, where his friends were waiting for him, but he never got to them. And two days after the start of the search for the Kulakovs, the hunter Gennady Gromov, who took an active part in them, disappeared. His body was found eight months later - there were no wounds or signs of beatings. The search for the children and the doctor is still ongoing.

Didn't make it to the apartment

In September 2009, 28-year-old child psychologist Irina Safonova disappeared in Novosibirsk. On the evening of the eighth, she, along with her boyfriend Alexander Skurikhin, went to the cinema. After the session, Skurikhin took her home by car and dropped her off at the entrance. However, Irina did not appear at home, where her ten-year-old son was waiting. That same night, a neighbor found a bunch of keys to her apartment in the elevator.

© Photo: Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region

© Photo: Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region

The next day, relatives, volunteers and police organized a search. Soon, almost the entire city was looking for her, but all in vain. Investigators opened a criminal case under the article "Murder". One of the main suspects was Skurikhin, but many hours of interrogation and polygraph tests yielded nothing. Also, there was not a single witness who saw Safonova enter or leave the elevator. The search continues.

Didn't get out of vacation

In September 2009, a 29-year-old dentist from Novosibirsk, Yana Fedorova, disappeared without a trace in Altai. She decided to spend her vacation in nature and came to the small resort town of Belokurikha. I spent the night in a hotel, and the next day I took a backpack and went for a walk, from which I did not return. The mobile phone was left on the bed in the hotel room.

Rescuers, cynologists with dogs were looking for her, a helicopter of the Ministry of Emergency Situations was lifted into the air. Combing the area did not bring any results. Investigators considered several leads, including murder. They even connected a team of local psychics. Now the investigation of the criminal case has been suspended, but operational-search activities continue.

Murder or kidnapping

At the beginning of March 2014 in Novoaltaysk, ten-year-old Ksenia Bokova was returning from school and stopped answering her calls around noon. The mobile phone was found that evening near the bridge. Operatives suggested that the girl could drown. Divers carefully examined the waters of the Malaya Cheremshanka River - nothing. Investigators considered murder and kidnapping as one of the main versions, but found no traces or witnesses.

Desperate, the relatives of the missing girl turned to psychics, whose opinions were divided: some said that Ksyusha was alive, others that she had been kidnapped and, most likely, she was dead. The schoolgirl is still being searched for: volunteers in different cities of Russia put up leaflets, and the police conduct search activities.

Lost with a truck

In the spring of 2016, 55-year-old trucker Yuri Ozhereliev, who was transporting 20 tons of alcoholic beverages from Kabardino-Balkaria to Yekaterinburg, disappeared on the Ural highway. Together with him, the Volvo truck disappeared without a trace. The operatives found out that the driver left Ufa early in the morning and was supposed to arrive at the final destination of the route in the evening. However, in the Chelyabinsk region, communication with him was cut off. A few months later, his broken phone was found 20 kilometers from Yekaterinburg.

Many people go missing every year, month or week. Some are later found alive or dead or killed. Some are never found.

Even if we exclude teenage runaways and the criminal component of the case, there will still be many rather strange cases of disappearances.

Especially strange are the cases when a person in the literal sense of the word disappears without a trace in front of eyewitnesses or a few minutes after talking with them. Researchers of anomalous phenomena believe that such people accidentally fall into the invisible portals to other dimensions, time traps or something else like that.

In Britain, former sailor Owen Parfitt disappeared on the evening of June 7, 1763, straight from his wheelchair. Eyewitnesses claimed that Parfitt was sitting calmly in the stroller, then there was a bang - and that's it ...

In 1815, a strange disappearance occurred in a Prussian prison in Weichselmund. A servant named Diderici was imprisoned on charges of impersonating his master after he died from a stroke. The chained prisoners were somehow taken out for a walk along the fenced prison parade ground.

Suddenly, according to the testimony of numerous eyewitnesses from among the guards and prisoners, the figure of Dideritsi began to lose its shape, in a few seconds the former servant seemed to evaporate, and his shackles fell to the ground with a clang. No one has ever seen this man again.

95-year-old John Lansing - participant in the American Revolution, former chancellor, member of the university council and business consultant of Columbia College, legislator, mayor of Albany, state councilor - disappeared without a trace in December 1829. He stayed at a New York hotel where he had already been once.

