As soon as a person or a group of people disappears without a trace, the construction of various, sometimes supernatural versions of what happened begins. The people in this collection have disappeared once and for all, and their stories have already grown into legends and rumors.
Every year hundreds of thousands of people disappear in the world, in Russia alone about one hundred and twenty thousand people disappear a year - think about it, this whole city, and rather big.
Of the 120,000 people who went missing last year alone, the majority are men - almost 59,000. 38 thousand are women, 23 thousand are minors and small children.
But here's what is surprising, according to statistics, even traces of a quarter of the missing are never found - these people simply disappear ...
I bring to your attention a selection of the most mysterious and inexplicable disappearances of people recorded in history.
1763 England, Shepton Mallet. Owen Parfitt, 60, was sitting in a wheelchair in the yard of his sister Suzanne's home. When the weather began to deteriorate, Susanna and her neighbor went out into the yard to help her brother return to the house. But he was not there. Owen's coat lay lonely in the armchair. Where could a person who was actually unable to move independently go?
The most famous disappearance in the world is the disappearance of British Ambassador Benjamin Batust in Germany, which occurred on November 25, 1809.
1809 Germany. British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst (1784-1809), who disappeared between Berlin and Hamburg. With his companion, they were heading to Hamburg. On the way, they stopped to dine at a hotel in the city of Perelberg. After eating, the men returned to the crew waiting for them. The nobleman left a little earlier than his servants to the horses and no one ever saw him again. There was an assumption that the French could have kidnapped him. It was then decided that he had been stolen to demand a ransom. But until mid-December, no ransom demand and news of the fate of Batust were received. Then for the search his wife came in. At first, she identified all the corpses found since November 25, but did not recognize them as her husband. Then Batust's fur coat was found in the annex of the house of the peasant Schmidt. On November 16, two women brought Batust's trousers, which they found in the forest, to the police. Police decided that Batust disappeared on his own initiative.Later it turned out that Batust left the fur coat in the hotel, and the mother of that peasant took it away when she found out about the disappearance, she worked at that hotel. In March 1810, Mrs. Batust searched all the neighborhoods of the city of Perleberg with a detachment of solbats and dogs. But she didn't find anything. In April 1852, the hotel building was demolished and a skeleton was found near the stable gate. The back of the head was pierced with a heavy object. But to find out who this person was before was not possible at that time. Although it was determined by the teeth and crowns that the person was not poor.
In 1920-1950. in Bennington, Vermont, strange disappearances have repeatedly occurred. From 1945 to 1950, not far from a place called Long Pass, seven people disappeared without a trace. The body of only one of them was found.
"Bennington Triangle" is a phrase first used in 1992 by author and folklorist Joseph Seatrow to refer to an area in southwestern Vermont. The exact boundaries of this anomalous zone are unknown, but it includes the cities of Glastonbury, Woodford and Somerset - once quite large industrial settlements abandoned by people in connection with the decline of the lumber industry in the region.
The first documented case of the disappearance of a person in the area occurred on November 12, 1945. On this day, 74-year-old Middy Rivers, who led a group of 4 hunters, went missing. He moved a little away from his comrades, after which no one saw him. The search party found only a rifle cartridge in a nearby stream. It may have fallen out of Middy's pocket when he leaned into the water to quench his thirst or wash his face. No traces of a struggle or other objects of the man could be found. Middy Rivers was an experienced hunter and fisherman who knew the area well and couldn't just get lost.
On December 1, 1946, 18-year-old student Paula Jean Welden disappeared on a campaign. She was the eldest daughter of renowned engineer, architect and designer William Archibald Welden, and her disappearance attracted a lot of public attention. The FBI got involved. Witness interviews yielded little results: a group of hikers saw Paula on the Long Trail route in the evening. Detectives suggested that the girl was crossing the forest, but with the onset of twilight she got lost. The FBI, police and search parties combed the entire district, but did not find even a hint of the missing student.
In 1949, veteran James Tedford disappeared in the same region, returning home by bus from a trip to relatives. According to witnesses, the man last time seen on the bus at the last stop before Bennington, but there is no trace of James. The transport came to the city with his luggage, but without him. On the seat, next to the veteran's belongings, was an open brochure with the bus schedule, where James had disappeared - a mystery.
On October 12, 1950, 8-year-old Paul Jepson went missing while riding in a truck with his mother. At one of the stops, his mother was briefly distracted, during which time Paul disappeared. The search engines did not find any trace of the boy, although he was wearing a bright red jacket that was easy to see. With the help of dogs, we managed to follow his trail to approximately the same place where Paula Welden was last seen 4 years before.
On October 28, 1950, the last officially confirmed disappearance of a person happened. Freida Langer, 53, and her cousin set off on a hike from a camp near Somerset. After she stumbled and fell into the stream, she told her brother that she would go back to the camp to change. This was the last time she was seen alive - the woman never made it to the camp. In the next two weeks, 5 search expeditions were undertaken with the participation of aviation and more than 300 searchers, with no results. However, on May 12, 1951, the remains of Freida Langer were found at a site that had been carefully explored by searchers 7 months before. Due to the long period of time that has passed since her death, the cause of it could not be established.
According to one version, the missing were killed by a maniac who committed his crimes at a certain time of the year, when his mental illness worsened. According to another version, sectarians were involved in the case.
