The mysterious disappearance and death of Elisa Lam and thousands of other people across the planet. What do they have in common? The most mysterious disappearances in history (11 photos) Mysterious disappearance of people

Our planet, although it is a grain of sand in the Universe, is still large enough for a person to disappear on its surface without a trace. Sometimes it looks more like magic in the spirit of Houdini than a real-life story: one minute the person was there minding his own business, and the next minute he literally melted into thin air. Each case is immediately overgrown with a layer of theories, guesses and conjectures. It is difficult to say whether we really want to know the truth or whether we are leaving room for the secrets and mysteries that humanity so needs. Here is a list of the most famous disappearances.

It was November 1953. American pilot Felix Moncla was stationed at Kinross Air Force Base in Michigan. During the flight, he reported that he saw an unidentified flying object over Lake Superior near the town of Su Loc. Monkla chased the UFO, however, after some time, both objects disappeared from the radar. Then the UFO suddenly appeared, rapidly heading north, and disappeared from the radar field of view. Felix's plane and its pilot were never found.

Richard Halliburton was a famous traveler, writer and adventurer. The townsfolk compared him to Amelia Earhart and watched with bated breath the next adventures of the young daredevil: he easily swam across the Panama Canal and went into the wild forests of South America. On his last trip, he was planning to take a cargo ship across the ocean from Hong Kong to San Francisco. During this voyage, contact with Richard was lost. The US Navy conducted an expensive search expedition, but it was all in vain. During his last contact, Richard reported that he was entering a powerful storm. The ship had no chance.

Sir Fawcett was a famous archaeologist and the subject of his obsession was the lost city of "Z", located deep in the virgin jungle of the Amazon. In 1925, he, in the company of his son and his friend, went in search of “his own Eldorado.” All three disappeared without a trace. Many travelers tried to find at least some information about the lost expedition, but all in vain. However, the local tribes keep stories of a white man who came out of the forest and lived with them for some time, telling amazing stories about another world. According to the shamans, this man wanted to get further into the forests and did not listen to warnings about the bloodthirsty tribe of cannibals living there.

Perhaps the most famous story of American folklore. In 1587, a group of 115 men, women and children founded a colony on Roanoke Island in North Carolina. John White was appointed governor of the colony. That same year he sailed to England to obtain the necessary food, tools and money. He left his wife and daughter in the newly acquired house. Unfortunately, he was able to return home only three years later, in 1590 (a war was raging at sea between England and Spain). He found the colony abandoned, but all personal belongings, food supplies and firewood remained in place. But not a single person. Only the incomprehensible word “Croatoan” carved on a wooden post. What happened to the Roanoke Island colony? Until now, there are only theories (one weirder than the other): an epidemic, an attack by local tribes, abduction by aliens and a gap in time.

The famous writer and satirist, Ambrose Bierce spent his entire adult life trying to envelop himself in an atmosphere of mystery and mysticism. This was also facilitated by the scary stories for which one of the classics of American literature was famous. However, his sharp tongue played a cruel joke on him: not only his friends, but also family members turned away from him, leaving him completely alone. In his last letter he wrote: “As for me, I am leaving from here tomorrow to an unknown destination.” After that, he swam across the Rio Grande and was never seen again. Rumor has it that he was seen by soldiers on the border with Mexico.

One of Adolf Hitler's close associates, chief of the secret police, Müller was a real monster in human form, bloodthirsty and merciless. He was last seen in the Fuhrer's bunker a day after the suicide of Hitler and his wife. Then the trail breaks down and neither American intelligence nor Israeli intelligence services were able to track down the criminal. Many people believe that Müller changed his appearance and lived out his life in Brazil.

Swedish diplomat stationed in Warsaw at the end of World War II. Thanks to his underground activities, more than 100,000 Jews were saved: he sought refuge for them and provided them with false passports. However, on one of his trips outside Budapest, Wallenberg was captured by the KGB and was never seen again. Decades later, during Perestroika, intelligence officers admitted that Raul was detained and died of heart failure. Swedish government officials and Wallenberg's family are confident that the diplomat lived in prison much longer and that the Soviets considered him a spy for the West.

Also known as the Silk King, Mr. Thompson lived a full life. In his youth, he dreamed of becoming an architect, but he failed the entrance exams four times and decided to go to military service abroad. In this field, he was much more fortunate; he was accepted into the special forces and sent to Thailand. There he left his military career and decided to go into the silk business. After he supplied the silk fabric for the musical The King and I, his empire grew and made him a millionaire. In 1967, he went for an afternoon walk. This was the last time he was seen, alive or dead. The search yielded no results. There is a version that he was simply bored with his life and decided to start over from scratch. According to another, he was kidnapped by his competitors and forced to live in the basement for the rest of his life. According to the third theory, he was hit by a careless driver and his body was buried near the road.