In the evening, Lansing left the hotel to mail letters, hoping to send them by night boat across the Hudson to Albany. And no one else saw him, although the search was carried out very intensively.

In 1873, the English shoemaker James Worson disappeared in front of his friends. The day before, he bet that he would run from their hometown of Leamington Spa to Coventry and back (a distance of 25-26 km). Three friends rode behind him in a cart, and James slowly ran ahead. He ran part of the way without any problems, suddenly stumbled, swayed forward - and disappeared.

Friends in a panic tried to find James. After all unsuccessful attempts to find any trace, they returned to Leamington Spa and told everything to the police. After a long interrogation, the stories were believed, but they could not help in any way.

In February 1940, on the Veryan River (North Australia), an experienced nurse who went to a remote area to rescue a man wounded by a shot met two people dressed in white medical coats there. The "medics" literally vanished into thin air and disappeared before her eyes...

One of the most famous disappearances in British history took place in Norfolk on April 8, 1969. April Fabb, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, left the house and went to her sister in a nearby village. She rode her bike there and was last seen by a truck driver.

At 2:06 p.m., he noticed the girl driving along a country road. And at 2:12 p.m., her bike was found in the middle of a field a few hundred yards away, but there was no sign of April. Kidnapping seemed like the most likely scenario for the disappearance, but the attacker would only have six minutes to kidnap the girl and leave the crime scene unnoticed. April's extensive search turned up no leads.

This case has much in common with the disappearance of another young girl, Janet Tate, in 1978, so Robert Black, a notorious child killer, was considered as a possible suspect. However, there is no evidence to conclusively determine his involvement in April's disappearance, so this mystery also remains unresolved.

Eight-year-old Nicole Maureen left her mother's penthouse in Toronto, Canada on July 30, 1985. That morning, the girl was going to swim with a friend in the pool. She said goodbye to her mother and left the apartment, but 15 minutes later her friend came to find out why Nicole hadn't left yet. The disappearance of a schoolgirl led to one of the largest police investigations in Toronto history, but no trace of her has ever been found.

The most plausible assumption was that someone could have kidnapped Nicole right after she left the apartment, but the building had twenty floors, so it would be quite difficult to get her out of there unnoticed. One of the tenants said that he saw Nicole approaching the elevator, but no one else saw or heard anything. Thirty years later, authorities still haven't collected enough data to establish what happened to Nicole Maureen.

Around 4 a.m. on December 10, 1999, 18-year-old UCLA freshman Michael Negrete turned off his computer, playing video games with friends all night long. At nine in the morning, his roommate woke up and noticed that Michael had left, but left all his belongings, including his keys and wallet. He was never seen again.

The most curious thing about Michael's disappearance is that even his shoes remained in place. Investigators used search dogs to try to track the student to a bus stop a couple of miles from the dorm, but how could he have gotten this far without shoes? Only one person was seen near the scene at 4:35 a.m., but no one knows if he is connected to the disappearance of the guy. There is no reason to believe that Michael disappeared of his own accord, but there has been no news of his fate since then.

On the morning of June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Yolkowski was called to work. He asked his friend to pick him up, but he never showed up at the meeting point. The last time Jason was seen by his neighbor was about half an hour before the scheduled meeting time, when the guy was carrying garbage cans into his garage. Jason had no personal problems or any other reason to disappear, nor is there any evidence that anything could have happened to him. His fate remains a mystery many years later.

In 2003, Jason's parents, Jim and Kelly Yolkowsky, immortalized their son's name by founding their project, a non-profit organization that has become one of the most famous foundations for the families of the missing.

Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old medical student from the University of Ohio (USA), went to a bar on the evening of April 1, 2006. He drank a lot that night and, after talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone sometime between 1:30 and 2:00, mysteriously disappeared. He was last seen in the company of two young women, and no one could remember where he was after that.

The most difficult question in this story, which remains unanswered, is how Brian left the bar. The footage from the security camera clearly shows how he entered there, but not a single frame captured how he left.

Neither Brian's friends nor his family believe he went into hiding on purpose. He studied well and planned to go on vacation with his girlfriend. But if Brian was kidnapped or the victim of some other crime, how did the attacker get him out of the bar without being seen by any witnesses or security cameras?