1971, England. Another disappearance in one of the most mysterious places in the world - the famous Stonehenge. At that time it was not protected from outsiders and a group of hippies decided to camp near these charming stones
Several people decided to spend the night in the center of the structure, setting up tents there. A storm broke out during the night. Suddenly, a bright blue flash lit up Stonehenge. Two witnesses, a farmer and a policeman, rushed to Stonehenge, thinking to find the wounded there. But no one was found. Young people were never found - neither alive nor dead ...
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold (born Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold; 1884, New York, USA - went missing December 12, 1910, ibid.) - American socialite and heiress of a perfume company.
The disappearance of Dorothy Arnold caused a lot of controversy and rumors in American society and became one of the most mysterious in US history.
At 11 am on December 12, 1910, Dorothy Arnold left her room, located on the second floor of the Arnold house, and went down the stairs. Before her daughter left, Arnold's mother offered to keep the girl company, but Dorothy politely refused. When leaving, Dorothy did not take any luggage with her, and from the money the girl had only $ 25 in cash, while her monthly allowance, appointed by her father, was $ 100. The day before, she had withdrawn $36 from the bank to join her friends for lunch.
On the way west along Fifth Avenue, Dorothy met several people she knew. Subsequently, they all recalled that Arnold was in a great mood and was heading towards the Park and Tilford candy store on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 27th Street. The last place Arnold came to the attention of people that day was the bookstore at 26 Brentano Street. Here she bought a humorous book of epigrams by Emily Calvin Blake, Notes of a Busy Girl, which she also paid for with a family loan, and met with her girlfriend, Gladys King. She waved goodbye to Gladys. It happened at two o'clock in the afternoon, and since then no one has seen her. King later recalled that before parting, Dorothy told her that she was going to walk home through Central Park. However, there is a further version of events, according to which Arnold, after leaving the bookstore, went to a nearby travel company, where she inquired about the schedules for the departure of steamships from New York to Europe. She also asked the firm's staff about pricing and sales schedules, but ended up leaving without purchasing a ticket.
Subsequently, all versions, starting from memory loss due to trauma, as well as murder and suicide, were refuted. The disappearance remained unsolved, despite the fact that Dorothy's parents spent about $ 100,000 searching for it, which at that time was a huge amount.
One of Britain's greatest unsolved mysteries is the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers on the Scottish island of Flannan in December 1900.
The day after Christmas, a transport ship arrived on the island. To the crew's surprise, the lighthouse keepers, as usual, were not waiting for them at the island's small dock. After sounding the signal and launching flares, they did not notice any activity on the island. Ultimately, the ship's crew sent a replacement lighthouse keeper, Joseph Moore, to check.
As he approached the door, he saw that it was not locked. As he stepped carefully, he also noticed that two of the three waterproof jackets usually kept in the front room were missing. When he reached the kitchen, he found the remains of food and a chair lying on the floor. The kitchen clock has stopped. The lighthouse keepers were nowhere to be seen.
Further investigation unearthed a discouraging last entry in the lighthouse log. The entry for December 12 was written by a curator named Thomas Marshall. In it, Marshall claimed that so many strong winds which were worse than anything he had seen in his life before. Despite the fact that the lighthouse was strong enough to survive any storm, Marshall wrote that the head keeper, James Dukat, was very quiet. The third keeper, William MacArthur, was an experienced sailor and a known hardy brawler who liked to get rowdy in taverns. The entry in the registration log noted that at that moment he was crying.
Further records said that the storm continued to rage for days on end. Safe in the lighthouse, the three men began to pray nonetheless. The last entry read: “The storm is over, the sea is calm. Thank God".
At the same time, the main version is still a death during a storm, which may have been provoked by some kind of accident, and the bodies were washed into the sea during bad weather.
The Parisian doctor Bonvillain was extremely surprised when he did not find his patient Lucien Busier in the office. In 1867, a mysterious disappearance happened in Paris in the office of Dr. Bonvilina. The victim was his neighbor Lucien Busier, a tall young man. That evening, Lucien went to the doctor to consult about a weakness that had appeared in him. Doctor ordered young man undress and lie down on the couch, and he went for a stethoscope. After a minute's absence, the doctor returned to the patient, but found only his things lying on a chair. The patient himself was nowhere to be found. He was not at home either, where the doctor went to take the clothes. Searches for concerned relatives also failed.
In the United States, the story of how the soldier James Thetford disappeared is known. The event took place on December 1, 1949 in the presence of eyewitnesses. Thetford, along with fourteen other passengers, was on a bus from Albany to Bennington. Everyone saw that he sat down in his place, read the newspaper and fell into a slumber. The bus ran non-stop for an hour. Nobody paid any attention to Thetford. When the bus arrived at its destination, one passenger was not in the cabin. Just disappeared James Thetford. His place turned out to be empty, and under the seat they found a bag with personal belongings and a newspaper that he was reading. How the passenger disappeared from the non-stop bus remained a mystery to everyone. The police investigation yielded no results.
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Many people go missing every year, month or week. Some are later found alive or dead or killed. Some are never found.
Even if we exclude teenage runaways and the criminal component of the case, there will still be many rather strange cases of disappearances.
Especially strange are the cases when a person in the literal sense of the word disappears without a trace in front of eyewitnesses or a few minutes after talking with them. Researchers of anomalous phenomena believe that such people accidentally fall into the invisible portals to other dimensions, time traps or something else like that.
In Britain, former sailor Owen Parfitt disappeared on the evening of June 7, 1763, straight from his wheelchair. Eyewitnesses claimed that Parfitt was sitting calmly in the stroller, then there was a bang - and that's it ...
