Two ships and 129 men set out to find the fabled Northwest Passage before disappearing.
Category: Disappearances
The Disappearance Atsumi Yoshikubo
Walking off alone into the Canadian wilderness, did a Japanese tourist intend to take her own life?
The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
After his disappearance in 2014, German tourist Lars Mittank became one of the most famous missing persons cases worldwide after his final known movements were captured on CCTV
The Disappearance of Frederick Valentich
An Australian airman disappeared without trace shortly after apparently describing an unidentified flying object pursuing him
The Bermuda Triangle
Do ships and aircraft disappear more frequently in the Bermuda Triangle than other regions of ocean?
The Disappearance of Rudolf Diesel
When the German inventor of a revolutionary combustion engine went missing, many believed he had been murdered to prevent his invention falling into British hands
The Disappearance of Dennis Martin
Despite the largest manhunt in the history of the Smoky Mountains National Park, no trace of the missing six-year-old has ever been found
The Disappearance of Amy Johnson
One of the world’s leading aviators, Amy Johnson disappeared in strange circumstances after flying off-course in 1941
The Disappearance of the Eilean Mòr Lighthouse Keepers
Hebrideans have long claimed the remote Flannan Isles to be haunted, but what caused the strange disappearance of three lighthouse keepers there in 1900?
The Crew of the Mary Celeste
One of history’s most notorious ‘ghost ships’, what caused the crew of the Mary Celeste to abandon their largely undamaged ship and disappear?
