Sudden disappearance of people. Mass disappearances and people from nowhere

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 from her home in New England (northeastern USA) without a trace. 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.

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 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, “escaped.” 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

Most people have probably heard about the mysterious disappearance of pilot Amelia Earhart, the daring criminal DB Cooper, who hijacked a Boeing 727 plane and disappeared in an unknown direction with a huge amount of money in his hands, or Congressman Hale Boggs, who disappeared during a flight over Alaska. Mysterious disappearances are nothing new.

For some reason, people disappear without a trace and never appear again. There are many circumstances that force people to disappear, run away, or hide from society. Perhaps they want to get rid of problems in the family or at work, escape prosecution from the law, or start over again in another place. There are also those who decide to commit suicide in solitude, but they are few. Very often, people are kidnapped, and such crimes usually remain unsolved due to insufficient leads or evidence.

Disappearances without a trace are always alarming. But there are even more strange and inexplicable cases when people mysteriously disappeared in a matter of seconds before the eyes of others: there was a person, and a moment later he was no longer there, as if he had disappeared into thin air. It would take a few seconds to simply get up from a chair, but in some cases people would suddenly disappear in such a short period of time, leaving no clue as to what might have happened to them.

In the world where we live, there are many strange things and phenomena that we cannot understand. As you probably already guessed, what follows will be about the strangest cases of disappearances in the entire history of mankind.

1. Annette Sagers

On November 21, 1987, police received a missing person report from Corrina Sagers Malinoski, a twenty-six-year-old resident of Berkeley County, South Carolina. The girl did not show up for work that day; her car was found parked in front of Mount Holly Plantation. But that's not the strangest part of the story.

Almost a year later, on the morning of October 4, 1988, Corrina's eight-year-old daughter, Annette Sagers, left the house and headed to the stop where the school bus would arrive in a few minutes. The stop was located just across from Mount Holly Plantation, where her missing mother's car was discovered. Very strangely, when the school bus arrived, Annette disappeared. A note was found near the bus stop with the words “Dad, Mom is back. Hug your brothers for me."

Experts determined that the handwriting belonged to little Annette. They found no evidence that the girl wrote the note under duress. According to some people, Corrina decided to return and take Annette with her. However, she left two sons at home, and since then there has been no news of her.

In 2000, an unknown person called the police and reported that Annette's body was buried in Sumter County, but the mysterious grave was never found. The Berkeley County Sheriff's Office was investigating the disappearance of Annette Sagers. It remains unsolved to this day.

2. Benjamin Bathurst

On the night of November 25, 1809, British diplomatic representative Benjamin Bathurst was returning from Vienna to London. Along the way he stopped at the village of Perleberg, near Berlin, to eat and rest his horses. After he had eaten a hearty lunch, he was informed that the horses were ready to set off again. Bathurst apologized and told his assistant that he would be waiting for him in the carriage. A few minutes later the assistant was very surprised when, opening the carriage door, he did not find Bathurst in it. No one had any idea where he went. Bathurst was last seen walking near the front door of the hotel. No traces of his presence in the yard were found. He just disappeared.

Since Bathurst had diplomatic status, a search was organized for him. Police with sniffer dogs searched the forest, checked every house in the area and even examined the bottom of the Stepenitz River, but found nothing. A coat believed to belong to Benjamin Bathurst was later found in the privy. During a second search, the diplomatic representative's pants were found in the forest.

This incident occurred during the Napoleonic Wars. People began to say that Mr. Bathurst had been kidnapped by the French. Napoleon Bonaparte himself reportedly denied involvement in the disappearance of the British diplomatic representative and claimed that he had no idea where he was. The emperor even offered his help in searching for the missing man.

Despite all the efforts of the police, no further belongings or traces of Bathurst were found. He just disappeared.

3. Disappearance of the Sodder Children from Fayetteville, West Virginia

It was Christmas Eve 1945. Five children, Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny and Betty Sodder, were partying until late. Their parents and other brothers and sisters had long since gone to bed. Around 1 a.m., their mother was awakened by loud noises coming from the roof. She realized that the house was on fire. Then she woke up her husband and children, and they climbed out together.

