Lots of things can be scary: ghosts, zombies, vampires, and all kinds of monsters. But as creepy as they might seem, there’s no real evidence they exist—and that’s a comforting thought.
What’s far more chilling, though, are the real-life mysteries that leave us questioning everything we thought we understood about the world around us.
Take missing persons cases, for instance. Recently, Redditors shared the ones they just can’t stop thinking about. We’ve gathered some of the most haunting ones below—read on, but be warned, these stories may stay with you long after you’re done.
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Madeleine McCann.
I live 8 miles from her parents. I have a child the same age. We probably went to the same baby groups as her mother.
We were on holiday at exactly the same date Madelaine was.
The difference is, I am working class, and we were in Skegness ... And we would have gone to F*****G PRISON for leaving a toddler alone and going out to dinner.
I don't know what happened to Maddie, Whether she wandered off, someone took her or something else, but Kate and Gerry offered up all 3 of their children that night when they left them alone and if it wasn't for their status as Doctors would have been held to account. Irresponsible, dishonest and unsuitable parents.
Such a heart wrenching case!!!! As all cases are that involve poor little kids!!!! Makes you sick reading of the creeps out there!!!!
Load More Replies...My sympathy for them started waning when the story of how all 3 kids were left alone so they could go to dinner came out. Then the endless appeals and the literal millions of public money spent on trying to find her - because blonde, distinct blue eyes, doctor parents. I hope they find her so this endless carousel can finally come to a stop.
When I was a kid we used to go to a holiday camp (Butlins) where it was expected that parents would leave their kids in the chalets and go out. Staff would patrol and report any crying children, most of the public areas had a display to show the chalet number of crying children so a parent could return and settle them. The McCanns were close enough to be able to use a baby monitor
I don't care for rich or poor. You lose a child and your life ends. You don't think they regret that decision (and people forget they thought they were safe) every f*****g day?!?
Apparently a known predator was in the area at the time. It could well have been him but I guess they couldn't prove it.
I think they're still working on making that case. German guy?
Load More Replies...They had a press conference soon after she went missing and the parents refused to answer some of the questions. If my daughter was missing I’d answer EVERY question, if you think asking me about my bowel movements or which side I dress to or who my crush was when I was 14 or whatever is going to help get my daughter home safe then I’ll answer it. Anything at all. Too much money has been wasted on this situation, resources that could’ve saved other children, the McCanns have used up too much of our time.
To this day I still can't believe how calm they were at the press conference. In fact they were cold. Ice cold. If one of my children went missing I'd be beside myself with worry and panic. I don't think I'd be able to string a coherent sentence together or stop myself from sobbing uncontrollably.
Load More Replies...Her parents were rich or they'd be in prison. They admitted that they'd drugged their children to sleep before, cadaver dogs alerted on their car and hotel. While that's circumstantial and she very well could have been kidnapped by a stranger, leaving their children alone when the resort offered 24 hour childcare was negligence of the worst sort. They deserved jail time.
you've only got to look at how differently the media handled the Shannon Matthews case, around the same time. but her family lived on a council estate. okay, it did turn out they were complicit, but the media fawned over the Mcanns and ripped into the Matthews, before there was any evidence to suggest they were involved. my opinion. the McKan n children were given meds to make them sleep while they were out, and overdosed her.
Terrance Williams.
Guy disappeared after being taken into custody by a sheriff's deputy in Naples, FL, in 2004 for a traffic offense. The same deputy was later found to have been the last person to see Felipe Santos alive, before Santos also disappeared while in custody for a traffic offense.
In US government has no idea how many people go missing or die in police custody. Fragmented nature and lock of accountability https://theappeal.org/doj-deaths-in-custody-failure-missing-deaths/
There is a podcast about this story. Everything points to the officer.
I'm not going to go so far as to say ACAB. But I am going to say that the only thing worse than evil people is for good people to do nothing. So if you're a good cop, be a good cop and clean up your own house.
That's confusing. I always wonder about hidden walls and floorboards and how many homes have people locked up in them that we don't know about. You let me into a house that I'm suspicious about and I'll tell you I'm going to check every while and every floorboard
Shelly Miscavige
Wife of Scientology leader David Miscavige. Not seen since 2007. All missing persons cases brought to LAPD are simply “closed”.
Apparently she's fine...not that anyone believes it. The police who did briefly investigate also had ties to scientology.
I don't believe it and I can't believe something so blatant would be ignored by everybody for so long. If she was fine, she could make a single sentence statement on camera to say so, yet not even this much has been done.
Load More Replies...Given what a violent unstable man her husband apparently is, my money is on his having murdered her.
It's well known that David keeps people locked up in his compound. Some of them have escaped and shared their stories.
Hard to say where she is or if she is still alive. You go up against Scientology you better be on your game, they don't play around and have all kinds of powerful connections. If any group can disappear someone it would be Scientology. They are scary. For my own safety i want everyone to know i have no intention of self harm. / S.
This is the perfect proof that the whole "all people are equal" spiel is completely b******t. Rich people can sometimes do whatever they want. You can ask Epstein on his secret island, if you don't believe me. ;)
newsflash - Epstein is not answering any questions...
Load More Replies...The husband's henchman removed her and are keeping her out of sight
My husband's aunt disappeared. I don't remember when, but my husband has no memory of her. No one in the family has heard from her in 20+ years.
I have a compulsive need to know things, so I started researching her to see what I could find. I checked obituaries to see if I could find one for her using both her real name and some aliases I found. I also used a picture one of my husband's relatives posted of her when she was a kid, and I compared it to as many Jane Doe's as I could. I found three or so that could MAYBE be her, but it was hard to tell. The fact I was looking was my little secret because my husband's family is very religious, and when my husband's grandpa/aunt's dad was dying, he said he could see her, so they were all convinced that she was dead.
