Mysterious disappearance of people in Alaska. Similar scenarios for strange disappearances of people (5 photos)

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The unexplained disappearance and whereabouts of more than thirty men, women and children who disappeared from an Inuit village in the first half of the twentieth century near Lake Anjikuni.
Lake Anjikuni is rich in pike and trout. It is located along the banks of the Kazan River in one of the remote regions of Canada. This region is rich in legends about evil spirits. The more fascinating and mysterious 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 - stew. All fish stocks were also in place. Everything was absolutely the same as before, except for the people. The tribe, which numbered more than two and a half thousand people, disappeared without a trace on the most ordinary day. The hunter did not find any 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, as a last resort, they would not leave the dogs tied, they would 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 still preserves many similar legends. In Kenya, in one of the tribes, researchers heard a legend about the island of Envaitenet, on which a large tribe lived for a very long time. It 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. There are a lot of messages about similar cases appeared in media mass media regarding Lake Pleshcheevo. If you believe history, once upon a time a beautiful city of Kleshchin was built on this lake, 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 these are just beautiful legends, Lake Pleshcheyevo still inspires fear in the local population to this day. Residents believe that the fog that often appears on the lake is very dangerous. And if you get into it, you can find yourself in a parallel world and return in a few days, or even disappear altogether.
Something similar is happening in the 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, the royal guard of Mikhail Fedorovich captured the 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 the Tatar army, took part in the assault on Moscow; on their way there was a deep ravine covered with fog. They managed to leave it only after half a century.
According to scientists, such disappearances can be explained by the existence of temporary “black holes” through which a person can get into a parallel reality, but getting out back is almost impossible. Such time gaps arise due to geophysical anomalies, such as faults in the 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, the main part of whose life is meditation, as well as Tibetan yogis. Teleportation can also be explained by the fact that in certain circumstances paranormal supernatural abilities can “awaken” in a person, in particular, the emergence of a 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 appear on the pages of the media, since there will simply be no one to tell about them...

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

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, mysterious, inexplicable disappearances are a special group in the sad statistics. They will be discussed in this collection.

Strange disappearances

In December 2011, two children in the United States, almost the same age, disappeared from their homes at the same time.

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 -one month old girl 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 of the child’s disappearance, since last time they saw the girl 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 the history of mankind, many cases of disappearances of people have been described. One of the oldest was recorded back in the 17th century in the Novgorod Chronicles. Monk Kirilov of the monastery disappeared during a meal. The chronicler also wrote about one scandalous merchant Manka-Kozlikha, who, in front of the whole people, disappeared on market day, right on the square of the Suzdal principality, to which the people said that “the devil took her.”

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 up 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 patch of yellowed grass from unknown causes. Oddly enough, from that very day 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 the most different countries, on land, sea and in the air, in apartments, on the streets, forests, fields, 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 wiping the windshield. After finishing his work, Jackson Wright looked up and did not see his wife.

Dissolved in the fog

If you can try to give at least some more or less logical explanation for the disappearance of one person, then with mass disappearances the situation is even more mysterious.

In 1915 during the First World War, when the British were fighting 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

Rebecca Coriam, 24, disappeared in March from the luxury ocean liner Disney Wonder on a cruise from the United States to Mexico. The ship carried 2,400 passengers and 945 crew members. The girl worked on the ship as a youth animator. One morning she didn't show up for work. Rebecca's cabin was empty. No traces of the girl were found. And after several months of searching, which led to nothing, it was concluded that the girl committed suicide by jumping overboard. However, her parents, Mike and Ann Coriam, did their own research and discovered that 11 people had gone missing on cruises in the past year alone. And since 1995, the number of disappeared people is 165! Moreover, it was never possible to trace these people.

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 real reason the disappearances of people still remain 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 October 1944, members of the US Coast Guard boarded the Cuban ship Rubicon. They were greeted only by a half-dead dog. There was no one else on board. The crew's personal belongings were in the cabins. The ship itself was in in perfect order, but its towing rope was torn off and all lifeboats were missing. It was completely unclear what could have forced the crew to abandon ship.

