Mystical cases of mass disappearance of people. Mysteries of mass disappearances

Lost in the Fog

THE EVENT of August 21, 1915, when an entire battalion disappeared in broad daylight in front of dozens of people, was officially classified for fifty years. Only in 1967 were documents published containing testimony from twenty eyewitnesses to this incident, which occurred in Southern Europe near the Dardanelles. The search for the missing soldiers took a long time. But not a single one of them was found either among the dead or among the prisoners released by the Turks after the end of the war.

Mass disappearances are considered one of the major unexplained cases in world history. Scientists still cannot give a clear explanation for such strange phenomena as, for example, the disappearance in 1590 of hundreds of colonists - men, women and children of the American village of Rua Nuuk. The soldiers who entered the village saw that candles were burning in the houses, there was food on the tables... only the inhabitants were missing. At first they decided that the Indians had killed them, but they did not find a drop of blood or a single corpse. Only on a tree near the priest’s house, in obvious haste, was a crooked inscription carved: “It doesn’t look like…” The search for six hundred inhabitants of the Brazilian village of Hoer Verde, who disappeared on February 5, 1923, has long been stopped. The police carefully examined the deserted town. On the floor of the school lay a gun from which they had fired a day earlier. And again the inscription, now on the school board: “There is no salvation.”

We can only put forward versions, but so far we cannot find any scientific explanation for these cases,” AiF said.
Zong Li, a doctor of historical sciences from Harbin, has been investigating cases of mass disappearances in China for many years. - Let's say how the disappearance of 3000 is explained Chinese soldiers near Nanjing, where they took up positions on a December night in 1937? In the morning, radio contact with this detachment was lost, and urgently sent reconnaissance did not find any traces of people. You might think that they deserted, but there were armed guard posts all around - the soldiers could not leave unnoticed. Recently, in the city archives, I found evidence of the disappearance in November 1945 of the 12th company of the NKVD of the USSR, consisting of one hundred people. They left the city in the direction of the railway station and did not return. The search yielded no results - we only came across an extinguished fire and tents laid out for a rest, and nothing more. That same year, a train carrying hundreds of passengers left Guangdu for Shanghai. He didn't come anywhere. He just disappeared halfway, not a single screw was left of him. Where could all its passengers have gone?

Sinister God

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 force occurs - like near the Tunguska River. But sometimes a meteorite is destroyed even before it falls - and as a result it hits the Earth with force huge wave energy: a state of electrostatic levitation appears – large groups people, as well as ships and even trains can take off into the air and be transported to huge distances. But in the ancient Greek city-states on the territory of Italy, the disappearance of people was explained as follows: the god Proteus, consisting of protoplasm, sleeps underground: once every 50 years he wakes up to eat. Proteus could transform into anything. It was believed that Proteus came to earth from volcanoes, and in certain years human sacrifices were made to him - a hundred virgin slaves were left at the volcano: they habitually disappeared without a trace, only shackles remained in place. The theory of an incorporeal god is also supported by famous writer horror genre from the USA Dean Koontz, who in the novel "Phantoms" puts forward the version that Proteus... existed in reality.

This is a huge mass of protoplasm, perhaps covering an area of ​​several square kilometers, says Kunz. - She is several million years old, she is probably one of the very first life forms, living in the bowels of the Earth or deep in the ocean. Feeding once or twice a century, it dissolves people within itself, absorbing and digesting them practically without a trace. Deep puddles of water were found in the houses of the Ruinuk colonists; a suddenly appearing lake of water was seen from the air by a Chinese pilot looking for a missing train, even in the Eskimo village of Anyakuni in Canada, whose inhabitants completely disappeared in 1930, and it was frozen water! The human body is 90 percent water - perhaps this is all that remains of Proteus's dissolved victims.

Disappeared ships

Cases of disappearances of crews from ships in open ocean- a textbook example is the brigantine "Mary Celeste" found in 1872 in the Caribbean Sea - half-smoked pipes, a ready-made lunch, beer dried out in mugs... and not a single sailor. The same thing happened in the Philippines, where the completely empty drifting motor ship Hoyta was discovered in 1955, and in the North Atlantic, where patrol ships stumbled upon the ship Iceland in 1941 - its engine was working, everything was fine... but again there were no people.

