15. Patrick Warren and David Spencer
A double disappearance took the UK by storm in 1996, when two friends, David Spencer and
Patrick Warren, ages 13 and 11, respectively, mysteriously vanished near Solihull. It was Boxing Day, when the boys said they
were heading out to hang out with one of Patrickâs brothers. The brother lived in Chelmsley Wood, which
was not too far off. The pair was seen throughout the afternoon,
at one point playing on a frozen lake with some other kids. The last time they were spotted was at Chelmsley
Woodâs Shell petrol station. It was nearly midnight, and they bought some
biscuits. What happened to the boys after they purchased
the midnight snack, weâll never know. Some believe that a man who was convicted
five years later for taking the life of another schoolboy may have had a hand in the boysâ
disappearances. The man in question, Brian Field, lived near
the boysâ homes, but he claims he had nothing to do with Patrick or David. So what happened to the boys? Maybe time will tell. 14. Mona Blade
In other international news, we turn to the mysterious disappearance of New Zealand native,
Mona Blades. At 18 years old on May 31st, 1975, Mona vanished
en route to Hastings from Hamilton. She was headed there to visit her family on
Queenâs Birthday holiday weekend. The thing is, she was hitchhiking â a pretty
clear no-no in most peoplesâ booksâŚthat is, anyone that doesnât want to vanish into
thin air. She was picked up by a motorist in an orange
Datsun 120Y station wagon. She was never seen or heard from again. Three days later, she was reported missing
when she didnât show up to a job for which she was recently hired. One suspect was sought in the case, but when
the police dug up the floorboards of the suspect Mervyn Hintonâs house, they discovered nothing. The case is still open today. For upwards of forty years, the womanâs
disappearance has stumped authorities. For those of us just learning about Mona,
the mystery may stump us for forty more. 13. Asha Degree
Asha disappeared without a trace from her home in Shelby, North Carolina sometime after
2:30 A.M. in 2000. When her mother, Iquilla, awoke the next morning
to find Asha gone from her bed, she searched the house and called her sister-in-law who
lived across the street. Asha was nowhere to be found. âThatâs when I went into panic mode,â
Iquilla said. âI heard a car next door ... I put shoes
on and ran outside.â At first glance, the case seemed to be that
of a runaway. But why she would have run, no one knows. She was younger than most runaways and had
no known motive to leave her home. Her family was loving, and their life revolved
around relatives, school, and church. Her grades were good. There was nothing to escape. What we do know is that early on February,
14th, 2000, Asha packed her bookbag and headed out in the windy rain, walking alongside Highway
18. Witnesses claim to have seen the girl walking
about 1.3 miles from her home but, once approached, she raced into the woods. Since that moment, Asha vanished. A Mickey Mouse hair bow, pencil and marker
were discovered at a shed along the highway. Other than that, all they found of Asha was
her bookbag, discovered at a construction site near the highway wrapped in a plastic
bag. It held personal items and several sets of
clothes. The search was called off after 9,000 man
hours turned up nothing. âWe have never really had that first good,
substantial lead,â County Sheriff Dan Crawford said. But the Degrees try to keep their daughterâs
case alive. Every year, they hold a walk to the billboard
theyâve erected, asking for any information on Ashaâs whereabouts. Many believe that, rather than running away,
Asha was taken. However, the Degrees are hopeful that their
daughter is still living. âI fully expect her to walk through the
door,â her mother said. 12. Baby Sabrina
Nothing is more heartbreaking than when a baby goes missing. And when they disappear without a trace, the
childâs parents live a life of uncertainty. Is Sabrina still alive? Where is she now? Sabrina Aisenberg disappeared on a night in
1997 from her Florida home. As with most missing child cases, Sabrinaâs
parents were suspects. They even wiretapped the Aisenbergsâ home
and made a case against them. Charges were filed in 1999, alleging false
statements and conspiracy by the couple. The federal judge, in turn, said the detectives
were lying, and in 2001, all charges were dismissed against the Aisenbergs. Imagine being falsely accused for your own
childâs disappearance. The Aisenbergs believe that Sabrina was taken
and raised by a new family. Prior to their babyâs disappearance, they
thought they were living in a safe community and would often leave their doors and windows
