THE VANISHING: 'In the stunning and remote wilderness along northern British Columbia’s Highway 16, at least 18 women—by some estimates, many more—have gone missing over the past four decades. After years of investigation, authorities still don’t know if it’s the work of a serial killer or multiple offenders. BOB FRIEL drives into the darkness for answers.'
[more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns
on Jul 10, 2012 -
33 comments
On August 31, 2004, a naked, bruised man was
discovered behind a Burger King at the intersection of Interstate 95 and Highway 17 in Richmond Hill, Georgia. He had
no memory of who he was. Fingerprint and DNA searches were
unsuccessful. His identity
continues to remain
missing.
posted by vidur
on Dec 5, 2011 -
90 comments
In 1969,
Sesame Street put together an unaired pilot to test in front of children. The pilot contained the appearance of an actor playing Gordon different from the
other three actors who subsequently played that character. Sesame Workshop has no idea who this actor was and has exhausted all leads.
Do you know who the mystery Gordon is?
posted by mightygodking
on Nov 10, 2011 -
91 comments
Where is the Puck? The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup last season for the first time in 50 years. But what happened to the puck that was used to score what some are calling the "most famous goal in Chicago sports history?"
posted by zarq
on Apr 27, 2011 -
133 comments
“Living until 150 years old is impossible in the natural world,” said Akira Nemoto, director of the elderly services section of the Adachi ward office. “But it is not impossible in the world of Japanese public administration.”
Up until the end of July, no one knew how many people over the age of 100 were missing in Japan.
Now, officials are scrambling to check on the elderly. [more inside]
posted by Ghidorah
on Aug 14, 2010 -
57 comments
Bobby Dunbar was a four year-old boy that vanished in 1912, while on a fishing trip with his family in a Louisiana swamp. For weeks, searchers combed the area looking for him. The lake where he went missing was dynamited. Alligators were captured and had their bellies slit open to see if the body was inside. Nothing was found except a set of child's footprints leading to an old railroad trestle. Eight months later, the police found Bobby in the company of a drifter with a horse-drawn cart. He protested his innocence but was arrested and charged with kidnapping. Another woman came forward and claimed Bobby was, in fact, her son. But she was an unmarried fieldworker, and her claims were dismissed. The crime became a nationwide
media event and the boy was returned to his parents, and their hometown held a parade in his honor. Bobby returned to his life. Ninety-one years later, Bobby Dunbar's granddaughter uncovered
the truth.
posted by smoothvirus
on Mar 19, 2008 -
78 comments
Steve Fossett has gone missing in Nevada. Fossett has broken many aviation records, including being the first person to fly solo around the world in a
balloon and the first nonstop, solo
airplane flight around the world. A
list of all of his aviation records. He went missing during a recreational flight.
posted by backseatpilot
on Sep 4, 2007 -
36 comments
Allen, 24, and Brandon Day, 28, of Dallas, were in Southern California for a financial convention. They got lost Saturday west of Palm Springs after wandering off a trail during what was supposed to be a day hike. [On the third day] they discovered a campsite in a dead-end gorge. Day and Allen were elated, thinking someone there could help them find the way out. But something was wrong. A radio and flashlight were corroded. They realized the place was deserted.
``His last journal entry was one year ago to the day that we found it, which was very eerie,' Day said. ``Nobody knew where he was, nobody knew to come looking for him, so he was preparing for the end. We were looking at the words of a man who was passing.'
The
missing man was
John Donovan, who had disapeared a year earlier while hiking the pacific crest trail.
"Even in his death, he was helping people," Donovan's longtime friend, Chris Hook, said from Richmond, Virginia.
posted by 445supermag
on May 11, 2006 -
26 comments
Radioactive Material Lost By Halliburton Found In Boston Shit hapens:: "Halliburton Co. (HAL), an oil services company and major military contractor in Iraq and elsewhere, lost track of a shipment of radioactive material in October
but didn't alert the government until this week.
Federal authorities mounted an intensive search and found the material Wednesday in Massachusetts.
posted by Postroad
on Feb 11, 2005 -
30 comments
Lonely Socks. Have you ever rifled through your socks drawer to find only three socks. One green, one blue and the other yellow? Where did the other one go? Post your single socks here and help them find their partners.
posted by fvw
on Oct 11, 2004 -
20 comments
Almost two years later and they're still finding remains from the World Trade Center. Hopefully one more family gets a call they've been waiting for/dreading that their loved one is found.
posted by MediaMan
on Sep 9, 2003 -
6 comments
Wisconsin "loses" 2,900 sex offenders. It seems that the state of Wisconsin has "misplaced" approximately 2,900 of it's 9,000+ population of registered sex offenders. Apparently, they've moved within or out of the state without letting the state know. Jim Stingl of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thinks we should all
pitch in and help find those missing offenders, and offers some ways he's helping out already
posted by djspicerack
on Oct 14, 2002 -
17 comments
Nixon's Last Secret The race is on to try to recover the missing 18 1/2 minutes of the infamous Tape 342. While it will be interesting to see what's on the tape (if it can be recovered) the big question is this: Why erase part of one tape and leave all the others intact?
posted by Irontom
on Jun 19, 2002 -
14 comments
Reuters is publishing photos of those unaccounted for. I thought that this was a nice gesture on the part of Reuters, and of the AP if they're doing this as well. It's eerie to glance through yahoo's archive of the Reuters photos and to find random pictures submitted by families. They're not obvious, but if you look through enough pages, you'll find a few.
posted by moz
on Sep 14, 2001 -
0 comments
Financial/NY people add your name If you
were expected to be downtown in the area. Also, the FISD has set up
this site to post questions about missing people and anything else.. that you're ok, if you need help.. if you can help... (one thing.. some places had decided to use the UBB to tout their wares.. how screwed in the head are you?.. I can understand people with a skill.. but a company trying to sell something...).. But use the sites responsibly, please.
posted by rich
on Sep 13, 2001 -
0 comments
Friends, family seek "Left Eye". If my friends referred to me as "Left Eye" I would have dumped them, too. But seriously, how does someone famous just disappear like this, especially in celebrity-crazed America?
posted by kristin
on Sep 11, 2000 -
6 comments