The parents then began looking for a ladder to help Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny and Betty, who were trapped on the top floor, but it was nowhere to be found.

When the firefighters arrived, it was already too late. The children were presumed dead, but their bodies were not found in the charred remains of the house. The parents believed that Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jenny and Betty were kidnapped and the house was set on fire to cover up the crime.

Four years later, investigators at the site of the burned house found six small bones that were not damaged by fire and were believed to belong to a young adult. No other evidence was found.

In 1968, the Sodder couple received a photograph in the mail of a young man. On the back it was signed "Louis Sodder". Police were unable to identify the man in the photo. The Sodders died believing it was their lost son.

4. Margaret Kilcoyne

Fifty-year-old Margaret Kilcoyne worked as a cardiologist at Columbia University. She conducted pioneering research related to hypertension and made a major breakthrough. After a busy week at work, Margaret decided to spend the weekend at her country house in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She bought more than $900 worth of food and alcoholic drinks at a local grocery store, saying she was going to have a party and press conference to present the results of her scientific research.

Arriving home, Margaret called her brother and told him to come and wake her up in the morning: she wanted to go to church service. The next morning, January 26, 1980, Margaret's brother came to see her, but did not find her in the house. Margaret's jacket was hanging in the closet, her shoes were near the threshold, and the car was still there - in the garage. It was cold outside, so she couldn't go anywhere without her jacket.

The police thoroughly searched the house, but did not find any evidence. The strangest thing was that a few days later, Margaret’s sandals, her passport, checkbook, wallet and $100 appeared in a prominent place in the house. It was very difficult not to notice them.

Margaret's brother claimed that she was mentally unstable. The police put forward a theory that the woman committed suicide by drowning in the icy ocean, but no evidence was found to support this theory.

5. The Disappearance of Famous Socialite Dorothy Arnold

In 1910, New York City was shocked by the news of the disappearance of twenty-four-year-old socialite and wealthy heiress Dorothy Arnold. The girl was an aspiring writer whose first two stories were not approved by publishers. The public admired Dorothy's beauty and mocked her ambitions.

On the morning of December 12, 1910, the young beauty left home, telling her mother that she wanted to look for a new dress for the upcoming ball. According to witnesses, she bought one book and half a pound of chocolate, after which she went for a walk in Central Park. No one saw her again.

Dorothy Arnold was a New York celebrity. How could it happen that she simply disappeared without a trace? What seems even stranger is that her parents initially hid the fact that their daughter was missing, coming up with various excuses for curious friends. Apparently they wanted to avoid a scandal.

Dorothy Annold's disappearance became known only six weeks later. People said that the girl led a double life and planned to escape to Europe. However, no evidence was found to support this version.

6. The Vanished Tribe of Lake Angikuni

Lake Angikuni is located in rural Canada, near the Kazan River. In the early 1900s, the area was home to an Inuit tribe that disappeared without a trace on a November evening in 1930. These were hospitable people who were friendly to travelers, offering them hot food and overnight accommodation. Canadian hunter Joe Labelle often visited them.

That night, when Labelle again came to Lake Angikuni, the full moon was shining, which illuminated the entire village with its bright light. There was extraordinary silence all around; Even the huskies, who usually reacted noisily to the guests, were silent. There was not a soul in the village. In the center the fire gradually burned out. Next to him lay a bowler hat; Apparently, someone was going to cook a hearty dinner.

The Labelles examined several houses in the hope of finding someone who could explain what happened here. But he did not find anything except supplies of food, clothing and weapons. The tribe, consisting of thirty men, women and children, disappeared without a trace. If they decided to leave, they would probably take food and equipment with them. Labelle also discovered that all the huskies had died, apparently from starvation.

