Sudden disappearances and appearances of cars. Mysterious disappearances of people in history

History has accumulated quite a lot of completely inexplicable facts of mass disappearances of people. Here are some of them.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Eilean Mor Lighthouse was erected on the rocky island of Flennan. On December 15, 1900, the lighthouse ceased to function because all three keepers disappeared. The investigation showed that the people could not have floated away or been abducted. They disappeared as if they had been taken away from the island by an unknown force. This incident remains an unsolved mystery.

An even more mysterious incident is known. On the morning of August 21, 1915, a battalion of British troops was supposed to recapture Hill 60 from the Turks. After approaching the height, fog “fell” on the battalion, which then turned into a cloudy cloud that rose into the sky and slowly floated in the direction opposite to the wind. And the battalion disappeared. There were neither living nor dead left near the height. There is still no speculation about the causes of this strange tragedy.

An equally mysterious incident occurred in December 1937 in China. South of Nanjing, 3,000 Chinese troops took up positions to defend one of the bridges. On the morning just before the offensive, radio contact with this detachment suddenly disappeared. Officers sent to investigate found that the trenches in the positions were empty. Not only were no corpses found, but not even traces of possible military actions. The soldiers could not make a mass escape, because to do this they would have to cross a carefully guarded bridge. What could have happened to so many people? There is still no answer.

Another amazing emergency occurred in 1930 in Canada. On the shores of Lake Anyakuni, a large Eskimo village completely disappeared. The disappearance of 2,000 people was discovered by one of its residents, who was absent from the village for only two weeks. The surprising thing was that in the Eskimo huts everything remained in its place. The search for people did not yield any results; there were no traces around the village, which excluded the possibility of their mass departure. The same type of secrets includes numerous facts of disappearances of people from ships that remained afloat.

For example, in the Philippines, on the island of Tokelau, on November 10, 1955, the motor ship Hoipta was found a few tens of meters from the shore, from which all 25 crew members and passengers disappeared. All attempts to find people were completely unsuccessful.

In July 1941, in the North Atlantic in the Bay of Lions, the ship Iceland was discovered in good condition, but without a single person on board.

All these facts still do not have convincing explanations and therefore ended up in the encyclopedia of mysterious facts by Richard Lazarus called “Beyond the Possible.” But there must be some physical reason for such phenomena!

A study of meteorites crashing into the Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic speed (conducted at one time by the author) showed that the celestial stones are charged to gigantic potentials, the values ​​of which, according to calculations, can reach millions and billions of volts. There are two possible flight end scenarios. In the first case, a breakdown occurs between the meteorite and the Earth, the accumulated potential is discharged to the Earth, all kinetic energy is converted into electrical energy, which causes an electric discharge explosion of the meteorite. But the second option is also possible. In this case, the meteorite may collapse before the explosion. In this case, the potential will decrease, a breakdown will not occur, but the tense state in the atmosphere will remain. A high potential between the meteorite trail and the Earth can exist in the atmosphere for several hours, gradually decreasing. And high potential can cause the phenomenon of electrostatic levitation, when even heavy bodies, people, trees, even small yachts can rise into the air and be transported over very long distances.

Let us remember how an entire battalion of English troops disappeared, upon which a mysterious fog suddenly descended. According to the proposed mechanism, a meteorite flying over the battalion created a high state of tension, when all 145 people were lifted into the air and carried towards the meteorite and scattered far from the place of rise. With this version, the appearance of a strange cloud becomes completely obvious. It arose due to the rise of sand and dust into the air under the influence of a super-powerful field. It also becomes clear what struck outside observers most of all - “a cloud in the shape of a round loaf slowly floated in the direction opposite to the wind!” Objects lifted upward by electrostatic force will move in the direction of the maximum electric field strength, even despite the wind. The same “meteor force” may have been the reason for the disappearance of people from yachts and ships. In some cases, it can be assumed that even light ships are capable of being lifted into the air and carried over long distances. Thus, there is a known case when a yacht with a crew was discovered at a distance of 800 miles from the place of disappearance. It is difficult to imagine that the yacht could cover such a distance during chaotic sailing. At the same time, a small ship could fly such a distance in an hour and a half, i.e. during the existence of a charged meteorite trail. This hypothesis could explain many mysteries that gave rise to various kinds of legends and myths.