I support another explanation - so-called “black holes” are to blame for the disappearance of people, says University of California, San Francisco professor Jane Lind. – Periodically, time and space on Earth are refracted, and the whole city may end up in another dimension, although sometimes it “spits” them back. There are dozens of such “black holes” on Earth; people often fall into them and individuals. Ten years ago, 36-year-old Lydia Kimfield disappeared while visiting a doctor in Androver, Texas. An hour later, her body was found a thousand kilometers from the city... and the autopsy showed that she died 2 months ago!

In the state of New Mexico there is a road on which 19 people disappeared without a trace, the last of them in 1997: it is located in the desert, which is clearly visible from the air. It is possible that the missing people then ended up in the open ocean or in the forest, where they died. Objects cannot pass through space, which is why empty ships and personal belongings of the missing remain.

At the same time, Professor Lindsett cannot explain the origin of the mysterious inscriptions on the wall of the Mayan temple and on the tree in Rua Nuca. The latest in the chain of these strange events was the disappearance of the population of the village of Stomou in the Congo in 2001 - in a quiet region in the north, far from rebel activities. UN employees who brought humanitarian aid to the village (there is a poor food supply in the republic) did not find anyone there, not even domestic animals and chickens. And only the inscription in the leader’s hut indicated that something bad had happened again. In a terrible hurry, the following was scrawled with charcoal in the local language: “Run! This is...” What exactly, the leader did not have time to finish...

Alexey ALEXANDROV

In the Soviet Union, there were also cases of mysterious disappearances of people, but they did not receive wide publicity. For example, in 1991, he declassified the data: thirty years ago, near Sverdlovsk, an An-2 plane disappeared from the radar screen, with seven people on board. The crashed plane was soon found by a rescue team in the forest. People disappeared - not only not a single body was found, but not even a single drop of blood, inevitable in such a catastrophe. But not far from the plane they found “a burnt-out circle of unknown origin with a diameter of thirty meters.” The rescuers signed a non-disclosure agreement about what they saw.

How often do we see “Help me find a person” ads?
Of course, most often people leave home themselves or disappear due to the evil will of other people.
Many are found.
And the fate of some remains forever a mystery.
And yet, more often than not, people disappear one at a time or in small groups.
Although there have been cases in history when large groups simultaneously disappeared without a trace.

Missing Army

Sometimes entire villages of people disappeared

This happened in February 1923. Soldiers of the national army entered the village of Hoer Verde in Brazil. She greeted them with silence, broken only by a single working radio, and complete desertion. There was untouched food on the tables, and the fire in some ovens had not yet gone out. And only on school board it was written: “We are all going to die. There is no escape. It can take any form!” In one of the houses, the soldiers found a gun, its barrel still smelling of gunpowder. Who was this gun aimed at? None of the 600 inhabitants of Hoer Verde were ever seen again.
A similar story happened in 1936 near Krasnoyarsk. A small group of geologists settled in the village of Elizavetino. One day, scientists went on an expedition for several days. Upon their return, they experienced real horror. As one of the geologists recalls, things in the houses remained in their places; two bicycles lay in the middle of the main street. There were only people missing. Geologists decided to penetrate one of the houses. The door didn't budge. Then the brave souls broke the window. It turned out that the house was barricaded from the inside. The villagers were unsuccessfully searched for by NKVD workers. The eyewitnesses signed a non-disclosure agreement to not disclose this mysterious incident, so as not to sow confusion.
Finally, as recently as 2001, all 47 residents of a small village in Zaire disappeared. And again all their things remained untouched, the tables were set. It seemed that just before the disappearance, the villagers were going to have lunch.

Trains disappeared

Ships

Aircraft

Legends of mysterious disappearances are widespread throughout the world. But, without a doubt, one of the most popular is the incident that occurred in North America, in the Roanoke Colony, whose inhabitants were last seen alive in 1587.

