All investigations related to disappearances.
In 1921 a five-masted schooner ran aground off Cape Hatteras with her sails set, food on the stove, and not one of her eleven crew aboard. They were never found.
8 genuinely worth-reading books on disappearances, from field-defining classics to modern investigations, chosen for the endlessly curious.
Between 1945 and 1950, five people vanished around Glastenbury Mountain, Vermont. Only one was ever found, in a place searchers had already combed.
On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in West Virginia. Five children were never found — no bones, no remains, nothing. Their parents spent the rest of their lives convinced the children survived.
In 2013, Elisa Lam was found in a water tank atop the Cecil Hotel in LA. The elevator surveillance footage went viral. Here's what really happened.
In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers disappeared from the remote Flannan Isles off Scotland. The door was ajar, a meal sat untouched, and the men were simply gone.
In October 1978, a 20-year-old Australian pilot radioed that an unidentified craft was hovering above his Cessna over Bass Strait. Then his transmission dissolved into metallic scraping sounds. He was never seen again.
In 1966, two Brazilian men were found dead on a hillside wearing suits and lead eye masks. A cryptic note said to 'ingest capsules' and 'await signal.' The case is still unsolved.
In 1948, an unidentified man was found dead on an Australian beach with a torn scrap reading 'Tamam Shud.' Explore the code, the theories, and the 2022 DNA breakthrough.
Amelia Earhart vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937 during her attempt to fly around the world. Nearly 90 years later, her fate remains aviation's greatest unsolved mystery.
In 1971, a man called Dan Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727, collected $200,000 in ransom, and parachuted into the night. He's never been found.
Nine experienced hikers died under bizarre circumstances in the Ural Mountains in 1959. After decades of investigation, the Dyatlov Pass incident remains one of history's most perplexing mysteries.
On March 8, 2014, Flight MH370 disappeared with 239 people aboard. Over a decade later, we still don't know what happened. Here's everything we do know.