23.11.2019

Mysterious disappearances of people in the 21st century. The most mysterious and inexplicable cases of disappearances (20 photos). The girl who disappeared from her own bed

That's memory! As a patronymic, I forgot my third mother-in-law, but I remember a man named Occam. I also remember his razor blade (in different interpretations in different ways). This English monk in a black robe, as soon as he saw a tired traveler on the horizon, immediately ran up to the stranger, grabbed his hand and soulfully, looking into his eyes, repeated: “For God’s sake, do not multiply the essence of phenomena.” As a result, the principle was called “Occam’s razor”. Translated from English into Russian, this wisdom sounds like this: “If there is a simple explanation for what happened, there is no need to look for complex ones.” Let’s explain with an example: if you didn’t look after your child, and a plate suddenly broke in the kitchen, then most likely it was your curious child who did it. One can assume that the brownie misbehaved or the mouse ran and waved its tail (and this is precisely what the offender will insist on), but the first explanation will still remain the most correct. Although it happens that William of Occam nervously smokes on the sidelines and glances suspiciously at his compatriot Arthur Conan Doyle. The latter, twisting his mustache, through the lips of his beloved literary hero Sherlock Holmes says: “Throw away all the impossible, what remains is the answer, no matter how incredible it turns out to be.” It is this phrase that applies to cases of strange disappearances of people around the world.

Cases of people disappearing without a trace

About aliens, transition to Parallel Worlds, time travel and other esoteric things have been heard and read by everyone.

Many then twirl their fingers at their temples, others passionately argue that it is impossible not to believe this, since they themselves have been repeatedly abducted by aliens.

Where do people disappear in Russia?

In Moscow, a young mother left her sleeping baby for ten minutes while she ran to the store. When I returned, the baby was not in the crib. She opened the door with a key, there were no signs of forced entry. In a panic, I called my husband and mother at work, thinking maybe they had taken the baby for some reason? The police were called. Four years have passed since then.

A young couple. On their honeymoon, the newlyweds planned to take a boat ride down the Volga to Astrakhan. In the morning we packed our bags, ordered a taxi for 15.00. The girl went out to put money on the phone, returned half an hour later. The young husband disappeared. At first I thought it was a prank, after all the deadlines had passed, the trip was cancelled, I called my relatives. We called all police departments, hospitals, morgues, and wrote a statement the next day. The case was opened in 2009.

The man went on a business trip to another city. I got a job at a hotel, from there I called home. I talked to my daughter. No one saw him again. Presumably, he did not leave the hotel because his boots (it was winter), suit, warm jacket and hat were collecting dust in the closet. Another hang-up from 2011.

System Administrator The large firm left at the appointed time for lunch. I didn’t return to work from lunch, I didn’t come home in the evening. The family left a wife with two children. There were no scandals with his wife on the eve of the disappearance. There were no debts, no mortgages. There were no enemies. Everyone loved the guy, and for loved ones this incident became real. The statement to the police was written in August 2014.

Where do people go - statistics

There have been tens of thousands of such examples over many years in our country, millions in the world. I tried to understand the statistics, but they are very contradictory, so I am not responsible for them, I am not the Levada Center.

So, according to statistics, more than a million people disappear every year in the United States. 65 percent are within a week. Another 20-25 percent of the missing are found within a month to ten years. In total, about 90 percent.

The remaining 10 percent disappear without a trace forever. And this is about one hundred thousand people.

I read that according to Russian statistics, there are two times fewer missing people. Maybe. But 50 thousand is also a huge number.

Here is a list of the main reasons for disappearances:

Homeless people. Among this category, the largest number of people disappeared without a trace. This is not surprising
Mentally ill people, drug addicts, alcoholics. These people leave home, run away from hospitals without documents, without telephones. Not everyone is found and often they end up in the crematorium as unidentified corpses
Fishermen, hunters, tourists, mushroom pickers and other nature lovers
Runaway orphanages
Exalted spouses who split with their other half and “went off into the night”
Disappeared in disaster or combat zones
Escaped from loans, impending sentence, debts, alimony, bandits
Children and adolescents, victims of domestic violence

These 8 points include 90 percent of the disappeared. But there is one more item in the police reports: “Disappeared suddenly and without visible reasons" These are the same 50 thousand that have never been found.