Labelle reported the mysterious disappearance to Canadian authorities, who sent investigators to Angikuni Lake. They found witnesses who claimed to have seen a large unidentified object in the sky above the lake. Investigators also determined that the settlement had been abandoned about eight weeks ago. If this is true, then why did the huskies starve to death so quickly, and who left the fire that Labelle discovered? The mystery of the disappearance of an entire Inuit tribe remains unsolved to this day.

7. Disappearance of Dideritsi

It’s one thing when someone disappears without leaving any traces, it’s another when a person simply disappears into thin air in front of amazed witnesses. This is exactly what happened in 1815. It all started when a man named Diderici dressed up as his boss, who had died of a stroke, put on a wig and went to the bank to try to withdraw money from the deceased's account.

Of course, the plan failed. Diderici was caught and sentenced to ten years in prison. He had to serve his sentence in the Prussian prison, Weichselmünde. According to prison records, when Diderici and other prisoners were taken out into the yard for a walk, something strange began to happen: his body gradually became transparent. Ultimately, he literally disappeared into thin air, leaving behind empty iron shackles. This happened in front of the amazed prisoners and guards. During the interrogation, all the witnesses said the same thing: Diderici gradually became invisible until he simply disappeared. Unable to rationally explain what happened, prison authorities closed the case and considered it "God's will." No one saw Dideritsi again.

8. Louis Leprince

On September 16, 1890, French inventor Louis Le Prince boarded a train from Dijon to Paris. Witnesses saw Leprince check his luggage and take his seat in the compartment. When the train arrived in the capital, Leprince did not get off at the final station. The conductor, thinking that Leprince had simply fallen asleep, decided to check his compartment, which, to everyone’s surprise, turned out to be empty: neither the inventor nor his luggage was in it. A search of the entire train did not yield any results. Leprince disappeared without a trace.

Passengers claimed that the inventor did not leave his compartment during the journey. Since the train traveled from Dijon to Paris without stopping, Le Prince could not get off earlier. Moreover, the windows in his compartment were closed and locked from the inside. On the way, according to passengers and conductors, no incidents occurred. Leprince seemed to have disappeared into thin air.

Interestingly, Louis Le Prince was able to capture moving images on film using a single lens camera that he himself invented. Simply put, Le Prince invented cinema. He was going to go to America to patent his invention. This was long before Thomas Edison gained widespread recognition. Le Prince's disappearance cleared the way for Edison.

9. Charles Ashmore

In November 1878, sixteen-year-old Charles Ashmore left his home in Quincy, Illinois, to get water from a nearby well. He did not return for a long time, so his father and sister began to seriously worry about him. It was cold and slippery outside, and something bad could happen to Charles. They followed his tracks, which suddenly stopped about 75 meters from the well. They shouted his name, but there was no answer. There was no sign of a fall in the snow. It was as if Charles Ashmore had simply disappeared into thin air.

Four days later, Charles' mother went to the same well to fetch water. Returning home, she claimed that she heard her son's voice. She walked around the entire area, but did not find Charles.

Other family members also claimed that they periodically heard Charles' voice, but they could not understand the words he spoke to them. The last time this happened was in the middle of the summer of 1879, and this did not happen again.

In 1975, Jackson Wright and his wife Martha were driving through the Lincoln Tunnel in New York. The couple decided to slow down and wipe the condensation from the windows. While Jackson was working on the windshield, Martha got out of the car to wipe the back window. Literally a couple of seconds after that, she disappeared. Jackson did not hear or see anything suspicious. There were no more cars in the tunnel. If Martha decided to run away, he would still notice her.

Initially, the police were skeptical of his testimony, however, after carefully examining the scene and not finding any evidence, they ruled out the possibility that he could have killed his wife.

11. Gene Spangler

Jean Spangler was one of the little-known actresses who dreamed of a career in Los Angeles. She was beautiful, but did not have the success she so dreamed of. Jean starred mainly in episodic roles. The most famous film in which she took part was the film “The Trumpeter” (1950) directed by Michael Curtiz.