Barbara Bolick, a 55-year-old woman from Corvallis, Montana, went hiking in the mountains on July 18, 2007 with her friend Jim Ramaker, who was visiting from California. When Jim stopped to admire the scenery, Barbara was 6-9 meters behind him, but when he turned around less than a minute later, he found that she had disappeared.

Police joined the search, but the woman could not be found. At first glance, Jim Ramaker's story sounds absolutely incredible. However, he cooperated with the authorities, and since there was no evidence of his involvement in Barbara's disappearance, he was no longer considered a suspect. The culprit would certainly have tried to come up with a better story, rather than claiming that his victim simply vanished into thin air. No traces or any hints of what could have happened to Barbara were ever found.

On the evening of May 14, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swenson was returning to his hometown of Marshall, Minnesota on a gravel road when his car went into a ditch. Brandon called his parents and asked them to come pick him up. They immediately left, but could not find him. His father called him back, Brandon picked up the phone and said that he was trying to get to the nearest town of Lead. And in the middle of the conversation, the guy suddenly cursed - and the connection abruptly ended.

The father tried to call back several more times, but received no answer and could not find his son. The police later found Brandon's car, but could not find him or his cell phone. According to one version, he could accidentally drown in a nearby river, but no body was found in it. No one knows what prompted Brandon to swear during the call, but it was the last thing they heard from him.

Most people have probably heard about the mysterious disappearance of aviator Amelia Earhart, the impudent criminal DB Cooper, who hijacked a Boeing 727 and fled in an unknown direction with a huge amount of money on his hands, or Congressman Hale Boggs, who disappeared while flying over Alaska. Mysterious disappearances are nothing new.

For some reason, people disappear without a trace and never appear again. There are many circumstances that force people to disappear, run away, hide from society. Perhaps they want to get rid of problems in the family or at work in this way, get away from the prosecution of the law, or start all over again in another place. There are also those who decide to commit suicide in seclusion, but they are few. Very often people are kidnapped, and such crimes usually remain unsolved due to insufficient leads or evidence.

Disappearances without a trace are always alarming. But there are even more strange and inexplicable cases when people mysteriously disappeared in a matter of seconds in front of others: there was a person, and in a moment he was gone, as if he had dissolved in the air. It takes a few seconds to just get up from a chair, but in some cases, people suddenly disappeared in such a short period of time, leaving no hint of what might have happened to them.

In the world where we live, there are many strange things and phenomena that we cannot understand. As you probably already guessed, then we will talk about the strangest cases of disappearance of people in the entire history of mankind.

1. Annette Sagers

On November 21, 1987, the police received a missing persons report from Corrina Sagers Malinoski, a twenty-six-year-old resident of Berkeley County, South Carolina. The girl did not show up for work that day; her car was found parked across from Mount Holly Plantation. But that's not the strangest part of the story.

Nearly a year later, on the morning of October 4, 1988, Corrina's eight-year-old daughter, Annette Sagers, left the house and walked to the bus stop where a school bus was due to arrive in a couple of minutes. The stop was located just opposite Mount Holly Plantation, where her missing mother's car was found. Very strange, but when the school bus arrived, Annette disappeared. Near the stop, a note was found with the words “Dad, mom is back. Hug your brothers for me."

The experts determined that the handwriting belonged to little Annette. They found no indication that the girl had written the note under duress. According to some people, Corrina decided to return and take Annette with her. However, she left two sons at home, and since then there has been no news of her.

In 2000, an unknown person called the police and said that Annette's body was buried in Sumter County, but the mysterious grave was never found. The Berkeley County Sheriff was investigating the disappearance of Annette Sagers. It remains undiscovered to this day.

2. Benjamin Bathurst

On the night of November 25, 1809, British envoy Benjamin Bathurst was returning from Vienna to London. Along the way, he stopped at the village of Perleberg, near Berlin, to eat and rest his horses. After he had eaten a hearty meal, he was informed that the horses were ready to set off again. Bathurst apologized and told his assistant that he would be waiting for him in the carriage. A few minutes later, the assistant was very surprised when, opening the carriage door, he did not find Bathurst in it. Where he went, no one had a clue. Bathurst was last seen walking outside the hotel's front door. There were no traces of his stay in the yard. He just disappeared.