John Cyprian Phills Williams was a New Zealand cardiologist who discovered a disease called “Williams syndrome” (otherwise known as “elf face syndrome”). Thanks to this research, he became widely known in medical circles and was expected to practice at the Mayo Clinic (one of the largest private medical centers in the world), but he did not get in touch. The last place he was seen was London. The investigation and search came to a standstill and the case was closed.

Mr. Clark's case is one of the oldest and most unsolved disappearances in US history. In 1926, Marvin boarded a bus to Portland to spend Halloween with his daughter. The bus left the town of Tigar, Oregon. Clark never showed up at his daughter's. Decades later, in 1986, Portland lumberjacks discovered in one of the forests the skeleton of a man in scraps of clothing and with a gunshot wound to the head (a pistol and cartridges for it were lying nearby). The remains could not be identified, but there is a lot of circumstantial evidence confirming that the body belonged to Marvin Clark. A full examination of the bones is now being carried out, which may put an end to the matter.

A famous bandit, a legend of the Wild West, Evans committed robberies with his gang, which he called “the Boys”. Jesse was a simple mason on a ranch, but decided to break the law and took up cattle theft and robbery like Billy the Kid. After the so-called “Lincoln County War” began (the redistribution of property between two wealthy entrepreneurs), in which Evans took an active part as a mercenary, he had to flee to Texas. The Texas Rangers still managed to track him down and throw him behind bars in Huntsville. In 1882, Jesse Evans made a daring escape and disappeared forever from the sight of both ordinary people and lawyers.

This sweet girl was only three years old at the time of her disappearance. In 1970, Cheryl and her family were vacationing on Wollongong Beach in Australia. Little Miss Grimmer was in the shower when her big brother demanded she come out. The girl began to be capricious and the brother, angry with her, went to his parents for a minute. When he returned with his mother, the shower stall was already empty. Witnesses claimed that Cheryl was carried away by a flying man, but the investigation still helped to find the culprit (even though this happened almost half a century later).

It is difficult to imagine a jazz lover who is not familiar with the work of Glenn Miller. He was a true music icon in the 30s and 40s of the twentieth century. One of the most popular jazz orchestras in America and abroad is named after him. Miller was a patriot, so he went to the front, despite exhortations and demands to stay. He was last seen on the airport runway as he boarded a plane to Paris. According to some reports, this plane could not cope with the storm and sank in the waters of the English Channel.

Theodosia was the daughter of the Vice President of the United States of America, Aaron Burr (whose career ended after a duel with Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury). According to her father, Feodosia was a pearl of rarity for her era. She was returning from Europe on the Patriot ship, which never arrived at its destination. Many people are sure that the ship was sunk by pirates who ruled the Atlantic at that time.

He was called "Lincoln's Avenger" because he was truly dedicated to the president's cause and single-handedly tracked down John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Despite a direct order not to kill the criminal, he arbitrarily committed a trial and shot Booth. Despite the insubordination, Corbett was not court-martialed and was revered as a patriot and national hero. Boston Corbett's madness came as a complete surprise to everyone who knew him. He was placed in a psychiatric hospital, from which he escaped and disappeared. There is a theory that he settled in Minnesota and died in old age, but supporters of this theory do not have any evidence.

The Mary Celeste is an American sailing ship found near the Azores Islands, abandoned by its crew. No signs of breakage or leakage were found. "Maria" left the port in New York and was supposed to sail to Genoa, but this did not happen. The sailors' personal belongings, provisions and cargo remained on the ship. The only thing missing was a lifeboat. The last note in the ship's log did not explain the disappearances. There are many versions: from storm and tsunami to giant squid and megalodon. A secret that will surely remain so.

Cantello was the owner of the Old Tower Hotel in Southampton. Everyone respected him and knew him as a respectable gentleman. His hobby was related to the creation of weapons, and in his workshop, together with his sons, he developed a new model of machine gun for the needs of the British Army. When the prototype was completed and successfully tested, William told family members that he needed a little vacation. He left and did not return, although he promised to be home in three months. On top of that, most of the family savings were gone. Detectives hired by the Cantello family learned that William had gone to America, but the trail ended there. Years later, the sons of the missing man heard about a certain inventor of a machine gun in the United States. His name was Khairam Maxim (it was he who created the Maxim machine gun, so beloved by Soviet filmmakers). The Cantello family was sure that William and Hiram were the same person. However, when the meeting did take place, Mr. Maxim did not recognize the strangers as his relatives. Apart from the words of members of the Cantello family, there is not a single piece of evidence that the American gunsmith is the missing father of the family. The case remains unsolved.