In October 1949, Jean went to meet her ex-husband and was never seen again. Two days later, police found her purse, inside of which was a note that said, “Kirk, I can’t wait any longer. I'm going to see Dr. Scott. Everything will work out. We have to make it while mother is not at home.” Nobody knew which Kirk they were talking about. The story received wide publicity. A lot of versions were put forward, but all of them turned out to be unfounded. The matter has reached a dead end. The only “Kirk” that could be found in Jean’s circle was the famous actor Kirk Douglas. He starred in the film "Trumpeter" with Spangler. However, Douglas categorically denied any involvement in Jean's disappearance.

Investigators also led to Dr. Kirk, a gynecologist who, in a strange turn of events, had mysteriously disappeared a few weeks before Spangler went missing. However, no evidence linking him to the actress was found.

Another version revolved around two bandits who disappeared around the same time as Jean. A few weeks before the incident, they were seen at a party with Spangler. However, no specific connection between the disappearances has been identified. One can only guess what really happened to Jean.

12. James Warson

The year was 1873. James Warson, a shoemaker from Leamington Spa (England), was having fun with his friends at a local tavern. During the conversation, he said that he could run non-stop all the way to Coventry - as much as 25 kilometers. His friends decided to argue with him because they had little faith that he was capable of achieving such a feat. To eliminate the possibility of deception, they followed Warson in a horse-drawn cart. Warson ran for several kilometers without any problems.

As his friends began to doubt whether they would be allowed to win the bet, Worson suddenly tripped over something on the road. Witnesses claim that they saw Worson lean forward, but he never fell to the ground, because the next moment he mysteriously disappeared before everyone's eyes.

Worson's friends contacted the local police and explained the whole situation. A search was carried out at the scene, but the police did not find anything suspicious. Shoemaker James Worson seemed to disappear into thin air.

13. The mystery of the airship L-8

During World War II, airships were used to patrol coastal areas and identify enemy submarines. On August 16, 1942, the crew of the airship L-8, Ernest Cody and Charles Adams, were assigned to carry out one such mission. They were supposed to fly over the Farallon Islands, 50 kilometers off the coast of San Francisco, and then return to base.

Once above the water, the L-8 crew reported that they believed they had located an oil spill and were heading there to investigate. Along the way, the airship was spotted by two ships and a Pan Am airliner. Another witness claimed to have seen the L-8 rapidly gaining altitude.

About an hour later, the airship landed on the rocky shore of Daly City before flying back into the sky. Then the L-8 fell onto one of the city's busy streets. Rescuers rushed to the crash site, but were shocked when they saw that the cabin was empty. The equipment was in good working order. Parachutes and life rafts were in place. Only life jackets were missing, but crew members often wore them when flying over the water. There were no calls for help over the radio. Ernest Cody and Charles Adams disappeared without a trace.

14. Disappearance of the F-89

In November 1953, US Air Force radar detected an unknown object invading US airspace over Lake Superior. A Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter with Lieutenants Felix Moncla and Robert Wilson on board was sent to intercept it.

Ground radar operators reported that Moncla first flew high above the target at a speed of 800 kilometers per hour, and then descended and came close to the object. Then something unusual happened: two dots on the radar screen became one. The F-89C fighter merged with an unknown object, which then left the area and disappeared.

A thorough search was carried out, but no traces of the F-89C aircraft were found.

15. The disappearance of Frederick Valentich

In October 1978, a young pilot named Frederick Valentich carried out a training flight in a Cessna 182L along the coast of Bass Strait (Australia). Suddenly he noticed that he was being pursued by an unknown object. He reported this to Air Traffic Control in Melbourne, who insisted that there were no more aircraft in the area.

When the object came close to Valentich, he examined it and said: “This strange plane hovered above me again. It’s hanging... and it’s not a plane.” A few seconds of white noise followed and the connection was lost. After this, Valentich’s plane disappeared from radar.

Search and rescue efforts did not yield any results. There were about a dozen reports of unidentified flying objects that weekend, according to the Australian Air Force.