People from nowhere

On February 11, 1945, at half past two in the morning, an ambulance delivered a seriously wounded man to Boston State Hospital. The driver, dressed in military uniform, helped the nurse on duty put the patient on the examination table and quickly left. “You can call him Charles Jamison,” the driver said as he left. A quick examination of the victim showed that his condition was very serious. Jamison lay unconscious, and several shrapnel wounds had already festered on his legs. The patient’s appearance was complemented by an ineptly stitched six-centimeter scar on his cheek and picturesque nautical tattoos adorning his arms and torso. The sister immediately called a surgeon and ran after the driver to ask where to report the further fate of the victim. However, the ambulance had already left. The unusually quick departure of the car, which looked more like a getaway, confused the nurse on duty, and she called the police. The police arrived only the next morning, when Jamison had already been operated on, but was still in a coma. Detectives from the Boston Police Department carefully examined the patient's Navy uniform. The jacket and trousers turned out to be not American-made. In the pockets of the clothes, the police did not find a single document indicating the identity of the patient. The search for the ambulance that took the wounded man to the hospital was unsuccessful. As it turned out, neither the civilian nor the military services had cars of the brand named by the nurse. The FBI was involved in the mysterious case, whose agents tried to establish the patient’s identity through the US Navy and merchant marine. Even after receiving the patient’s fingerprints, naval services were unable to shed light on the mystery of Jamison’s real name. Meanwhile, the patient continued to be unconscious and his life hung by a thread. Only a month later it became clear that the patient would live. Although his body was paralyzed from the back down, his wounds healed and he came out of his coma. The doctors hoped that Jamison himself would help in establishing his own identity, but the patient remained frighteningly silent, which, according to doctors, was the result of severe psychological shock. On July 15, 1945, the official investigation into the Jamison case was closed due to the impossibility of establishing his true identity. Meanwhile, the patient spent weeks on end in a wheelchair, motionless contemplating the city landscape. And suddenly, on an August morning, when his nurse was ventilating his room, he looked at her and said in a distinct British accent, “I don’t know how it happened.”

Jamison's words were immediately reported to Dr. Oliver Williams, who showed great interest in the secret of the mute patient. Gradually, Williams managed to get Jamison to admit that he was a sailor. To check his words, the head of the British Information Service, Alton Barker, was invited to the hospital, who brought with him drawings of English naval uniforms and photographs of various British ships. Looking through the illustrations, Jamison remained completely indifferent to materials related to modern times. But after seeing several drawings of naval uniforms from the First World War, he asked in surprise why the chevrons were placed incorrectly in four of the drawings. As Barker later admitted, he deliberately changed the location of the chevrons to test Jamison’s competence, but he could not have expected that the patient would pay attention to the outdated uniform. The British side became seriously interested in the mysterious patient. In a conversation with English naval experts, Jamison admitted that he served on the battleship Bellerophon immediately after the ship left the stocks. This simply could not happen, since the battleship set off on its maiden voyage in 1907. From the depths of his crippled memory, Jamison retrieved memories of how his ship headed for the Jutland Peninsula. On May 31, 1916, the famous naval battle took place there, in which German ships under the command of Admiral Shire inflicted significant damage on the English squadron. Oddly enough, Jamison flatly refused to talk about British losses. “If some of our ships sank, I didn’t see it,” the patient concluded, after which he refused to answer further questions. Incredibly, he spoke as if he considered himself a prisoner of war, obliged to keep secret information of national importance. The bewilderment of doctors and English officials grew every day. It increased even more when Jamison remembered sailing on the three-masted clipper ship Cutty Sark. The mention of this legendary ship shocked the British, and they requested detailed information from London. As the documents stated, the high-speed clipper Cutty Sark, launched in 1869, sailed to China and Australia, and since 1922 it was used as a training ship.

Since 1940, the clipper was docked, where it safely survived all the bombings of World War II. However, the documents that arrived from London for the Cutty Sark included a piece of the logbook of the German submarine U-2, marked with a red question mark. According to German records, on July 10, 1941, on the open sea, they met the three-masted sailing ship Cutty Sark. The sailing ship responded to the order to drift with gunfire and was immediately sunk by a torpedo salvo from the boat. Among the wreckage of the ship, the Germans found the only survivor - a sailor named Charles Jamison. According to the logic of events, Jamison should have ended up in German captivity. However, another incredible incident occurred - Jamison simply disappeared from the submarine, or, as the Germans wrote, “ran away.” Only after the end of World War II did the last mysterious link in Jamison’s story become known.

Following the publication of several articles about a Boston hospital patient, an American naval officer called the British Consulate. He remembered that he had already come across the name "Jemison" and suggested checking the ship's papers of the USS Lejeune from 1945. As British officials found out from the ship's documentation, on January 24, 1945, a man overboard was noticed on the open sea from the Lejeune. When he was lifted onto the ship, he whispered, “Charles Jamison,” and lost consciousness. It remains a mystery how Jamison ended up at sea when there was no ship or shipwreck nearby, why he did not die in the icy water from hypothermia, and most importantly, where he spent three and a half years from the sinking of the Cutty Sark clipper to miraculous rescue by the crew of the Lejeune ... A patient named Jamison was in a Boston hospital until his death, which followed on January 19, 1975. In the last years of his life, the patient's condition worsened, and he almost did not speak. Detectives, naval historians and British consulate workers tried to study its history. Their opinions agreed on one thing - from the point of view of normal logic, the Jamison case cannot be explained...