About two years ago, I paid $30 or whatever for one of those reports that show people's known addresses, and I found records of her getting arrested about three years after her dad died. All of the addresses were five or more years old. I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want to burst their bubble about their dad being wrong, and I thought everyone would think it's weird that I would put in so much effort to find my husband's aunt that he can't even remember. A couple weeks ago, something reminded me of the report I pulled, and I decided to tell my husband. He recommended I call his mom, and when I did she said that she had just talked with the relative who posted the photo I was using the other day about the disappearance. She said she would call that relative and they would decide how to proceed. I haven't heard anything else since then.
If your name is Jodi, you were born in LA, you lived near Seattle in the mid-2010's, and you haven't spoken with your family in decades, your family never forgot about you and want to see you again.
This case happened in the early 80's in Western New York. I don't know the girl's name. She went to middle school (Casey or Sweet Home?) with a friend of mine.
To put it briefly, a friend of mine had a classmate who just stopped coming to school all of a sudden. Other kids were concerned, so one girl's mom called the missing girl's mother to see what was wrong. She said her daughter had disappeared, but not to worry about it, because the police had been notified. There was nothing on the news about it and no information about how the case was going, so a few weeks later the classmate's mom called the police directly to ask about it, and found out the girl had never been reported missing. At that point, the classmate's mother made a missing person report. The girl was never found.
As for what happened, the missing girl's mom, who had been divorced, had recently gotten married to a new guy. The new guy REALLY didn't like the daughter. There was definitely something going on at home, like violence or abuse, but the girl wouldn't tell her friends any details. My friend thought the stepdad k*lled the girl and the mother colluded with him to cover it up. In the best case scenario, the girl ran away from home to get away from her stepdad, but that's still really bleak.
The creepiness of the mom lying and claiming she made a missing person report when she hadn't makes this story stick in my mind.
If you choose your spouse (whether that's the childs bio parent or a step parent, fiance boy/girlfriend whatever) over your child, you deserve to rot in hell forever. Your children are supposed to be able to rely on you to keep them safe.
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Bobby Dunbar. Disappeared in 1912 during a family vacation to Swayze Lake, LA, at the age of 4. Dunbar was allegedly found in the company of William Cantwell Walters, an itinerant worker, 8 months later. Walters was arrested and the boy was returned to the family.
After his death in 1966, DNA evidence revealed the boy returned to the family was NOT Bobby Dunbar. No one knows what happened to the real kid.
So they just took someone elses kid?! how the hell do you not realize that wasn't your child. So many people should have gone to jail.
There's allot missing here the full story is insane
Load More Replies...No one knows for sure what happened to Bobby Dunbar; a solid theory is that he was snatched by a crocodile, though, given where they were (at the lake), he was on his own, and young children are easy prey for crocodiles. The whole story is really sad all around.
The sentence is meant to mean he died in 1966, but that later DNA testing proves he wasn't Bobby. The actual testing was in 2004
Load More Replies...Wow. This has close semblance to Walter Collins and his mom Christine. If you've not researched this topic it's worth a look. There's also a long but amazing movie made about it called The Changeling. I highly recommend that movie.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
We actually do have a pretty good idea where it ended up and parts of the plane have washed up on Madascar, which is exactly where they'd wash up given where we think the plane went into the ocean.
yup, its definitely in madagascar Screenshot...03-png.jpg
Crashed into the ocean by a suicidal pilot. That's what the latest documentary speculated.
It's less "speculation" and more "can't confirm it because everybody is dead". The pilot flew a simulation of the route a few weeks before the flight. The radar evidence shows the aircraft doing things like climbing to 40k feet and cruising there for a while. The likelihood is that he depressurized the aircraft, and then climbed to that altitude to kill everyone on board from hypoxia. There's too much evidence against him to summarily dismiss unless something more convincing turns up.
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A local case here is Daniel Robinson. He was 24 when he went missing in 2021.
This case baffles me and I hope to see it resolved someday sooner rather than later. Essentially, he was a geologist who left a job site and traveled towards a semi rural area in buckeye Arizona. He was last seen driving his red jeep renegade and was traveling alone. The jeep was later found crashed in a ravine with his personal items still inside of it (cell phone, wallet, keys).
I suspect he sustained a head injury from the accident and then unfortunately wandered further into the desert and died from dehydration or his injuries. His body had never been found.
Naw, I live in. AZ. They recreated that so called acvident, there was.novway that heep could gave rolled, itvwas done deliberately. Foul play is obviously suspected. He stumbled on to something
Timmothy Pitzen. Mom picked him up early from school and took him on a trip to the zoo and things like that. Then she was found dead from s***ide with a note that said her son was safe but would never be found.
If she was nuts she could have buried him in a hole. He's "safe" now. No one can harm him.
Those who know the family and the investigators involved believe she gave him to someone she met online in a forum devoted to people who want children but can't have them and can't adopt. They say she claimed his name was different and all that and the family may have been Canadian.
My sister-in-law and mother-in-law were missing for 25 years before my wife‘s efforts led them to be found. The MIL had gone into hiding to protect the younger daughter from sexual abuse. Her dad turned out to be an (alleged, while the case goes through) p***phile, and my wife’s work on the case on with the true crime podcast Vanished caused the Bureau of Indian Affairs to run a social media scrape that turned her up through being in a photo someone else posted to Facebook.
Anyway, we helped pay for the lawyer, and the first thing her mother heard after being taken into custody was a lawyer saying, „[your daughter] sent me.“
Long story short, we got to meet her and they have a wonderful relationship now.
Why would you run and only take one kid? Wouldn't the other kid be at risk too?
I'd hate to assume but possibly they had different fathers, so one was safe and the other wasn't. ETA: i just was able to click on the link grandma kept (implied against mom's wishes) the older one since dad was only interested in the younger one and only had proof of abuse to the younger one and mom had a small window to escape.