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People often disappear without a trace. There can be a great many reasons for this. However, some strange disappearances have a common thread. They involve the sudden appearance of a mysterious, cloudy mist or smoke that disappears in the blink of an eye along with those it engulfs. However, not all of these cases ended in disappearance forever. In some incidents, there was a kind of “portal phenomenon” that transported people thousands of kilometers in a split second. Below are ten of the most mysterious disappearances associated with bizarre cloud fog.

1. A man transported thousands of kilometers (1959)

After leaving a roadside hotel in Bahia Blanca, Argentina, the businessman got into his car to continue the long journey home. Almost immediately after he closed the door behind him and started the engine, a strange thick white fog appeared out of nowhere and completely enveloped his car. Apart from a continuous shroud of fog, the businessman saw nothing in front of him. He began to panic and even thought that he was losing consciousness. However, the fog soon cleared, and the man realized that he was in the middle of a field near a lonely road. Neither the car where he had just been sitting, nor the hotel from which he had left two minutes earlier were nearby. A large truck appeared in the distance, the sound of which brought him back to his senses a little. The businessman hurried towards the road and motioned for him to stop. He asked the driver if he could give him a lift to Bahia Blanca, where his car remained. The driver looked dumbfounded. He told the businessman that Bahia Blanca was 1,000 kilometers away. The city where they were was called Salta. The businessman looked at his watch and saw that only a few minutes had passed.

The truck driver took the businessman to the nearest police station. After hearing his story, police officers contacted their colleagues in Bahia Blanca, who confirmed that the man had indeed left a local roadside hotel some time ago. Moreover, his car was parked outside this hotel with the engine running and the keys left in the ignition.

2. The girl who found herself far from home in seconds (1968)

One afternoon in August 1968, eleven-year-old Graciela del Lourdes Chimenez was playing with friends in the yard of her home in the small town of Cordoba, Argentina. She later recalled that a "strange white cloud" suddenly appeared and moved toward where she was standing.

The girl turned around and ran towards the house, but after a second she realized that she could no longer see him. In fact, she could no longer see anything except a strange white fog that surrounded her on all sides. When the fog cleared, Graciela found herself in an unfamiliar, busy square. There were many other children there whom she did not know. The girl went to the nearest house and knocked on the door. When she said she was lost, the residents of the house were surprised, to put it mildly. Graciela found herself in a city that was a fair distance from where she lived.

3The Couple Unconscious for Two Days (1968)

One evening in May 1968, a few months before the strange incident with Graciela, Dr. Geraldo Vidal was driving with his wife in the Chascomus region of Argentina. Suddenly a strange cloud appeared and began to approach the car.

A moment later (as it seemed to the couple at that moment), Geraldo and his wife woke up in their car, which was now standing still. It was light. The strangest thing is that the couple soon realized that they had spent 48 hours unconscious and that now they were not in Argentina, but on a quiet road in Mexico. They traveled 6,400 kilometers, but they still had a full tank of gas.

No one could really explain what happened to Geraldo and his wife. Their car showed signs of high temperature exposure; this indicated that it had apparently been exposed to thermal heating for some time. According to those who investigated the case, they arrived in Mexico moments after their car was engulfed in fog (as incredible as that may sound). Here they spent two days unconscious in extreme heat.

4. The pilot disappeared into a foggy cloud (1914)

Not all strange cases of mysterious disappearances ended happily. One such example is the story of Chilean pilot Alejandro Bello Silva, who disappeared in a strange fog in 1914 and has not been seen since. A young but talented pilot took part in the exercise; According to eyewitnesses, his plane was suddenly enveloped in a “strange cloud.” They thought that he would appear again in a few seconds, but this did not happen. An extensive search yielded no results: neither the plane nor Alejandro was anywhere. It seemed as if he had fallen into a cloud and simply disappeared into thin air. The incident caused a great stir in Chile. Individuals periodically organized searches for the missing plane and pilot, but their attempts were in vain.

