Every three minutes, one person disappears without a trace on Earth. Among the reasons - domestic, criminal and the like - a special group in the sad statistics are mysterious, mysterious, inexplicable disappearances. They will be discussed in this collection.
Strange disappearances
In December 2011, two children of almost the same age in the United States disappeared from their homes at the same time.
In South Carolina, 21-month-old Jason Barton disappeared. The boy's mother last saw him in the evening before going to shower in the bathroom. When she got out of the shower, the baby was nowhere to be found.
Assuming that the boy went out into the street, the woman ran all around, alerted the police and neighbors. More than 200 people took part in the search for the child. A day later, in rainy, cool weather, the baby was finally found. He … slept quietly 5.5 miles from the house on the river bank, which amazed the rescuers and the police a lot.
According to the sheriff, a child at this age will hardly be able to go anywhere further than a mile. Especially in the evening, when it's dark outside.
Jason was immediately taken to the hospital and examined. Doctors did not find any deviations or injuries in him.
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Meanwhile, in Maine, 20-month-old girl Isla Reynolde disappeared from her bedroom, possibly at the same time as the South Carolina boy. The police and parents find it difficult to name the exact time of the loss of the child, since the last time they saw the girl was when they put her to bed in her room in the evening. In the morning at 8 am, they found an empty bed in the bedroom. There was no sign of a break-in or a trace of the presence of strangers. It turned out that the child himself left the house.
The police searched the entire neighborhood. There is not such a deep and dense forest that they could miss the child, but they never found anyone. At the moment, the search for the girl continues.
Disappeared to nowhere
In the history of mankind, many cases of disappearance of people are described. One of the oldest was recorded in the 17th century in the Novgorod Chronicles. The monk of the Kirilov monastery disappeared during a meal. The chronicler also wrote about one scandalous merchant Manka-Kozlikha, who disappeared in front of the eyes of all the people on the market day, right on the square of the Suzdal principality, to which the people said that she was supposedly taken by the devil.
In later times, the most famous victim of the disappearance was Lucien Busier, a neighbor of Dr. Bonvilain. It was in 1867 in Paris. Lucien came to the doctor in the evening to examine him and advise him about his weakness. Bonvilaine told the patient to undress and lie on the couch to conduct the examination. And he went for a stethoscope lying on the table. Then, going up to the couch, he did not find the patient there. Only Busier's clothes remained on the chair. Immediately the doctor decided that he had gone to his home and went to the patient himself, but no one answered him. Bonvilaine reported to the police, but the search yielded nothing, the man without clothes disappeared.
Another mysterious case of the disappearance of a person occurred in 1880 in America. Local farmer David Lange sat in the yard with his wife and children. Noticing the carriage of his friend approaching the house, David hurried to meet him and suddenly disappeared right in front of the family. The wife and neighbors carefully examined the place from which Mr. Lang had literally evaporated, but they found nothing but a spot of unknown yellowed grass. Oddly enough, since that day, the domestic animals that lived on the farm have bypassed the mysterious place.
On December 12, 1910, 25-year-old niece of the US Supreme Court judge and prominent public figure Dorothy Arnold left her fashionable mansion on East 79th Street in New York at 11 a.m. to buy herself an evening dress. At about two o'clock in the afternoon she met a friend on Fifth Avenue - Gladys Keith; the girls chatted and went their separate ways. Dorothy Arnold waved her hand cheerfully at parting - and she was never seen again.
Similar stories occurred relatively often in various countries, on land, sea and in the air, in apartments, in the streets, forests, fields, in transport. 14 people witnessed the disappearance in the passenger compartment of a bus traveling from Albany to Bennington on December 1, 1949. People saw the soldier James Thetford sit down in his seat and after the bus drove off, he immediately fell asleep. On the way, the bus did not stop anywhere, and when it arrived in Bennington, in place of James there was only a crumpled newspaper and a bag. The police investigation was inconclusive. As, however, 26 years later, when in 1975 a young woman and Martha Wright disappeared. Jackson Wright and his wife Martha drove from New Jersey to downtown New York, Manhattan. It was snowing heavily, and they took shelter from the weather in the Lincoln Tunnel. Wright went out to clear the snow of the car. Martha was wiping the back with a leak, and her husband was wiping the wind. At the end of the job, Jackson Wright looked up and did not see his wife.