Mysterious photograph taken in 1941. It showed a young man wearing modern sunglasses, modern clothes, and holding an object that looked like a video camera. For some scientists, this discrepancy between eras and styles gave rise to talk about the possibility of time travel, and that this young man was a guest from the future.

There are quite a lot of messages like these, and they are trying to give them the status of “inexplicable” and “mysterious”. However, it is not at all excluded that behind the appearance of such information injections there is nothing more than systematic work to cover up quite ordinary problems, incompetence, and illegal actions of the Governments themselves. It is difficult to find out exactly where there was a disappearance of a person “in a time funnel”, and where there was a kidnapping of a person for the experimental purpose of controlling his psyche. People do disappear, but the answer to the question “why?” can often turn out to be completely banal. Let's not just read such messages, but also understand that behind this there may be something far removed from the real Mystery... — Editorial site Radosvet.net

Ancient chronicles and medieval chronicles describe cases when a person in the blink of an eye seemed to disappear into thin air before the eyes of eyewitnesses. Historians do not take them seriously, considering them fiction. However, such mysterious disappearances still occur today.

Every year, thousands of people disappear without a trace all over the world, including in Russia. It is traditionally believed that for the most part they are victims of unsolved crimes. True, in the twentieth century a hypothesis appeared that earthlings were being abducted by aliens. It is possible that both occur. However, there are cases when a person disappears right in front of witnesses, who say that he instantly “evaporated” in the literal sense of the word.

In the East, especially in India and Tibet, sudden disappearances of people happened quite often. They did not see anything unusual in them, explaining it by what is now called teleportation, when, with the help of special psychotechnics, a person moves from one place to another in the blink of an eye. Well, in the distant past they said that he “flew to another world.”

European medieval chronicles also mention cases of instantaneous disappearance of people in the presence of witnesses, but, unfortunately, no details are given. But in the 18th century they were already described in detail.

In England at the time, the disappearance of former sailor Owen Parfitt caused a lot of noise.
All his life he sailed around the world and was captured by pirates. The sailor returned home almost paralyzed. All day long he sat in a wheelchair on the porch of his older sister Susanna’s house and told about his adventures to everyone who would listen.

On the evening of June 7, 1763, Parfitt, as always, sat on the porch in his chair and watched the workmen raking hay on a neighboring farm.

The sky was clouded with thunderclouds, and they were in a hurry to finish the work before the rain. When lightning flashed on the horizon, Susanna followed her neighbor, who was helping her bring the stroller and her brother into the house. Owen told her not to rush, it wouldn't hurt him if she got a little wet.

The sister and neighbor had already approached the house and clearly saw the disabled man on the porch. But, as happens with women, we stopped to chat because the rain had not yet started. When they looked at the porch, there was no one there. The women thought that the disabled person had somehow climbed over the threshold into the house. But it turned out that the wheelchair was standing in the same place, and his overcoat was lying on it. The farm laborers working on the neighboring plot did not see anyone. The long search for missing Owen Parfitt has ended in vain.

In 1809, an equally mysterious incident occurred in Germany. British diplomat Benjamin Bathurst was returning home after completing an important assignment.

Along the way, he and a friend stopped for dinner at an inn in the German village of Perelberg. After dinner they returned to the carriage. But before getting into it, the diplomat decided to inspect the horses. In front of his friend’s eyes, Bathurst melted into thin air while he was stroking one of the harnesses. His friend was so amazed that he was speechless. Having come to his senses, he called for help from the people at the inn. But no matter how much they searched for the missing diplomat, they could not find him.

In 1867, a mysterious disappearance took place in Paris before the eyes of Dr. Bonvilen. The victim was his neighbor Lucien Boussier. Here is a brief account of this credible witness. Lucien went to the doctor to consult about the weakness he had developed. Bonvilen asked him to undress and lie down on the couch, which he did.

The doctor walked away for a second to take the stethoscope from the table, and when he turned to the couch, the patient was not on it. Moreover, his clothes were lying on a chair nearby. Bonvilen immediately went to his neighbor’s apartment, but it turned out to be empty. The police, to whom the doctor reported the next day, did not find the missing man. Where the naked man could have gone remains a mystery.

But the most famous case of sudden disappearance occurred in 1880 in America on the outskirts of the town of Gallatin in Tennessee on the farm of David Lang. After washing the dishes after dinner, the farmer and his wife Emma left the house. The woman approached the children playing in the yard, and the husband went to the horses grazing in the meadow in front of the house. Having moved a few tens of meters from the house, Lang saw a gig in which his friend Judge Auguste Peck and his son-in-law were riding.

The judge was also noticed by all the other members of the household, to whom Peck always brought gifts. They shouted joyfully and began waving their hands at him. The farmer also waved to his friend and, without reaching the horses, turned and hurriedly headed towards the house to meet the guests.

But after walking a few meters, David Lang suddenly disappeared into thin air in front of five witnesses. Emma screamed loudly, afraid that her husband had fallen into the hole.