Since Bathurst had diplomatic status, a search was organized for him. The police with sniffer dogs searched the forest, checked every house in the area, and even examined the bottom of the Stepenitz River, but found nothing. A coat was later found in the closet, believed to have belonged to Benjamin Bathurst. During a second search in the forest, the trousers of the diplomatic representative were found.

This incident happened during the Napoleonic Wars. People began to say that Mr. Bathurst had been kidnapped by the French. Napoleon Bonaparte himself reportedly denied involvement in the disappearance of the British envoy and claimed to have no idea where he was. The emperor even offered his help in searching for the missing person.

Despite the best efforts of the police, no other belongings or traces of Bathurst were found. He promptly disappeared.

3 The Disappearance Of The Sodder Children Of Fayetteville, West Virginia

It was Christmas Eve 1945. Five children, Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny and Betty Sodder, went out late. Their parents and other brothers and sisters had gone to bed long ago. Around one in the morning, their mother was awakened by loud noises coming from the roof. She realized that the house was on fire. Then she woke her husband and children, and together they got out.

After that, the parents started looking for a ladder to help Maurice, Martha, Luis, Jenny and Betty, who were trapped on the top floor, but it was nowhere to be found.

By the time the firemen arrived, it was already late. The children presumably died, but their bodies were not found in the charred remains of the house. The parents believed that Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny and Betty were kidnapped and then set fire to the house to cover up the crime.

Four years later, investigators found six small bones at the site of the burnt house, which were not damaged by the fire and presumably belonged to a young adult. No other evidence was found.

In 1968, the Sodders received a photograph in the mail of a young man. It was signed "Louis Sodder" on the back. Police were unable to identify the person in the photo. The Sodders died believing it was their lost son.

4. Margaret Kilcoin

Fifty-year-old Margaret Kilcoin worked as a cardiologist at Columbia University. She did pioneering research related to hypertension and made a big breakthrough. After a busy week at work, Margaret decided to spend the weekend at her country house in Nantucket, Massachusetts. At a local grocery store, she bought over $900 worth of food and alcoholic beverages, saying she was going to throw a party and a press conference to present the results of her scientific research.

Arriving home, Margaret called her brother and told him to come and wake her up in the morning: she wanted to go to church service. The next morning, January 26, 1980, Margaret's brother came to her house, but did not find her in the house. Margaret's jacket was hanging in the closet, the shoes were at the doorstep, and the car was still there in the garage. It was cold outside, so she couldn't go anywhere without her jacket.

The police thoroughly searched the house, but found no evidence. The strangest thing was that a few days later, Margaret's sandals, her passport, checkbook, purse and $100 appeared in the most prominent place in the house. It was very difficult not to notice them.

Margaret's brother claimed that she was mentally unstable. The police put forward a version according to which the woman committed suicide by drowning herself in the icy ocean, but no evidence was found in favor of this theory.

5The Disappearance Of Famous Socialite Dorothy Arnold

In 1910, the city of New York was shocked by the news of the disappearance of twenty-four-year-old socialite and wealthy heiress Dorothy Arnold. The girl was an aspiring writer whose first two stories were not approved by the publishers. The public admired Dorothy's beauty and mocked her ambitions.

On the morning of December 12, 1910, the young beauty left home, telling her mother that she wanted to look for a new dress for the upcoming ball. According to witnesses, she bought one book and half a pound of chocolate, after which she went for a walk in Central Park. Nobody else saw her.

Dorothy Arnold was a New York celebrity. How could it happen that she just disappeared without a trace? It seems even stranger that her parents initially hid the fact of their daughter's disappearance, coming up with various excuses for curious friends. Apparently, they wanted to avoid scandal.

The disappearance of Dorothy Anrnold became known only six weeks later. People said that the girl led a double life and planned to escape to Europe. However, no evidence was found to support this version.

6The Disappeared Tribe From Angikuni Lake

Lake Angikuni is located in the Canadian countryside, near the Kazan River. In the early 1900s, the Inuit tribe lived here, which disappeared without a trace on a November evening in 1930. They were hospitable people who were friendly to travelers, offering them hot meals and lodging for the night. They were often visited by Canadian hunter Joe Labelle.