The leader is the unexplained disappearance and whereabouts of more than thirty men, women and children who disappeared from an Eskimo village near Lake Anjikuni in the first half of the twentieth century. 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 the story of the disappearance of local residents looks. 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, bustling settlement, full of life. Now he was greeted by deathly silence. The hunter was unable to find a single inhabitant of the village. Understandably, he wanted to know what happened. However, his searches did not yield any results. He walked around the entire village, looking into every corner. The boats and kayaks of the local population were in their usual place, on the pier, and all the necessary household items and weapons remained in the houses. In the houses, the hunter also found pots with a traditional dish - stewed meat. All fish stocks were also in place. Everything was absolutely the same as before, except for the people. A tribe of more than two and a half thousand people disappeared without a trace on an ordinary day. The hunter did not find any traces 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 his stomach, and immediately rushed to the telegraph and sent an alert to the Royal Canadian Mountain Police. Since no one had ever heard of anything like this, the police immediately sent an entire 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 their ancestors were opened, and the bodies of the deceased disappeared without a trace. These facts have baffled local authorities. It was clear that people did not use either of the two types of transport. Moreover, if they voluntarily left the village, then, in as a last resort, they would not have left the dogs tied, they would have let them go, giving them the opportunity to find their own food. But the second secret seems stranger - scientists are confident that the Eskimos could not disturb the graves of their ancestors, since this is prohibited by customs. And besides, the ground at that time was so frozen that it was simply impossible to dig it up without the help of special equipment. According to one of the policemen who took part in the search, what happened in the village is physically absolutely impossible. Seven decades later, no one has been able to dispute this assertion. Until now, Canadian authorities have not been able to solve the mystery of Lake Anjikuni. Moreover, they could not find the descendants of members of this tribe. And everything looks as if this village never existed in the world. Such a strange disappearance of an entire village, to say the least, defies any more or less reasonable explanation. Even if someone had attacked the tribe, the police would have found human remains or traces of a confrontation, but nothing of the kind was found...

However, this is far from the only case; history contains many more similar legends. In Kenya, in one of the tribes, researchers heard a legend about the island of Envaitenet, on which for a very long time lived big tribe. It engaged in trade with other tribes. But one day trade simply 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 an entire 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 occurred in Russia. A lot of reports about such cases appeared in the media mass media regarding Lake Pleshcheevo. If you believe history, once upon a time a beautiful city Kleshchin, but one day all the inhabitants left it in the same way as 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 it's only beautiful legends, however, Lake Pleshcheyevo still inspires fear among 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 end up in parallel world and return in a few days, or even disappear completely. Something similar happens in Irkutsk region. In 1997, in the Nizhneilimsk region, not far from Dead Lake, three local police officers disappeared. And five years earlier, in the same area, an entire 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 crew sent for logging disappeared. What all these stories have in common is that they all have explanations, even if they are not entirely plausible. But how to explain the disappearance of people in front of a large number of witnesses? For example, the story that happened to farmer Lange, who disappeared before the eyes of five eyewitnesses, is widely known. And such stories also happen very often. Even in the chronicles of the seventeenth century, there are records that during a meal, Monk Ambrose literally disappeared into thin 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, attributing it to Napoleonic machinations. However, numerous eyewitness accounts confirmed that Napoleon had nothing to do with this incident. A more modern case occurred in our time, when a wife disappeared almost before her husband’s eyes, simply getting out of the car to wipe the windows. But people do not always disappear without a trace. Sometimes it happens that people who disappeared in one place, after some period of time, appear in another, completely unfamiliar place. This, for example, happened in the second half of the twentieth century to one of the military pilots who had to eject because his plane crashed. When he came to his senses, it turned out that the accident site was approximately one kilometer away. And one of his colleagues claims that the plane simply disappeared.

The Chinese town of Guilin, famous for its winding, branching caves, can also “boast” of cases of disappearances. 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 might fall behind or get lost. In 2001, a very strange, but quite funny story. A new tourist joined one of the excursions, whom no one had seen before. It turned out that this man himself believed that he was in 1998, and he caught up with his group, from which he had fallen behind, deciding to rest a little in one of the caves.