unlocked. They didnât hear anyone enter the home the
night in question. When they woke the children for school the
next day, Marlene Aisenberg found Sabrina and her yellow blanket were gone. âI heard my wifeâs screams,â recalled
Steve Aisenberg. âWe searched in the house, and thatâs
when my wife noticed the garage door had been left open and even worse, that the door leading
from the garage to the laundry room and into our house was wide open.â Sabrina would be 20 years old this year. âWe just canât shake the feeling that
Sabrina is alive,â Steve said. âWe think that whoever took our daughter
did so because they desperately wanted a child of their own. But we want her back. She belongs with us.â A lead matching Sabrinaâs description occurred
in 2003, but DNA tests proved it false. Nothing more has come of the case. Sabrina is gone without a trace, but the investigation
remains open and active. 11. Zebb Quinn
One episode that has troubled those in Asheville, North Carolina for 17 years is that of Zebb
Quinn. At the time of his disappearance on January
2nd, 2000, he was 20 years old. The strange part of his story is that prior
to his disappearance, he received a page from his auntâs phone number. The even stranger thing is that his aunt claims
she never paged him. Moreover, at the time of the page, his aunt
said her house had been broken into. Nothing was taken, but a lot of items in her
home had been moved around and misplaced. Did whoever lead to Zebbâs disappearence
page him so that heâd come to his auntâs home? What happened there? Or is there another explanation for the disturbance? The case gets weirder: two weeks after his
disappearance, Zebbâs car was found parked in front of where his mother worked. Large lips were drawn on the window and a
puppy was discovered inside the car. Donât worry, he was alive. But is Zebb? We may never know. 10. Laozi
The first mysterious disappearance on the history books goes all the way back to 531
BC, when one of the most central figures of Chinese culture, Laozi, climbed atop a water
buffalo and headed into the Western wildlands from mainland China, never to be seen or heard
from again. The Chinese sage founded Taoism, a philosophical
tradition centered around being in harmony with the Tao. The Tao is the pattern, substance, and source
of all in existence. So the basic principle of Taoism is to live
in harmony with everything. Laozi worked in the Zhou dynasty court until
he was older and wiser. Thatâs when he looked around him and saw
ingrained corruption and blatant hypocrisyâŚnot much different than what you see today. Disgusted, he decided to leave this place. But before he disappeared without a trace,
a border keeper requested that he write the teachings of Taoism. Laozi acquiesced, putting the work down on
paper. Then he vanished like fog and mist into the
mountains. 9. Orion Williamson
It was July 1854 when a farmer in Selma, Alabama disappeared from his pasture. Orion Williamson had been lounging around
on his front porch when he decided to pull his horses in. He stood up, traipsed across the field, and
was never seen or heard from again. Orionâs wife and child watched him go, as
did his neighbors on the opposite end of the field. They even waved at him. It was the last time they would. All accounts state that the man simply vanished
into thin air. And after witnesses and authorities searched
the grounds, that seemed to be the case. There was no hole, no sinking sand, not a
single sign pointing to the cause of this manâs mysterious disappearance. Nothing. He was there, and then he was gone. The place was searched using dogs, and journalists
tore into the story in Selma, but to no avail. The case of Orionâs disappearance has long
gone cold. 8. Joe Keller
It was the summer before Joseph Kellerâs sophomore year at Cleveland State Community
College. Heâd been traveling with friends across
the West. Theyâd visited the Grand Canyon, San Francisco,
Las Vegas, after which they headed on over to Joeâs relativeâs dude ranch in Colorado. But Keller didnât get to explore the area
for long. On July 23, 2015, the day before Kellerâs
19th birthday, he disappeared. Heâd been out running that day, together
with his friend, Collin. The two started out together, but soon Collin,
being a cross-country runner, sped ahead. At the time, a fly-fisherman had seen Collin
running, but no Joe lagged behind. After his run, Collin headed back to the ranch
to wait for Joe, but when he didnât show up after an hour, the group knew something
was wrong. They began searching. Soon the search party grew to 35. âIf he was hurt, he would have heard us,â