Lionel "Buster" Crabbe served in the British Royal Navy during World War II. Later, during the Cold War, he was recruited by the British intelligence service MI6 to obtain data on a Soviet cruiser. During the operation, Crabb dived with scuba gear, and only a few days later a body in a diving suit, devoid of arms and legs, washed ashore. Neither relatives nor the military were able to identify the body as Lionel. The truth was never achieved.

This mysterious story happened on June 6, 1992. Two seniors, Susie Streeter and Stacey McCall, wanted to go to a party after their graduation ceremony. Early in the morning they went to the Streeter house, where Susie's mother, Sherrill Levitt, was at that moment. None of them were ever seen again. The strange thing is that no signs of a struggle were found in the house. Police found the alumni's wallets and migraine medication that belonged to Sherrill. The missing persons' cars were located near the house. For 25 years, not a single piece of evidence has been found that sheds light on this disappearance.

John was a talented businessman and an equally talented swindler: he managed to defraud American banks for a total of $350 million. After the court pronounced its verdict and imposed a sentence of 18 years in prison, Raffo disappeared. He was last seen near one of the ATMs, where he cashed out a small amount of money. Investigators claim that Raffo had many influential friends abroad, so it was not difficult for him to get new documents, undergo plastic surgery and disappear. Nothing has been heard from him since 1998.

The Canadian hip-hop artist went by the stage name DY and had just signed a record deal with CP Records in preparation for recording a single. A short vacation awaited him in Mexico, and on the way there he disappeared. Neither fans, family members, nor lawyers have received any information about his whereabouts. There were rumors that his disappearance was related to crime and drugs.

Jim was a musician from Malibu. Despite the fact that he was well acquainted with many stars of the first magnitude, success did not come to him. In 1969, he released the album U.F.O ("UFO") and received some recognition. However, after some time, he took a small truck, his guitar, $120 and suddenly left his family for Nashville, where he never made it. A few days after the loss, rescuers found a truck in which the guitar was still lying. Jim himself was gone, and neither was his body. It’s surprising that the theme of one of the songs from the artist’s album was an escape into the desert from family and friends, where the lyrical hero of the composition is taken away by aliens.

In 1937, a presentation of a new powerful bomber took place in Moscow, which was attended by the entire elite of the Communist Party, led by Joseph Stalin. The event was also covered by Western journalists. The domestic pilot, a real ace Sigismund Levanevsky, got into the cockpit and set off on a flight that was supposed to take place over Siberia and then Alaska. On approach to Alaska, contact with the pilot was lost and he disappeared. Neither the bomber's wreckage nor Sigismund's body were ever found.

Hudson was one of the most famous American navigators and discoverers. The famous Hudson Strait is named after him. He was hired to discover the northern sea route to Asia, but the expedition failed. After the extreme conditions of the cold winter, part of the team demanded to return home, but Hudson adamantly pursued his goal. A riot broke out and this is the only thing that was found out. Perhaps the sailors threw the captain overboard, perhaps they buried him on the Canadian shore.

This brave pilot stood in the forefront of aeronauts. Sir Charles "Smitty" Smith was the first to cross Australian airspace, the first to fly from Sydney to London. He was loved and adored. During his next flight in 1935, he crashed near Myanmar. The plane, missing its landing gear, was found in the jungle, but Smith's body was never found.

According to unofficial studies conducted in the United States, up to 10,000 people disappear per year in North America alone. Of these, at least 1000 are without a trace. Perhaps, over time, all these mysterious disappearances will be explained, but there is also a high probability that among them there will be no less alarming and frightening cases than those discussed in the article.

That's memory! As a patronymic, I forgot my third mother-in-law, but I remember a man named Occam. I also remember his razor blade (in different interpretations in different ways). This English monk in a black robe, as soon as he saw a tired traveler on the horizon, immediately ran up to the stranger, grabbed his hand and soulfully, looking into his eyes, repeated: “For God’s sake, do not multiply the essence of phenomena.” As a result, the principle was called “Occam’s razor”. Translated from English into Russian, this wisdom sounds like this: “If there is a simple explanation for what happened, there is no need to look for complex ones.” Let’s explain with an example: if you didn’t look after your child, and a plate suddenly broke in the kitchen, then most likely it was your curious child who did it. One can assume that the brownie misbehaved or the mouse ran and waved its tail (and this is precisely what the offender will insist on), but the first explanation will still remain the most correct. Although it happens that William of Occam nervously smokes on the sidelines and glances suspiciously at his compatriot Arthur Conan Doyle. The latter, twirling his mustache, through the lips of his favorite literary hero Sherlock Holmes, says: “Throw away everything impossible, what remains will be the answer, no matter how incredible it may turn out to be.” It is this phrase that applies to cases of strange disappearances of people around the world.