Dissolved in the mist
If one can try to give at least some more or less logical explanation to the disappearance of one person, then the situation with mass disappearances is even more mysterious.
In 1915, during the First World War, when the British were fighting in the Balkans, 145 well-trained soldiers of the Norfolk Battalion moved towards the enemy. The comrades-in-arms who remained in positions testified that suddenly the battalion was shrouded in a thick fog. When the fog cleared, not a single soldier remained. People just disappeared.
A year later, thousands of kilometers from this place, not far from the French village of Amiens, a company of German soldiers disappeared. The British, who attacked the German positions, were extremely surprised when the enemy did not fire a single return shot. When the British unit entered Amiens, it turned out that the German soldiers had somehow left the trenches. At the same time, the loaded guns remained in place, clothes and shoes were drying near the fire, soup gurgled in the pots.
There are known cases when whole settlements disappeared. In 1930, the miner Joe Labelle decided to visit one of the Eskimo villages located in northern Canada. Once he worked in these places. And so Joe entered the village, but sleep was empty, there were no people, there was silence everywhere. The impression was as if the villagers had disappeared somewhere instantly, without completing their chores. The fire was burning, the pots were filled with food. At the same time, all things, including rifles, without which the Eskimos never went far from the village, remained in place. In the huts lay unfinished clothes and needles stuck in them. Deciding that the villagers were probably gone down the river, Labelle sent them to the pier. The kayaks were also in place. But the most surprising thing was that the Eskimos for some reason left dogs in the village, the Animals were neatly tied, and,judging by the fact that the huskies were not hungry, the residents disappeared quite recently. Labelle notified the police of the strange incident. For a week, the area around the village was thoroughly combed, but no traces of the disappeared residents were found.
In 1935, the population of the island of Elmolo in Kenya mysteriously disappeared. To find the missing residents of Elmolo, a plane was called. But the searches were unsuccessful.
On March 5, 1991, at 4 pm, a Venezuelan DS-9 jet took off from Maracaibo International Airport (350 miles from Caracas). It was a regular flight. In 35 minutes, the plane was supposed to arrive at another major center of the oil industry in western Venezuela, Santa Barbara. However, 25 minutes after the start of the flight, radio communication with the ground was interrupted, although the air traffic management did not receive any distress signals. The news agency published 38 missing persons from the scribblers, including one child and five crew members. In the afternoon, a search plane flew in the same course, then a helicopter, but they did not notice any signs of a plane crash below.
Cruise into obscurity
Rebecca Coriam, 24, disappeared in March from the luxurious ocean liner Disney Wonder cruising from the United States to Mexico. The ship had 2,400 passengers and 945 crew members. The girl worked on the ship as a youth animator. She didn't show up for work one morning. Rebecca's cabin was empty. No trace of the girl was found. And after a few months of searches, which led nowhere, it was concluded that the girl committed suicide by jumping overboard. However, her parents, Mike and Anne Corey, conducted their own investigation and found that 11 people had gone missing on sea cruises in the past year alone. And since 1995, the number of disappeared is 165 people! Moreover, they never managed to get on the trail of these people.
Alas, Rebecca's parents never managed to complete the investigation. According to Mike Coriam, he and his wife faced colossal opposition: the cruise lines spent millions of dollars not to detail what happened, and the true cause of the disappearances remains a mystery.
So in 2004, 40-year-old Marian Carver disappeared from the Mercury liner sailing towards Alaska. All things in the passenger's cabin remained in place. The woman's father Kendal Carver hired private detectives, but the search was in vain.
In the same year, 48-year-old Swiss citizen Rama Foreman disappeared from the Silver Cloud Silversea. This happened in the Arabian Sea. The absence of the passenger was noticed during the call to the port of Mumbai. Madame Foreman's cabin was locked from the inside, but the woman herself was nowhere to be found. Relatives do not believe in suicide, as not long before that Rama called her sister and discussed with her plans for a family celebration.