Yes, among them there may be people kidnapped into slavery, for forced prostitution, killed, exterminated, or died an absurd death (for example, hit by a car in a strange city).

Everything is true, but there are cases that do not fit into these schemes, which we described above. Even more strange disappearances are known.

Disappearances - real cases

USA

American criminologist T. Bell, who interviewed many relatives of those who disappeared, knows many such stories.

Los Angeles. City of Angels. . In a small, empty car park, a woman was putting groceries in the trunk. Her eleven-year-old daughter was here, there were no strangers nearby. Her mother lost sight of her for a few seconds. The search has been going on for many years.

San Francisco. A forty-eight-year-old man entered the house where he rented an apartment. Evan Jacobi. This moment was recorded by a video camera at the entrance. Evan didn't come back. The camera footage confirms everything. Detectives combed the building several times. To no avail. Jacobi

David Paulides, an employee for over twenty years law enforcement, studied cases of inexplicable disappearance of people on the North American continent and found out strange patterns. While the local authorities are investigating each case separately, Paulides has compiled a single picture, which turned out to be very mysterious.

David collected two thousand cases with the same mystical details. As he himself said on May 21 this year at the University of Toronto, it was like a plot from the famous X-Files.

Disappearances occurred most often in parks and near water bodies. Those who were found alive after that had memory lapses, and if they were found dead, it was difficult to determine the cause of their death. Sometimes the missing were found in places that could not be reached on foot, or in areas that had already been carefully searched. For example, the body of one little boy was found on the trunk of a tree that had once fallen and lay next to the path, which had already been examined several times. It is also interesting that many people were missing shoes and part of their clothes.

Paulides says that in such cases, the dogs were not able to trace the disappeared person. Some bloodhounds generally behaved strangely: dodged, walked in circles, and then sat down and began to howl. The police also did not find any traces of crimes. It is characteristic that the disappearances occurred in places where there are no wild animals dangerous to humans. The common thing is that the bodies found had no physical injuries. And the companions of the unfortunate people almost always said that before the incident for some reason (inexplicably and mysteriously) they separated from them...

Mysterious disappearances of children

Paulides began studying similar cases in 2009, after retiring from the San Jose police. Two park rangers told him at the time that they thought some missing person cases merited further investigation.

Paulides extended his research to areas of the city where similar cases had occurred, including earlier ones (in the twentieth and even nineteenth centuries). He told about the facts when a person incredibly moved from one place to another. This is especially impressive when we're talking about about small children who simply cannot travel long distances. So, in July 1957, a two-year-old boy named David Allen Scott disappeared in the Twin Lakes area near the Sierra Nevada range. The father, who was watching the child, only left for a minute to look into the van, and when he came out, he did not see Allen. The search team found the boy only three days later. To do this, she had to overcome a nearby mountain, and then climb another mountain peak. It is quite obvious that Small child unable to make this journey alone.

Keith Parkins, another two-year-old boy, disappeared in April 1952 near own home in Ritter after running behind the barn. He was found after 19 hours at a distance of 24 kilometers from the house. Keith lay face down on the surface of the ice-covered pond and was still alive.

Other mysterious disappearances

Paulides says bodies of missing people are often found in the water, but these cases do not appear to be drownings. Many of the incidents he studied have to do with the Great Lakes (which are so popular with UFOs) and city canals or reservoirs.

Here is what happened in Anoka, Minnesota, for example. Jelani Brison, 24, a student and football player, was found in a pond on the grounds of a golf course. Last time the young man was seen alive and unharmed at the house of his friends. Brison's cap was later found in one yard near the field, and his shoes were found in another. Last days It was a rainy day and the golf course was covered in mud, but the deceased's socks were clean. It turns out that Brison did not come here, but was brought by someone and thrown into the pond. The cause of death could not be determined, but drowning has been ruled out. And this is just one of many similar cases that occurred in the area.

David Paulides has written a number of books, including The Missing: strange coincidences" The author talks about the disappearances of young men in the area of urban reservoirs. Most of the cases occurred in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Their scenario is almost the same: the guys drink with friends in a bar, and later no one can remember how and when they left. A few days later, the bodies of young people are found in the water. Everything seems logical: the reason for their death was alcohol intoxication. However, according to Paulides, everything is not so simple. Often a person is considered missing for several days, but the pathologist states that the body was in the water for one or two days, or even just a few hours. This often happens in forested areas and parks. Such incidents are typical not only for North America, but also other regions of the world, although Paulides did not consider foreign cases in detail.

