Strange disappearances

01

Dyatlov Pass incident

Nine hikers cut their tent from the inside and ran barefoot into −30°C Siberian night. Two corpses had crushed chests matching a car-crash impact. No attacker ever found.

02

Michael Rockefeller

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, treaded water off New Guinea for hours in 1961 before swimming toward shore. The Asmat people there practiced ritual cannibalism.

03

Eilean Mòr lighthouse keepers' disappearance

Three keepers vanished from Eilean Mòr in December 1900. One chair was overturned, a half-eaten meal sat on the table, and the last log entry read: 'God is over all.'

04

Kaspar Hauser

A boy stumbled into Nuremberg in 1828 able to write one name — Kaspar Hauser — and say one sentence. He claimed a dungeon, a single jailer, and no sunlight, ever. He was stabbed to death five years later.

05

Sodder children disappearance

Five Sodder children disappeared in a Christmas Eve fire in 1945 in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Fire investigators found no bone fragments in the ash. Their mother ran a billboard on US-119 for 40 years asking where they were.

06

Murder of Zebb Quinn

Zebb Quinn, 18, vanished after a late-night work errand in January 2000. His car turned up days later with a live puppy inside and a lipstick kiss on the rear window. His coworker Robert Jason Owens was convicted 17 years later.

07

Mary Celeste

The brigantine Mary Celeste was found in November 1872 sailing itself across the Atlantic — lifeboat gone, cargo of 1,701 barrels of industrial alcohol intact, captain's log open to ten days prior.

08

Roanoke Colony

117 colonists settled Roanoke Island in 1587. Governor John White left for supplies and returned three years later to find the word CROATOAN carved into a post and every person gone — no graves, no blood.

09

D. B. Cooper

D. B. Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 on November 24, 1971, demanded $200,000 and four parachutes, then jumped into a Pacific Northwest storm at night. Only $5,800 of the ransom ever surfaced — buried in a riverbank.

10

Harold Holt

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, waded into the surf at Cheviot Beach on December 17, 1967, and was never seen again. No body was ever recovered. Australia has no official cause of death on record.