After this incident, an expression appeared in Chilean culture to describe cases when people disappear on the way somewhere. The Chileans say they left after Lieutenant Bello.

5. The disappearance of an entire regiment (1915)

About a year after the strange disappearance of Alejandro Bello Silva, an entire regiment of the British Army disappeared without a trace during the First World War that engulfed Europe in 1915.

According to eyewitnesses, the marching regiment encountered a strange brown cloud on the way. He advanced on enemy soldiers as part of the Dardanelles operation. When the cloud swallowed the last person, it began to fly away - against the wind. Soon it disappeared - along with an entire regiment of British soldiers. There was nothing left where they were but the earth. Hundreds of men seemed to disappear into thin air. It was assumed that the soldiers were captured by Turkish troops, but they vehemently denied any involvement in this strange disappearance.

The fate of the British regiment has intrigued UFO researchers, who are still debating whether it was a mass alien abduction or not.

6. Disappearance of a fighter pilot in a strange cloud (1952)

This incident is similar to the story of Lieutenant Silva. Commander John Baldwin, an experienced fighter pilot, encountered a strange cloud while patrolling the skies during the Korean War in 1952. An entire squadron was sent to search for the missing pilot, but the search, which lasted several hours, did not yield any results: no signs of a crash were found. There were also no distress signals. Baldwin was flying an F-86 Saber at the time of his (presumed) death.

He was not the only pilot to disappear during the Korean War. Many pilots who were shot down by powerful Soviet fighters went missing and were presumed either killed or captured. What makes Baldwin's case special is that his plane was not found, and he himself did not perform any combat mission.

7. Family caught in fog and kidnapped (1974)

In 1974, after arriving home in Essex after dinner with their parents, John and Susan Day and their three children realized that the trip had taken them three hours longer than usual. The strangest thing was that they could not remember why this happened. After the whole family began experiencing terrible nightmares and generally having difficulty sleeping, John agreed to undergo regression hypnosis to find out what happened that evening on the way home. During the hypnosis session, John recalled that about thirty minutes after they set off, they saw a strange fog that appeared out of nowhere. There was a bright light in it, which, hitting the car, tore it off the ground and placed it on board a mysterious ship, where creatures with a Scandinavian appearance in tight-fitting suits subsequently conducted various experiments on them.

8 Tokyo Bank Manager Witnesses Vanishing Car (1963)

Perhaps this is the strangest disappearance story associated with a mysterious fog. Early in the morning of November 19, 1963, Mr. Kinoshita, then manager of the Tokyo branch of Fuji Bank, went by car with a colleague and a potential client to the golf course. Kinoshita noticed a strange black car in front of him. He couldn't explain why she caught his attention. Inside, in the back seat, an elderly man was reading a newspaper. Suddenly, white smoke appeared out of nowhere around this black car, enveloping it from all sides. When it cleared, the black car disappeared. According to Kinoshita, all this happened in a matter of seconds.

9. Black fog of Mount Casa Grande

According to local residents, roads and trails around the foot of Mount Casa Grande in Arizona (USA) are enveloped in a strange black fog after dark. According to legends, if this black fog engulfs you, it will “infect you with awkward feelings” or even transport you to another dimension or time.

Many of these legends have their roots in the cultures of the Hohokam Indians, who once lived in the region until they disappeared without cause around 1100 AD. According to legend, the black mist of Mount Casa Grande is an ancient living entity of the desert, it has a mind of its own and demands to be always revered.

10. Disappearances on Mount Nyangani

The mysterious Mount Nyangani, which is located in the national park of the same name in Zimbabwe, is known as the “mountain that swallows people.” And this fact speaks for itself. Over the years, people have been disappearing here all the time.

An intriguing detail that unites all these disappearances is the presence of thick cloudy fog. Many legends link this fog to the spirit world and claim that strange creatures live in the area. In turn, scientists say that this fog is a common atmospheric and weather phenomenon.

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 en route, 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"