Cases of people disappearing without a trace

Everyone has heard and read about aliens, transitions to parallel worlds, time travel and other esoteric things.

Many then twirl their fingers at their temples, others passionately argue that it is impossible not to believe this, since they themselves have been repeatedly abducted by aliens.

Where do people disappear in Russia?

In Moscow, a young mother left her sleeping baby for ten minutes while she ran to the store. When I returned, the baby was not in the crib. She opened the door with a key, there were no signs of forced entry. In a panic, I called my husband and mother at work, thinking maybe they had taken the baby for some reason? The police were called. Four years have passed since then.

A young couple. On their honeymoon, the newlyweds planned to take a boat ride down the Volga to Astrakhan. In the morning we packed our bags and ordered a taxi for 15.00. The girl went out to put money on the phone and returned half an hour later. The young husband disappeared. At first I thought it was a prank, after all the deadlines had passed, the trip was cancelled, I called my relatives. We called all police departments, hospitals, morgues, and wrote a statement the next day. The case was opened in 2009.

The man went on a business trip to another city. I settled into a hotel and called home from there. I talked to my daughter. Nobody saw him again. Presumably, he did not leave the hotel because his boots (it was winter), suit, warm jacket and hat were collecting dust in the closet. Another hang-up from 2011.

The system administrator of a large company left at the appointed time for lunch. He didn’t return to work from lunch and didn’t come home in the evening. The family left a wife and two children. There were no scandals with his wife on the eve of her disappearance. There were no debts, no mortgages. There were no enemies. Everyone loved the guy, and for those close to him this incident became a real tragedy. The statement to the police was written in August 2014.

Where do people disappear - statistics

There have been tens of thousands of such examples over many years in our country, millions in the world. I tried to understand the statistics, but they are very contradictory, so I am not responsible for them, I am not the Levada Center.

So, according to statistics, more than a million people disappear every year in the United States. 65 percent are within a week. Another 20-25 percent of missing people are discovered within a month to ten years. Total, approximately 90 percent.

The remaining 10 percent disappears forever. And this is about one hundred thousand people.

I read that according to Russian statistics, there are two times fewer missing people. Maybe. But 50 thousand is also a huge number.

Here is a list of the main reasons for disappearances:

1. Homeless people. Among this category, the largest number of people disappeared without a trace. This is not surprising
2. Mentally ill people, drug addicts, alcoholics. These people leave home, run away from hospitals without documents, without telephones. Not everyone is found and often they end up in the crematorium as unidentified corpses
3. Fishermen, hunters, tourists, mushroom pickers and other nature lovers
4. Runaway orphanages
5. Exalted spouses who split with their other half and “went off into the night”
6. Disappeared in disaster or combat zones
7. Escaped from loans, impending sentence, debts, alimony, bandits
8. Children and adolescents, victims of domestic violence

These 8 points include 90 percent of the disappeared. But in the police reports there is one more item: “Disappeared suddenly and for no apparent reason.” These are the same 50 thousand that have never been found.

Yes, among them there may be people kidnapped into slavery, for forced prostitution, killed, exterminated, or died an absurd death (for example, hit by a car in a strange city).

Everything is true, but there are cases that do not fit into these schemes, which we described above. Even more strange disappearances are known.

Disappearances - real cases

USA

American criminologist T. Bell, who interviewed many relatives of those who disappeared, knows many such stories.

Los Angeles. City of Angels. . In a small, empty parking lot, a woman was putting groceries in the trunk. Her eleven-year-old daughter was here, there were no strangers nearby. Her mother lost sight of her for a few seconds. The search has been going on for many years.

San Francisco. A forty-eight-year-old man entered the house where he rented an apartment. Evan Jacobi. This moment was recorded by a video camera at the entrance. Evan didn't come back. The camera footage confirms everything. Detectives combed the building several times. To no avail. Jacobi

In Russia alone, about 120 thousand people disappear per year, and throughout the world this figure reaches several hundred thousand. According to statistics, experts never find traces of even a quarter of the missing, which is why their stories begin to become overgrown with rumors and are associated with various mystical phenomena.