David Van Berkum, Joeâs uncle, said. âHe was either not conscious or not there.â If heâd gotten lost, perhaps Joe had scrambled
to higher ground to see if he could find his way. He was in his running gear, so he certainly
wasnât dressed for a night in the wilderness. Luckily, the night was warm, and the search
party expected Joe to find his way and return home. Still, the group called the police at 10 P.M.,
and deputies appeared at midnight, Joeâs birthday. The search continued, with the focus directed
at logical logistics. When Joe still didnât show, the search expanded. Search dogs, firefighters, volunteers â even
with everyone on deck, 200 people on foot and horseback, 15 dogs, an infrared airplane,
Joe was never found. After a few days, volunteers abandoned the
mission. There were no clues, leads led nowhere. Joe Keller simply vanished. Did he fall and hurt himself? Was he taken? Did some wild animal take him instead? Only Joe knows. 7. The Alaskan Family
Individual cases of disappearances are mysterious enough. Imagine an entire family vanishing into thin
air. Thatâs what happened to an Alaskan family
of four in 2014. 37-year-old Brandon Jividen and his 22-year-old
girlfriend, Rebecca Adams, vanished, along with Adamsâ three- and five-year old children,
Jaracca and Michelle. The family disappeared on May 27th in small-town
Kenai. When a neighbor called the police to report
the strange absence of the family, who had been missing for days, the police found the
coupleâs cars parked at the apartment and, inside, nothing amiss. No sign of forced entry, and nothing suspicious
disturbed the scene. The only clue was that the family dog had
disappeared along with them. However, a few days later, Lanell Adams, Rebeccaâs
sister, contacted the police and mentioned that Rebecca had been behaving strangely several
days before she and her family disappeared. She told police, âShe sounded very distressed. She just told me: âKnow that I love you,â
and she had to get off the phone very quickly. I asked her, Becca, are you OK?â She said, âDonât ask me that right now. Just know that I love you.ââ FBI involvement led to search and rescue dogs
and search aircraft. Nothing turned up until, in May 2015, scraps
of clothing and the remains of a man the police believe to be Brandon Jividen were found in
the grass just off a northwest trail short of a mile from the familyâs home. Remains of a dog were also found there. Police believe that Brandon took the dogâs
life, as well as his girlfriend and her kids. But with such mysterious circumstances and
the rest of the family still missing, we may never know what really happened. 6. Maura Murray
In a case that enraptured the nation, 21-year-old Maura Murray vanished from New Hampshire in
2004, never to be seen or heard from again. The nursing student was attending UMass Amherst,
when she emailed her professors to let them know she was heading home, because thereâd
been a passing in the family. She then left in her Saturn sedan, after having
packed it with a weekâs worth of clothes and toiletries and MapQuest directions to
Burlington, Vermont. It was a snowy drive, and Maura left at dark. She took a turn too quickly and ended up swerving
into a snowbank. A motorist pulled up to ask Maura if she wanted
help, which she refused. A couple minutes later, the police arrived. But Maura wasnât there. All they found was a locked car, a cracked
windshield, and deployed airbags. It didnât take long for a full-scale investigation
to unfold â search dogs, helicopters, the whole nine yards. Media flocked to the scene, with interviews
being done with Mauraâs father and her boyfriend, Bill Rausch. Rausch told Soledad OâBrien from CNN that
heâd received a voicemail from a prepaid calling card that night: âI could hear only
breathing and then towards the end of the voice mail, I heard what was apparent to be
crying and then a whimper, which Iâm certain was Maura.â The case was perplexing from the beginning. For one thing, there had been no passing in
Mauraâs family. She had taken $280 out of her account and
purchased drinks that fateful night. She hadnât told anyone â not her father,
not her boyfriend, not her friends â where she was headed. The case only became more baffling when leads
started to roll in. And there were lots of them. Internet message boards had just come into
vogue in 2004, and they were blowing up with theories and potential leads. One of Rauschâs friends had made a website
about the case, and a cousin of Mauraâs had done the same. Armchair sleuths began trying to piece the
puzzle together. But how constructive were these theories? Some thought Maura had faked her own passing
and headed to Canada; others believed someone had snatched her on Route 112. Some of these theorists went to investigate