Recently, the case of corpses in the Manchester Canal (UK) has attracted widespread attention. English newspapers reported that within a few recent years Dozens of dead, mostly male, bodies were found in this canal. According to journalists, this is work serial killer, who was even given a nickname - the Dropper. However, it is not clear to Paulides: how could so many healthy men drown in such a shallow canal without any signs of violence on the body? ..

Some explanations for the mysterious disappearances

Many attribute such disappearances to supernatural causes, such as kidnapping. Bigfoot or space aliens. The latter, ufologists say, is more likely, since the bodies of the victims almost never show signs of violence.

As for Paulides himself, he is reserved and states that he never made any hypotheses, but simply described the facts. Of course, a rational explanation can be found for individual incidents. However, when it comes to hundreds of similar cases, the perspective changes, a feeling of something mystical appears... The easiest thing, of course, is to blame everything on aliens, but then many new and also very difficult questions arise...

MOSCOW, May 20— RIA Novosti, Viktor Zvantsev. Thousands of volunteers, rescuers and police can search for one missing person. Some large-scale search operations last for years, but people are never found. Moreover, it is not possible to find any traces, not a single clue. In such cases, even experienced investigators throw up their hands and say: as if they were abducted by aliens. RIA Novosti talks about the loudest and most mysterious disappearances that have happened in Russia recently.

Chain of disappearances

In November 2013, two siblings disappeared in the village of Rechnaya, Kirov Region: eight-year-old Serezha and eleven-year-old Volodya Kulakov. The boys went for a walk and did not return. Locals, volunteers, rescuers and police combed the entire area - to no avail. Investigators were considering several versions, including an accident and criminality. They interviewed thousands of people, conducted hundreds of examinations, but nothing was clarified. It is believed that the children could have become victims of an unknown maniac.

A few days earlier, local doctor Anatoly Galkin disappeared in the village. He went into the forest, where his friends were waiting for him, but never reached them. And two days after the start of the search for the Kulakovs, the person who took part in them disappeared Active participation hunter Gennady Gromov. His body was discovered eight months later - there were no wounds or signs of beatings. The search for the children and the doctor is still ongoing.

Didn't make it to the apartment

In September 2009, 28-year-old child psychologist Irina Safonova disappeared in Novosibirsk. On the evening of the eighth, she, along with her boyfriend Alexander Skurikhin, went to the cinema. After the session, Skurikhin took her home by car and dropped her off at the entrance. However, Irina did not appear at home, where her ten-year-old son was waiting. That same night, a neighbor found a bunch of keys to her apartment in the elevator.

The next day, relatives, volunteers and police organized a search. Soon almost the entire city was looking for her, but everything was in vain. Investigators opened a criminal case under the article "Murder". One of the main suspects was Skurikhin, but many hours of interrogation and polygraph tests yielded nothing. Also, there was not a single witness who saw Safonova enter or leave the elevator. The search continues.

Didn't get back from vacation

In September 2009, a 29-year-old dentist from Novosibirsk, Yana Fedorova, disappeared without a trace in Altai. She decided to spend her vacation in nature and came to the small resort town of Belokurikha. I spent the night in a hotel, and the next day I took a backpack and went for a walk, from which I did not return. Mobile phone stayed on the bed in the hotel room.

Rescuers, dog handlers and dogs searched for her, and a helicopter from the Ministry of Emergency Situations was lifted into the air. Combing the area did not bring any results. Investigators were considering several versions, including murder. They even involved a team of local psychics. Now the investigation of the criminal case has been suspended, but operational-search activities continue.

Murder or kidnapping

At the beginning of March 2014 in Novoaltaysk, ten-year-old Ksenia Bokova was returning from school and stopped answering her calls around noon. The mobile phone was found that evening near the bridge. Investigators suggested that the girl could have drowned. Divers carefully examined the waters of the Malaya Cheremshanka River - nothing. Investigators considered murder and kidnapping as one of the main versions, but found no traces or witnesses.