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 sharp pain V eardrum. When he moved the ball away, the pain went away. Hydrophysicist Vladimir Shuleikin, 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 that are not audible to our ears, but harmful to humans. At a frequency below 15 hertz, the impact increases, 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

The case of the American William Nef baffles anyone who undertakes to explain (or “expose”) the mysterious disappearances of people...

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 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 is 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

We can only hope for modern science, which does not yet have an explanation for all these strange cases. However, there are a number of versions, but all of them are just theories not supported by any evidence.

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 visible world there are something like holes and voids. 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 people, as well as ships and even trains can take off 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 , transferring 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.

Possibility of existence parallel worlds modern science does not dispute. 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.

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 century modern technologies, the media and ample opportunities for a thorough search, can a person disappear without even a small clue 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, led 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 blue color. 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 vacationing in wheelchair in the yard of your own house.

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 always treated animals with kindness and, 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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10. Deborah Poe.

A salesperson in a mini-market is a fraught job. potential dangers. But 26-year-old Deborah Poe needed money, so she took a job as an overnight saleswoman at a store in Orlando.

On February 4, 1990, Poe was working her regular night shift at the store and was last seen at approximately 3:00 am. An hour later, the customer found the store empty and contacted police.

Poe's car was still in the parking lot, her wallet was inside, and there were no signs of a robbery or struggle. The bloodhound picked up Poe's trail behind the store, but it quickly ended, indicating that she had left in another vehicle.

The case took a bizarre turn when another customer stated that she walked into the Store between 3:00 and 4:00, but Poe was not there. Behind the counter stood a young man wearing a Megadeth T-shirt. The guy sold her cigarettes even though everything around him seemed unfamiliar to him. This mystery man has never been found, and police are not sure if he is connected to Poe's disappearance.

To this day, Deborah Poe is considered missing. And she's not the only young woman who has disappeared while working alone at a convenience store...

9. Lynn Burdick.

In 1982, 18-year-old Lynn Burdick got a job as a store clerk in a small mountain town in Florida. She worked alone on the evening of April 17. At 8:30 p.m., there was a half-hour before the store closed, and Burdick's parents called to see if she needed a ride home. But no one picked up the phone.

Brother Burdick went to the store to check on her. There was no sign of Lynn anywhere, and the cash register was missing $187. No leads were found during the search operation, but police believed Burdick's disappearance was related to an incident that had occurred earlier that evening.

In less than an hour, an unidentified man attempted to abduct a young woman from the nearby Williams College campus. The student ran away from him and the criminal disappeared. Later, a dark sedan matching the description of the suspect's car was seen driving in the direction of the ill-fated store. Since it was located only 15 kilometers from the college, it is possible that the same person abducted Burdick.

One potential suspect was a man named Leonard Paradiso. Paradiso was convicted of the murder of a young woman in 1984 and is believed to be responsible for a large number of other unsolved murders. He may have been in the area at the time of Burdick's disappearance, but died in prison of cancer in 2008 before he could be linked to other crimes.

8. Curtis Pichon.

For 10 years, Curtis Pichon worked as a police officer in Concord, New Hampshire, but his time on the force ended when he became ill. multiple sclerosis. By age 40, Pichon was forced to take a job as a security guard at the Venture Corporation plant in Seabrook.

On July 5, 2000, he went on the night shift. At 1:42 a.m., he called the fire department after his car inexplicably caught fire. No one ever knew the cause of the fire, but firefighters noticed that Pichon seemed unusually calm considering what had happened to his car. After the fire was extinguished, he continued to work, but at approximately 3:45 a colleague noticed his absence. Pichon mysteriously disappeared, and during the search not a single trace of him was found.

Due to his battle with multiple sclerosis, Pichon was also depressed, so it was assumed that he was suicidal and suffered mental insanity when his car caught fire. However, due to illness, Pichon could not go far to commit suicide, so his body had to be found near his place of work. The door and two vending machines at the plant were damaged, so it was possible that Pichon had encountered a criminal.