Then, together with the judge, his son-in-law and children, they walked around the entire field, especially carefully examining the place where David disappeared, but they did not find any traces of him or holes. The search, which involved dozens of Lang neighbors and townspeople, also yielded nothing. All American newspapers wrote about this incident at that time.

Many versions were put forward, but none of them could explain what happened to the farmer.
The Bennington Triangle and other horrors In the twentieth century, there were especially many - several dozen - disappearances in the northeastern United States in the vicinity of the town of Bennington (Vermont), which journalists even called the “Bennington Triangle” - by analogy with the famous Bermuda Triangle, where ships disappear without a trace and airplanes. People in the Bennington Triangle disappeared into their gardens and homes, on the streets and at gas stations.

And on December 1, 1949, soldier James Thetford disappeared in the presence of fourteen witnesses on a bus. All the passengers saw him sit down in his seat and doze off immediately after the bus left the station.

However, when an hour later the bus, which by the way never stopped on the way, arrived in Bennington, Thetford was not on it. His bag was still on the shelf above the seat, and only a crumpled newspaper remained in the place James had occupied. Before that, he was a convinced materialist and always laughed when he heard about some kind of devilry with mysterious disappearances.

The youngest victim of the Bennington Triangle was eight-year-old Paul Jackson, who disappeared on October 12, 1950. He was playing in the farmyard next to the pigsty.

His mother went in there to water the pigs, and when she came out a few minutes later, her son was gone. The woman searched the entire farm and walked around the surrounding area, loudly calling for Paul, but he did not respond. For several days, hundreds of police officers, rescuers and volunteers searched for the boy, but this did not yield any results.
People disappeared in other places too. So, in 1975, American Jackson Wright and his wife were driving a Ford from New Jersey to New York.

As he passed the Lincoln Tunnel, he noticed that the car windows were fogged up. Wright pulled over to the side of the road, stopped and asked his wife to wipe them down. Martha Wright got out of the car with a rag, walked up to the windshield and... disappeared. Not understanding what happened, the husband also got out of the car and began to look around. But the woman was nowhere to be seen. Wright was flagged down by a passing police patrol, who immediately began searching for Mrs. Wright. As in other cases, they were in vain.

Researchers of anomalous phenomena consider the most mysterious thing to be what happened in 1971 in perhaps the most mysterious place in Foggy Albion - Stonehenge.

At that time, access to the famous prehistoric megaliths was open day and night. And so on August 17, seven hippies decided to spend the night among the boulders. They set up tents, lit a fire, smoked weed and started singing songs.

Around two o'clock in the morning, dull rumbles of thunder were heard, and bright flashes of lightning cut through the darkness. At this time, two witnesses were driving past Stonehenge: a policeman and a farmer. According to them, the huge stones suddenly lit up with a blue light - so bright that it hurt the eyes. They heard someone screaming. Thinking that someone had been struck by lightning, they rushed to help. But near the megaliths there were only empty tents where someone’s things lay.

The policeman and the farmer waited until the morning, but no one showed up. It later turned out that a group of hippies had camped there for the night and disappeared without a trace.

In the winter of 1930, an entire Eskimo village with several dozen inhabitants disappeared. Fur hunter Joe LaBelle was snowshoeing along the shores of Lake Anjikuni in Canada. He knew these places well; he had been to this village more than once, where he was received as a welcome guest. However, no one met him that time, although on the way he fired a gun to announce his arrival.

The village seemed to have died out. Houses and outbuildings were empty. In some, the coals in the stoves were still warm, and on the tables there was food that had not yet frozen.

All clothes were in place. But without her, no one would have dared to leave their home in such cold weather. Moreover, there were no traces of people around the village. The puzzled hunter hurried to return to the nearest village to inform the authorities about the empty village. An investigation was launched, but the Eskimos could not be found.
In the Soviet Union, the press never wrote about such mysterious incidents. But this does not mean at all that they did not happen.

It’s just that in a country with a materialistic ideology it was forbidden to make public phenomena with a mystical overtones, even if they were registered by law enforcement agencies. However, before the advent of Soviet power in Russia, people probably disappeared before the eyes of eyewitnesses. This is evidenced by an old expression existing in the Russian language: “The devils took away (took, carried away).” This is how witnesses could explain the incredible phenomenon when a person was just in front of them, and then suddenly disappeared.

“Black holes” of our world Today we cannot blame everything on devils; we need to look for an explanation or at least put forward hypotheses about the mechanism of this phenomenon. The anomalous researchers made a seemingly quite acceptable assumption: people disappear because they are pulled in by the so-called “whirlpools of time.”
Against it is the fact that those who disappeared never appear again in our world, as often happens with those “gone by time.”

In addition, temporary anomalies are accompanied by a characteristic visible phenomenon - glowing clouds. People who find themselves close to them experience various painful symptoms: dizziness and headache, vomiting, severe weakness, and loss of coordination. And for some, when a luminous cloud appears, their hair stands on end, their body becomes covered with goose bumps, their hands tremble, and sometimes they lose consciousness. In addition, time anomalies leave behind other material traces: stalled engines, stopped clocks, extinguished electric lamps.