Last year, 63-year-old John Halforth went missing from the Thomson Ship Spirit cruising the Red Sea. On the eve of his disappearance, John called his wife. According to her, he was in a great mood.
Voice of the Sea
In October 1944, US Coast Guard personnel boarded the Cuban ship Rubicon. They were met only by a half-dead dog. There was no one else on board. The crew's personal belongings were in the cabins. The ship itself was in perfect order, but its towing line was torn off and all lifeboats were missing. It was completely unclear what could have caused the crew to leave the ship.
In 2003, an aircraft of the Australian Coast Guard discovered the Indonesian schooner High Em 6, whose holds were full of caught mackerel. Where the 14 sailors went is a mystery. In the same area, but already in 2006, an absolutely deserted tanker Yan Seng appeared. In the same year, the Italian coast guard did not find people either, which detained the two-masted sailing ship "Bel Amica" off the coast of Sardinia.
In January 2008, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Transport announced the loss of communication with the Russian dry cargo ship Kapitan Uskov, moving from Nakhodka to Hong Kong. Neither the cargo ship, nor 17 of its crew were ever found. Only in February of the same year, the Japanese Coast Guard found a deserted motorboat rescue boat from a missing ship.
There have always been such incidents, but so far no one has answered the question of their causes. One of the versions appeared in 1937. During the passage through the Kara Sea of the hydrographic vessel "Taimyr" one of the specialists drew attention to the fact that when he brought a balloon-probe filled with hydrogen closer to his ear, he felt a sharp pain in the eardrum. When he pushed back the ball, the pain disappeared. Hydrophysicist Vladimir Shuleikin, who is on the Taimyr Peninsula, became interested in this strange effect, calling it “the voice of the sea”. In his opinion, the wind during a storm creates low-frequency infrasonic vibrations that are not audible to our ears, but harmful to humans. At a frequency below 15 hertz, the effect is enhanced, a disorder of the brain centers, such as vision, occurs, and at a frequency below seven hertz, people may even die.
Modern research has confirmed that when exposed to infrasound, animals and humans experience a sense of anxiety and causeless fear. But during a storm, infrasound is generated with a frequency of about six hertz. If the intensity of the vibrations is less than lethal, then a wave of unreasonable fear, horror and panic falls on the ship's crew. This state is intensified even more if the ship itself with all its equipment falls into resonance and becomes, as it were, a secondary source of infrasound, under the influence of which distraught people, abandoning everything, flee from the ship.
The famous magician could, but did not reveal the secret
The case of the American William Nef baffles anyone who undertakes to explain (or "expose") the mysterious disappearances of people …
During his speech, the magician Nef accidentally discovered a unique gift in himself … Once, in front of the shocked audience, he disappeared into thin air and became invisible.
Performing on stage, the illusionist miraculously made objects disappear, up to a couple of living leopards, but hardly anyone could compare with William Nef, who performed a sensational trick of his disappearance in the 60s.
This happened for the first time during a performance in Chicago.
The second time - when Nef was at home and suddenly, without any warning (as he himself put it, "accidentally"), disappeared into thin air, and then reappeared in front of his wife, whose reaction can hardly be called enthusiastic.
The third such incident occurred during a performance by Nef at the Paramount Theater in New York. Radio reporter Knebel happened to be among the audience. One could only dream of such a witness, because everyone knew about his active rejection of the supernatural.
Subsequently, in his book "The Way Beyond the Universe" Knebel shared his personal impressions. According to him, the figure of Nef began to lose its visible outlines - until it became completely transparent. But what is most surprising is that his voice did not undergo the slightest change, and the audience, with bated breath, listened to every word.
And here is how Knebel describes his "return": "Gradually a vague outline appeared - like a careless pencil sketch."
