History knows many cases when a person mysteriously disappears right in front of witnesses, and there is still no explanation for this phenomenon.
The first such incident occurred in ancient Greece: in the midst of a battle, one of the warriors, into which a dart stuck, suddenly melted into thin air. And in the place where he had just stood, his weapon, shield and fatal dart were left. In ancient times, such disappearances of people happened quite often, so those around them did not see anything unusual in them.
In the 17th century, British diplomat Benjamin Betharst mysteriously disappeared in Germany, who was returning home after completing an important assignment under the Austrian deor. On the way, he and a friend stopped for supper at an inn in the German village of Perelberg. After supper they returned to the carriage, but before the trip the diplomat decided to take a look at the horses. In front of his friend, Betharst melted into thin air at the moment when he stroked one of the strangers. His friend was so amazed that he was speechless. When he regained consciousness, he called for help from the people who were at the inn. But no matter how much they searched for the missing diplomat, they couldn't find him.
In 1867, a mysterious disappearance happened in Paris in front of Dr. Bonvilaine. 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. Bonvilain asked him to undress and lie on the couch, which he did. Before proceeding to the examination, the doctor stepped back for a second to take a stethoscope from the table, and when he turned to the couch, the patient was not on it. Moreover, his clothes were lying next to him on a chair. Bonvilaine immediately went to his neighbor's apartment, but no one was there either. The police, to which the doctor reported the incident the next day, did not find the missing person. Where a naked man could have gone remains a mystery.
Gone nowhere
The most famous case of sudden disappearance of a person occurred in 1880 in America on the outskirts of the town of Gallatin in Tennessee on the farm of David Lang. After having washed the dishes after dinner, the farmer and his wife Emma left the house. The woman went to the children playing in the yard, and the husband went to the horses grazing in the meadow. Moving several tens of meters away from the house, Lang saw a gig, on which his friend Judge August Peck was riding with his son-in-law. The judge was noticed by the rest of the household, to whom Peck always brought gifts. They shouted joyfully and began waving their hands to him. The farmer also waved to his friend and, never reaching the horses, turned and hurried towards the house to meet the guests. But after walking a few meters, David Lang, in front of five witnesses, suddenly disappeared into thin air. Emma screamed, fearing that her husband had fallen into the hole. Then, together with the judge,With his son-in-law and children, they went around the entire field, especially carefully examining the place where David disappeared, but they did not find any traces of him or holes. The searches, in which several dozen of Lang's neighbors and townspeople, took part, did not produce anything either. A few months later, Lang's children noticed that the grass at the place where his father had disappeared turned yellow. Subsequently, no plants grew there, neither animals nor insects approached the mysterious place.
All American newspapers then wrote about this disappearance. Many versions were put forward, but none of them could explain what happened to the farmer.
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On July 30, 1889, the British Daily Chronicle reported that Mr. David McMillan, a member of the family of owners of the now famous Macmillan publishing house, walked up the hill, waved to his friends, and disappeared into thin air. Despite careful searches and the assigned award, it was never found.
Especially a lot of disappearances happened in the northeastern United States in the vicinity of the town of Bennington in Vermont, which journalists even nicknamed the "Bennington Triangle" by analogy with the famous Bermuda Triangle, where ships and planes disappear without a trace. People in the Bennington Triangle disappeared right into their gardens and homes, on the streets and at gas stations.
Dissolved
On December 1, 1949, soldier James Thetford disappeared in the presence of fourteen witnesses on a bus from Albany to Bennington. All passengers saw him sit down in his seat and doze off immediately after departure. When the bus, which had never stopped en route, arrived at Bennington an hour later, Thetford was not in it. His bag was still on the shelf above the seat, and there was only a crumpled newspaper in the spot James had occupied.
The youngest victim of the Bennington Triangle was eight-year-old Lol Jackson, who disappeared on October 12, 1950. He was playing in the yard of the farm, His mother went to the pigsty to water the pigs, and when she left a few minutes later, his son was gone. The alarmed woman searched the entire farm and walked around the neighborhood, loudly calling for her son, but he did not answer. For several days, hundreds of police officers, rescuers and volunteers searched for the boy to no avail.
People also disappear in other parts of the United States: in 1975, American Jackson Wright was driving a Ford with his wife from New Jersey to New York. As he passed the Lincoln Tunnel, he noticed that the windows of the car were fogged up. Wright pulled over to the side of the road, stopped and asked his wife to wipe them. Martha Wright got out of the car with a rag, went to the windshield and … disappeared. Not understanding what had happened, the husband also got out of the car and began to look around. But the woman was nowhere to be seen. Wright was stopped by a passing police patrol, who immediately set about looking for Mrs. Wright. As in other cases, they were in vain.
Rare cases of such "fumes", confirmed by witnesses, occur almost instantly, without any sound or light effects. It is possible that these people dematerialize, like characters in a science fiction movie, falling apart into their constituent parts - molecules and atoms, which then undergo structural changes. And everything happens at the submolecular level, so that those present do not see anything.
At present, scientists cannot give an exact answer to the question of why and how these disappearances occur. Some researchers believe that just as black holes are formed in the Universe capable of absorbing stars, their systems and even entire galaxies, exactly the same holes appear in humans at the submolecular level. It is they who absorb a person from the inside, leaving no trace of him.
Others believe that the disappearance of people is associated with aliens who abduct people for experiments on them. However, these are all hypotheses, and the mysterious disappearance is still shrouded in mystery.
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