Emanuela Orlandi's disappearance is referenced a number of times here in the Strange Crimes thread, but doesn't seem to have it's own thread.
Vatican to hand over evidence in 1983 disappearance of employee’s daughter
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/europe/vatican-emanuela-orlandi-evidence-intl...
Has anyone been following this case, missing 5 days now?
The mystery of the mother who vanished while walking her dog: Last known movements of Nicola Bulley who was still connected to a work call when she disappeared on towpath after dropping her kids off at school
By Dan Sales For...
Umberto Nobile's huge airship Italia crossed the North Pole on 24 May 1928. On the return journey a combination of poor weather, mechanical troubles and piloting errors resulted in a crash landing onto pack ice at Svalbard. This ripped the gondola open, killing one of the crew immediately. 10...
I hadn't heard about Paul Redfern before, a fascinating tale.
Lost Flight to Brazil in 1927: A Young Pilot Disappears in the Amazon
Paul Redfern (right) sits beside Paul Varner, chairman of the committee backing his 1927 nonstop flight attempt to Rio de Janeiro, at Sea Island, Georgia.
Costal...
1927
aviation
brazil
charles lindbergh
disappearances
historical mysteries
missing planes
paul redfern
paul varner
pioneers
the amazon
the spirit of st. louis
I have just come across these strange cases and can find no thread about them, here is the story:
"Keith Reinhard was a middle-aged journalist who is taking a break from his daily activities. He then visited a small town called Silver Plume. This man rents a place where the previous resident...
Hey all—this is my first thread here, so let me know if everything’s OK with it.
A few years ago I heard of a Blair Witch Project-esque movie called YellowBrickRoad (2010). Like Blair Witch, it has a fictional backstory that the filmmakers try to make sound real. In this case, according to...
I hadn't heard of this one before:
https://deadline.com/2020/08/terrence-woods-disappearance-gold-rush-discovery-raw-tv-investigation-1203008327/
The details of what happened:
(By reference to an old thread which itself disappeared ... )
This happened, I'm told, to someone in my street, in the late 60s. She was a young mother of two little children and one morning her elder child, who was 3, was run over in the street, having wandered out through an open front door...
Reading about theatre history and yet again came across stories about Les Dawson seeing the ghost of Sid James, not long before his own death.
And it's clear that whatever he saw, was absolutely terrifying.
But I can't seem to find an account I thought I found a while back, that did actually...
1949
1960
1989
actors & actresses
carry on
celebrities
disappearances
george melly
ghosts & hauntings
les dawson
miss molly
missing persons
posionings
sid james
the liverpool empire
the sunderland empire
theatres
tom slemen
This doesn't look good...
Search on after Malaysia Airlines flight vanishes
A search is under way in waters between Malaysia and Vietnam after a Malaysia Airlines plane vanished on a flight to Beijing, with 239 people on board.
Malaysia Airlines said in a statement that flight MH370 had...
Russia, 1959, a group of skiers embark on a cross-country ski trip. On the night of February 2, 1959, some sort of accident happens, leaving them dead. Evidence points to them ripping open the tent in their hurry to flee, mostly in their nightclothes and shoeless. Several of them had injuries...
Toddler 'abducted' during holiday
Madeleine disappeared while her parents were at a nearby restaurant
Sniffer dogs have been brought in to help search for a three-year-old from Britain who may have been abducted on holiday with her family in Portugal.
Madeleine McCann's parents, from...
Anonymous
Thread
2007
crime & criminals
disappearances
kidnappings
maddy mccann
madeleine mccann
missing persons
portugal
praia da luz
unsolved crimes
Skull find could be missing Briton's
I remember seeing the story of this disappearance in FT - maybe he just showed up:
Police in Australia are trying to identify a human skull found on a popular tourist island amid speculation it could be the remains of a tourist from London who disappeared...
Anonymous
Thread
1980
a cry in the dark
animal attacks
animals
australia
ayer's rock / uluru
azaria chamberlain
ben du toit
clinton gage
david john eason
dingoes
disappearances
eli creek
frank cole
fraser island
lake wabby
lindy chamberlain-creighton
mammals
queensland
the outback
the tablelands
thylacines
This is one of my favourite weird tales!
It's like a 'Mary Celeste', but happened on the remote islands west of the Hebrides at the beginning of the last century.
'Strange Islands.
The Flannan Islands have long been the focal point of many superstitions by the local people. Indeed there...
Does anyone know of the conspiracy regarding the loss of the Franklin Expedition during the search for the Northwest Passage?
There has been considerable evidence to prove that the Admirality made certain that he was not found. They made sure nobody found the messages left in the he set up...
