Thousands of people are missing every year, and cases of these disappearances become truly discouraging when there’s practically nothing for investigators to work with – situations in which no one saw anything and there are no reasonable explanations. It’s almost the same if these people are literally sense dissolved in air.
1. Maura Murray
February 9, 2004, a 21-year-old university student Massachusetts Maura Murray emailed her teachers and employers who are forced to leave due to the death (fictitious) of one of her family members. That evening she had an accident, breaking his car on a tree near Woodsville, New Hampshire. By a strange coincidence, a couple days earlier, Maura also had an accident and crashed another a car.
The driver of the passing bus approached and asked Maura, Do I need to call the police. The girl said no, but the driver is all he also made a call as soon as he got to the nearest telephone. When the police arrived ten minutes later, Maura was gone.
There were no signs of a fight at the scene, so maybe Maura asked someone to give her a lift. On the the next day, Maura’s fiance from Oklahoma received a voice message, presumably from her, but heard on the other end of the wire only sobbing. Although Maura behaved in the last days before her disappearance a little strange, her family does not believe that she disappeared on her own the will.
It’s already been nine years, but what happened to the girl to find out so and failed.
2. Brandon Swanson
On the evening of May 14, 2008, when the nineteen-year-old Brandon Svenson returned to his hometown of Marshall, Minnesota, by rural gravel road, his car flew into a ditch. Brandon called his parents and asked to come for him. Those immediately We went in search of the vyna, but could not find it. Father called him back, Brandon picked up the phone and said he was trying get to the nearest town of Leeds. And in the middle of the conversation Brandon suddenly cursed, and the connection was cut short.
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Brandon’s father tried to call back several more times, but not received an answer and could not find a son. Police later found Brandon’s car, but could not find either the guy himself or him cellular telephone. According to one version, he could accidentally drown in nearby river, but no traces of the body were found in it. No one knows what made Brandon swear during the ringing, but it was the last thing they heard from him.
3. Louis Le Prince
Louis Le Prince is a famous French inventor who for the first time managed to capture moving images on film. how strangely enough, the “father of cinema” is also remembered as the subject of one of the strangest disappearances in history. September 16, 1890 Le Prince stayed with his brother in Dijon, and then took the train in Paris. When the train arrived at its destination, it turned out that Le Prince disappeared.
The last time Le Prins was seen entering his carriage after baggage check. Traces of violence or something there was no suspicious during the trip, no one could remember what Le Prince saw outside his carriage. The windows were tight closed so jumping off the train would be pretty difficult, but the suicide version generally seemed unlikely since Le Prince was going to go to America to get a patent for your new invention.
As a result of this disappearance, a patent for a kinetoscope (apparatus to demonstrate consecutive motion pictures) got Thomas Edison. As for Le Prince, his further fate until still remains a mystery.
4. Michael Negrete
At four in the morning of December 10, 1999, an 18-year-old freshman University of California named Michael Negrete turned off his computer – all night long he played video games with friends. IN nine in the morning his roommate woke up and noticed that Michael left, but left all his belongings, including keys and a wallet. He has never been seen again.
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The most curious thing about the disappearance of Michael – the guy even left your shoes. Investigators used search dogs while trying track Michael’s way to the paired bus stop miles from the hostel, but how could he go so far without shoes? Not far from the scene at 4:35 in the morning they saw only one man, but no one knows if he is associated with the disappearance of Michael. There is no reason to suppose that Michael disappeared on his own. desire, but there has been no news of Michael’s fate for more than ten years.
5. Barbara Bolik
July 18, 2007 Barbara Bolik, 55 year old woman from Corvallis, Montana, went hiking in the mountains with his friend Jim Ramaker, who came from California. When jim stopped to admire the scenery, Barbara was 6-9 meters behind him, but turning around in less than a minute, he found that the woman has disappeared. Police connected to search, but find the woman never succeeded.