In 1815, a strange disappearance occurred in a Prussian prison in Weichselmund. A servant named Diderici was imprisoned on charges of impersonating his master after he died from a stroke. The chained prisoners were somehow taken out for a walk along the fenced prison parade ground.
Suddenly, according to the testimony of numerous eyewitnesses from among the guards and prisoners, the figure of Dideritsi began to lose its shape, in a few seconds former servant as if evaporated, and his shackles fell with a clang to the ground. No one has ever seen this man again.
95-year-old John Lansing - participant in the American Revolution, former chancellor, member of the university council and business consultant of Columbia College, legislator, mayor of Albany, state councilor - disappeared without a trace in December 1829. He stayed at a New York hotel where he had already been once.
In the evening, Lansing left the hotel to mail letters, hoping to send them by night boat across the Hudson to Albany. And no one else saw him, although the search was carried out very intensively.
In 1873, the English shoemaker James Worson disappeared in front of his friends. The day before, he bet that he would run from their hometown of Leamington Spa to Coventry and back (a distance of 25-26 km). Three friends rode behind him in a cart, and James slowly ran ahead. He ran part of the way without any problems, suddenly stumbled, swayed forward - and disappeared.
Friends in a panic tried to find James. After all unsuccessful attempts to find any trace, they returned to Leamington Spa and told everything to the police. After a long interrogation, the stories were believed, but they could not help in any way.
In February 1940, on the Veryan River (northern Australia), an experienced nurse who went to a remote area to rescue a man wounded by a shot met two people dressed in white medical coats there. The "medics" literally vanished into thin air and disappeared before her eyes...
One of the most famous disappearances in British history took place in Norfolk on April 8, 1969. April Fabb, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, left the house and went to her sister in a nearby village. She rode her bike there and was last seen by a truck driver.
At 2:06 p.m., he noticed the girl driving along a country road. And at 2:12 p.m., her bike was found in the middle of a field a few hundred yards away, but there was no sign of April. Kidnapping seemed like the most likely scenario for the disappearance, but the attacker would only have six minutes to kidnap the girl and leave the crime scene unnoticed. April's extensive search turned up no leads.
This case has much in common with the disappearance of another young girl, Janet Tate, in 1978, so Robert Black, a notorious child killer, was considered as a possible suspect. However, there is no evidence to conclusively determine his involvement in April's disappearance, so this mystery also remains unresolved.
Eight-year-old Nicole Maureen left her mother's penthouse in Toronto, Canada on July 30, 1985. That morning, the girl was going to swim with a friend in the pool. She said goodbye to her mother and left the apartment, but 15 minutes later her friend came to find out why Nicole hadn't left yet. The disappearance of a schoolgirl led to one of the largest police investigations in Toronto history, but no trace of her has ever been found.
The most plausible assumption was that someone could have kidnapped Nicole right after she left the apartment, but the building had twenty floors, so it would be quite difficult to get her out of there unnoticed. One of the tenants said that he saw Nicole approaching the elevator, but no one else saw or heard anything. Thirty years later, authorities still haven't collected enough data to establish what happened to Nicole Maureen.
Around 4 a.m. on December 10, 1999, 18-year-old UCLA freshman Michael Negrete turned off his computer, playing video games with friends all night long. At nine in the morning, his roommate woke up and noticed that Michael had left, but left all his belongings, including his keys and wallet. He was never seen again.
The most curious thing about Michael's disappearance is that even his shoes remained in place. Investigators used search dogs to try to track the student to a bus stop a couple of miles from the dorm, but how could he have gotten this far without shoes? Only one person was seen near the scene at 4:35 a.m., but no one knows if he is connected to the disappearance of the guy. There is no reason to believe that Michael disappeared own will, but there has been no news of his fate since then.
On the morning of June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Yolkowski was called to work. He asked his friend to pick him up, but he never showed up at the meeting point. The last time Jason was seen by his neighbor was about half an hour before the scheduled meeting time, when the guy was carrying garbage cans into his garage. Jason had no personal problems or any other reason to disappear, nor is there any evidence that anything could have happened to him. His further fate remains a mystery many years later.
In 2003, Jason's parents, Jim and Kelly Yolkowski, immortalized their son's name by founding their project - non-profit organization which has become one of the most famous foundations for the families of the missing.
Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old medical student from the University of Ohio (USA), went to a bar on the evening of April 1, 2006. That night he drank a lot and after talking with his girlfriend on mobile phone, sometime between 1:30 and 2:00, mysteriously disappeared. He was last seen in the company of two young women, and no one could remember where he was after that.
The most difficult question in this story, which remains unanswered, is how Brian left the bar. The footage from the security camera clearly shows how he entered there, but not a single frame captured how he left.
Neither Brian's friends nor his family believe he went into hiding on purpose. He studied well and planned to go on vacation with his girlfriend. But if Brian was kidnapped or the victim of some other crime, how did the attacker get him out of the bar without being seen by any witnesses or security cameras?
Barbara Bolick, a 55-year-old woman from Corvallis, Montana, went hiking in the mountains on July 18, 2007 with her friend Jim Ramaker, who was visiting from California. When Jim stopped to admire the scenery, Barbara was 6-9 meters behind him, but when he turned around less than a minute later, he found that she had disappeared.