A more acceptable hypothesis is the dematerialization of people at the moment of their disappearance. They seem to crumble into their component parts - molecules and atoms, which then undergo structural changes. To understand how this ultra-fast process develops, let’s call on our imagination to help. Let's imagine that a person has turned into an infinitesimal virtual observer who was placed inside our body. Then the whole Universe will open before him. The tissue molecules in it will look like star systems, and the various organs will look like galaxies.

In addition, they all interact with each other and are in constant motion in their microcosm.
Previously it was believed that the laws of this microworld cannot be transferred to our big world. But in 1997, physicist David Richard from the University of Massachusetts showed that they also operate in the macrocosm. From here we can draw the opposite conclusion: it is possible that the same processes that are observed in our Universe occur in the quantum world.

Astronomers and astrophysicists suggest that there are unusual cosmic objects in it - so-called “black holes” made of superdense matter. They have a huge force of attraction, due to which the light is “locked” in them and does not come out. According to the law of gravity, “black holes” are capable of “devouring” stars, their systems and even entire galaxies, drawing them into themselves.

In light of all that has been said above, we can assume that the same “black holes” arise at the submolecular level in humans. In this case, they instantly “devour” it from the inside, leaving no visible trace.
Of course, this is only a schematic hypothesis. Time will show how true it is, if science takes the mysterious disappearances of people for no apparent external reason seriously, collects facts and scrupulously analyzes them. In the meantime, we can only hope that this sad fate will pass you by. In any case, statistics indicate that its probability is negligible.

Sergey DEMKIN
"Secret Power"

Cars disappearing in front of witnesses is a more common phenomenon than it might seem. For example, there are many cases described on the Internet that can be called “glitches in the matrix.” (website)

First case of missing car

Here is what, in particular, a user with the nickname “pixelpants” says on the Reddit website:

I was at home and after dinner I was clearing the dishes from the table, when suddenly I saw an approaching car through the window. It seemed to me that a woman was driving. I was surprised, since my house is located in a dead end, it is impossible to drive or turn around normally in this place. For a minute I watched the car slowly approach, and decided that the woman had gotten lost and was now looking for a place to turn around. I hurried outside to help her, and within ten seconds I left the house, but I didn’t see any car... It was incredible. In such a short period of time, he could not back up and disappear from sight, and he had nowhere else to go. In the dust I saw the traces left by this car... I had the feeling that it had simply disappeared into thin air.

Second case of missing car

On the same site, another user told how one day he was returning by car from work and stopped near a traffic light. A black SUV stood behind him. And then this happened:

I slowly drove off at the green light, watching the SUV in the rearview mirror. I wanted to understand whether he would overtake me or not, because the owners of such cool cars like to show off their acceleration speed. However, the black jeep was sedately following me... Suddenly, when I just blinked, the car disappeared!.. This happened in broad daylight and on a road without any access roads! I thought that the SUV might have crashed into the trees on the side of the road, and even slowed down. But the thing is that the black jeep was nowhere to be found!.. I analyzed all the options and did not find a single rational explanation.

Third case of missing car

On the same Reddit we find a description of another mysterious case, and this time there were two eyewitnesses:

After school, my friend and I were returning home along the usual route. At a certain moment, as always, we got onto the highway and, having climbed a large hill, stopped at a traffic light in a long line of cars. At that moment, my friend noticed a car driving along a parallel dirt road in the opposite direction. I was surprised, because I would definitely have seen this car from the hill, because it offers an excellent view from there. And in general, it was not clear where this jalopy was going, since the dirt road ends in a dead end, I knew this very well. I took a closer look at the strange car: it was a white, rather old car, the make of which I could not determine. As I set off at the green light, I looked back to see where this car that had intrigued us was now. But she was no longer on the dirt road or on the track. And the car couldn’t move onto the highway: between it and the dirt road there is a wide ditch (in which, by the way, there was no white trash either). "Holy shit, what is this?" - my friend muttered in amazement. The feeling from what he saw was truly eerie...

Fourth case of missing car

And finally, another story shared on ThoughtCo by an Australian witness who identified himself as Mike.

One day Mike went to the city of Clayton with his friend. He had to return home alone and late in the evening. The time was approaching midnight; there were no other cars on the road except Michael's car. Suddenly the man noticed that a jeep was following him, which seemed to appear out of nowhere.

As I approached the shops along the highway and looked in the rearview mirror, I noticed a car catching up with me. I wonder where he came from? I thought that the driver accelerated a lot, despite the limit for this section of the road (up to 40 kilometers during the day and up to 60 at night). Since the locals don't do that, I figured it was some kind of reckless tourist who would overtake me before I passed the strip of shops. However, looking back, I saw that the road was completely empty: the jeep with a trailer, which just a second ago was catching up with me at great speed, was not on it. Logically, I was never able to explain to myself where it went...