In 1621 royal guard Mikhail Fedorovich was captured by a detachment of Khan Devlet-Girey, who went on a campaign in 1571. What amazement was visible on their faces when they found out what year they were in. According to the soldiers of the detachment, they, together with Tatar army took part in the assault on Moscow, a deep ravine covered in fog stood in their way. 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 fall into parallel reality, but getting back is almost impossible. Such time gaps occur due to geophysical anomalies, such as faults earth's crust. No less often 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 claim that similar miracles can be demonstrated by residents of religious tribes, whose main part of life is meditation, as well as Tibetan yogis. Teleportation can also be explained by the fact that in certain circumstances paranormal abilities can “awaken” in a person. supernatural abilities, in particular, the emergence of danger to life and a great desire to leave a certain place. This assumption was proven experimentally - a dog was set on a cat. The cat was so scared that it hissed and...disappeared. Only a collar was found at the site, 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, some of them really defy any logic and amaze with their mystery and mystical background. You can be sure that most cases will never make it to the pages of the media, since there will simply be no one to tell about them...

Throughout human history, there have been numerous cases of people simply disappearing forever without explanation. It's truly scary when one person disappears, but it becomes even scarier when large groups of people suddenly and forever disappear. In fact, there are some of the most mysterious disappearances in history of hundreds or even thousands of people, and in some cases entire cities, whose inhabitants disappeared somewhere, leaving behind only minor clues about what happened to them. Apparently they simply ceased to exist. What is hidden behind these stories, and what forces could make crowds of people disappear? Here we look at some of the most famous mysterious mass disappearances in history, in which a large number of people, apparently, almost dispersed into thin air, and who left behind unsolved mysteries.

Perhaps one of the most talked about mass disappearances took place in the cold north. In northern Canada, amid the merciless icy and piercing winds, on the rocky shores of distant Lake Angikuni there once stood an Inuit village. At that time it was a fairly prosperous fishing village with a population of up to 2,500 people who made their living on the outskirts of civilization. It was here that a fur trapper named Joe Labelle came through the snow and ice in November 1930. He wanted to ask for asylum after the hard way on snowshoes. Labelle had apparently been to this village before, since he relied on a warm welcome.

However, in the village of Labelle, no one welcomed him as they had before. It was quite strange because it was a bustling, developing village. His cries were answered only by the howl of the wind. Labelle carefully made his way into the village, which greeted him with deathly silence. He passed emaciated sled dogs frozen in the snow, looking like they had died of starvation. I looked into several snow-clogged shacks where local residents lived and saw that personal belongings and weapons remained untouched. There were bowls of food on the tables, and pots of charred food hung above the smoldering embers in the hearths. There were no signs of fighting or anything out of the ordinary, except that there was not a soul in the entire village. It seemed as if they were due to return at any moment. However, all the villagers simply disappeared.

When Labelle returned to civilization, he immediately reported the matter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who began an investigation into the matter. They found this abandoned village, where even the warehouses remained untouched. Police also found frozen sled dogs tied to a tree, as well as empty sacred graves. There were no tracks in the snow that could tell where the people had gone. Mounted police confirmed Labelle's report that all the villagers had disappeared, taking with them only their outer clothing. Residents of nearby settlements reported to the police that they had observed strange lights in the skies above this village in the days preceding Labelle's appearance there. Although it is very likely that these creepy details could have been added later.

The story of the disappeared Inuit village has the status of a legend in the world of the inexplicable, especially in cases of strange disappearances. The problem is that it is unknown how much of this story is true, and how much has been embellished or fabricated over time. There appears to be very little truly reliable data or information that could shed light on this strange story. In the absence of any specific information, the disappeared village will remain just a horror story, surrounded by questions, the answers to which we will most likely never know.

The village on Lake Angikuni is not the only settlement that has mysteriously gone missing. There is another mysterious story disappearances of people in the colony on Roanoke Island. In 1587, the first permanent English colony in the New World was established on the island. A strip of land 12 km long and 3 km wide was located off the coast of what is now the US state of North Carolina among the barrier islands called the Outer Banks. About 120 settlers led by John White, including men, women and children, braved hardships and a long sea voyage to land here to start a new life.

The settlers faced unpredictable weather, lack of food supplies, and hostility from indigenous tribes. Eventually, White was forced to return to England to load the ship with supplies needed for the colony. According to him, he said goodbye to friends and relatives who remained on the island and sailed beyond the horizon. White initially planned to return to the colony after three months, but encountered unforeseen difficulties. There was a war between England and Spain. Each ship was involved in military action and White's own ship was confiscated. White was able to return to the island only three years later.