Mysterious disappearances of people have occurred at all times, and many of them were documented back in the Middle Ages. But, it would seem, how in the age of modern technology, media and ample opportunities for a thorough search can a person disappear so that not even a small clue remains about his whereabouts?

In 1910, the mysterious story of the disappearance of this socialite, who was the daughter of the owner of a large company, gave rise to many rumors and versions. In good spirits, on the morning of December 12, she left her house without money or belongings.

On the way, she met several of her acquaintances, bought a humorous book at a bookstore, and then saw her friend Gladys. She was the last person to see the girl as she headed home through the park.

Dorothy's father spent more than one hundred thousand dollars searching for her, which was a huge amount at that time, but did not get any results. The versions of murder, suicide and memory loss were refuted by the police.

Disappearance at Stonehenge

This mystical incident in 1971, which occurred near Stonehenge, is one of the biggest mysteries in human history. A group of hippie tourists decided to set up camp right in the center of this structure.

At night, a storm suddenly began, and the place was illuminated by a bright flash of blue. She was seen by two witnesses - a policeman and a farmer, who immediately rushed to the stones, but found no one.

After this disappearance, no one was ever seen again, either alive or dead.

Lost in the mountains

In 2007, a woman named Barbara Bolick went with her friend on a dangerous journey into the mountains. According to him, they moved together all the time, but at some point he stopped for a few seconds to admire the luxurious view.

When he turned to say something to his companion, it turned out that she was no longer there. The police thoroughly checked the man, initially not believing his version, and then completely combed the area, but Barbara was never found.

Disappearance from a wheelchair

The disappearances of people who have certain physical disabilities and cannot move independently look especially strange.

So one day, a sixty-year-old man named Owen Parfitt, who was resting in a wheelchair in the courtyard of his own house, disappeared in an unknown direction.

When his sister came out to help him drive back in, it turned out that he was nowhere to be found. No traces other than his coat were ever found.

Disappearance of the village

There were also mass disappearances of people. There is a known case when in 1930 the inhabitants of an entire Eskimo village disappeared, and no one has been able to explain this mystical incident to this day.

All things remained in the houses, and the situation itself looked as if people had left their homes for a few minutes: there was half-eaten food on the tables, and nearby were household items that people, apparently, had used just before their disappearance.

No traces indicating that people had left were found around the village.

The dogs were found tied and covered with snow, which seemed strange: the Eskimos were always kind to animals and, when leaving, would not leave their friends to certain death. But the worst thing in this story is that all the graves of their ancestors were opened.

Considering that it was winter and the ground was frozen, it was impossible to dig them all up quickly and without special equipment. Eyewitnesses claim that before the incident they saw a large luminous object in the sky that changed shape and moved towards the village.

No one can say what actually happened, but the fact that an entire village disappeared is irrefutable.

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It has been proven that every three minutes on Earth one person disappears without a trace. Among the reasons - domestic, criminal and the like - mysterious, inexplicable disappearances are a special group in the sad statistics. They will be discussed in this collection.

Strange disappearances

21-month-old Jason Barton disappeared in South Carolina. The boy's mother last saw him in the evening before going to take a shower in the bathroom. When she got out of the shower, the baby was nowhere to be found.

Assuming that the boy had gone outside, the woman ran around and notified the police and neighbors. More than 200 people took part in the search for the child. A day later, in rainy, cool weather, the baby was finally found. He... slept peacefully 5.5 miles from the house on the river bank, which greatly amazed the rescuers and the police.

According to the sheriff, it would be virtually impossible for a child that age to go anywhere further than a mile. Especially in the evening when it’s dark outside.

Jason was immediately taken to the hospital and examined. Doctors did not find any abnormalities or injuries in him.

Meanwhile in Maine, 20-month-old Isla Reynolds disappeared from her bedroom, possibly around the same time as the South Carolina boy. The police and parents find it difficult to name the exact time the child disappeared, since the last time they saw the girl was when they put her to bed in the evening in her room. In the morning at 8 o'clock in the morning they found an empty bed in the bedroom. There were no signs of forced entry or signs of unauthorized presence. Apparently, the child left the house on his own.

The police searched the entire area. The forest there is not so deep and dense that they could miss the child, but they never found anyone. At the moment, the search for the girl continues.

Disappeared into nowhere

In more recent times, the most famous victim of the disappearance was Lucien Boussier, a neighbor of Dr. Bonvilen. It happened in 1867 in Paris. Lucien went to the doctor in the evening to examine him and consult him about his weakness. Bonvilen, in order to conduct an examination, told the patient to undress and lie down on the couch. And he went to get the stethoscope lying on the table. Then, going to the couch, he did not find the patient there. Only Bussier's clothes remained on the chair. The doctor immediately decided that he had gone to his home and went to the patient himself, but no one answered him. Bonvilen reported to the police, but the search yielded nothing; the man without clothes disappeared.