A few years later one of former colleagues Pichona, Robert April, was arrested for an entirely different crime. April was said to have claimed that he killed Pichon. However, the charges against April were dropped because... no evidence was ever found linking him to Pichon's mysterious disappearance.

7. Susie Lamplew.

One of the strangest disappearances in London history is that of 25-year-old estate agent Susie Lamplew. She was last seen at the offices of Sturgis Estate Agents on July 28, 1986, but mysteriously disappeared when she went to show a house to a potential client in Fulham. According to Lamplew's notes, the client's name was "Mr. Kipper" and their meeting was scheduled for 12:45 p.m.

Lamplew never returned from the meeting and her car was found approximately 2.5 kilometers from her home in Fulham. Witnesses saw her arguing with an unknown person on the street that day before getting into another car. The investigation found no trace of Lamplew, and she was pronounced dead in 1994.

Authorities thought Mr. Kipper was a serial rapist named John Cannan, who had been released from prison three days before Lamplew's disappearance. His nickname was Kipper, and he looked like the unknown man Lamplew had been arguing with. In 1989, Cannan was convicted of murdering another woman and received three life sentences. One of Cannan's former girlfriends told police that he had talked about raping and killing Lamplew, and he was questioned about his involvement in her disappearance.

Even though the police had a strong case against Cannan, there was not enough evidence to charge him with Lamplew's murder. Nevertheless, they publicly announced that Cannan, in their opinion, was the very criminal. Cannan remains in prison and denies killing Lamplew.

6. Lisa Geis.

On the morning of February 27, 1989, employees of a Georgia company arrived at their workplaces to find the building flooded. As it turned out, the flood was caused by a fire extinguishing system that went off at the workplace belonging to 26-year-old computer programmer Lisa Geis, who had been working the night before and was nowhere to be found. The flood and flood became a secondary issue when a pool of blood was discovered at Geis's workplace.

Geis' car and wallet were discovered in nearby woods, and police feared the worst when they found a bloody brick nearby. Due to the flooding in the building and the heavy rain outside, all evidence of the bloody scene was seriously damaged.

The main suspect was a recently fired employee. The employee may have broken into the building to cause chaos and unexpectedly came across Geis. At that time, the suspect lived on a large property of his own with many wells, and several years later he ex-wife claimed that he once called them " good place to hide the corpse." Even though police searched many of these wells, they found no trace of Geis, and there is still no evidence linking the suspect to her alleged killer.

5. Brian Carrick.

On the evening of December 20, 2002, 17-year-old Brian Carrick went to work as a storekeeper at a food market in Johnsburg, Illinois. The next day, Carrick's parents panicked because he never returned home and reported him missing. The police did not find a single witness at the market who could confirm that Carrick was leaving work.

The morning after Carrick disappeared, one of the employees found a pool of blood in the refrigerator with products. The manager, thinking that blood had dripped from raw meat, ordered to wash the stain. However, drops of blood were found throughout the store and DNA testing confirmed it belonged to Carrick.

A few years later, it was believed that Carrick's manager, Mario Cassiaro, was responsible for his disappearance. After their colleague Shane Lamb was arrested in a drug case, he ratted out both Cassiaro and Carrick. According to Lamb, Carrick obtained marijuana for Cassiaro and owed him money. When Cassiaro asked Lamb for help to collect a debt from Carrick, things got out of control. They accidentally killed him in the cold storage room and then disposed of the body.
In 2010, Cassiaro was charged with first-degree murder after Lamb agreed to testify against him in exchange for a reduced sentence. During the first hearing, the jury was unable to reach a unanimous conclusion, but in 2013 Cassiaro was found guilty and received a 26-year prison sentence. He continues to maintain his innocence, and Brian Carrick's body has never been found.

4. Kim Leggett.

Kim Leggett, a 21-year-old girl who worked as a secretary in Mercedes, Texas. On October 9, 1984 at 4:30 p.m., a client saw Leggett talking to two unknown men in the parking lot. About 15 minutes later, Leggett's stepfather received an anonymous phone call saying Leggett had been kidnapped for ransom.