Police joined the search, but the woman could not be found. At first glance, Jim Ramaker's story sounds absolutely incredible. However, he cooperated with the authorities, and since there was no evidence of his involvement in Barbara's disappearance, he was no longer considered a suspect. The culprit would certainly have tried to come up with a better story, rather than claiming that his victim simply vanished into thin air. No traces or any hints of what could have happened to Barbara were ever found.
On the evening of May 14, 2008, 19-year-old Brandon Swenson was returning to his native city Marshall (Minnesota) on a gravel road, and his car went into a ditch. Brandon called his parents and asked them to come pick him up. They immediately left, but could not find him. His father called him back, Brandon picked up the phone and said that he was trying to get to the nearest town of Lead. And in the middle of the conversation, the guy suddenly cursed - and the connection abruptly ended.
The father tried to call back several more times, but received no answer and could not find his son. The police later found Brandon's car, but could not find him or his cell phone. According to one version, he could accidentally drown in a nearby river, but no body was found in it. No one knows what prompted Brandon to swear during the call, but it was the last thing they heard from him.
It has been proven that every three minutes on Earth one person disappears without a trace. Among the causes - everyday, criminal and the like - a special group in the sad statistics are the disappearances of mysterious, mysterious, inexplicable. They will be discussed in this collection.
Strange missing
In December 2011, in the United States, two children of almost the same age disappeared from their homes at the same time.
In South Carolina, 21-month-old Jason Barton disappeared. The last time the boy's mother saw him was 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 went outside, the woman ran all around, alerted 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 surprised the rescuers and the police a lot.
According to the sheriff, a child at this age will practically not be able to go somewhere further than a mile. Especially in the evening when it's dark outside.
Jason was immediately taken to the hospital and examined. Doctors did not find any abnormalities or injuries in him.
Meanwhile, in Maine, 20-month-old Isla Reynolde disappeared from her bedroom, possibly at the same time that the South Carolina boy disappeared. The police and parents find it difficult to name exact time missing a child, since the 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 traces of the presence of outsiders. It turned out that the child left the house on his own.
The police searched the entire area. There is not such a deep and dense forest that they could miss the child, but they did not find anyone. V this moment The search for the girl continues.
Disappeared to nowhere
In the history of mankind, there are many cases of disappearances of people. One of the oldest was recorded back in the 17th century in Novgorod chronicles. Monk Kirilov of the monastery disappeared during a meal. The chronicler also wrote about one scandalous merchant, Manke-Kozlikha, who disappeared before the eyes of all the people on the market day, right on the square of the Suzdal Principality, to which the people said that, they say, "the devil took her."
In more recent times, the most famous victim of the disappearance was Lucien Busier, a neighbor of Dr. Bonvilina. It was in 1867 in Paris. Lucien went to the doctor in the evening to be examined and advised on the weakness. Bonvillain told the patient to undress and lie down on a couch to conduct an examination. And he went for a stethoscope lying on the table. Then, going to the couch, he did not find the patient there. Only Busier's clothes remained on the chair. Immediately the doctor decided that he had gone to his home, and he himself went to the patient, but no one answered him. Bonvillain told the police, but the search turned up nothing, the man without clothes was gone.
Another mysterious case of the disappearance of a person occurred in 1880 in America. Local farmer David Lang was sitting in the yard with his wife and children. Noticing the carriage of his friend approaching the house, David hurried to meet him and suddenly disappeared right in front of the family. The wife and neighbors carefully examined the place where Mr. Lang had literally evaporated, but they found nothing but a patch of yellowed grass from no one knows what. Oddly enough, from that day on, the domestic animals that lived on the farm bypassed mysterious place side.
On December 12, 1910, the 25-year-old niece of an American judge Supreme Court and prominent socialite Dorothy Arnold left her fashionable mansion on East 79th Street in New York at 11 a.m. to buy herself an evening dress. About two o'clock in the afternoon she met a friend, Gladys Keith, on Fifth Avenue; The girls chatted and parted ways. In parting, Dorothy Arnold waved cheerfully - and was not 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 in the cabin of a bus that traveled from Albany to Bennington on December 1, 1949. People saw the soldier James Thetford sit down in his seat and after the bus left, he immediately fell asleep. The bus did not stop anywhere along the way, and when it arrived in Bennington, there was only a crumpled newspaper and a bag in place of James. The police investigation yielded no results. As, however, and 26 years later, when in 1975 a young woman disappeared and Martha Wright. Jackson Wright, along with his wife Martha, drove his car from New Jersey to downtown New York, to Manhattan. Walked strong
Snow, and they took shelter from the weather in the Lincoln Tunnel. Wright went out to clear the snow from the car. Marta was wiping down the back with the water, and her husband was cleaning the windshield. At the end of the work, Jackson Wright looked up and did not see his wife.
Dissolved in the mist
If one can try to give at least some more or less logical explanation for the loss of one person, then the situation with mass disappearances is even more mysterious.
In 1915, during the First World War, when the British were fighting in the Balkans, 145 well-trained soldiers of the Norfolk Battalion moved towards the enemy. Comrades in arms who remained in position 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, not far from 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 the German soldiers for some reason left the trenches. At the same time, the loaded guns remained in place, clothes and shoes dried by the fire, and stew gurgled in the pots.