Why cars?

All these cases, of which there are actually much more even on the Reddit resource, not to mention other sites of the World Wide Web, oral traditions, and so on, make one wonder: why exactly cars so often appear out of “nowhere” and then disappear “no one knows where” ? Not people, not animals, not even planes, but machines. We have all heard about “matrix glitches,” but such glitches should (logically) apply to all occasions, as well as to all vehicles in this example. And if these are not “failures in the matrix,” then what?

This is why even the unexpected itself seems to fade into the background before this no less mysterious question - why exactly are cars such a “privilege”? Why do you think, and what is it anyway?..

In the 18th century in Sicily, in the town of Tacone, there lived a respected artisan, Alberto Gordoni. One day in May 1753, he was walking through the courtyard of a local castle and suddenly “evaporated” in front of his wife, Count Zanetti and many other people.

Exactly 22 years later, Gordoni appeared again: he appeared in the same place from which he disappeared. At the same time, he claimed that he did not disappear anywhere, and he was placed in a mental hospital.

In 1898, Grace Perkins disappeared without a trace from her home in New England (northeastern United States). After a long search, her parents identified their daughter as the girl killed in Bridgeport (Connecticut, USA). But on September 17, 1889, on the eve of the burial of the found body, the real Grace appeared alive and unharmed. Where exactly she disappeared and why her parents identified her as another murdered girl remains a mystery.

In February 1920, a naked dead man was found in a field in Hampshire (UK). Judging by the tracks, he crawled for a long time before losing consciousness and freezing. There were no signs of violent death.

The London Daily News wrote: “Despite the photographs being sent to every police station in the United Kingdom, the police have still not been able to ascertain his identity. Moreover, there are no reports of any missing person even remotely resembling him. Apparently, he was an educated and wealthy man.”

Anna M. Fellows from Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA) left the home of her husband William three years after their wedding and was absent for 20 years. Nobody heard anything about her all this time, and then one day, years later, Fellowes returned home and found that his wife, who had disappeared two decades ago, was preparing food in the kitchen as if nothing had happened. She didn’t explain anything, and... they lived together again. However, three years later Anna disappeared again. This time it's forever.

In 1973, he disappeared, and 27 years later, as if nothing had happened, as if after a minute’s smoke break, Ayub Okoti, a resident of the village of Shiatsala located in western Kenya, returned to his home. "Lunch is ready?" — that’s all he asked his relatives, who were stunned by surprise. Almost three decades ago, he disappeared without a trace, without warning his family or friends.

For several years the missing man was unsuccessfully searched throughout East Africa. Finally, convinced of the futility of the search, they stopped trying, declared Ayub deceased and held a funeral in absentia, observing the necessary rituals.

In 1983, Ayub’s father died, bequeathing all the land to his other children. Then, having lost hope of seeing her husband alive, the wife left the house, taking the child with her. When Ayub returned, he found only his sister, brother and hundred-year-old mother, blind and bedridden.

In the province of Ontario (USA), on July 30, 1960, literally before the eyes of others, a 13-year-old boy suddenly disappeared. Four days later he appeared in the same place. He could not remember where he was and what happened to him.

In 1975, the case of an airliner that disappeared for 10 minutes made a splash in the press. An airliner with 127 passengers on board landing at Miami Airport (USA) disappeared from radar screens and from the radio air for 10 minutes. Then, appearing “out of nowhere,” the plane returned the crew and passengers from oblivion. And that's all - with the clock being 10 minutes late...

Before this classic case, described in many sources, in the same flight zone, the arrival of aircraft ahead of schedule was repeatedly recorded, but no one attached any significant significance to this.

There are not much fewer reports in history about the appearance of a strange type of people who come from “it is unclear where” than there are reports about mysterious disappearances. Stories have become classic, describing in all colors the details of the appearances of: a boy of approximately 12 years of age named Wild Peter (on July 27, 1724, appeared near the city of Hamlmen, Germany); teenager named (May 26, 1828 in Nuremberg); the future famous designer R. Bartini (the details of his appearance in the USSR in 1923 still give rise to the most amazing hypotheses among researchers); teenager E. Gaiduchka with an amazing fate (1930s in the North Caucasus in the USSR); “suspicious man” (shot in 1942 in the Caucasus); strange citizen (detained in 1954 in Japan) and other amazing people.

History of Bartini

Robert (Roberto) Ludwigovich Bartini(1897 - 1974) - famous Soviet aircraft designer, physicist, creator of designs for devices based on new principles (ekranoplan). Author of more than 60 completed aircraft projects.

According to the official version, he was the illegitimate son of Count Ludovico di Bartini - of Italian origin, but living on the territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This is the Christmas story: he was born from a count and a maid, the baby was allegedly thrown to the gardener devoted to the count, the countess, seeing the unfortunate child, fell madly in love with him, adopted him, and he grew up in a happy family without worries and without hassle.