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Rhianna Barreau. Disappeared from her home in Morphett Vale, South Australia in October 1992.
Tragic case of wrong time, wrong place as she was supposed to be meeting her mother for lunch at a nearby shopping centre, but an impromptu bus strike that day meant she couldn't get there.
She instead walked to her local shops to buy a Christmas card. It was confirmed by the shop that she had purchased the card, witnesses confirm seeing her walking home along a main road around 12:30pm, and the card was on the table when her mother arrived home shortly after 4pm. However Rhianna was gone and never seen again.
While some, including the lead detective on the case, believe a local is responsible and she is buried nearby; info I have from PIs indicates that it's more likely she was spotted walking along the main road and the perpetrator followed her home, knocked on the door under false pretence and took her. Sadly, all the info that has been given to police hasn't been acted upon despite strong evidence for a POI, and her case remains unsolved.
Australia has had some very concerning cases with missing children. There was the two cases roughly ten years apart in Adelaide. First the Beaumont Children in 1966, where the three young children, 9, 6 and 4 were taken off a beach and then two girls who were taken from a very busy stadium. Descriptions of a man who was with them are very similar. Then I remember watching something about a girl who was taken from her bedroom at night. I can’t say if it was in the same area, but it may have been.
II’m from Australia, and trust me, this is not the worst situation.'m from Australia and this is not the worst trust me on that
Want an Australian missing person's story thst will give you the chills look up Hanging Rock...beautiful place to visit, the rock formations are unique...but missing persons...
A friend went missing. Other friends and I went looking based off a clue from FB. The clue was some random person leaving a public message on the “missing person” post on a family member’s page. This person claimed to have seen them and tagged someone else. The family member asked where they were seen and we found the first location. Later in the evening of the same day, the tagged person replied publicly that yes, in fact that was the person they saw.
The conversation went private to gather more details, which included a description that was accurate enough of the missing person’s vehicle. We left the next morning to verify. It was a group of us friends. We asked the parents to stay home as the father was recovering from a heart attack & surgery. By this time the police had been called & informed about the messages and our intentions to follow up.
5 hour drive passed and surer than s**t there is the missing persons vehicle, off the highway headed deeper into the desert. When we stopped at the nearest gas station to regroup, we had the parents reach out again on FB to see if the posters of the information would be willing to meet. We wanted to try and retrace steps if possible and safely( I haven’t mentioned safety yet because it was incredibly stupid to do what we did and we knew the risks. We accepted potential outcomes and hoped for the best). We ended up near a group of housing that seemed similar to the description of where he was last seen by these people.
The parents got back to us a few hours later and said that the people who tipped us off vanished. Like full up deleted everything from FB. We could not proceed because this was not a nice area and with the freaky ghosting it was clear something weird was up. We met with police after our return and gave them everything we had. They didn’t even go out to check on the abandoned vehicle. Nothing. A few weeks later we paid for a tow truck(yes weeks on the side of the road and it was still there) to bring it back into town.
Every few weeks and there would be some whisper or rumor. Months passed. After about a year of nothing but rumors we got together and sort of laid out everything we reasonably believed to have happened based on us knowing them as a person. We eventually settled with owing the wrong people money or pissing those people off…maybe on purpose too.
It’s been 8 or so years now. I still have those times where whoever I’m with, if they knew this person we go silent and just sort of…morbidly reminisce. Someone going missing is a different kind of grief than someone passing away. That’s all.
Brian Shaffer. I think about this one from time to time because it's so crazy.
Went out to a bar with friends, they were outside. He was spotted on camera going inside the bar again, but he never came back out. City cameras have never seen him roaming the streets or anything to indicate a body was being disposed of.
There was one exit that wasn't on camera, but it was under construction and the police said a sober person would have had a hard time using it, let alone a drunk person.
He's never been found since. It's just crazy to me that this dude could walk into a building on camera, and that same camera never sees him come out.
There was a case like this in Winnipeg. The guy was eventually found stuck in the wall. They couldn't figure out why he would even go into that space. I just don't understand how no one noticed the smell. Decomposition is quite the stench.
You don't even have to decompose before your body pretty much evacuates your bowels anyway.
Load More Replies...This case is a reddit rabbit hole. Some people say the bar stank a lot for weeks after Brian dissappeared, leading them to think he died there and his body was hidden as there was some construction at the time. Some think he OD'ed. There's rumors a friend said he'd tell cops what happened, but only if he gets immunity. Strange case
Another case where a body was found 10 years later. Workers removing shelves and coolers from a former No Frills Supermarket in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in January discovered a body behind one of them. The remains were recently identified as those of Larry Ely Murillo-Moncada, a former employee who had been reported missing November 28, 2009.
Rachel Cooke . The 19-yr old went for a morning jog in January 2002. A neighbor last saw her coming back a couple hundred yards from her house. She never made it home.
I worked in news as a cameraman and had just started a job in this area about 7 months after this happened. We frequently checked in with the family at each anniversary of her disappearance and anytime police found new evidence or possible locations of a body. The mother and father were such nice people and it just broke my heart each time we talked to them as they just kept holding on to the tiniest bit of hope. Her father died in 2014, never having got any kind of closure. To this day, they have no suspects or a body.
Andrew Gosden.
Andrew Gosden was just 14 when he was last seen on the 14th of September 2007 in Doncaster, Yorkshire. His parents went to the grocery store to pick up some goods, as the believed he had already gone to school.
While they were out, Andrew returned home and collected his belongings. He took his video game console, but not a charger. He then paid a £200 ticket and travelled to London.
It took several weeks for CCTV to reveal that he had travelled to London. During this time, the police and media alike had thrown Andrew's father Kevin through the mud.
Kevin was extensively questioned, with police even using the "good cop, bad cop" approach on him.
