List of people who disappeared mysteriously

This is a list of people who have mysteriously disappeared, relating chronologically cases of disappearance recorded in the course of history that have occurred to notorious people and in unenlightened circumstances.

Before 1800

71 BC – although supposedly died in battle, the body of the rebel slave Spartacus was never recovered, and his fate remains unknown.
117 – The Roman Legion Legio IX Hispana disappears during the Roman conquest of Britain. Several references to the troop would later appear in fictional works.
1021 – Aláqueme Biamir Allah, 6th Caliph Fatimid and 16th Imam Ismaili, heads on his donkey to the hills of Muqattam (on the outskirts of Cairo) to one of his routine night meditation sessions, not returning. The search for the Caliph finds only his bloody costumes and his animal.
1203 – Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, heir to the throne of England supported by the French nobility (who did not want John without land in power) is captured in 1202 in Mirebeau by John’s supporters and imprisoned in Falaise, disappearing a year later, after being transferred To Rouen.
1483 – Edward V of England (12 years) and Ricardo de Shrewsbury, Duke of York (9 years), sons of Edward IV of England, are imprisoned in the Tower of London by his uncle Richard III, never again being seen.
1499 – The Italian explorer Giovanni Caboto disappears, along with his five ships, during an expedition in search of a Western Europe route to Asia.
1501 – The Portuguese navigator Gaspar Corte Real disappears while trying to find the Northwest Passage. Two of his ships returned to Lisbon, but the third, with him on board, is lost at sea.
1502 – Miguel Corte Real part looking for his brother Gaspar. Just like him, he followed with three ships, and also to the one that occurred with his brother, only two return while the third, as he on board, disappears without leaving a trace.
1578 – D. Sebastião, sixteenth King of Portugal, is killed during or after the Battle of Alcácer-Quibir. Philip II sends relocate to the Jerónimos monastery a body claiming to be the king’s, but the people refuse to believe in death, which leads to the emergence of “sebastianism.”
1590 – The Roanoke colony is found abandoned, and the fate of the settlers who inhabit it remains unknown.
1611 – After a mutiny on his Discovery ship, Henry Hudson, his teenage son and six others are abandoned in a small dinghy in Hudson Bay, and are never seen again.

1800 to 1899

1826 – William Morgan disappears shortly before his book with Secrets of Freemasonry being published.
1848 – Explorer and naturalist Ludwig Leichhardt is part of the Condamine River for the Swan River in Australia. The expedition is last seen in Darling Downs; Evidence suggests she disappeared into the great Sandy Desert.
1872 – The Brigantine Mary Celeste is found abandoned adrift in the direction of the Straits of Gibraltar, and the disappearance of the eight crew members and the two passengers becomes the center of one of the most enduring mysteries of naval history.
1890 – Louis Le Prince, a film pioneer, disappears after embarking on a train in Dijon to Paris.