At first glance, the story of Jim Ramaker sounds completely unbelievable. However, he collaborated with the authorities, and since there was no evidence of his involvement in the disappearance of Barbara, his ceased to be considered a suspect. The culprit would probably try come up with a better story, not claim that his victim is just dissolved in air. Six years have passed, but traces violent death was never found, as well as any hints on what could have happened to Barbara.
6. Michael Chiron
August 23, 2008 51-year-old Michael Chiron went to his a farm in Happy Valley, Tenn., planning to cut grass on the lawn. That morning, the neighbors saw Michael leave the farm on his all-terrain vehicle – and this was the last time he was seen.
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The next day Michael’s friends visited the farm and saw him truck parked on the road. A trailer was attached to it, in which showed a lawn mower, but the grass remained on the lawn untouched. His friends returned the next day and worried when they saw a truck parked in the same the place where the keys were still lying, mobile and wallet.
Three days after Michael’s disappearance, investigators found the only clue: an all-terrain vehicle on a steep hill located in one and a half kilometers from his house. However, it was not clear why he it took me to go there. In addition, it was not found no sign of violence. Michael had no enemies and any other reasons to hide, so his disappearance was truly an incomprehensible mystery.
7. April Fabb
One of Britain’s most famous disappearances happened in Norfolk, April 8, 1969. 13 year old schoolgirl by April Fabb left home and went to her sister in neighboring village. She went there on a bicycle, and for the last time she was seen by a truck driver. At 14:06 he noticed how a girl drove along a country road. And at 14:12 her bike was found in the middle of the field a few hundred yards from where it they saw, but there was no sign of April.
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The abduction seemed the most likely disappearance scenario April, but the attacker would only have six minutes to kidnap a girl and leave the crime scene so that no one didn’t notice anything. April’s large-scale searches did not give a single clues.
This case has much in common with the disappearance of another young girls, Janet Tate in 1978, so as possible the suspect was considered Robert Black – notorious the killer of children. However, there is no evidence to allow finally determine his involvement in April’s disappearance so that this mystery also remains unresolved.
8. Brian Schaffer
27-year-old medical student from Ohio University in the evening of the first On April 2006, the bar set off. Somewhere between 1:30 and 2:00 he mysteriously disappeared. He drank a lot that night and, after talking with his girlfriend on a cell phone, the last time he was seen in company of two young women. However, no one in the bar could remember Have you seen him after that?
The most difficult question in this story, which was left without The answer is how Brian got out of the bar. In frames with CCTV camera clearly shows how he entered the bar, but not on one shot was not captured as it came out! Not Brian’s friends neither his family believes that he hid on purpose. Three weeks He studied well before and planned to go on vacation with my friend. But if Brown was kidnapped or he fell victim to another crime, then as an attacker pulled him out of the bar, remaining unnoticed by any witnesses or surveillance cameras?
9. Jason Jolkowski
On the morning of June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Jolkowski was summoned to work. He asked his friend to call him in the neighboring middle school, but never appeared there.
The last time Jason was seen by his neighbor, about half an hour before appointment when the guy was putting garbage cans in his garage. High school cctv cameras show he’s there did not appear. Jason had no personal problems or any other reasons to disappear, there is also no evidence that something could happen to him. His future fate remains a mystery and twelve years later.
In 2003, Jim and Kelly Jolkowski immortalized the name of his son, having established his project – a non-profit organization that has become one of most famous foundations for families of missing persons.
10. Nicole Maureen
July 30, 1985 eight-year-old Nicole Maureen left the penthouse his mother in Toronto. Nicole was about to swim that morning pool with his girlfriend. She said goodbye to her mother and left apartment, but 15 minutes later her friend came to find out why Nicole hasn’t come out yet.
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Nicole’s disappearance led to one of the largest police investigations in the history of toronto but traces of the girl so and did not find. The most plausible assumption was that someone could have kidnapped Nicole right after she left the apartment, but the building had twenty floors, so that would be pretty it’s hard to quietly get her out of there.
One of the residents said that he saw Nicole approaching the elevator, but no one else saw or heard anything. Almost thirty years later authorities have not collected enough data to establish what happened to Nicole Maureen.
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