Desperate, the relatives of the missing girl turned to psychics, whose opinions were divided: some said that Ksyusha was alive, others that she had been kidnapped and, most likely, she was dead. They are still looking for the schoolgirl: volunteers in different cities Russia is putting up leaflets, and the police are conducting search operations.

Lost with the truck

In the spring of 2016, 55-year-old truck driver Yuri Ozherelyev disappeared on the Ural highway, transporting 20 tons of alcoholic beverages from Kabardino-Balkaria to Yekaterinburg. Along with him, the Volvo truck disappeared without a trace. Investigators found out that the driver left Ufa early in the morning and was supposed to arrive at the final destination of the route in the evening. However, in Chelyabinsk region communication with him was lost. A few months later, his broken phone was found 20 kilometers from Yekaterinburg.

Our history is peppered with intriguing tales of unexplained disappearances. These stories, some of them fascinating and unexplained, range from those supported by archival records and documents to tales with a distinct flavor of fiction. We present to you a list of the ten most strange and unexplained disappearances in history.

The story of the disappearance of Oliver Larch is in many ways similar to the case of the disappearance of David Lang (3rd item on the list). One winter day, Larch went out into the yard to draw water from the well and disappeared into thin air. After him there was only a string of footprints in the snow, which ended abruptly halfway. This happened at the end of the 19th century in Indiana; other sources mention North Wales. There is another case involving Oliver Thomas from Radnorshire (Wales), who disappeared in 1909.

In December 1900, 3 lighthouse workers disappeared, leaving behind all the equipment necessary to survive on the island at this time of year. Despite numerous searches, the workers were never found. According to official data, their disappearance is explained by the fact that they were washed into the ocean by a large wave.

Between 1920 and 1950, a series of mysterious disappearances occurred in Bennington, Vermont. Here are a few of them.
On December 1, 1949, James Tedford disappeared from a crowded bus. Thetford was heading home to Bennington from St Alban's. The former military man was sitting on the bus with 14 other passengers. They all confirmed that they saw him sleeping in his place. But when the bus reached its destination, Thetford was not on it. All his belongings, luggage and a brochure with the bus schedule, remained in place, and the passenger himself was never found.
In mid-October 1950, 8-year-old Paul Jepson disappeared from his farm. Paul's mother, who made her living caring for animals, left him playing peacefully near the pigsty. Some time later, she returned, but did not find him there. An extensive search operation yielded no results.

Owen Parfitt was left paralyzed by a massive stroke. In June 1763, he, as usual, was on the porch of his sister's house. The immobilized 60-year-old man sat calmly in his chair. The weather began to deteriorate and the workers who were removing the hay hurried to finish their work as quickly as possible. Around 7 p.m., Parfitt's sister, Suzanne, asked her neighbor to help her move her brother's chair into the house. But when they reached the chair, Parfitt was not there. All that was left of him was his coat. Parfitt's fate is still unknown.

Disappearance of a diplomat

In 1809, British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst disappeared into thin air. Bathurst was returning from Hamburg with his companion, after a diplomatic mission to the Austrian court. On the way, they stopped for lunch at a hotel in the city of Perelberg. After eating, the men returned to the waiting carriage. Bathurst approached him in front to look at the horses - and then disappeared without a trace.

time tunnel

In 1975, Jackson Wright and his wife were returning from New Jersey to New York. On the way they entered the Lincoln Tunnel. As Wright says, there was a sudden blow strong wind, and the rear window of the car was covered with a layer of dust. Martha Wright asked her husband to stop the car, got out of it and began to wipe the glass. When Jackson turned to his wife, she was not there. He didn't hear any sounds or screams, she just disappeared into thin air.

Three soldiers claimed to have witnessed the strange disappearance of an entire platoon in 1915. They clearly saw a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment climb the slope at Suvla Bay, Turkey. The hill was covered with a low cloud, into which the English soldiers entered without hesitation. They never came out of it again. After the last of the battalion entered the cloud, it slowly climbed up the slope to join the other clouds in the sky. When the war was over, the British government, believing that the battalion had been captured, demanded their return from Turkey. However, the Turks claimed that they never came into contact with the battalion, much less took them prisoner.

