missing persons

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...

Authorities in Summit County, Utah, had been hearing about a young man wandering the area with a shopping cart for several weeks. When they encountered him last Saturday, they discovered he was reported missing nearly three years ago in northern California, more than 700 miles away...

I'd considered putting this Washington (state) story in the "Low Strangeness Disappearances" thread, but the strangeness of the mother's actions argued against that. A mother parked her car at a gas station and left it. The car was towed away. The driver's daughter reported her severely...

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...

(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...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1032329905/missing-411-the-movie Kickstarter project based on the missing 411 books.

torontosun.com/2012/08/28/mi ... or-herself Link is dead. See later post for link to archived version.

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...

Agh! A real teaser here. A new Scientist article which is only available in full to subscribers. It begins: Can anyone post the rest? :?

Well guys, whaddya reckon?! :D

Here’s an old Worcestershire story about an alleged re-appearance (this is the short York-notes style version). Sir John Attwood, a 14th century knight, was captured during the Crusades and imprisoned. Back at home, his wife waited. And waited. And waited. One morning, shortly after she’d...

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...

The phenomena of missing persons is huge but seemingly little investigated. Thousands of people vanish every year without being found. Where do they all go? What's your theory? Here's some facts and figures from the UK National Missing Persons Helpline: "It is estimated that about 250 000...