By the time that it was finally proven that Andrew had left Doncaster, little could be done about it.
Several theories have come to light in the 17 years since Andrew disappeared.
One theory is that Andrew voluntarily disappeared. It has been theorized by some, including Andrew's parents, that he may be gay or transgender and afraid to come out.
Another theory suggests he was travelling to London to meet somebody such as a groomer posing as a girl or a younger male. However, Kevin has stated on several occasions that Andrew did not have internet access.
Other theories include that he was travelling to a concert or was picked up by an opportunistic predator. Some people have even suggested that serial k*ller Stephen Port was behind his m*rder
Andrew's parents have never given up hope of seeing their son alive again, although his dad has conceded that he knows Andrew did not leave voluntarily, after he did not turn up to the wedding of his sister Charlotte.
No. OP didn't make it clear. He withdrew £200 from his bank account. The ticked was around £30 and was one way. And he was last seen on CCTV leaving Kings Cross Station alone.
Load More Replies...Yeesh! My 10-year old brother skipped school one day in 1986. I’d walked him to school in the morning, then took the bus downtown to get to my own school. He decided to bunk off. Took another bus into town, then a train from Doncaster to Sheffield without telling anyone. TBH nobody was especially worried that he didn’t come straight home after school. It was the 80’s and not unusual for kids to play outside until dinner time. But when he didn’t get back for dinner, my dad called brother’s best friend’s parents to ask if he was there and just lost track of time, only to be told lil bro hadn’t even been in school that day. Panic ensued. I got yelled at for not taking him all the way into school, even though I never did, just dropped him off at the gate as per usual. He rolled in at about 9PM, blithely unconcerned about how upset everyone was. It gave me the shivers to read about Andrew; that could have been my brother and, since CCTV wasn’t even a thing back then, we wouldn’t have had the slightest idea where to look. Nope, not saying that’s better, Andrew never made it home. It’s just eerie that another kid took off from Doncaster.
Lars Mittank is still a creepy case. He was on vacation with his friends, hot ill and wanted to leave a few days later, as he was not able to go on a plane. The night before he wanted to fly back home he called his mother and sent texts to her in a very "confused" way. He even made it to the airport and saw a doctor there but while taking he jumped up and ran away. He was last seen on the airport camera, running away from the airport. Never seen again.
I wonder if they checked John Doe's around the airport. If he had a high fever and wasn't right in the head, he could've stripped naked and collapsed somewhere, and all they would have is a naked dead body..
I'm sure they have. His Family had even a PI sended there.
Load More Replies...Such a sudden change in behaviour and symptoms make me jump to the substance conclusion, but from what I remember, didn't the doctor said something about him not showing signs of substance overdose or having taken any medication?
A high enough fever can cause hallucinations (hence the term fever dreams") which can lead to erratic behavior and making it even worse the person usually isn't lucid so they can't make rational decisions. Then there are the infections that cause changes in behavior (I.e. rabies) or if certain areas of the brain are affected. He really could have been just really sick and was ambulatory enough to run away without realizing he wasn't being rational.
Load More Replies...Could be he freaked out, attacked someone while psychotic, killed in the struggle and the killer was too afraid to call the cops and concealed it. If I were writing a forensic/cold case drama that would be on the whiteboard.
My cousin...
Got out of the military after a long stint doing some kind of spooky s**t in the middle east that he would never talk about. Never really adjusted to normal life and one day 'went camping' in montana and it was like he stepped off the face of the planet. His truck was found near a trailhead but no gear no body, he just disappeared...
PTSD make people do weird things. If he didn't get any help to adapt and to process what he had seen/done as a soldier, he might have decided life wasn't worth the effort.
There was a similar case on a missing person type show, also read about it. Guy was having trouble adjusting and got gear together and went into the rockies south of Glacier. ……He was seen resting by a small group. He wasn’t adequately prepared for the terrain was the report and he’s not been seen since.
Morgan Nick. Disappeared when she was 6, and her mother created The Morgan Nick Foundation to help find missing kids. I first learned about her from an episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. They were building a new house for the family, and made a bedroom for Morgan if she ever came home. That aired in 2005, and sadly, she hasn't been found as of today.
"On June 9, 1995, Morgan Nick and her mother, Colleen Nick, went to a Little League baseball game in the town of Alma, Arkansas. At around 10:30 p.m., Morgan asked her mother if she could catch fireflies with her friends. At first, her mother was uncertain, but eventually let her go. She was last seen at 10:45 p.m. by her friends, emptying sand out of her shoes alone near her mother's car while her group of friends emptied their shoes a few dozen feet away. Morgan's friends reported seeing a "creepy" man talking to Morgan as she was putting her shoes back on. When the game ended shortly thereafter, Morgan's friends returned without her. They told Colleen that Morgan was at her car, but when Colleen returned to the car, Morgan was not there. She has not been seen or heard from since."
On Oct. 1, 2024, Alma police announced at a press conference, which was reported by 5 News, KATV and KARK, that DNA had led them to a suspect who'd died in 2000. Billy Jack Lincks had been questioned two months after Morgan’s disappearance, KARK reported, citing police. At the time, he was being investigated in the attempted kidnapping of another girl weeks after Morgan’s
I'm sorry, but Extreme Makeover was such a predatory, exploiting show. All the people who were featured getting their home majorly renovated got screwed over in the end. I think a family or 2 sued the show.
My aunt. I never met her so this story was just told to me by my dad (her brother). They always said my aunt was some kind of a rebel during her teenage years, but she sort of carried that personality and attitude into adulthood. She had 2 kids, my cousins, with her husband who was a construction contractor. But one day, she just disappeared. No warning, no nothing. She left behind her family and they've never really gotten any closure from it. This was in the mid 90s since all of this happened before I was born. She would have been 70 today.