Cases are known when entire settlements. In 1930, miner Joe Labell 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 was no one from the people, there was silence everywhere. The impression was such that the villagers 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 lay unfinished clothes with needles stuck in them. Deciding that the inhabitants had probably gone downriver, Labelle sent them to the pier. The kayaks were there too. But the most surprising thing was that the Eskimos for some reason left dogs in the village. The animals were carefully tied, and judging by the fact that the huskies were not hungry, the inhabitants disappeared quite recently. LaBelle notified the police of the strange incident. During the week, the area around the village was carefully combed, but no traces of the disappeared 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 4:00 p.m., a Venezuelan DC-9 jet aircraft took off from Maracaibo International Airport (350 miles from Caracas). It was a regular flight. In 35 minutes, the plane was supposed 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 control did not receive any distress signals. The news agency published 38 missing people, including one child and five crew members. In the afternoon, a search plane flew on 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 Disney Wonder luxury ocean liner on a cruise from the United States to Mexico. The ship had 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 trace of the girl was found. And after several months of searching, which did not lead to anything, it was concluded that the girl committed suicide by jumping overboard. However, her parents, Mike and Ann Coriam, did their own research and found that only Last year during sea cruises 11 people are missing. And since 1995, the number of disappeared people is 165! And never managed to attack the trail of these people.
Alas, Rebecca's parents never managed to complete the investigation. According to Mike Coriam, he and his wife faced colossal opposition: cruise lines spent millions of dollars not to detail what happened, and true reason the disappearance of people is still 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 Foreman disappeared from the ship "Silver Cloud Silversea". This happened in the Arabian Sea. The absence of a passenger was noticed during the call to the port of Mumbai. Ms. Foreman's cabin was locked from the inside, but the woman herself was nowhere to be found. Relatives do not believe in suicide, because 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. On the eve of the 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 met only by a half-dead dog. There was no one else on board. Personal items crew were in cabins. The ship itself was in perfect order, but her towline was torn off and everything was missing. lifeboats. It was completely incomprehensible what could force the crew to leave the 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, an absolutely deserted tanker Yan Seng appeared. In the same year, the Italian coast guard, which detained the two-masted Bel Amica sailboat off the coast of Sardinia, did not find people either.
In January 2008, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Transport announced the loss of communication with the Russian dry-cargo ship Kapitan 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.
There have always been such incidents, but no one has given an answer to the question about their causes so far. One of the versions appeared in 1937. During the passage of the Taimyr hydrographic vessel across the Kara Sea, one of the specialists noticed that when he brought a balloon filled with hydrogen to his ear, he felt a sharp pain in the eardrum. When he moved the balloon away, the pain disappeared. Hydrophysicist Vladimir Shuleikin, who is on the Taimyr, became interested in this strange effect, calling it the “voice of the sea.” In his opinion, the wind during a storm creates low-frequency infrasonic vibrations that are inaudible to our ears, but harmful to humans. At a frequency below 15 hertz, the effect is enhanced, there is a disorder of the brain centers, such as vision, 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 unreasonable 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 falls on the crew of the ship. This state is intensified 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 perplexes anyone who undertakes to explain (or "expose") the mysterious disappearances of people...
During the performance, the magician Nef accidentally discovered a unique gift in himself ... Once, in front of a shocked audience, he vanished into thin air and became invisible.
Speaking on stage, the illusionist miraculously made any object disappear, up to a couple of live leopards, but hardly anyone could compare with William Nef, who performed the sensational trick of his disappearance in the 60s.
For the first time it happened 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 the air, and then reappeared in front of his wife, whose reaction can hardly be called enthusiastic.
The third such incident occurred during Nef's performance at the Paramount Theater in New York. Radio reporter Knebel happened to be among the spectators. One could only dream of such a witness, because everyone knew about his active rejection of the supernatural.
Subsequently, in his book The Path Beyond the Universe, Knebel shared his personal impressions. According to him, the figure of Nef began to lose its visible outlines - until it became completely transparent. But what is most surprising is that his voice has not undergone the slightest change, and yet the audience, with bated breath, listened to every word.
And here is how Knebel describes his “return”: “A vague outline gradually 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 how to manage it, and tell the world about another revealed secret ...
Black hole
We can only hope for modern science, which has no explanation for all these strange cases. However, there is whole line versions, but they are all just theories, not supported by any evidence.
Some researchers believe that just as black holes are formed in the Universe that can absorb stars, their systems and even entire galaxies, exactly the same holes appear in a person at the submolecular level. It is they who absorb a person from the inside, leaving no traces of him, or perhaps they are sucked in by "temporal whirlpools" when, having disappeared in their own time, people appear in the future or the 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 in the visible world there are something like holes and voids. Absolute “nothing” dominates in such a hole. 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 gets into 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. Suppose an ant has landed on the sleeve. He can accidentally fall between the loops and get into a completely different world for him, where it is dark and stuffy, and instead of the usual spruce needles - 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 (!) Volts. And if such a meteorite falls on earth's surface, there is an explosion of tremendous force, as 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 carried over great distances.
According to this theory, the fog that supposedly enveloped the disappearing people is nothing more than a cloud of dust rising under the influence of electric field. However, whether it is possible to transfer people over long distances remains open.
The famous cryptozoologist and naturalist Ivan Sanderson gives his interpretation of the mysterious disappearance. He established on Earth the presence of places where the laws of terrestrial and magnetic attraction operate in an unusual mode. He called such places "damn cemeteries". Sanderson identified 12 such symmetrically located zones, or anomalous areas, which are evenly spaced 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, there are electric vortices that carry people and objects from one space-time dimension to another.