the scene. Some â like Joseph Anderson â have become
obsessed with the case, spending around five hours a day trying to dig up information. Then there was Butch Atwood. He was driving his school bus home the night
of Mauraâs disappearance. When he came across the scene, he pulled over
and asked Maura if she needed him to call the police. She told him no and claimed sheâd already
phoned up AAA. Butch thought that was odd, since there was
almost no cell reception in the area. He called the police when he arrived home
anyway, which was just a short distance away. In fact, he could see the scene from his house. When police arrived, they found the Saturn
soaked in red stains. Sheâd obviously been drinking, but there
was no sign of a struggle, no footprints to follow. Fred Murray, Mauraâs father, believed the
police botched his daughterâs case. âItâs freezing cold out,â he said, âthereâs
a crack in the windshield, thereâs a potential head injury, thereâs arguably evidence of
drinking, which would promote hypothermia. A young person. In a state of shock. ⌠And you donât go down the street the
way she was going?â The police believe Fredâs anger is misplaced. Fred also closed out a group of volunteers
who were helping follow leads. No leads have proven fruitful, however. And Maura Murray remains mysteriously missing
to this day. 5. D.B. Cooper One infamous disappearance is that of D.B. Cooper, the skyjacker. D.B. Cooper is an alias. The man who carries this alias jacked an airplane
from Northwest Orient Airlines right out of the clear blue sky. This was the day before Thanksgiving, 1971. Flight 305 departed from Portland and was
Seattle-Tacoma bound, when the gentleman by the name of Cooper told a flight attendant
that he demanded four parachutes, a refueling truck, and $200,000. Upon landing, everything went smoothly for
Cooper. Not so much for the authorities. He received his ransom, the parachutes, and
the refueling truck, and he let the flightâs passengers go. He retained the pilot and some crew members
and told them to fly to Mexico City. But they were only 30 minutes into departure
when Cooper parachuted out of the plane at 10,000 feet with his ransom in tow. No one knows where he disappeared to, who
he was, or whether or not he landed safety. All anyone can guess is that, if he did, he
set foot somewhere near Mount St. Helens in Washington state. D.B. Cooperâs identity remains a mysteryâŚbut
that hasnât stopped the FBI and other investigators from trying to solve it. Theyâve pointed the finger at everyone from
flight attendants to engineering surveyors to copycats to aerospace engineers to old
guys who live on boats in San Diego Bay. To no avail. The identity and subsequent disappearance
of D.B. Cooper remains a mystery, and it's unclear
if he even survived the jump. Investigators are going off details from the
single clue D.B. Cooper left behind: a JCPenney clip-on tie
which was found on seat 18E. No wonder he disappeared so successfully. Whatâs the takeaway from a $3 tie? 4. Jimmy Hoffa
With paparazzi and all the media attention that comes with fame, itâs hard to imagine
a famous person disappearing. But the American labor union leader and President
of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union, Jimmy Hoffa, disappeared at age 62
in July, 1975. Hoffa had long been a union activist and,
by his mid-20s, had become a significant figure in progressing union interests. He became vice president and then president
on 1958, serving in the role until 1971. In 1964, he nailed down the very first national
agreement for teamstersâ rates, and the union grew to its largest membership under
his leadership, at a peak of more than 1.5 million. Despite all of these kudos, Hoffa was also
known for being involved with underground industries. In 1964, he was convicted of fraud, attempted
bribery, and jury tampering and was subsequently sentenced to 13 years in 1967. This sentence was cut short by none other
than Richard Nixon, who pardoned him in 1971, on the terms that heâd resign as union president. Four years later, Hoffa mysteriously vanished. Some suspected that his mob dealings had caught
up with him. Others claimed that he was buried at the end
zone of the Giantsâ original stadium. Many Hoffites continue to follow his story,
hoping to sniff out a lead. But the man seems to have left no trace behind. 3. Amy Fitzpatrick
Another international mystery surrounds a 15-year-old Irish girl, Amy Fitzpatrick, who
disappeared in 2008 on New Yearâs Day in Spain. Staying at the Riviera del Sol in Mijas Costa,
Amy was last seen departing her friendâs house, never to be heard from again. What we know of the Irish teen is that Amy