When social media became a thing, one of the first things we did was look up her name on Facebook in hopes of seeing her account, but everyone who had the same name was a different person. For the longest time we just assumed that she is no longer with us.
Now in the Philippines, November 1st is celebrated as All Saints Day, where the tradition is that families have a reunion in the cemetery with the departed. We share some food, catching up with extended family members, and each family will light some candles for the dead relative. In 2015, during the morning (around 5:30 am) of All Saints' Day, we noticed a candle already lit on the gravestone of my grandpa (which would be her dad) when no one in our family or extended family had visited the grave yet. We know this because we live quite literally near the cemetery, so we are always the first side of the family to get there during All Saints' Day. My dad thinks the candle was from my aunt paying her respects but trying not to be seen so she went there at around 3am or 4am or so.
We tried going around the same time the following year but we didn't see anyone. Until now, I personally have no idea what happened to her.
Here's a stat to show just how bad it is... In Canada in 2011, 50% of homicides with a female victim the perpetrator was the current or former sexual partner. For the same year only 3% of homicides with a male victim was current or former sexual partner.
Load More Replies...Kyron Horman. A young child who disappeared from his elementary school in 2010. The case is still unsolved today.
He most likely wandered out of school (it was school science fair, so kids were unattended and he was known to be a bolter and was being investigated for autism) and died in the vast dense forest immediately surrounding the school. I know people suspect the stepmom but there's a huge write up on Reddit making the case that she can't have killed him in that time span. The only reason anyone suspected her is the bio mom's hate campaign, when the bio mom lost custody.
The stepmon was a suspect because the gardener claims he was offered a large sum of money to end the husband. Additionally, her vehicle was seen, according to witnesses, near the school with 2 people inside and a friend bought her an untraceable mobile phone.
Load More Replies...This one was local to my area and it was a huge deal around here for quite a while. We’ll probably never know.
Hannah Upp, a twice victim of fugue states. She had disappeared twice, and each time was found near water. Well, she decides to move to a tropical island to teach, and whaddya know, she disappears. I think she drowned.
You are not conscious of your actions over a given period of time. You can be conversing and doing physical things like going out, driving, shopping, housekeeping, cooking etc but you are completely unaware of it until you come out of the state many minutes or hours later with no idea how you are where you are or what you have done. It is often accompanied by an alternate personality that does not know or recognise your own name or anybody around you. It can also accompany the same actions and purpose as previous fugue states every time. So every time she is in that state she goes towards the ocean or water with a purpose that she can't remember once she comes out of the fugue.
Load More Replies...Sherill Levitt, Suzy Streeter and Stacy McCall. The 3 missing women from Springfield MO from 1992.
They're buried under the parking garage being built at the time. An independent searcher with a body scanner saw the outlines which admittedly only "resembled" bodies, but three together in the same spot is a bit suspicious to me. Nobody wants to allow the garage to be dug up.
All they need to do is drill out a core sample. If there's human remains, then you dig.
Load More Replies...The Springfield Three https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_Three
I used to know Stacy McCall's mom when I served on the board of One Missing Link, the organization she started to help families with missing children. It's heartbreaking and I can't believe this has never been solved. As for the comments about them being buried in a parking garage, that has been debunked. Someone knows (or knew) something and we may never have an answer in our lifetime. So very, very sad.
I remember this well. We had just moved to Springfield when this happened.
Even though we all know she's 100000% dead, I go nuts wondering where Susan Powell is. That case haunts me.
My brother, he disappeared when I was probably around 4? He was 22 I think, never found a body, dogs couldn't track him in the forest he went missing in, I remember when I was a teen and they finally declared him dead.....I still wonder what happened, my sister (now 57, and his twin) thinks he wandered off drunk and got eaten by a mountain lion.
Frederick Valentich. Private pilot who disappeared along with his plane in 1978 after reporting a UFO following him. The ATC tapes are still available. There's a sudden strange mechanical whirring sound and then nothing. Never found a trace of him.
He was a mediocre pilot who was flying outside of his operating licence requirements and had been in trouble twice already for not sticking to procedures while airborne. He also had a thing about being taken by UFOs in the weeks leading up to his disappearance. He was likely disoriented and flying upside down. The sea currents between the Australian mainland and Tasmania are known for being very rough at times and there's some debate about where exactly he was when he last spoke to Air Traffic Control. Location technology was not the best in 1978.
Summer Wells. She went missing in 2021 at the age of 4. Mom says she was outside helping plant flowers and went inside to play. Sadly she was never seen again. The family was investigated but nothing came to light. It’s a very sad story and I think of that poor little girl often. I truly wonder what happened to her.
She went inside the house? That is odd. Usually it's about a child going outside and disappearing. What, was a predator in the house?
Guessing mom was in back yard, child went in the back door then out the front
Load More Replies...I was following this case very closely in the first year or so and it still weighs heavy on my heart. There are so many different stories and theories surrounding her disappearance it's so so sad. I fear she will never be found, sadly
I lived in Nashville at the time of her disappearance and knew people acquainted with the family. It was the dad/stepdad. He was known to be violent and abusive and was caught with csam later although I think the charges were dropped because they couldn't prove he was the only one using the pc.
this happened near me and everyone here has a theory most think the parents are involved but i think her brothers killed her and her parents covered it up. a freind from high schools little sister disappeared the night before her prom and not one iota of info has ever come from that case and its been over 40 years
Mekayla Bali. 16 year old girl went missing in 2016 from Yorkton, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was last on camera at a restaurant in the local bus stop. Never seen or heard from again. There is a theory that she was meeting someone that she met online, but nobody knows.
Most current update: https://globalnews.ca/news/10460941/mekayla-bali-family-continues-to-believe/
hmm... This article seems to be heavily about the mom being dissatisfied with the RCMP. I don't want to make any harmful speculations. I've just noticed this is a common pattern with parents of their missing kids when they have some sort of involvement. js. Attacking the RCMP and claiming they haven't treated her right to the news, when she should be more focused on trying to find ways to remind the public her daughter is still missing and how the investigation is going.