The Voronezh scientist Genrikh Silanov also finds the version about geoactive zones 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 through 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. On the "black" from our Universe, matter goes to parallel worlds, and on the "white" from them energy comes to us. However, the idea of the existence of a parallel world has owned a person since time immemorial. Some researchers believe that the Cro-Magnon people believed that the souls of the deceased tribesmen and animals killed in the hunt 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, four of them are in Australia and seven are 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 the history of mankind carried out the experience of quantum teleportation. To carry out the experiment, the researchers disassembled the 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 ... Most recently, the British physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of the theory of black holes, refuted his own theory about the possibility of traveling 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.
As soon as a person or a group of people disappears without a trace, the construction of the most diverse, sometimes supernatural versions of what happened begins. The people in this collection have disappeared once and for all, and their stories have already grown into legends and rumors.
When a person disappears, and even worse - a group of people, it always raises questions. And also gives rise to a bunch of rumors. Sometimes this is how urban legends and other incredible stories appear. Most of the people on this list have disappeared for unknown reasons, and their whereabouts - dead or alive - have never been revealed. But if the disappearance of ships in the Bermuda Triangle can still be explained logically, then how could a man in a wheelchair who had a stroke disappear, leaving behind only a coat?
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1. Intrepid explorer Percy Fawcett was last seen in 1925 leading the search for an ancient lost city in the jungles of Brazil with his son Jack. Many suspected that they were killed by local residents or torn to pieces by animals. Even more absurd versions were also put forward, for example, that Fawcett became the head of the tribe. His image partially inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to create a literary character - Professor Challenger.
2. In the late 16th century, a group of English colonists founded a settlement on Roanoke Island, in present-day Carolina. John White, an artist and friend of Sir Walter Reilly, was appointed governor. In 1587 White sailed home to England for a short period, then returned to Roanoke three years later. Arriving on the island, he found the colony deserted. Everyone disappeared without a trace, including the first born in the New World English child, Virginia Dare. Before today no one knows what happened to the "lost colony".
3. In 1809, Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappeared in Germany while staying at a hotel. Various versions of his disappearance were discussed in the press: it could be murder, kidnapping by the French government, or suicide.
4. In 1763, a scandal erupted in the quiet village of Shepton Mallet. Owen Parfitt, 60, who suffered a stroke and was barely able to move, disappeared while sitting in a chair at the entrance to his sister's house. All that was left was his coat. The investigation of the incident did not lead to anything, the mystery remained unsolved.
5. Diver Royal Navy Lionel "Buster" Crabbe disappeared mysteriously in 1956, when he was sent to spy on Soviet ship. Later, a Russian claimed to have killed Crabbe when he found him planting a magnetic mine on the ship's hull. Some believe that he was captured and taken to the Soviet Union.
6. One of Britain's greatest unsolved mysteries is the disappearance of three lighthouse keepers on the Scottish island of Flannan in December 1900. Versions of their disappearance ranged from alien abduction to murder. But, most likely, they were simply washed out to sea during a storm.
7. British traveler George Bass became famous for his explorations in Australia. In February 1803 he went on a voyage to Tahiti and the Spanish colonies on the coast of Chile and did not return. Some historians suggest that he may have been recruited into the smuggling trade with Chile and killed there. In this photo you can see his image on a postage stamp.
8. On November 8, 1974, the day after his children's nanny was found beaten to death in his ex-wife's house, the British Lord Lucan disappeared. Although reports of him came from all over the world, he was never discovered. In 1999, he was officially declared dead.
9. When Edward IV unexpectedly died in 1483, his brother Richard III succeeded to the throne, declaring Edward's two young sons illegitimate. They were put up in the Tower of London and disappeared shortly thereafter. Popular legend has it that Richard killed the children, but the mystery remains to this day.
10. In 1948, a British plane with 31 passengers on board disappeared in the infamous Bermuda Triangle. During the investigation, no debris or bodies were found. The researchers involved in this case admitted that they did not have to solve a more difficult task than this. A year later, another British plane disappeared into the air somewhere between Bermuda and Jamaica.
11. The mysterious disappearance of Agatha Christie for 11 days in 1926 is the same mystery as those printed in her detective novels. The writer, who was eventually discovered at the Harrogate Hotel, never explained why she disappeared. Popular versions considered a nervous breakdown and a desire to embarrass or worry her husband (who then announced his desire for a divorce). Others believe it was just a publicity stunt.
12. Victor Grayson, who became the first socialist elected to the English Parliament, mysteriously disappeared one evening in 1920, telling friends that he needed to stop by the Queen Hotel in Leicester Square for a while. There were rumors that the deputy had made quite a few enemies in the highest echelons of power. It is assumed that he was killed to stop an investigation he was conducting into government corruption.
13. In 1845, British explorer Sir John Franklin and his team of 128 disappeared after they went looking for the Northwest Passage. It is not known exactly what happened to the crew. An analysis of human remains found on Beechey and King Wilhelm Islands in the 1980s suggests that after their ships were stuck in the ice, many of the people died from disease, starvation and lead poisoning. There were also cases of cannibalism.
It has been proven that every three minutes on Earth one person disappears without a trace. Among the causes - domestic, criminal and the like - a special group in the sad statistics are the disappearances of mysterious, inexplicable. They will be discussed in this collection.
Strange missing
In December 2011, in the United States, two children of almost the same age disappeared from their homes at the same time.