It seems so... One problem - no kind of Bartini existed in nature. He is not listed in European “Who is who”. And it doesn’t appear anywhere at all.

What follows is more or less clear. After a failure in the history of his childhood and youth, Roberto Bartini ends up on the Eastern Front during the First World War, then captivity, from which he emerges after the October Revolution as a communist and an employee of the foreign department of the Cheka.

Next - illegal work in Italy, where Bartini manages to graduate from the aeronautical department of the Polytechnic Institute of Milan in two years, receive a pilot's diploma, and at the same time finance the Italian communists from the funds he received from his father's inheritance.

Again, everything would be fine, but how could Roberto Bartini (let’s still call him that) get money from the mythical pope? By the way, they do not comply with the documents of the Comintern. Moreover, there is evidence that Roberto’s real surname is Oroji, and his real father is Baron Formach. But...

Same story: Formachus does not exist in the family tree of European aristocrats. In general, mysticism is at every step.

In Italy, on the orders of Mussolini, Bartini was sentenced to death, but escaped from prison. According to one version, Roberto reached the USSR by plane, according to another - by submarine. Between 1922 and 1925 he was seen in China, Ceylon, Syria, the Carpathians, Germany and Austria. Only after this did he finally remain in Soviet Russia.

Starting as a simple laboratory assistant-photographer at the scientific experimental airfield on Khodynka, Robert Bartini made a dizzying career in two years. In 1927, the buttonholes of his uniform were decorated with diamonds of the brigade commander, and he himself became a member of the scientific and technical committee of the USSR Air Force. However, bureaucratic work did not suit him, and he transferred to OPO-3, the most important aircraft manufacturing company of that time. D. P. Grigorovich, S. A. Lavochkin, I. V. Chetverikov and S. P. Korolev worked with him.

It was there that Bartini led a group of designers who developed unique seaplanes: the MK-1 flying cruiser, as well as the MBR-2 for short-range reconnaissance and the MDR-3 for long-range reconnaissance.

In 1939, the Steel-7 aircraft designed by Bartini set a new world record: it flew 5,000 kilometers at an average speed of 405 km/h. However, the aircraft designer did not find out about this. In 1938 he was accused of spying for Mussolini.

Bartini was saved from certain death by Kliment Voroshilov, who told Stalin: “It’s a painfully good head.” The designer was transferred to the prison design bureau TsKB-29 of the NKVD. One day, at the beginning of the war, Bartini met Beria and asked to let him go. Lavrenty Pavlovich set a condition for him: “If you make the best interceptor in the world, I’ll let you go.”

Soon Roberto Bartini provided a design for a supersonic jet fighter. However, Tupolev put an end to this development, saying that “our industry will not be able to handle this aircraft.” He considered Bartini a genius who, however, did not follow through with his ideas. According to another version, Beria’s conversation with Bartini took place before the war and concerned the conversion of the Stal-7 passenger aircraft into the DB-240 long-range bomber.

Bartini worked at TsKB-29 until 1947 (released back in 1946).

Immediately after the creation of the atomic bomb in the USSR, the question arose about its carrier capable of reaching the North American continent. There were several bomber projects presented, but Bartini's plane stood out especially clearly - as if taken from Lucas' future Star Wars. A supersonic beauty unlike anything with a megaton cruise missile above the fuselage and another bomb below it. It would have been simply inaccessible to the air defense systems of that time.

However, as always, the designer’s project remained only on paper and in models. He had set his sights on too many things. The, excuse me, dull, but simple, reliable and cheap Tu-95 went into production. As for the analogues of the Bartini bomber, they appeared much later: Tu-144, Sotka of the Sukhoi Design Bureau, American Hustler and Valkyrie. Serial models (Tu-160 and B-1B) were built starting in the late 70s. Total - a time lag of 20 years, at least that much Bartini anticipated the future.

We have now somehow become accustomed to the model of the five-dimensional Universe - not everyone recognizes it, but the fact that there is the possibility of the existence of another world parallel to us no longer seems absurd. Bartini proposed the idea of ​​a six-dimensional (!) world. Three spatial coordinates and three time ones. As a result, there is not one parallel world, but countless many. Leading, late and simply different. Is that another idea?

So who was he, Robert Bartini? An aircraft designer ahead of his time? A self-taught genius physicist? An alien from other worlds? Or just an Artist with a capital “A”? It seems that we will never know, and his archives disappeared with the same shade of mystery with which he himself lived. But he lived, lived among us, and perhaps that’s enough.

Cars disappearing into thin air without warning and right in front of one or more people seems to be a more common occurrence than it might seem at first glance.

Indeed, cases that can be described as “Glitch in the Matrix” are often found on the Internet. Like this story from a user named "pixelpants" on Reddit.