When White finally arrived in Roanoke, no one greeted him. When he and his team landed on the shore, he did not find a settlement. The houses were dismantled and demolished, and there was no sign of the settlers. It looked like the village had been wiped off the face of the earth. During the search, several strange clues were discovered and the word "Croatoan" hastily carved into one tree and the letters "CRO" on another. There were no signs of a struggle. They just disappeared.

White suggested that the carved words meant that settlers may have moved to the southern island of Hatteras, which was home to a tribe of friendly Croatoan natives at the time. Indeed, before he left three years ago, he instructed the settlers that if they were ever forced to leave the island due to attack by hostile natives or natural disaster, they will have to carve the name of the new place on the tree along with the Maltese cross. There was no cross next to the words found, and this remained a mystery to White. He decided to go to the island with the Croatoans, but abandoned it due to bad weather and a mutiny among the crew. As a result, White was forced to return to England, never to return. The fate of the settlers, among whom were his daughter and granddaughter, remained unknown.

There have been many theories as to what happened to the missing colony on Roanoke Island. Some believe that the settlers were killed by aggressive natives. Others believe they were struck down by a mysterious illness, but no body or grave has been found. Some believe they died in a hurricane or while trying to return to England and died at sea. And it is quite possible that the settlers actually moved to Hatteras Island and assimilated with local residents. Over the following centuries, random clues arose that might explain what happened to the colonists, but no answer was ever found.

Another interesting story about the disappeared village of Hoer Verde in Brazil. On February 5, 1923, a group of people arriving in this small village with a population of 600 people found that there was not a soul in it, all houses, personal belongings and food had been abandoned in great haste. Authorities launched an investigation but were unable to find any trace. The only evidence was a gun that had recently been fired and the words “No Escape” scrawled on the board. It has been suggested that the 600 inhabitants of Hoer Verde fled the village due to attacks by guerrillas or drug traffickers, or were abducted by aliens, but unfortunately there is very little evidence for this and the case of the disappearance of the village in Brazil remains an unsolved mystery.

Among the strangest mass disappearances is the mysterious disappearance of the Roman Ninth Legion. Formed in 65 BC, the Ninth Legion was the most ruthless military unit of the Roman Empire, consisting of approximately 5 thousand of the most experienced and highly trained fighters from the most different countries. By the 2nd century AD, the well-armed, well-trained army of the Ninth Legion was pushing back the enemy in the most remote areas, including Africa, Germany, Spain, the Balkans and Britain, and played important role in maintaining Rome's iron grip throughout its vast empire. Indeed, at that time, in the 2nd century AD, the Ninth Legion was sent to England to suppress the rebellion of wild warring barbarian tribes. He could establish the power of Rome, which carried huge losses in battles with barbarian hordes and struggled to keep England under his control. In particular, during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117 – 138 AD), the Romans lost a large number of soldiers in bloody battles in Britain. This worried the Roman authorities so much that they even built a huge wall, called Hadrian's Wall, to contain the enemy.

In 109 AD The Ninth Legion found itself in precisely this whirlpool of fighting and upheaval, coming face to face in Scotland with an enemy that terrified most of the soldiers, with their painted disfigured faces, torn clothes made of bearskin and wolf skins, naked bodies even in the middle of winter, terrifying tattoos, booming drums and mystical shamans howling prayers to the ancient Celtic gods in the midst of battle. These barbarians were ruthless enemies that had never been encountered before, but the Ninth Legion boldly marched forward to push them north. A huge force of soldiers in heavy armor moved forward and no one else saw it. Thousands of people disappeared without a trace.

The mystery of the missing Roman Ninth Legion has become a legend and a historical mystery that has still not been solved. Of course, there are many theories as to what happened to the Ninth Legion. The most likely assumption put forward by historians is that nothing mysterious happened, the legion was simply sent to other battlefields in Britain or the Middle East, or was disbanded altogether. Scottish legends tell that the formidable Roman army was slaughtered in daring guerrilla attacks. According to some rumors leaked from the battlefield at that time, it was believed that the battle between the legion and the Celtic tribes had killed everyone. However, all these theories do not have any archaeological evidence to settle this issue once and for all. All we know is that, for some reason, all records about this battle disappeared, which has since passed into the category of secrets and legends.