In South Carolina, 21-month-old Jason Barton disappeared. The last time the boy's mother saw him was 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 went outside, the woman ran all around, alerted 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 surprised the rescuers and the police a lot.
According to the sheriff, a child at this age will practically not be able to go somewhere further than a mile. Especially in the evening when it's dark outside.
Jason was immediately taken to the hospital and examined. Doctors did not find any abnormalities or injuries in him.
Meanwhile, in Maine, 20-month-old Isla Reynolde disappeared from her bedroom, possibly at the same time that the South Carolina boy disappeared. The police and parents find it difficult to name the exact time of the disappearance of the child, since the last time they saw the girl was when they put her to bed in the evening in her room. In the morning at 8 o'clock in the morning they found an empty bed in the bedroom. There were no signs of forced entry or traces of the presence of outsiders. It turned out that the child left the house on his own.
The police searched the entire area. There is not such a deep and dense forest that they could miss the child, but they did not find anyone. At the moment, the search for the girl continues.
Disappeared to nowhere
In the history of mankind, there are many cases of disappearances of people. One of the oldest was recorded 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, Manke-Kozlikha, who disappeared before the eyes of all the people on the market day, right on the square of the Suzdal Principality, to which the people said that, they say, "the devil took her."
In more recent times, the most famous victim of the disappearance was Lucien Busier, a neighbor of Dr. Bonvilina. It was in 1867 in Paris. Lucien went to the doctor in the evening to be examined and advised on the weakness. Bonvillain told the patient to undress and lie down on a couch to conduct an examination. And he went for a stethoscope lying on the table. Then, going to the couch, he did not find the patient there. Only Busier's clothes remained on the chair. Immediately the doctor decided that he had gone to his home, and he himself went to the patient, but no one answered him. Bonvillain told the police, but the search turned up nothing, the man without clothes was gone.
Another mysterious case of the disappearance of a person occurred in 1880 in America. Local farmer David Lang was sitting in the yard with his wife and children. Noticing the carriage of his friend approaching the house, David hurried to meet him and suddenly disappeared right in front of the family. The wife and neighbors carefully examined the place where Mr. Lang had literally evaporated, but they found nothing but a patch of yellowed grass from no one knows what. Oddly enough, from that day on, the domestic animals that lived on the farm bypassed the mysterious place.
On December 12, 1910, the 25-year-old niece of an American Supreme Court judge and a prominent social activist, Dorothy Arnold, left her fashionable mansion on East 79th Street in New York at 11 a.m. to buy herself an evening dress. About two o'clock in the afternoon she met a friend on Fifth Avenue - Gladys Keith; The girls chatted and parted ways. Dorothy Arnold waved merrily in farewell, and was never seen again.
Similar stories occurred relatively often in various countries, on land, sea and air, in apartments, on the streets, forests, fields, in transport. 14 people witnessed the disappearance in the cabin of a bus that traveled from Albany to Bennington on December 1, 1949. People saw the soldier James Thetford sit down in his seat and after the bus left, he immediately fell asleep. The bus did not stop anywhere along the way, and when it arrived in Bennington, there was only a crumpled newspaper and a bag in place of James. The police investigation yielded no results. As, however, and 26 years later, when in 1975 a young woman disappeared and Martha Wright. Jackson Wright, along with his wife Martha, drove his car from New Jersey to downtown New York, to Manhattan. Walked strong
snow, and they took shelter from the weather in the Lincoln Tunnel. Wright went out to clear the snow from the car. Martha was wiping down the back with the water, and her husband was wiping the windshield. At the end of the work, Jackson Wright looked up and did not see his wife.
Dissolved in the mist
If one can try to give at least some more or less logical explanation for the loss of one person, then the situation with mass disappearances is even more mysterious.
In 1915, during the First World War, when the British were fighting in the Balkans, 145 well-trained soldiers of the Norfolk Battalion moved towards the enemy. Comrades in arms who remained in position 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, not far from 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 the German soldiers for some reason left the trenches. At the same time, the loaded guns remained in place, clothes and shoes dried by the fire, and stew gurgled in the pots.
There are cases when entire settlements disappeared. In 1930, miner Joe Labell 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 was no one from the people, there was silence everywhere. The impression was such that the villagers 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 lay unfinished clothes with needles stuck in them. Deciding that the inhabitants had probably gone downriver, Labelle sent them to the pier. The kayaks were there too. But the most surprising thing was that the Eskimos for some reason left dogs in the village. The animals were carefully tied, and judging by the fact that the huskies were not hungry, the inhabitants disappeared quite recently. LaBelle notified the police of the strange incident. During the week, the area around the village was carefully combed, but no traces of the disappeared 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 4:00 p.m., a Venezuelan DC-9 jet aircraft took off from Maracaibo International Airport (350 miles from Caracas). It was a regular flight. In 35 minutes, the plane was supposed 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 control did not receive any distress signals. The news agency published 38 missing people, including one child and five crew members. In the afternoon, a search plane flew on 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 Disney Wonder luxury ocean liner on a cruise from the United States to Mexico. The ship had 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 trace of the girl was found. And after several months of searching, which did not lead to anything, it was concluded that the girl committed suicide by jumping overboard. However, her parents, Mike and Ann Coriam, did their own research and found that 11 people had gone missing on sea cruises in the past year alone. And since 1995, the number of disappeared people is 165! And never managed to attack the trail of these people.