Another mysterious case of disappearance of a person occurred in 1880 in America. Local farmer David Lang was sitting in his yard with his wife and children. Noticing his friend's carriage approaching the house, David hurried towards it and suddenly disappeared right in front of his family. The wife and neighbors carefully examined the place from which Mr. Lang literally disappeared, but found nothing except a spot of yellowed grass from unknown causes. Oddly enough, from that very day on, the domestic animals that lived on the farm avoided the mysterious place.

On December 12, 1910, the 25-year-old niece of US Supreme Court justice and prominent social activist Dorothy Arnold left her fashionable mansion on East 79th Street in New York at 11 a.m. to buy an evening dress. At about two o'clock in the afternoon she met a friend, Gladys Keith, on Fifth Avenue; the girls chatted and went their separate ways. Dorothy Arnold cheerfully waved goodbye and was never seen again.

Similar stories happened relatively often in a variety of countries, on land, sea and in the air, in apartments, on the streets, forests, fields, and in transport. 14 people witnessed the disappearance of a bus traveling from Albany to Bennington on December 1, 1949. People saw how soldier James Thetford sat down in his seat and immediately fell asleep after the bus left. On the way, the bus did not stop anywhere, and when it arrived in Bennington, in James’ place there was only a crumpled newspaper and a bag. The police investigation was inconclusive. As did 26 years later, when a young woman, Martha Wright, disappeared in 1975. Jackson Wright and his wife Martha were driving their car from New Jersey to the center of New York, to Manhattan. Walked strong

snow, and they took refuge from the weather in the Lincoln Tunnel. Wright went out to clear the snow from his car. Martha was wiping the rear drain, and her husband was cleaning the windshield. After finishing his work, Jackson Wright looked up and did not see his wife.

Dissolved in the fog

In 1915, during the First World War, when the British were fighting in the Balkans, 145 well-trained soldiers of the Norfolk Battalion moved towards the enemy. The comrades in arms who remained in the positions testified that the battalion suddenly found itself shrouded in thick fog. When the fog cleared, not a single soldier remained. People just disappeared.

A year later, thousands of kilometers from this place, near the French village of Amiens, a company of German soldiers disappeared. The British, who attacked the German positions, were extremely surprised when the enemy did not fire a single return shot. When the British unit entered Amiens, it turned out that for some reason the German soldiers had left the trenches. At the same time, the loaded guns remained in place, clothes and shoes were drying by the fire, and stew was bubbling in the pots.

There are known cases when entire settlements disappeared. In 1930, miner Joe Labelle decided to visit one of the Eskimo villages located in northern Canada. He once worked in these places. And so Joe entered the village, but the dream was empty, there were no people, there was silence everywhere. The impression was as if the villagers had disappeared somewhere instantly without completing their household chores. The fire was burning, the pots were filled with food. At the same time, all things, including rifles, without which the Eskimos never went far from the village, remained in place. In the huts there were unfinished clothes with needles stuck in them. Deciding that the residents had probably gone down the river, LaBelle sent them to the pier. The kayaks were also there. But the most surprising thing turned out to be that for some reason the Eskimos left the dogs in the village. The animals were neatly tied up, and, judging by the fact that the huskies were not hungry, the residents disappeared quite recently. Labelle notified the police about the strange incident. For a week, the area around the village was carefully combed, but no traces of the missing residents were found.

In 1935, the population of Elmolo Island in Kenya mysteriously disappeared. An airplane was called in to find the missing residents of Elmolo. But the search turned out to be fruitless.

On March 5, 1991, at 4 p.m., a Venezuelan DC-9 jet took off from Maracaibo International Airport (350 miles from Caracas). It was a normal flight. In 35 minutes the plane was scheduled to arrive at another major oil industry center in western Venezuela, Santa Barbara. However, 25 minutes after the start of the flight, radio contact with the ground was interrupted, although the air traffic management did not receive any distress signals. The news agency published 38 missing persons, including one child and five crew members. In the afternoon, a search plane flew the same course, then a helicopter, but they did not notice any signs of a plane crash below.

Cruise into obscurity

Alas, Rebecca's parents were never able to complete the investigation. According to Mike Coriam, he and his wife faced enormous opposition: cruise lines spent millions of dollars not to detail what happened, and the true reason for the disappearances still remains a mystery.