The same strange disappearance of soldiers occurred in China in 1937. This was during the Second Sino-Japanese War, when, as a result of the invasion of Japanese troops into the then capital of China, the city of Nanjing, 300 thousand civilians were mercilessly exterminated in 6 weeks. A few days before this tragic event, Chinese Colonel Li Fu Xing desperately tried to stop the Japanese invasion by stationing 3,000 heavily armed soldiers at an important strategic bridge over the Yangtze River. Heavy weapons and artillery were deployed on the defensive line, and the colonel himself was awaiting an attack at his headquarters.

The next morning, the colonel was awakened by an assistant who reported that contact with the defense line had been lost. Frustrated, Li Fu Xing sent a group of soldiers to investigate the situation. When the investigation team arrived at the scene, it became obvious that more than 3 thousand soldiers had completely disappeared. Heavy weapons and artillery remained in their firing positions. There was no sign of blood or struggle, nothing at all. It was unclear where everyone had gone. Two sentries at the far end of the bridge were still on duty and claimed that no one had passed them. In fact, several guard posts, but no one saw the movement of so many soldiers. How could they move quietly and unnoticed without reporting to their superiors and without notifying these guard posts? After the war, some efforts were made to investigate the disappearance of 3 thousand armed men, but there was not the slightest hint in Japanese archives about them. future fate. This mass disappearance remains a mystery to this day. Considering that the Japanese went to great lengths to cover up their crimes in China during the war, it is very likely that we will never know what happened to these soldiers.

Another strange event occurred in China in subsequent years when, in 1945, a train carrying several hundred passengers en route from Guangdong to Shanghai never arrived at its destination and an intensive search was unsuccessful. The only thing that was found during the search for the train was a strange lake that had not been here before. In November of that year, 100 Soviet soldiers were on their way to a train station and inexplicably disappeared along the way. Upon investigation, a parking lot was found at the halfway point and the fire had been extinguished, but there was no sign of where the soldiers had gone.

What is behind these mass disappearances? Is there any rational explanation or is there something much stranger than we can imagine? There are many theories that try to explain these mysterious disappearances, ranging from meteorite impacts, UFOs, suddenly appearing black holes or interdimensional portals that trap large numbers of people. Will these mysteries ever be solved? Perhaps no one will ever be able to find the answers to these questions.

Most people have probably heard of mysterious disappearance pilot Amelia Earhart, daring criminal DB Cooper, who hijacked a Boeing 727 plane and disappeared in an unknown direction with a huge amount of money in his hands, or Congressman Hale Boggs, who disappeared during a flight 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, or hide from society. Perhaps they want to get rid of problems in the family or at work, escape prosecution from the law, or start over again in another place. There are also those who decide to commit suicide in solitude, 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 stranger ones unexplained cases, when people mysteriously disappeared in a matter of seconds before the eyes of others: there was a person, and a moment later he was no longer there, as if he had disappeared into thin air. It would take a few seconds to simply get up from a chair, but in some cases people would suddenly disappear in such a short period of time, leaving no clue as to 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, next we will talk about the most strange cases disappearances of people throughout human history.

1. Annette Sagers

On November 21, 1987, police received a missing person 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 in front of Mount Holly Plantation. But that's not the strangest part of the story.

Almost a year later, on the morning of October 4, 1988, Corrina's eight-year-old daughter, Annette Sagers, left the house and headed to the bus stop where she would be arriving in a few minutes. school bus. The stop was located just across from Mount Holly Plantation, where her missing mother's car was discovered. Very strangely, when the school bus arrived, Annette disappeared. A note was found near the bus stop with the words “Dad, Mom is back. Hug your brothers for me."

Experts determined that the handwriting belonged to little Annette. They found no evidence that the girl wrote 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 reported that Annette's body was buried in Sumter County, but the mysterious grave was never found. The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office was investigating the disappearance of Annette Sagers. It remains unsolved to this day.

2. Benjamin Bathurst

On the night of November 25, 1809, British diplomatic representative 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 lunch, 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. No one had any idea where he went. Bathurst was last seen walking near front door hotels. No traces of his presence in the yard were found. He just disappeared.