Load More Replies...My brother. 1969. Camping trip. He went off with his fishing pole and never returned.
The Skelton brothers. Their dad has been in jail for like 13 years and still refuses to say where they are.
Since this post gave so little information, I looked into the case a little bit. The Skelton brothers are Andrew, 9, Alexander,7 and Tanner, 5 and they were last seen with their father on Thanksgiving Day, 2010. The father has given many different stories about what happened to the boys, from they were with some of his friends, to he gave them away to some ink woman, to he gave them to an underground group to keep them safe. The mom went to his house because he wasn't answering her but he wasn't home, he was at the hospital being treated for a broken ankle. He told them he had broke it while trying to commit suicide. Phone records show that he traveled from Michigan, where they lived, into Ohio which wasn't too far of a drive as they had lived close to the border. Shortly after his phone was pinged in OH, it was shut off for over 2 hours and not turned back on until he was back in his hometown in MI. The dad is currently serving a prison sentence for unlawful imprisonment of his son's.
But unfortunately he is due to be released exactly one year from today, November 29, 2025.
Load More Replies...Recently the mother petitioned the court to have them declared dead. Just a very sad case.
April Beth Pitzer
I worked this case, it's not a particularly noteworthy case and I've worked a fair few missing persons cases since, but just the fact so much time has been put into it and knowing she'll never be found.
The rumour was that she was an informant against a dealer, as a result she was m*rdered and thrown down a mine shafts. She was bipolar which is a factor too, less than stellar choices. Quite a few little bits to the story that were odd, suggestions that her mother was constructing false evidence to keep the case alive. Certainly people know what happened to her but aren't talking. Just years of false leads.
It's sad that her mother had to go to those lengths to keep the police interested.
Police resources are finite, and they can only follow whatever leads they have. Once they've done everything they can do, there's not really... any more that they can do.
Load More Replies...Maura Murray. No tips, no leads she just disappeared after a car accident and never returned. I think about her case often.
This one is still news around New England -- she was seen alive and out of her car after the accident, including a driver who stopped and asked her if she was OK (he called the cops as soon as he got a cell phone signal). More details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Maura_Murray
This one is really interesting. She had been upset about her relationship and she had a recent car accident, then seemingly was planning to go vacation for a week but didn't tell anyone she was going or where, got into another accident on the way and vanished from the accident scene.
Don Hutchings was a good friend of my mom and step-dad. He (as well as other hikers) were abducted while trekking through Kashmir in 1995. Don and the three other hostages were last seen in December of 1995. The body of one of the British hostages (Paul Wells) was found in 1997 (but not identified until 2000). There hasn’t been a trace of Don or the other two ever found. We know they are all dead (Don was officially declared dead in 2001), but some closure as to the specifics of when/where/how would be a relief. (We suspect they were executed late 1995, early 1996 after their captors had a gun battle with the Indian military.) It’s always really weighed on me and my family.
Elijah Vue, case just happened this year in Wisconsin, but his disappearance pulls at my heartstrings. His mom left him with an abuser who says he fell asleep and when he woke up he just “disappeared” I know they know what happened to that little boy. I just want them to find his remains and give him peace. I have little boys at that age and I cried for days thinking about him being so alone and scared.
I live in Manitowoc. They found his body. Was weird: I don't pay attention to news, so the first I knew about it was seeing FBI agents in their windbreakers
I live in Madison and I want to know what happened to Jacob Yoblonski
Load More Replies... Michael Dunahee.
At 4 years old he went missing in 1991 from a playground in Victoria BC only a few yards from where his mother was playing football.
Victoria was.still a pretty small and sleepy town back then so it was quite the shock to the community.
When my own son was around that age I couldn't help but think about that case .
I live 6 hours or so from Victoria and I still occasionally see missing person posters for Micheal dunahee.
Jennifer Kesse.
Disappeared after seemingly leaving for work, but never arrived. There is footage of someone parking her car but the time lapses in the camera matched up perfectly to when this person is walking behind a fence so they are never seen.
Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon. Disappeared under strange circumstances while hiking in a remote part of Panama. Partial remains were discovered, along with a backpack, clothes, cell phones and a camera. Numerous call attempts were made from the phones during their hike, and the camera had some very odd pictures. Has never made any sense at all.
Maybe not. It seems like one of them got injured and the other was trying to call 911, which is a different number there. She kept going downhill, instead of up for better signal. Seems more like catastrophically lost.
Load More Replies...Skye Budnick. Was 21 years old, booked a one way ticket to Japan in 2008 without telling anyone. Took out little money from her bank and abandoned her car at the airport. There really isn’t much else known.. Her sister has a big following on tiktok and also has a Podcast called Surviving Skye. Idk why but this is so weird to me.
Jodi Huisentruit from Mason City,Iowa. She disappeared and the case was never solved. She was a popular reporter in the area at the time.
Yes, this is the first one that came to my mind. I live in Minnesota, so of course this would be the main one I still wonder about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodi_Huisentruit
Allan Bryant.
A local lad who went missing in 2013, never seen or heard from ever since. There's rumours as to what could have happened but no solid leads. His Dad still drives around in a car plastered with his face.
This woman, Cindy Song, disappeared from the town I was living in Halloween night, 2001.
I was in high school at the time. I still have family in the area, so I'm back there frequently enough.
I just wonder what could have happened, where her body is etc.
Maybe I've even been at the same restaurant as her k*ller at some point and never knew. Maybe I've driven past her body on occasion.
I just hope her family gets their overdue closure someday.
Those five special needs guys coming home from a basketball game.
The Beaumont children, 3 siblings went missing without a trace.
I was looking for this. Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, Australia January 1966.