“I was busy taking the dishes away from the table after dinner, and I noticed through the window how a car was driving towards my house, driven, it seemed, by a woman. I was surprised because a) I live at the very end of the street and this is a dead end and b) there is no place to turn around.

I watched her slowly driving along the road for about a minute, and then I went outside, thinking that she might be lost or just looking for a place to turn around. It only took me about 10 seconds to walk outside and... there was no car there.

She simply could not reverse in such a short time and completely disappear from the road, so that she would not be noticeable at all. And she couldn’t turn around without reaching my house or turning to the neighbors; the road here is very narrow. And if she turned to the neighbors, she would also be visible; in 10 seconds she could not reach them by phone, ask them to open the garage and drive into it.

On the street you could still see traces of dust left by this car and it felt as if it had disappeared into thin air. I felt creepy and before you ask, I assure you that I am not taking any hallucinogens or anything that would make me see something so unreal. I also sleep well.

It was just a completely strange thing. I never saw this car or the woman driving it before or after this incident."

Another user from the same site described how he was driving on a one-way road from his place of work when something very strange also happened when he pulled up to a parking sign.

He claims that this road was technically only for cars that drove on the right side and there was a right turn sign ahead, but sometimes some cars, when there were no other cars nearby, turned left in order to turn onto another road.

In this regard, the user reports that a large black SUV suddenly stopped behind him at a traffic light, and he describes what happened next as follows:

“I was always a little nervous that it was not quite right to do things like turn where there is no such sign, although it is not such a big offense and I have done it myself from time to time. But there was a car behind me and I - I finally decided to go straight and not to the left, although I could have turned, shortening the path.

So I hit the gas and started driving straight across the street, and I saw that the car behind me was doing the same thing as me. After we both got onto the road (it's a quiet road with densely planted trees along the edges and only one or two houses further down), the SUV also followed me.

I was following it with my eyes in the rearview mirror for some unknown reason, and suddenly, when I blinked for just a second, this car disappeared. In broad daylight, on the road. where there were no access roads, she could only disappear by crashing into the trees. I even took a special look to see if there was a gap where branches would have been broken off and leaves were lying, but no, the car was nowhere to be seen.

He literally disappeared, disappeared into thin air. And believe me, I looked at every possibility in my head about where he could go and there was simply no way to do it.

It’s a creepy detail, but I didn’t remember who was in the driver’s seat, although the car was driving directly behind me and it was possible to make out the person’s face without any problems. I don't know if the glass was tinted or something, but that confused me too."

Another case from the same Reddit thread from a user with the nickname "whorl" and this time there were two eyewitnesses.

"I was driving home from school with my friend on my usual route, and at some point we had to turn onto the highway. There is a large hill on the way and right after the hill there is a traffic light, which is why there are often traffic jams. There is a road to the left of the highway. dirt road separated by a ditch.

While we were waiting in a long line of cars to get past the traffic light, my friend noticed a car driving down the dirt road in the opposite direction. I was immediately a little surprised, because first of all, I would have noticed this car even when we were driving up the hill, there is an excellent view from there, and secondly, I had no idea where it was going at all, since this dirt road ended in a dead end in a place we recently passed.

It was a fairly old white car, unfortunately I don't know the old brands enough to name its model. When the traffic light was green and I drove under it, I looked back to see where that strange car was now. And he was no longer on the dirt road or on the highway. And he couldn’t just go onto the highway, there was a wide ditch between them (he wasn’t even in the ditch).

I looked at my friend with a surprised face and he just muttered “what the hell...”. I have no explanation for this incident and it was quite disturbing."

In addition to these various stories of cars literally disappearing into thin air, another story that appeared on the ThoughtCo website. and was reported by a witness calling himself Mike.

He claims that in January 2012 he traveled with a friend to Clayton, Victoria (Australia), and then drove home late at night. It was around midnight when Mike was driving down the road and there were no other cars there. And suddenly he noticed that a car was driving right behind him, which seemed to appear out of nowhere. And then a chain of strange events happened:

"As I approached the shops along the road, I noticed in the rear-view mirror that a car was overtaking me, but still following at a distance. I thought it was unusual for it to accelerate so much, especially in this area where it was parked the limit is up to 60 km and up to 40 km during the day (We have a place here where you can drive no more than 3 km per hour at all, and for breaking it there will be a large police fine if you get caught. So it’s all pretty serious).

I saw that it was a jeep and it had a trailer. By the time we reached the end of the strip of shops, the traffic lights at the intersection were still green. When I passed through the intersection, I expected that jeep to overtake me, but when I looked in the rearview mirror, I did not see it on the road at all.

It would appear that he turned right at the intersection, but at his speed, which was 60 km/h or more, I don’t think he could have done it without slowing down a lot, especially with a trailer. And if he had slowed down at the turn, he would have slowed down and I would have definitely noticed him.

I couldn't understand what had just happened. One minute ago, a jeep with a trailer was following me and almost caught up with me, and suddenly it’s nowhere to be found and I can’t logically explain where it went.”