Alas, Rebecca's parents never managed to complete the investigation. According to Mike Coriam, he and his wife faced colossal opposition: cruise lines spent millions of dollars not to detail what happened, and the true reason for the disappearance of people is still 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 Foreman disappeared from the ship "Silver Cloud Silversea". This happened in the Arabian Sea. The absence of a passenger was noticed during the call to the port of Mumbai. Ms. Foreman's cabin was locked from the inside, but the woman herself was nowhere to be found. Relatives do not believe in suicide, because 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. On the eve of the disappearance, John called his wife. According to her, he was in a great mood.
In October 1944, US Coast Guard officers boarded the Cuban ship Rubicon. They were met 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 perfect order, but its towing the cable and all lifeboats were missing.It was completely incomprehensible what could force the crew to leave the ship.
In 2003, an Australian Coast Guard aircraft discovered the Indonesian schooner Hi Em 6 ?, whose holds were full of mackerel. In the same year, the Italian coast guard, which detained the two-masted Bel Amica sailboat off the coast of Sardinia, did not find people either.
In January 2008, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Transport announced the loss of communication with the Russian dry-cargo ship Kapitan 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.
There have always been such incidents, but no one has given an answer to the question about their causes so far. One of the versions appeared in 1937. During the passage of the Taimyr hydrographic vessel across the Kara Sea, one of the specialists noticed that when he brought a balloon filled with hydrogen to his ear, he felt a sharp pain in the eardrum. When he moved the balloon away, the pain disappeared. Hydrophysicist Vladimir Shuleikin, who is on the Taimyr, became interested in this strange effect, calling it the “voice of the sea.” In his opinion, the wind during a storm creates low-frequency infrasonic vibrations that are inaudible to our ears, but harmful to humans. At a frequency below 15 hertz, the effect is enhanced, there is a disorder of the brain centers, such as vision, 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 unreasonable 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 falls on the crew of the ship. This state is intensified 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 perplexes anyone who undertakes to explain (or "expose") the mysterious disappearances of people...
During the performance, the magician Nef accidentally discovered a unique gift in himself ... Once, in front of a shocked audience, he vanished into thin air and became invisible.
Speaking on stage, the illusionist miraculously made any object disappear, up to a couple of live leopards, but hardly anyone could compare with William Nef, who performed the sensational trick of his disappearance in the 60s.
For the first time it happened during a performance in Chicago.
The second time was when Nef was at home and suddenly, without any warning (as he himself put it, “accidentally”), disappeared into the air, and then reappeared in front of his wife, whose reaction can hardly be called enthusiastic.
The third such incident occurred during Nef's performance at the Paramount Theater in New York. Radio reporter Knebel happened to be among the spectators. One could only dream of such a witness, because everyone knew about his active rejection of the supernatural.
Subsequently, in his book The Path Beyond the Universe, Knebel shared his personal impressions. According to him, the figure of Nef began to lose visible outlines - until it became completely transparent. But what is most surprising is that his voice has not undergone the slightest change, and yet the audience, with bated breath, listened to every word.
And here is how Knebel describes his “return”: “A vague outline gradually 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 how to manage it, and tell the world about another revealed secret ...
Black hole
We can only hope for modern science, which has no 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 that can absorb stars, their systems and even entire galaxies, exactly the same holes appear in a person at the submolecular level. It is they who absorb a person from the inside, leaving no traces of him, or perhaps they are sucked in by "temporal whirlpools" when, having disappeared in their own time, people appear in the future or the 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 in the visible world there are something like holes and voids. Absolute “nothing” dominates in such a hole. 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 gets into 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. Suppose an ant has landed on the sleeve. He can accidentally fall between the loops and get into a completely different world for him, where it is dark and stuffy, and instead of the usual spruce needles - 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 (!) Volts. And if such a meteorite falls on the earth's surface , an explosion of tremendous force occurs, like near the Tunguska River.But sometimes a meteorite is destroyed even before it falls - and as a result, a huge wave of energy hits the Earth with force: a state of electrostatic levitation appears - large groups of people, as well as ships and even trains can take off into the air and transported over great distances.
According to this theory, the fog that allegedly enveloped the disappearing people is nothing more than a cloud of dust rising under the influence of an electric field. However, whether it is possible to transfer people over long distances remains open.
The famous cryptozoologist and naturalist Ivan Sanderson gives his interpretation of the mysterious disappearance. He established on Earth the presence of places where the laws of terrestrial and magnetic attraction operate in an unusual mode. He called such places "damn cemeteries". Sanderson identified 12 such symmetrically located zones, or anomalous areas, which are evenly spaced 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, there are electric vortices that carry people and objects from one space-time dimension to another.
The Voronezh scientist Genrikh Silanov also finds the version about geoactive zones 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. On the "black" from our Universe, matter goes to parallel worlds, and on the "white" from them energy comes to us. However, the idea of the existence of a parallel world has owned a person since time immemorial. Some researchers believe that the Cro-Magnon people believed that the souls of the deceased tribesmen and animals killed in the hunt go to these worlds, which is reflected in their drawings.
Australian parapsychologist Jean Grimbriard concluded that there are about 40 tunnels in the world leading to other worlds, four of them are in Australia and seven are in America.
Modern science does not dispute the possibility of the existence of parallel worlds. In the spring of 1999, scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) for the first time in the history of mankind carried out the experience of quantum teleportation. To carry out the experiment, the researchers disassembled the 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 ... Most recently, the British physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of the theory of black holes, refuted his own theory about the possibility of traveling 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.