My current neighbor's story from her hometown back in Ukraine. It was before the conflict had begun, or just a little bit after. Rumors began to spread about some freak attacking women that were alone out during dark hours. They lived on the outskirts of a town and my neighbor's path to work lay through unused railroad surrounded by nothing but trees and bushes. As with any rumors, no one really took it seriously, but she did, since every morning before dawn she had to go to work, so she asked her friends to walk her, paid someone to drive her, etc.
One day her colleague told that her 16 y.o. daughter hadn't returned from her dance class. Went out and simply disappeared, no one saw her going out or coming back. She was found a few days after under the bridge by the railroad, dismembered.
There's nothing in this story that separates it from the rest like that, but the fact that it happened to someone my neighbor knew is terrifying. It could've been her. It could've been her own daughter. It could've been anyone. really. Reminds me just how vulnerable we are and where being careless can get you.
Searched the comments and didn't see Alissa Turney so I'll mention that one. It's quite likely her stepfather was involved but for her sisters sake I would love to know what tf actually happened.
Because I went to college in St. Joseph, MN, the Jacob Wetterling case always got to me. I can even remember seeing his missing poster in a local pizza shop in the twin cities when I was in elementary school. They did find his body, but I am still struck by how mismanaged his case was. Joshua Guimond was also never found. The Sterns county police have a lot to answer for.
Kemberly Ramer
She disappeared in August of 1997 in Opp, Alabama a very small town and she had just left a girls softball game and went home when she went missing and she hasn’t been seen since. You can Google her case if you want to or you can watch a YouTube video I made on it as I make true crime documentaries if you just Google “ kemberly ramer Bama mike “ it will come up. Anyway some time after the disappearance kemberly’s mom publicly accused a guy who was a nearby sheriff’s son, who was also dating kemberly’s sister at the time, she was and is certain he did it, but to date there have been no arrest, no charges, and no kemberly. A few months ago a tip was called in on the case and police and search parties went out searching again after all of these years, supposedly they found some new evidence, they haven’t said what it was, but unfortunately there was still no kemberly. It’s a sad story, and it happened in a small town where you would least expect it. I mean most of us don’t even lock our doors at night because it’s just a bunch of good old country people living in the town, so it’s shocking and it will stick with me until someone finds her or knows what happened.
A friend from high school vanished in college.
He got in a car accident, took an Uber to a seemingly random town, and was never seen again. Dogs lost his scent on a side road with almost nothing nearby. There's a theory he walked out on life but the events leading up to his disappearance just don't feel right.
If he set it up, why the car accident? How does that help him vanish? If he had someone waiting to pick him up, why risk injury with an accident?
In high school, I was in band with a friend of mine and her older brother. They were Mormon so when he turned 18 he was sent for a two-year mission to Saudi Arabia. Basically the moment they landed, they were stripped of all of their documents and jailed.
From what we know, he was later placed with a family that would essentially have him under house arrest for at least a year while they converted him to Islam and assimilated him into the culture. (Or just k*lled him.)
We didn’t hear anything for a couple years, long past the time the mission would’ve ended, and he would’ve come back. Supposedly he was left unattended near a telephone and was able to reach someone who is able to get him to the US Embassy. From there, he was able to reach out to his family, but he was not allowed to come home.
That was in 1997. He hasn’t been heard from since 2001 and is presumed dead, but we don’t know.
Saudi-Arabia has no problems with letting people disappear. Jamal (not Adnan!) Kashoggi went missing in the Embassy in Istanbul, Turkey. Wrong place for him to be, but for the Saudiarabian murderers, too. They could not prevent a thorough investigation, which resulted in proof that he was killed there. Body still missing.
Dail Dinwiddie, who went missing from a U2 concert in Columbia, SC in 1992. It sticks for me because I was at that show and because she was a friend-of-a-friend.
She disappeared from a bar in Five Points. It might have been after she went to the concert but she didn't vanish during the concert. I think the bar was Jungle Jim's or something like that. No trace of anything has ever been found.
Local man was a truck driver in the early 80s. He was making deliveries on his normal route. Police found his truck parked, nothing appeared to have been taken. No sign of the driver.
After however many years required by the law, the family had him declared deceased.
Harold Holt.
The prime minister of Australia went for a swim and disappeared off the face of the planet.
Disappearing without trace from the most dangerous ocean on earth isn't really a mystery.
.using track of the leader of a country while he is out for a swim says another of bad things about those with him though, not that it was on purpose...but the negligence...
Load More Replies...Josh Guimond. A college student in his 20s. He just went missing in the middle of the night from a quiet, wooded university campus. A massive search was conducted. For weeks. Nothing. No body, no note, no indication of leaving. Just gone.
Connie Converse. She went missing on her own terms though, left letters for her loved ones and everything letting them know she just wanted to get away and start over. Prior to that she had a decently successful music career. Many of her songs were recorded live at parties and have been published on platforms like Spotify. The podcast Criminal has a really good episode on her, she seemed like a really unique soul. I believe her brother is still alive. But she disappeared without a trace, and I would love to learn about how she reinvented herself after she vanished.
Kenny Veach. The Youtuber who went looking for a mysterious cave near area 51. The M cave they called it.
The most plausible explanation I've come across is that he killed himself (he did after all make a point of taking a gun with him) and it had nothing to do with the cave at all.
I still wanna know what the hell happened to Kyron Horman after a decade.
Amy Wroe Bechtel. Disappeared while running in Wyoming in 1997. No sign of her was ever found.
Lauren Spierer, the Indiana student who went missing after a night of partying. We were similar in age and I can’t imagine, and it’s wild how none of the friends know what happened to her (or won’t speak about it).
Natalie Holloway, who went missing in Aruba, her younger sister was in my grade when it occurred, her parents came and spoke to my parents about it pretty much as soon as it happened, they essentially found the guy that did it but he got away Free because his father was a judge on the island, he was Dutch never found her body never know if she was human trafficked or m*rdered.