Anonymous
Thread
1845
1853
addison's disease
barrow's boys
cannibalism
disappearances
fergus fleming
franklin expedition
historical mysteries
hms erebus
hms resolute
hms terror
missing ships
ships
sir john franklin
the admiralty
the arctic
the northwest passage
the royal navy
I guess one example of perfect crimes are those where the body, a treasure trove of evidence, is never recovered - e.g. Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Many people in the US seem to vanish without trace, and if you've seen the vast expanses of uninhabited desert that exist it's not difficult to...
I was looking for some links on the disappearance of Michael Rockefeller and only managed to come up with this extremely poor effort.[1] Rockefeller disappeared at the age of 23 in the early 1960s whilst on an expedition around New Guinea. Whilst sailing with his guide the boat began to take on...
Anonymous
Thread
1961
cannibals
disappearances
head hunters
historical mysteries
michael rockefeller
milt machlin
new guinea
Is it possible that Fred West or his equally nasty brother John, had something to do with the disappearance of Suzie Lamplugh?
There is a theory that Fred and John West were procurers for a high-level Satanic group. Fred West was certainly scared when he made this comment to police during an...
Anonymous
Thread
1986
crime & criminals
disappearances
fred west
john cannan
john west
missing persons
mr kipper
murder & murderers
numerology
serial killers
suzy lamplugh
theories
Amelia Earhart was the most celebrated aviatrix in history and was one of the most famous women of her time.
As America's charismatic “Lady of the Air,” she set many aviation records, including becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic in 1928 as a passenger, the first woman (and...
Frederick Valentich
This is a case that's always fascinated me, and is perhaps the most convincing case of a possible alien abduction, certainly when compared to the hypnotic regression and rectal probe gang. The details are posted here, in particular the transcript of the conversation between...
Anonymous
Thread
1978
air-traffic control
aircraft
australia
australian ufos
aviation
brighton
cape otway
cessna 182l
disappearances
flaps & panics
frankston
frederick valentich
geelong
missing planes
steve robey
the australian ufo research network
the kaikoura lights
ufos
Some years ago I read a wonderful article in the Guardian (respectable UK newspaper) about trees which seem to be sometimes there and sometimes not.
There was a country house called something like 'The Pines' which had fine, mature trees beside its front gate, which were on some photos and...
I sometimes wonder if these people who disappear into thin air are found later but we never hear of their re-emergence because why ruin a perfectly good yarn of spooky goings on or maybe the two stories are never married up. I base this sweeping assumption on reading in some paranormal book...
Did an entire Canadian village disappear in 1930?
Did an entire Canadian village disappear in 1930?
I wonder if anyone can verify whether the population of an Eskimo village by Lake Anjikuma disappeared without trace in November 1930? I orginally came
across the story in one of those cheap...
East End Disappearances 1881-1890
I am trying to find information regarding unusual disappearances which began in the East End of London in 1881 and continued unsolved until January 1890. Apparently men, women and children from all classes disappeared into a 'Fortean void', never to be seen or...
1838
1876
1881
1882
1890
1904
1920
1924
1926
1972
1978
1979
1986
2005
alan haley
albert fish
aldershot
arthur machen
attercliffe
bearhind lane
bow (london)
bradford
broughty ferry
cassandra eason
central railway station london
charles wagner
charlton lea
child prostitution
claude reignier conder
clawed men
colonel robert cook
county durham
crime & criminals
david rodinsky
disappearances
dundee
eliza carter
everton
fairies & magical beings (2001)
flashers
florida
folly ditch
fortean studies 3
gainesville
ghazipur
green dragon alley / yard
harold schecter
huddersfield
human sacrifices
india
jack the ripper
jai prakash paswan
jan bondeson
jane allsop
john walters
keogh road
kerrin evans
lawrence kusch
lieutenant w.t. day
limehouse
liverpool
london
maria davis
mark fraser
mary seward
maryland street
mass hysteria
mesopotamia
mike ash
mike dash
millie jeffs
missing persons
mothman
murder & murderers
nannygoat bank
new dehli
norfolk park
paul begg
penny dreadfuls
peter haining
pikkhi
pilot officer d.r.stewart
piquerism
polly adams
ramsgate
ripper street
rivals of the ripper (2016)
satanism & satanists
sheffield
spitalfields
spring legs
spring-heeled jack
spring-heeled jack: to victorian bugaboo from suburban ghost
stephen king
steve moore
strawberry spring
the bermuda triangle mystery - solved
the east end
the education act of 1872
the halifax slasher
the illustrated police news
the legend & bizarre crimes of springheeled jack
the monkey man
the portway
the press
the south east london folklore society
the standard
the victorians
tom slemen
tow law
tranmere
urban myths/legends
uttah pradesh
walter sickert
west ham
whitechapel
william henry street
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