despised her stepfather, Dave Mahon, and it seems, for good reason. Dave went on to take the life of Amyâs brother,
Dean, five years after the girlâs disappearance, in 2013. Amyâs friend, Ashley, and Ashleyâs mother,
Debbie, spoke of Amyâs relationship with Dave. âShe was scared of him, and you could tell,â
Ashley said. âWhat were Amyâs words?â Debbie added. ââHe makes my skin crawlâ, they were
Amyâs words about Dave.â So is Amyâs case a runaway, did someone
take her? Or something even more sinister? Spanish police have never thought Amy was
a runaway. For one thing, other than Ashley Rose â whose
house she was staying at the night of her disappearance â she knew no one else in
Spain. The investigation led to a local bar, and
police believe itâs possible that Amy ended up there and was perhaps taken. One suspicious piece of information is that
Amy went nowhere without her phoneâŚbut the night of her disappearance, she didnât take
it with her. It was discovered in her familyâs apartment,
and Ashley claims to have seen her use it that night at her house. âShe had an Irish phone which she kept all
her contacts on [because her other Spanish phone was smashed],â Ashley said. âShe had that phone with her [on the night
she disappeared] because she used our house phone to call her mum and she got the number
off that phone. I saw her do it.â So if Amy ran away or was taken, how did the
phone return to her home? Amyâs disappearance has yet to be solved
and perhaps never will be. 2. Lord Lucan
This Lord was a bad man. And bad things are bound to happen to those
who deserve them. After he went after a nanny with a lead pipe
and then went after his ex-wife, Lady Lucan, the 7th Earl of Lucan, John Bingham, sped
off to East Sussex in his Ford Corsair. Bingham was paranoid and obsessive, whom Lady
Lucan had divorced. He spied on his ex after they split and melted
down the day before after a pet cat that heâd bought for his children had been found with
its throat sliced. After these events and his escape, his car
was found dripping in red liquid. But Lord Lucan was nowhere to be found. Though some believe he flew off from a private
airfield, and others thinking he took his life in the English Channel, the vanishing
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Perhaps one of the most infamous disappearances of all time, Amelia Earhart, the aviator and
multi-talented extraordinaire, vanished into thin air at only 39 years old. The aviation pioneer was attempting to complete
a round-the-world flight, when somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, she and her navigator,
Fred Noonan, disappeared on July 2nd, 1937. The subsequent search to find the pair is
the most expensive and extensive in American history. Although plenty of theories floated around
about the disappearance, the common belief was that Earhart ran out of fuel in the Electra,
and sank near Howland Island in the Pacific. That was the main theoryâŚuntil this year. A photograph was discovered in the National
Archives that turned the Earhart theorists on their heads. The photo shows a look-alike Earhart, alongside
a look-alike Noonan on a dock, while a Japanese ship tows a barge carrying something thatâs
estimated to be 38 feet long, the same dimensions as the Electra. The photo appears to be undoctored, and NBC
News analyst and former executive assistant director for the FBI, Shawn Henry, is confident
that Earhart and Noonan do, indeed, appear in the photo. If thatâs the case, then it looks like the
pair did survive whatever ordeal theyâd faced. But did they survive for long? According to some experts, if Earhart was
captured by the Japanese, she may have been kept in captivity until her passing. This is one mysterious disappearance that
may have been solved with a photograph, perhaps giving faith to others whoâve lost a loved
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Watched this one and subbed to the reddit Ofc, a long time sub on YT
Just watched this one. Great job! Wasn't the Amelia Earhart one said to be a photo before she went missing?
Love the videos you do. I am a long time YouTube subscriber. Another great video!
Yeah, I remember hearing about Amy Fitzpatrick. It was big in the news here, and then again when her brother Dean was murdered. General consensus is that she's dead and the step-father killed her.
Get this: Mahon, the step-father, claimed that Dean committed suicide by running into the knife the Mahon was holding. And if you believe that, I've got a bridge to sell you.
Some good news, though, Mahon has been regularly getting the shit kicked out him in prison and even had his jaw broken, so there's that.