Famous Actors, Musicians, and Writers Who Strangely Vanished Without a Trace

 Brent Swancer shares several accounts of famous actors, musicians, and writers who strangely vanished without a trace.

A frighteningly common phenomenon is that of people who, for whatever reasons, have suddenly and without explanation simply vanished without a trace, never to be seen again. There are countless cases of this throughout history, and such accounts never fail to incite curiosity, speculation, and wonder. We are somewhat macabrely drawn to the idea that someone could just seemingly cease to exist, and the desire to have some closure and explanation can be alluring to the point of obsession, a gnawing need for answers that may never come. While many of these vanished people have become famous simply because they have disappeared so inexplicably, there are others that were well-known even before these incidents. Here we will look at famous actors, musicians, and writers who had promising futures, but who have mysteriously disappeared and left a legacy of both artistic endeavors and strange mysteries. Read more

13 Spooky and and Unexplained Disappearances

Mysterious disappearances are fascinating because we can speculate about what happened, but in the end we just don't know. Here are thirteen that make you wonder.

After months of inaction, search teams have resumed trawling the Indian Ocean for the merest scrap of evidence that Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, which stunned the world when it went missing back in March, had plunged into its murky depths.

The plane’s disappearance captivated the globe because unsolved mysteries and missing-persons sagas bear an extra smidgen of Creep Factor compared to your everyday open-and-shut true-crime stories. Raised on fairy tales and weaned on Hollywood endings, people crave closure in their narratives—but you won’t get it with any of the following real-life cases. Here are thirteen bizarre disappearances throughout history presented in chronological order. Read more

The 8 Most Mysterious Disappearances of All Time

Mysterious disappearances are endlessly fascinating. This list could have been extended to ten if they had added Ambrose Bierce and Judge Crater.

Thousands of humans go missing everyday. Unfortunately, the explanation is usually crime–kidnappings, abductions or murder. In other instances, a person can runaway to escape something, or forge a new identity.

A missing persons case that can’t be explained is considered a cold case. Of these cold cases, the vast majority have rational explanations, but investigators simply do not have the physical evidence they need to put the puzzle together. Still, there are a small percentage of cases that seem to defy logic altogether. Read more