On the night when Labelle again came to Lake Angikuni, the full moon shone, which illuminated the entire village with its bright light. There was an unusual silence all around; even the huskies were silent, which usually reacted noisily to the guests. There was not a soul in the village. In the center, a fire was slowly burning down. A bowler hat lay beside him; it looks like someone was going to cook a hearty dinner.

Labelle toured several houses in the hope of finding someone who could explain what had happened here. But he did not find anything other than stocks of food, clothing and weapons. The tribe, which consisted of thirty men, women and children, disappeared without a trace. If they decided to leave, they would certainly take food and equipment with them. Labelle also found that all the huskies died, apparently from hunger.

Labelle reported the mysterious disappearance to Canadian authorities, who dispatched investigators to Angikuni Lake. They found witnesses who claimed to have seen a large unidentified object in the sky above the lake. Investigators also determined that the settlement was abandoned about eight weeks ago. If this is true, then why did the huskies starve to death so quickly, and who left the fire that Labelle discovered? The mystery of the disappearance of an entire Inuit tribe remains unsolved to this day.

7. Disappearance of Diderici

It is one thing when someone disappears without leaving any traces, another thing is when a person simply dissolves in the air in front of astonished witnesses. This is exactly what happened in 1815. It all started when a man named Diderici dressed up in the clothes of his boss who had died of a stroke, put on a wig and went to the bank to try to withdraw money from the deceased's account.

Of course, the plan failed. Diderici was caught and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was to serve his term in the Prussian prison, Weikselmünde. According to prison records, when Diderici and other prisoners were taken outside for a walk, something strange began to happen: his body gradually became transparent. Ultimately, he literally vanished into thin air, leaving empty iron shackles behind. This happened in front of the astonished prisoners and guards. During the interrogation, all the witnesses said the same thing: Diderici gradually became invisible, until he simply disappeared. Unable to rationally explain what happened, the prison authorities dismissed the case and considered it "God's will." Diderici was never seen again.

8. Louis Leprince

On September 16, 1890, French inventor Louis Leprince boarded a train from Dijon to Paris. Witnesses saw Leprince check the luggage and take his seat in the compartment. When the train arrived in the capital, Leprince did not get off at the terminus. The conductor, thinking that Leprince had simply fallen asleep, decided to check his compartment, which, to everyone's surprise, turned out to be empty: neither the inventor nor his luggage was in it. A search of the entire train yielded no results. Leprince disappeared without a trace.

Passengers claimed that the inventor did not leave his compartment during the journey. Since the train traveled from Dijon to Paris without stopping, Leprince could not get off it sooner. Moreover, the windows in his compartment were closed and locked from the inside. On the way, according to passengers and conductors, no incidents occurred. Leprince seemed to have vanished into thin air.

Interestingly, Louis Leprince was able to capture moving images on film using a single-lens camera that he himself invented. Simply put, Leprince invented cinema. He was going to go to America to patent his invention. This was long before Thomas Edison gained mainstream recognition. Leprince's disappearance cleared the way for Edison.

9. Charles Ashmore

In November 1878, sixteen-year-old Charles Ashmore left his home in Quincy, Illinois, to draw water from a nearby well. He didn't come back for a long time, so his father and sister started to get really worried about him. It was cold and slippery outside, and something bad could happen to Charles. They followed his tracks, which suddenly broke off about 75 meters from the well. They called out his name, but there was no answer. There were no signs of falling on the snow. Everything looked as if Charles Ashmore had simply vanished into thin air.

Four days later, Charles's mother went to the same well for water. When she returned home, she claimed to have heard her son's voice. She went around the whole area, but did not find Charles.

Other family members also claimed to have periodically heard Charles's voice, but they could not make out the words he spoke to them. The last time this happened was in the middle of the summer of 1879, and it never happened again.

In 1975, Jackson Wright and his wife Martha were driving through the Lincoln Tunnel in New York. The couple decided to slow down and wipe the condensation off the windows. While Jackson was working on the windshield, Martha got out of the car to wipe the rear window. Just a couple of seconds after that, she disappeared. Jackson did not hear or see anything suspicious. There were no more cars in the tunnel. If Martha had decided to run away, he would have noticed her anyway.

Initially, the police were skeptical about his testimony, however, after carefully examining the scene and not finding any evidence, they ruled out the version that he could have killed his wife.