So in 2004, 40-year-old Marian Carver disappeared from the Mercury liner sailing towards Alaska. All things in the passenger’s cabin remained in place. The woman’s father, Kendal Carver, hired private detectives, but the search was in vain.

In the same year, 48-year-old Swiss citizen Rama Forman disappeared from the Silver Cloud Silversea. This happened in the Arabian Sea. The passenger’s absence was noticed while entering the port of Mumbai. Ms. Forman’s cabin was locked from the inside, but the woman herself was nowhere to be found. Relatives do not believe in suicide, since shortly before this Rama called her sister and discussed plans for a family celebration with her.

Last year, 63-year-old John Halfort disappeared from the Thomson Ship Spirit, which was cruising the Red Sea. The day before his disappearance, John called his wife. According to her, he was in a great mood.

In 2003, an Australian Coast Guard aircraft discovered the Indonesian schooner Hi Em 6, whose holds were full of caught mackerel. Where the 14 sailors went is a mystery. In the same area, but already in 2006, a completely deserted tanker Yang Seng appeared. In the same year, the Italian coast guard, which detained the two-masted sailing ship Bel Amica off the coast of Sardinia, did not find people.

In January 2008, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Transport reported the loss of contact with the Russian dry cargo ship "Captain Uskov", moving from Nakhodka to Hong Kong. Neither the dry cargo ship nor its 17 crew members were found. Only in February of the same year, the Japanese Coast Guard found a deserted rescue motorboat from a missing ship.

Such incidents have always existed, but no one has yet given an answer to the question of their causes. One version appeared in 1937. During the passage of the hydrographic vessel "Taimyr" in the Kara Sea, one of the specialists noticed that when he brought a balloon filled with hydrogen closer to his ear, he felt a sharp pain in the eardrum. When he moved the balloon away, the pain went away. Hydrophysicist Vladimir Shuleikin, who is located on Taimyr, became interested in this strange effect, calling it “the voice of the sea.” In his opinion, wind during a storm creates low-frequency infrasonic vibrations, which are not audible to our ears, but harmful to humans. At frequencies below 15 hertz, the effect intensifies, a disorder of brain centers, such as vision, occurs, and at a frequency below seven hertz people can even die.

Modern research has confirmed that when exposed to infrasound, animals and people experience a feeling of anxiety and causeless fear. But during a storm, infrasound is generated with a frequency of about six hertz. If the intensity of the vibrations is less than lethal, then a wave of causeless fear, horror and panic hits the crew of the ship. This state intensifies even more if the ship itself, with all its equipment, falls into resonance and becomes, as it were, a secondary source of infrasound, under the influence of which distraught people, abandoning everything, flee from the ship.

The famous magician could, but did not reveal the secret

During his performance, magician Nef accidentally discovered a unique gift in himself... One day, in front of a shocked audience, he disappeared into thin air and became invisible.

Performing on stage, the illusionist miraculously made any objects disappear, including a pair of live leopards, but hardly anyone could compare with William Nef, who performed the sensational trick of his disappearance in the 60s.
The first time this happened was during a performance in Chicago.

The second time - when Nef was at home and suddenly, without any warning (as he himself put it, “accidentally”), disappeared into thin air, and then reappeared in front of his wife, whose reaction can hardly be called enthusiastic.

The third such incident occurred during Nef's performance at the Paramount Theater in New York. Radio reporter Knebel happened to be among the spectators. One could only dream of such a witness, because everyone knew about his active rejection of the supernatural.

Subsequently, in his book “The Path Beyond the Universe,” Knebel shared his personal impressions. According to him, the figure of Nef began to lose visible outlines - until it became completely transparent. But what is most surprising is that his voice did not undergo the slightest change, and yet the audience listened with bated breath to every word.

And here’s how Knebel describes his “return”: “Gradually a vague outline appeared - like a careless pencil sketch.”

Ironically, Nef was unaware of his unique gift and did not even notice that he was becoming invisible. Not to mention managing it and telling the world about another revealed secret...

Black hole

Some researchers believe that just as black holes are formed in the Universe, capable of absorbing stars, their systems and even entire galaxies, exactly the same holes appear in humans at the submolecular level. It is they who absorb a person from the inside, leaving no traces of him, and perhaps they are sucked in by “temporal whirlpools,” when, having disappeared in their time, people appear in the future or past.