At first he assumed that the demand was a prank, but soon learned that his stepdaughter was absent from work. Even though her car was parked and her belongings and wallet were inside, Kim Leggett disappeared without a trace. The Leggett family received a ransom demand of $250,000. The letter was written in her handwriting.

Leggett's stepfather was a pilot, and she was rumored to have been kidnapped because he refused to smuggle contraband into Mexico. Leggett left behind a husband and a one-year-old son, and some suspicions also arose about her husband - he allegedly mentioned his wife's disappearance in a conversation with friends when no one knew about it.

However, the two men who spoke with Leggett were never found. After the first ransom demand, no one contacted her family again.

3. Trevaline Evans.

In 1990, 52-year-old Trevaline Evans was the owner of an antiques shop in the small town of Llangollen in North Wales. On the afternoon of June 16, Evans mysteriously disappeared from the store. Her car was still parked nearby, and the sign front door reported that she would be back in two minutes.

Evans purchased an apple and banana from a nearby store at approximately 12:40 p.m. and was seen returning to the store. The banana peel in the wastepaper basket indicated that she had returned to her workplace, but what happened next remains a mystery.

Throughout the day, Evans was seen in various places around the city, including near her home. But if Evans returned to the store after being gone for two minutes and then left again, why was the sign still hanging on the door? Additionally, both of her purses and jacket were left at the store along with other items she planned to take home that day.

Over the years, Evans was allegedly seen in London, France and Australia, but none of these reports were documented. At the same time, on the day of the disappearance, an unknown man was seen in the store, but he was never identified. 25 years later, the disappearance of Trevaline Evans remains one of the most perplexing cases in the history of the United Kingdom.

2. Kelly Wilson.

In 1992, 17-year-old Kelly Wilson got a job at Northeast Texas Video in the small town of Gilmer. On the evening of January 5, she was working at a video store and went out to withdraw money from the bank around the corner. No one has seen her since then. Wilson's car was later found in a video store parking lot with a flat tire and her wallet still inside.

No new information about the disappearance emerged for two years until some rather horrifying conclusions were drawn. The town began to believe that Wilson had been kidnapped by a satanic cult, raped, murdered, and ritually dismembered.

In January 1994, eight suspects were charged with murder. Seven of the men were from the local Kerr family, and the eighth suspect was police sergeant James Brown, who was investigating Wilson's disappearance. The suspects were also accused of sexually abusing their own children, some of whom told Child Protective Services they witnessed Wilson's murder.

However, it soon became apparent that the children had made up their testimony, and there was no evidence to support violence or murder. Charges against Sergeant Brown and the Kerr family were dropped and rumors of a satanic cult were debunked. All suspects claimed their innocence in the disappearance of Kelly Wilson, which remains unsolved to this day.

1. Paul Armstrong and Stephen Lombard.

In 1993, a California towing company became the center of attention when two unrelated employees disappeared without a trace. Tow truck driver Steven Lombard and bulldozer driver Paul Armstrong had no obvious connection to each other, but somehow disappeared at the same time on the same day.

Armstrong was last seen at his home that morning by a friend who reported him missing when he failed to meet her at lunch. Lombard was seen after lunch, when he went into the office to collect his salary. He was never seen again after that, and his pickup truck was soon found abandoned in a K-Mart parking lot with the keys inside.

The strangest thing about this story was that the owner of the company, Randal Wright, found himself in the thick of strange events. In 2009, Wright's estranged wife mysteriously disappeared from their vacation home in Mexico. She was never found, and Wright did not even bother to report her disappearance to Mexican authorities.

Additionally, Wright's six-year-old stepson drowned in a swimming pool in 1982 while Wright was watching. Even though the child's death was initially ruled an accident, the disappearance of Wright's wife led authorities to exhume her stepson's body for further investigation. They found no evidence of premeditation.

No one knows whether Wright was responsible for the death of his stepson or the disappearance of his wife, but the disappearance of two of his employees on the same day seems like a rather strange coincidence.