11. Gene Spangler

Jean Spangler was one of the little-known actresses who dreamed of a career in Los Angeles. She was beautiful, but she did not have the success she so dreamed of. Jin starred mainly in cameo roles. The most famous picture in which she took part was the film Trumpeter (1950) directed by Michael Curtis.

In October 1949, Jean went to meet her ex-husband and was never seen again. Two days later, police found her purse, inside of which was a note, "Kirk, I can't wait any longer. I'm going to see Dr. Scott. Everything will work out. We have to make it while my mother is not at home.” No one knew which Kirk they were talking about. The story received wide publicity. A lot of versions were put forward, but all of them turned out to be unfounded. The case came to a standstill. The only "Kirk" that could be found in Jean's entourage was the famous actor Kirk Douglas. He starred in the movie Trumpeter with Spangler. However, Douglas vehemently denied any involvement in Jean's disappearance.

Investigators also tracked down Dr. Kirk, a gynecologist who, in a strange coincidence, disappeared mysteriously a few weeks before Spangler went missing. However, no evidence linking him to the actress has been found.

Another version revolved around two bandits who disappeared around the same time as Jean. A few weeks before the incident, they were seen at a party at Spangler's company. However, no specific connection between the disappearances has been identified. What really happened to Jin is anyone's guess.

12. James Warson

The year was 1873. James Worson, a shoemaker from Leamington Spa, England, was having fun with his friends at a local tavern. During the conversation, he said that he could run non-stop all the way to Coventry - as much as 25 kilometers. His friends decided to argue with him, because they did not believe that he was capable of accomplishing such a feat. To eliminate the possibility of deception, they followed Warson on a horse-drawn wagon. Warson ran several miles without any problems.

When his friends began to doubt that they would be allowed to win the bet, Warson unexpectedly tripped over something in the road. Witnesses claim to have seen Warson lean forward, but he never fell to the ground, as the next moment he mysteriously disappeared in front of everyone.

Wharson's friends contacted the local police and explained the whole situation. A search was conducted at the scene, but the police did not find anything suspicious. Shoemaker James Worson vanished into thin air.

13. Mystery of the airship L-8

During World War II, airships were used to patrol coastal areas and detect enemy submarines. On August 16, 1942, the crew of the airship L-8, Ernest Cody and Charles Adams, were assigned to perform one of these missions. They were supposed to fly over the Farallon Islands, 50 kilometers from the coast of San Francisco, and then return to base.

Once above the water, the crew of the L-8 reported that they supposedly found the site of the oil spill and were heading there to investigate. On the way, the airship was spotted by two ships and a Pan Am airliner. Another witness claimed to have seen the L-8 rapidly gaining altitude.

About an hour later, the airship landed on the rocky coast of Daly City, after which it again flew into the sky. Then the L-8 crashed into one of the busy streets of the city. Rescuers hurried to the crash site, but were shocked when they saw that the cabin was empty. The equipment was correct. Parachutes and life rafts were in place. Only life jackets were missing, but crew members often wore them when they flew over water. There were no radio calls for help. Ernest Cody and Charles Adams disappeared without a trace.

14. Disappearance of F-89

In November 1953, US Air Force radar picked up an unknown object invading US airspace over Lake Superior. A Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter was sent to intercept it, with Lieutenants Felix Moncla and Robert Wilson on board.

Ground-based radar operators reported that Monkla first flew high over the target at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour, and then descended and came close to the object. Then something unusual happened: two dots on the radar screen became one. The F-89C merged with an unknown object, which then left the area and disappeared.

Extensive searches were carried out, but no traces of the F-89C could be found.

15. Disappearance of Frederik Valentich

In October 1978, a young pilot named Frederick Valentich was flying a Cessna 182L along the coast of Bass Strait (Australia). Suddenly, he noticed that he was being pursued by an unknown object. He reported this to Melbourne Air Traffic Control, who insisted that there were no more aircraft in his vicinity.

When the object came close to Valentich, he, having examined it, said: “This strange plane hovered over me again. It hangs... and it's not a plane." Then followed a few seconds of white noise, and the connection was interrupted. After that, Valentich's plane disappeared from the radar.

Search and rescue operations have not yielded any results. There were about a dozen reports of unidentified flying objects that weekend, according to the Australian Air Force.

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