A prominent writer and scientist from the United States, Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), who studied the disappearances of people without a trace, recognized the natural causes of such events as impossible. He put forward a theory according to which there are something like holes and voids in the visible world. In such a hole, absolute “nothing” reigns. Light does not break through this emptiness, since there is nothing to conduct it. Here “nothing is felt, here you can neither live nor die. You can just exist.” According to this theory, it turns out that a person ends up in this “nothing” and gets stuck there forever. As the scientist figuratively explained, “Our space is like a knitted sweater: you can put it on, although, if you look closely, the sweater consists... of holes. Let's say an ant gets on your sleeve. He may accidentally fall between the loops and end up in a completely different world for him, where it is dark and stuffy, and instead of the usual spruce needles there is warm, soft skin...” According to this theory, there are anomalous zones on Earth, where “spatial voids” are located,

Researcher Richard Lazarus in his book “Beyond the Possible” offers the following version: meteorites are to blame for everything. Falling to the ground, celestial bodies are charged to such a force that their potential can reach billions (!) of volts. And if such a meteorite falls on the earth’s surface , an explosion of enormous power occurs, like near the Tunguska River. But sometimes the meteorite is destroyed even before it falls - and as a result, a huge wave of energy hits the Earth with force: a state of electrostatic levitation appears - large groups of people, as well as ships and even trains can fly into the air and be transported over vast distances.

If you believe this theory, the fog that supposedly enveloped the disappearing people is nothing more than a cloud of dust rising under the influence of an electric field. However, whether transfer of people over long distances is possible remains open to question.
Renowned cryptozoologist and naturalist Ivan Sanderson gives his interpretation of the mysterious disappearance. He established the presence of places on Earth where the laws of terrestrial and magnetic gravity operate in an unusual mode. He called such places “damn cemeteries.” Sanderson identified 12 such symmetrically located zones, or anomalous areas, which are located evenly at 72 degrees of longitude, and the centers have coordinates of 32 degrees north or south latitude (the so-called “Sanderson Grid”). In these cemeteries, according to the scientist, electric vortices operate, transporting people and objects from one space-time dimension to another.

Voronezh scientist Genrikh Silanov also finds the version about geoactive zones the most acceptable: “I am deeply convinced that the release of energy from fault zones is not just a geophysical phenomenon. Perhaps the energy coming from the earth is a bridge along which you can travel to parallel worlds. That’s just We haven’t learned how to use it yet.”

Professor Nikolai Kozyrev argued that there are universes parallel to ours, and between them there are tunnels - “black” and “white” holes. Through the “black” ones, matter goes from our Universe to parallel worlds, and through the “white” ones, energy comes to us from them. However, the idea of ​​the existence of a parallel world has haunted man since time immemorial. Some researchers believe that the Cro-Magnons believed that the souls of deceased fellow tribesmen and animals killed in hunting go to these worlds, which is reflected in their drawings.

Australian parapsychologist Jean Grimbriar came to the conclusion that there are about 40 tunnels in the world leading to other worlds, of which four are in Australia and seven in America.

Modern science does not dispute the possibility of the existence of parallel worlds. In the spring of 1999, scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) for the first time in human history carried out the experiment of quantum teleportation. To carry out the experiment, the researchers disassembled light into elementary particles - photons. As a result of the experiment, the original beam of light was recreated at the same second in another place. Among other things, the existence of this phenomenon confirms the possibility of the existence of many parallel Universes, between which there is probably some kind of spatial connection

Although... More recently, British physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of the theory of black holes, refuted his own theory about the possibility of travel in space and time, and if we assume that the mysterious disappearance of people passes through this “channel”, then... the question still remains open and just as mysterious, mysterious... and inexplicable.

Unfortunately, many people go missing almost every day. Some cases of disappearances not only become public knowledge, but are also actively discussed throughout the world. In today's article we will tell you about the disappearance of people whose cases are widely known.

April Fabb
The disappearance of a 13-year-old schoolgirl from Norfolk has become one of the most notorious cases in British history. It happened on a quiet and calm April day in 1969. April decided to visit her sister, who lived in a neighboring village. The girl rode a bicycle, because the weather was favorable for this type of transport. The last time 13-year-old April was seen was by a truck driver. The driver said he saw the girl driving along a country road at approximately 2:06 p.m. Based on the investigation, already at 14:12 April’s bicycle was found several hundred yards from that same country road in the middle of a field, but there were no traces, any physical evidence or biological material of the girl.
The investigation revealed its cards, telling the public that the alleged kidnappers had only 6 minutes to grab the girl and escape from the crime scene undetected. All searches for April were unsuccessful. Investigators still did not understand how the kidnappers could carry out their business in just 6 minutes without any traces or evidence. Theodosia Barr Alston

Theodosia Barr

Glenn Miller

Amelia Earhart

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