1900 to 1999

1909 – the sailor Joshua Slocum disappears after departing from Martha’s Vineyard to South America in the sloop Spray.
1913 – inventor and mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel disappears on board a steam that followed from Antwerp to London; He’s supposed to have committed suicide by throwing himself overboard, or even if he was murdered.
1914 – writer and journalist Ambrose Bierce supposedly joins the army of Pancho Villa as an observer, dying or being executed during one of the battles of the Mexican Revolution.
1924 – The Aviator Artur de Sacadura Freire Cabral disappears at some point in the North Sea when he was flying towards Lisbon.
1925 – British explorer and archaeologist Percy Fawcett, along with his eldest son Jack and his friend Raleigh Rimmell, leaves for the Serra do Snorer, Mato Grosso, looking for the “Lost City of” Z “. Despite several theories to explain the disappearance and several expeditions looking for the trio (which together victimized more than 100 people), their fate remains a mystery.
1925 – Airmen Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear while attempting to make the first transatlantic flight from Paris to new York on the White Bird biplane.
1928 – The Explorer Roald Amundsen leaves with his seaplane on a rescue mission to the airship Italia, disappearing in the Arctic.
1937 – Aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappear in the vicinity of Howland Island while attempting to conduct a circumnavigation flight from the globe.
1938 – The physicist Ettore Majorana disappears during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples.
1939 – American novelist Barbara Newhall Follett disappears mysteriously.
1941 – The diplomat Kazys Bizauskas disappears when he was transported to a Soviet prison in Minsk. It is assumed that he was executed in conjunction with other prisoners during Stalinist repression.
1944 – The airplane of the writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupéry disappears during a reconnaissance mission on France under Nazi occupation.
1944 – the popular jazz musician Glenn Miller takes off from England to play for troops in France Recém-liberada when the plane in which he was vanished on the channel of the stain. In the military condition of the United States Army disappeared during wartime, Miller remains listed as “lost in action.”
1945 – Heinrich Müller, leader of the Gestapo and one of the occupants of the Führerbunker, is last seen the day after Hitler’s suicide. His CLA file and related documents assess that, although his fate is not known, he probably died in Berlin in the early days of May 1945.
1945 – Constanze Manziarly, the cook and dietitian of Hitler, disappears while attempting to escape from Berlin after the Soviet invasion and the collapse of Nazi Germany. She is supposed to have been raped and murdered by Soviet soldiers in one of the tunnels of the Berlin subway.
1945 – Subhas Chandra Bose, one of the most prominent leaders of India’s independence movement, disappears after a plane crash in Taiwan. The body is not recovered, raising several theories about its whereabouts.
1945 – Flight 19: Five TBF Avenger torpedoes from the United States Navy disappear while conducting a training flight in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle. During a subsequent search mission, two seaplanes Martin PBM Mariner also disappear, apparently the result of an explosion in midair. No remnants of the seven aircraft and the 21 crew involved are found.
1971 – After threatening to blow up a Boeing 727, D. B. Cooper receives US $200 000 and jumps from the aircraft’s parachute, never being seen again.
1975 – The union leader Jimmy Hoffa is last seen in the parking lot of a Detroit restaurant. It is assumed that shortly after he was murdered by the mafia.
1978 – Frederick Valentich disappears while flying alone the Bass Strait in a Cessna 182. His last radio contact was to report that he had spotted an unidentified aircraft flying at high speed and dangerously close to his.
1979-Six-year-old Etan Patz disappears in New York. It was his first missing child’s face to be disclosed in milk packets in the United States. His whereabouts were never discovered.
1985 – The physicist Vladimir Alexandrov disappears in Madrid during a conference on nuclear winter.
1992 – A helicopter with the politician Ulysses Guimarães, his wife Mora, the former Severus Gomes, his wife Henriquetta and the pilot Jorge Comeratto, falls into the sea of Angra dos Reis, killing all on board. Ulysses ‘ body is the only one not to be recovered, giving rise to conspiracy theories of aircraft sabotage and speculation about objects recovered from the ocean, such as a skull found on the coast of Santa Catarina in 2001.
1995 – The car of musician Richey James Edwards is found abandoned by the Severn Bridge, known for attracting suicides. Although the body was not found, Edwards is officially declared dead in November 2008.

2000-present

2002 – The Catamaran Hakuna Matata, taking on board his basketball player Bison, his girlfriend Serena Karlan, his brother Miles argue and the conductor Bertrand balance, part of Moorea Island, in French Polynesia destined for Honolulu. Argue is the only one to return to the United States; Subsequently investigated about the disappearance and probable murder of his travel companions, he commits suicide.
2007 – Scientist James Gray leaves on his sailboat Tenacious with the intention of spreading his mother’s ashes on the Farallon Islands, not returning. Despite one of the most ambitious rescue missions carried out, no sign of Gray and his vessel are detected.
2007 – Madeleine McCann disappears after being left alone by her parents in the family vacation apartment in the Algarve.
2009 – Professor Craig Arnold leaves for an exploratory walk on the volcanic island of Kuchinoerabujima, not returning. The search teams find their last tracks near a cliff, assuming it has suffered a fatal fall.

Author: Castellano

See Also

List of inventors killed by their own inventions
List of unusual deaths
Forced disappearance
List of kidnappings
List of murder convictions without a body
List of solved missing persons cases
List of unidentified murder victims in the United States
List of unsolved deaths