Ironically, Nef was unaware of his unique gift and did not even notice that he was becoming invisible. Not to mention managing it, but telling the world about another revealed secret …
Black hole
We can only hope for modern science, which does not yet have an explanation for all these strange cases. However, there are a number of versions, but all of them are just theories, not supported by any evidence.
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 traces of him, and perhaps they are sucked in by “temporary eddies” when, having disappeared in their time, people appear in the future or the past.
A prominent writer and scientist from the United States Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914), who studied the disappearance of people without a trace, recognized the natural causes of such events to be impossible. He put forward a theory according to which there are something like holes and voids in the visible world. In such a hole, absolute "nothing" dominates. Light does not break through this emptiness, since there is nothing to guide it. Here “you feel nothing, you can neither live nor die here. You can just exist. " According to this theory, it turns out that a person falls into this "nothing" and gets stuck there forever. As the scientist figuratively explained, “Our space is like a knitted sweater: you can put it on, although, if you look closely, the sweater consists … of holes. Let's say an ant gets on the sleeve. He can accidentally fall between the loops and find himself in a completely different world for him, where it is dark and stuffy,and instead of the usual spruce needles - warm, soft skin … "According to this theory, there are anomalous zones on Earth, where" spatial voids "are located
Researcher Richard Lazarus in his book "Beyond the Boundaries of Possible" offers the following version: meteorites are to blame for everything. Falling to the ground, celestial bodies are charged to such a force that their potential can reach billions (!) Volts. And if such a meteorite hits the earth's surface, an explosion of tremendous force occurs, like near the Tunguska river. But sometimes a meteorite collapses even before it falls - and as a result, a huge wave of energy hits the Earth with force: a state of electrostatic levitation appears - large groups of people, as well as ships and even trains can take off into the air and be carried over great distances.
According to this theory, the fog that supposedly shrouded disappearing people is nothing more than a cloud of dust that rises under the influence of an electric field. However, whether it is possible to transfer people over long distances remains open.
The famous cryptozoologist and naturalist Ivan Sanderson gives his interpretation of the mysterious disappearance. He established on Earth the presence of places where the laws of earth and magnetic attraction operate in an unusual mode. Such places he called "damn cemeteries." Sanderson identified 12 such symmetrically located zones, or anomalous regions, which are evenly spaced at 72 degrees of longitude, and the centers have coordinates of 32 degrees north or south latitude (the so-called "Sanderson Grid"). In these cemeteries, according to the scientist, electric vortices operate, transporting people and objects from one space-time dimension to another.
The Voronezh scientist Genrikh Silanov also finds the version of geoactive zones most acceptable: “I am deeply convinced that the release of energy from fault zones is not just a geophysical phenomenon. Perhaps the energy coming from the earth is a bridge over which you can travel across parallel worlds. But we haven’t learned how to use it yet”.
Professor Nikolai Kozyrev argued that there are universes parallel to ours, and between them there are tunnels - "black" and "white" holes. Through the “black” ones from our Universe, matter goes into parallel worlds, and through the “white” ones, energy comes to us from them. However, the idea of the existence of a parallel world has been possessed by man since time immemorial. Some researchers believe that the Cro-Magnons also believed that the souls of deceased tribesmen and animals killed in the hunt go to these worlds, which is reflected in their drawings.
Australian parapsychologist Jean Grimbriard came to the conclusion that there are about 40 tunnels in the world leading to other worlds, of which four are in Australia and seven in America.
Modern science does not dispute the possibility of the existence of parallel worlds. In the spring of 1999, scientists at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) for the first time in the history of mankind carried out the experiment of quantum teleportation. To carry out the experiment, the researchers disassembled light into elementary particles - photons. As a result of the experiment, the original beam of light was recreated at the same second in another place. Among other things, the existence of this phenomenon confirms the possibility of the existence of many parallel Universes, between which, probably, there is some kind of spatial connection.
Although … More recently, British physicist Stephen Hawking, the author of the theory of black holes, refuted his own theory of the possibility of travel in space and time, and if we assume that the mysterious disappearance of people passes through this "channel", then … the question is still open and just as mysterious, mysterious … and inexplicable.
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