Since Bathurst had diplomatic status, a search was organized for him. 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 believed to belong to Benjamin Bathurst was later found in the privy. During a second search, the diplomatic representative's pants were found in the forest.

This incident occurred during 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 diplomatic representative and claimed that he had no idea where he was. The emperor even offered his help in searching for the missing man.

Despite all the efforts of the police, no further belongings or traces of Bathurst were found. He just disappeared.

3. Disappearance of the Sodder Children from Fayetteville, West Virginia

It was Christmas Eve 1945. Five children, Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny and Betty Sodder, were partying until late. Their parents and other brothers and sisters had long since gone to bed. Around one o'clock in the morning their mother woke up from loud sounds coming from the roof. She realized that the house was on fire. Then she woke up her husband and children, and they climbed out together.

The parents then began looking for a ladder to help Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny and Betty, who were trapped on the top floor, but it was nowhere to be found.

When the firefighters arrived, it was already too late. The children were presumed dead, 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 the house was set on fire to cover up the crime.

Four years later, investigators at the site of the burned house found six small bones that were not damaged by fire and were believed to belong to a young adult. No other evidence was found.

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

4. Margaret Kilcoyne

Fifty-year-old Margaret Kilcoyne worked as a cardiologist at Columbia University. She conducted pioneering research related to hypertension and made big breakthrough. After a busy week at work, Margaret decided to spend the weekend at her country house in Nantucket, Massachusetts. At the local grocery store she bought various products and alcoholic drinks amounting to more than $900, stating that he was going to throw a party and press conference at which he would present the results of his 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 see her, but did not find her in the house. Margaret's jacket was hanging in the closet, her shoes were near the threshold, 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 did not find any evidence. The strangest thing was that a few days later, Margaret’s sandals, her passport, checkbook, wallet and 100 dollars. 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 icy ocean, however, no evidence in favor of this theory was found.

5. The Disappearance of Famous Socialite Dorothy Arnold

In 1910, New York City 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 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. No one saw her again.

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

Dorothy Annold's disappearance became known only six weeks later. People said that the girl was driving double life and planned to escape to Europe. However, no evidence was found to support this version.

6. The Vanished Tribe of Lake Angikuni

Lake Angikuni is located in rural areas Canada, near the Kazan River. In the early 1900s, the area was home to an Inuit tribe that disappeared without a trace on a November evening in 1930. These were hospitable people who were friendly to travelers, offering them hot food and overnight accommodation. Canadian hunter Joe Labelle often visited them.

That night, when Labelle again came to Lake Angikuni, it shone full moon, which illuminated with its bright light the whole village. There was extraordinary silence all around; Even the huskies, who usually reacted noisily to the guests, were silent. There was not a soul in the village. In the center the fire gradually burned out. Next to him lay a bowler hat; Apparently, someone was going to prepare a hearty dinner.

The Labelles examined several houses in the hope of finding someone who could explain what happened here. But he did not find anything except supplies of food, clothing and weapons. The tribe, consisting of thirty men, women and children, disappeared without a trace. If they decided to leave, they would probably take food and equipment with them. Labelle also discovered that all the huskies had died, apparently from starvation.

Labelle reported the mysterious disappearance to Canadian authorities, who sent investigators to Angikuni Lake. They found witnesses who claimed to have seen a large undefined object. Investigators also determined that the settlement had been 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 Dideritsi

It’s one thing when someone disappears without leaving any traces, it’s another when a person simply disappears into thin air in front of amazed witnesses. This is exactly what happened in 1815. It all started when a man named Diderici dressed up as 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 had to serve his sentence in the Prussian prison, Weichselmünde. According to prison records, when Diderici and other prisoners were taken out into the yard for a walk, something strange began to happen: his body gradually became transparent. Ultimately, he literally disappeared into thin air, leaving behind empty iron shackles. This happened in front of the amazed 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, prison authorities closed the case and considered the incident " God's will" No one saw Dideritsi again.

8. Louis Leprince

On September 16, 1890, French inventor Louis Le Prince boarded a train from Dijon to Paris. Witnesses saw Leprince check his luggage and take his seat in the compartment. When the train arrived in the capital, Leprince did not get off at the final station. 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 did not yield any 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, Le Prince could not get off earlier. 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 disappeared into thin air.