Joran van der Sloot confessed. Said he dumped her body in the ocean. As part of his deal he has provided details of what happened in her last moments.
And that creep Vandersloot went on to kill another woman in Peru. He was eventually convicted in 2010 for killing Stephany Flores Ramírez in a hotel in Lima, Peru.
Load More Replies...They solved this. She was murdered by Joran van Der Sloot. Disposed of the body at sea, I beleive.
Trevor Deely, disappeared in Dublin without a trace. Think about that dude a lot as I’m often in the area he was last seen.
The Tara Calico case and that Van photo allegedly of her and a boy.
No, the photo was very comprehensively proven to not be them. People thought the photo was of her and missing boy Michael Henley, but Michael Henley's body was found right next to where he went missing (he vanished while camping), autopsy showed he died of exposure. He just wandered off while camping, that's all.
There is current police movement on the Tara Calico case, and it's virtually confirmed (by recent search warrants) that the son of the former chief of police in Tara's hometown knocked her off her bike with his truck, and killed her (possibly by accident), and his dad coveted it up. The new police chief has done a lot of work on the case in recent years.
Load More Replies...One of my cousins went missing during summer break from college. Camille had back packed through Europe with no problems but disappeared before getting a bus from Des Moines, Iowa to home in Grinnell, Iowa. Her body was found that October. She was murdered. 😔
Azaria Chamberlain. Her parents were put through absolute horror because people didn't know at the time that dingoes DID attack babies and small children. Also, because they were 7th Day Adventists, people thought they were a bit odd. (I also think they were kind of weird, but that doesn't mean they murdered their daughter.) And because Michael was a pastor, they felt like they had to put on a brave face and show the world that they could get through it as good Adventists. Lindy, the mom, has what one can call "resting b!tch face" and always looks quite stern. And people LOST IT. We know Azaria is dead, but I wish they would find the body. Then her mother (her father died a few years back) and siblings can at least have some peace.
My sister was missing 4 days. Found dead but that missing was the worse. I can’t imagine never knowing.
Just watch the movie "Citizen X". A (true?) story about a mass murderer in the soviet union around the mid to end 1980th to the 90th. Police found dozens of dead female bodies in a forest but the local government blocks investigation because "there are no mass murderer in the USSR". That changed when USSR fall apart in ~1990 and they picked up investigations again and find the killer in the end.
Nicole Morin was 8 years old and went missing in Etobicoke, ON in 1985. She left her apartment to go for a swim with a friend and was never seen again.
Michael John Olson disappeared along with his car, during a 1 mile drive back to his motel in West Palm Beach and has never been found. Sunshine State Sonar has extensively searched the bodies of water because police didn't in 1979, and have found close to a hundred cars. Just not his. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQvX8KlPwU
So many missing, most likely dead children. I was reading this as my toddler is sleeping in my arms, and it breaks my heart…
I remember as an elementary school kid (80's) my neighbor had a little brother. He was about 3 years younger than the rest of the group. One day he just wasn't there anymore. After a while I asked my friend where his little brother was. He said something about an accident. As an adult I can't find an obituary or anything. I've always wondered what happened
William Tyrell. Little boy who disappeared (presumed kidnapped) near Port Macquarie in 2014. They've searched everywhere and found no trace. It's my belief that he was abducted by a someone in a position of power, such as a judge, politician, high-ranking cop etc, for a paedophile ring. SOmeone has had the power to cover things up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_William_Tyrrell
One of my cousins went missing during summer break from college. Camille had back packed through Europe with no problems but disappeared before getting a bus from Des Moines, Iowa to home in Grinnell, Iowa. Her body was found that October. She was murdered. 😔
Azaria Chamberlain. Her parents were put through absolute horror because people didn't know at the time that dingoes DID attack babies and small children. Also, because they were 7th Day Adventists, people thought they were a bit odd. (I also think they were kind of weird, but that doesn't mean they murdered their daughter.) And because Michael was a pastor, they felt like they had to put on a brave face and show the world that they could get through it as good Adventists. Lindy, the mom, has what one can call "resting b!tch face" and always looks quite stern. And people LOST IT. We know Azaria is dead, but I wish they would find the body. Then her mother (her father died a few years back) and siblings can at least have some peace.
My sister was missing 4 days. Found dead but that missing was the worse. I can’t imagine never knowing.
Just watch the movie "Citizen X". A (true?) story about a mass murderer in the soviet union around the mid to end 1980th to the 90th. Police found dozens of dead female bodies in a forest but the local government blocks investigation because "there are no mass murderer in the USSR". That changed when USSR fall apart in ~1990 and they picked up investigations again and find the killer in the end.
Nicole Morin was 8 years old and went missing in Etobicoke, ON in 1985. She left her apartment to go for a swim with a friend and was never seen again.
Michael John Olson disappeared along with his car, during a 1 mile drive back to his motel in West Palm Beach and has never been found. Sunshine State Sonar has extensively searched the bodies of water because police didn't in 1979, and have found close to a hundred cars. Just not his. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQvX8KlPwU
So many missing, most likely dead children. I was reading this as my toddler is sleeping in my arms, and it breaks my heart…
I remember as an elementary school kid (80's) my neighbor had a little brother. He was about 3 years younger than the rest of the group. One day he just wasn't there anymore. After a while I asked my friend where his little brother was. He said something about an accident. As an adult I can't find an obituary or anything. I've always wondered what happened
William Tyrell. Little boy who disappeared (presumed kidnapped) near Port Macquarie in 2014. They've searched everywhere and found no trace. It's my belief that he was abducted by a someone in a position of power, such as a judge, politician, high-ranking cop etc, for a paedophile ring. SOmeone has had the power to cover things up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_William_Tyrrell