The incredible disappearance of David Lang

A famous incident occurred on a farm in Tennessee in September 1880, in front of several witnesses. Lang's two children, George and Sarah, were playing in the yard. Their parents David and Emma walked out to the main entrance, after which David headed out to the horses' pasture. At the same time, the carriage of their family friend, August Peck, began to approach the house. John turned around, saw his friend and waved to him. A few seconds later, David Lang, right in front of his wife, children and friend, disappeared. Emma screamed, and all the witnesses ran to the place where David had just been, believing that he had fallen into a hole. But there was no hole there. A thorough search turned up no results. A few months later, Lang's children noticed that the grass in the very place where Lang disappeared had turned yellow and took on the shape of a circle.

Mysterious disappearance at Stonehenge

The mystical building of Stonehenge became the site of disappearances in August 1971. At that time, Stonehenge was not yet closed to the public, and one night a group of hippies decided to set up tents right in the center of the structure. They kindled a fire, sat around and began to sing songs. Their fun was interrupted at about 2 am by a heavy thunderstorm. Bright, shining lightning illuminated everything around. Two witnesses, a farmer and a policeman, claimed that the stones began to glow with a powerful blue glow, from the brightness of which they had to look away. They heard screams and immediately rushed to the tent camp, fearing that they would find wounded or even dead. To their surprise, there was no one there. All they found was the smoldering remains of tents and an extinct fire. The hippies disappeared without a trace.

The Vanished Village

In Russia alone, about 120 thousand people disappear per year, and throughout the world this figure reaches several hundred thousand. According to statistics, experts never find traces of even a quarter of the missing, which is why their stories begin to become overgrown with rumors and are associated with various mystical phenomena.

Mysterious disappearances of people have occurred at all times, and many of them were documented back in the Middle Ages. But, it would seem, how in the century modern technologies, the media and ample opportunities for a thorough search, can a person disappear without even a small clue about his whereabouts?

In 1910, the mysterious story of the disappearance of this socialite, who was the daughter of the owner large company, led to many rumors and versions. In good spirits, on the morning of December 12, she left her house without money or belongings.

On the way, she met several of her acquaintances, bought a humorous book at a bookstore, and then saw her friend Gladys. She was the last person to see the girl as she headed home through the park.

Dorothy's father spent more than one hundred thousand dollars searching for her, which was a huge amount at that time, but did not get any results. The versions of murder, suicide and memory loss were refuted by the police.

Disappearance at Stonehenge

This mystical incident of 1971, which occurred near Stonehenge, is one of the most big mysteries in the history of mankind. A group of hippie tourists decided to set up camp right in the center of this structure.

At night, a storm suddenly began, and the place was illuminated by a bright flash blue color. She was seen by two witnesses - a policeman and a farmer, who immediately rushed to the stones, but found no one.

After this disappearance, no one was ever seen again, either alive or dead.

Lost in the mountains

In 2007, a woman named Barbara Bolick went with her friend on a dangerous journey into the mountains. According to him, they moved together all the time, but at some point he stopped for a few seconds to admire the luxurious view.

When he turned to say something to his companion, it turned out that she was no longer there. The police carefully checked the man, initially not believing his story, and then completely combed the area, but Barbara was never found.

Disappearance from a wheelchair

Disappearances of people who have some physical disabilities and cannot move independently, look especially strange.

So one day a sixty-year-old man named Owen Parfitt disappeared in an unknown direction, who was resting in wheelchair in the yard of your own house.

When his sister came out to help him drive back, it turned out that he was nowhere to be found. No traces other than his coat were ever found.

Disappearance of the village

There were also mass disappearances of people. There is a known case when in 1930 the inhabitants of an entire Eskimo village disappeared, and no one has been able to explain this mystical incident so far.

All things were left in the houses, and the situation itself looked like people had left their homes for a few minutes: half-eaten food was on the tables, and household items were lying nearby, which people, apparently, used just before the disappearance.

No traces indicating that people had left were found around the village.

The dogs were found tied and covered with snow, which seemed strange: the Eskimos were always kind to animals and, when leaving, would not leave their friends to certain death. But the worst thing in this story is that all the graves of their ancestors were opened.

Considering that it was winter and the ground was frozen, it was impossible to dig them all up quickly and without special equipment. Eyewitnesses claim that before the incident they saw a large luminous object in the sky that changed shape and moved towards the village.

No one can say what actually happened, but the fact that an entire village disappeared is irrefutable.

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