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14 Comments to "Seven Mysterious Disappearances"
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Xinavera
March 27th, 2008 at
4:20 pm
Hmmm, images look a little weird. Stretched horizontally (Firefox on OS X)
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Carl
March 27th, 2008 at
4:36 pm
“In 1897, John sailed back to England for supplies and assistance for the colony. When he returned in 1890, everything was gone except for the infamous “CROATOAN” carved on a tree.”
Those dates don’t seem quite right.
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Chandler
March 27th, 2008 at
4:37 pm
Wait, so John White left for England in 1897 and returned to Virginia in 1890? Did he travel by Delorean?
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StacyBee
March 27th, 2008 at
4:42 pm
uhh sorry guys. Not entirely sure what I was on when I typed those dates. Should be fixed now!
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Stuart
March 27th, 2008 at
6:27 pm
Here in Australia our greatest disappearance for a public figure was:
Harold Edward Holt, CH (5 August 1908 – 17 December 1967) was an Australian politician who became the 17th Prime Minister of Australia in 1966. His term as Prime Minister dramatically ended in December of the following year when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea and was presumed drowned.
Holt spent 32 years in Parliament, including many years as a senior Cabinet Minister, but was Prime Minister for only 22 months. This necessarily limited his personal and political impact, especially when compared to his immediate predecessor Robert Menzies, who was PM for a total of 18 years.
The above was taken from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt -
Alex
March 27th, 2008 at
7:11 pm
Jimmy Hoffa is missing from even this list. That guy just can’t catch a break!
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Sofar
March 27th, 2008 at
7:26 pm
Don’t forget Glenn Miller, disappeared in 1944. It was during wartime, though, so not as mysterious. Still don’t know what happened, though.
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tellasa
March 27th, 2008 at
7:54 pm
Love the article. One correction on the D.B. Cooper segment. Some bills were actually found.
February 1980
Brian Ingram, an 8-year-old boy, finds $5,800 in decomposing $20 bills by the edge of the Columbia River near Vancouver, Washington. The FBI matches the serial numbers on those bills to the Cooper ransom. It is the only Cooper money ever to be recovered. -
Shrike
March 27th, 2008 at
9:08 pm
What? No Ambrose Bierce or Judge Crater?
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JordanLund
March 28th, 2008 at
2:34 am
What Shrike said… Ambrose Bierce should be mandatory…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce
In October 1913 the septuagenarian Bierce departed Washington, D.C., for a tour of his old Civil War battlefields. By December he had proceeded on through Louisiana and Texas, crossing by way of El Paso into Mexico, which was in the throes of revolution. In Ciudad Juárez he joined Pancho Villa’s army as an observer, and in that role participated in the battle of Tierra Blanca.
Bierce is known to have accompanied Villa’s army as far as the city of Chihuahua. After a last letter to a close friend, sent from there December 26, 1913, he vanished without a trace, becoming one of the most famous disappearances in American literary history. Several writers have subscribed to the speculation that he actually headed north to the Grand Canyon, found a remote spot there and shot himself, though no shred of actual evidence exists to support this view. All investigations into his fate have proved fruitless, and despite an abundance of theories his end remains shrouded in mystery. The date of his death is generally cited as “1914?”.
In one of his last letters, Bierce wrote the following to his niece, Lora:
“Good-bye — if you hear of my being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stairs. To be a Gringo in Mexico — ah, that is euthanasia!”
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Moodindigo
March 28th, 2008 at
3:22 am
The “Buffyverse”?
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lochwinnoch
March 28th, 2008 at
5:48 am
Lord Lucan - UK
Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (born 18 December 1934), known as Lord Bingham from 1949 to 1964, was or is a missing British aristocrat who disappeared on 8 November 1974 after his children’s nanny Sandra Rivett was found murdered. Lucan’s current whereabouts are unknown, and many, including his wife, presume him to be dead.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Bingham,_7th_Earl_of_Lucan
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Rob
March 31st, 2008 at
12:10 pm
just have to say (probably to noone’s interest but my own) my mom is from georgetown, sc and my parents now live there. it is one of the oldest towns in the US. never in my blog-reading life have I seen another reference to G-town. in the late 1700’s, it was the largest producer of rice in the world–even larger than towns in Japan/China (of course the main reason was the use of slave labor–so I guess there is nothing to really brag about)
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MEE
March 31st, 2008 at
10:30 pm
forgot about a crucial one, Frederick Valentich.
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