Interestingly, Louis Le Prince was able to capture moving images on film using a single lens camera that he himself invented. Simply put, Le Prince invented cinema. He was going to go to America to patent his invention. This was long before Thomas Edison gained widespread recognition. Le Prince'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 get water from a nearby well. He did not return for a long time, so his father and sister began to seriously worry about him. It was cold and slippery outside, and something bad could happen to Charles. They followed his tracks, which suddenly stopped about 75 meters from the well. They shouted his name, but there was no answer. There was no sign of a fall in the snow. It was as if Charles Ashmore had simply disappeared into thin air.

Four days later, Charles' mother went to the same well to fetch water. Returning home, she claimed that she heard her son's voice. She walked around the entire area, but did not find Charles.

Other family members also claimed that they periodically heard Charles' voice, but they could not understand the words he spoke to them. Last time this happened in the middle of the summer of 1879, and this did not happen 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 from the windows. While Jackson was working on the windshield, Martha got out of the car to wipe the back window. Literally 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 decided to run away, he would still notice her.

Initially, the police were skeptical of his testimony, however, after carefully examining the scene and not finding any evidence, they ruled out the possibility 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 did not have the success she so dreamed of. Jean starred mainly in episodic roles. Most famous painting, in the filming of which she took part, was the film “The Trumpeter” (1950) directed by Michael Curtiz.

In October 1949, Jean went to meet with ex-husband, and no one saw her again. Two days later, police found her purse, inside of which was a note that said, “Kirk, I can’t wait any longer. I'm going to see Dr. Scott. Everything will work out. We have to make it while mother is not at home.” Nobody 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 matter has reached a dead end. The only “Kirk” that could be found in Jean’s circle was the famous actor Kirk Douglas. He starred in the film "Trumpeter" with Spangler. However, Douglas categorically denied any involvement in Jean's disappearance.

Investigators also led to Dr. Kirk, a gynecologist who, in a strange turn of events, had mysteriously disappeared a few weeks before Spangler went missing. However, no evidence linking him to the actress was 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 with Spangler. However, no specific connection between the disappearances has been identified. One can only guess what really happened to Jean.

12. James Warson

The year was 1873. James Warson, 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 had little faith that he was capable of achieving such a feat. To eliminate the possibility of deception, they followed Warson in a horse-drawn cart. Warson ran for several kilometers without any problems.

As his friends began to doubt whether they would be allowed to win the bet, Worson suddenly tripped over something on the road. Witnesses claim that they saw Worson lean forward, but he never fell to the ground, because the next moment he mysteriously disappeared before everyone's eyes.

Worson's friends contacted the local police and explained the whole situation. A search was carried out at the scene, but the police did not find anything suspicious. Shoemaker James Worson seemed to disappear into thin air.

13. The mystery of the airship L-8

During World War II, airships were used to patrol coastal areas and identify enemy targets. submarines. On August 16, 1942, the crew of the airship L-8, Ernest Cody and Charles Adams, were assigned to carry out one such mission. They were supposed to fly over the Farallon Islands, 50 kilometers off the coast of San Francisco, and then return to base.

Once above the water, the L-8 crew reported that they believed they had located an oil spill and were heading there to investigate. Along 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 shore of Daly City before flying back into the sky. Then the L-8 fell onto one of the city's busy streets. Rescuers rushed to the crash site, but were shocked when they saw that the cabin was empty. The equipment was in good working order. Parachutes and life rafts were in place. Only life jackets were missing, but crew members often wore them when flying over the water. There were no calls for help over the radio. Ernest Cody and Charles Adams disappeared without a trace.

14. Disappearance of the F-89

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

Ground radar operators reported that Moncla first flew high above 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 fighter merged with an unknown object, which then left the area and disappeared.

A thorough search was carried out, but no traces of the F-89C aircraft were found.

15. The disappearance of Frederick Valentich

In October 1978, a young pilot named Frederick Valentich carried out a training flight in 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 the Department air traffic in Melbourne, which insisted there were no longer any aircraft in its vicinity.

When the object came close to Valentich, he examined it and said: “This strange plane hovered above me again. It’s hanging... and it’s not a plane.” Then followed a few seconds white noise, and the connection was interrupted. After this, Valentich’s plane disappeared from radar.

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

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