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Disappearance

Regions and incidents linked to unexplained vanishings of people, ships, or aircraft.

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Every October, glowing orbs are said to rise from the Mekong River along the Thailand-Laos border, drawing crowds who credit a giant mythical serpent. Scientists have proposed explanations for decades, none fully satisfying everyone who has seen it.

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Pacific Ocean (Howland Island vicinity), United States
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Amelia Earhart's Disappearance
Pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart vanished with navigator Fred Noonan over the central Pacific in 1937 while attempting to reach tiny Howland Island during a round-the-world flight, a disappearance that triggered one of the largest air-and-sea searches of its era and has never been conclusively solved.
South Australia, Australia
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Beaumont Children
Three siblings, Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont, vanished from a crowded Adelaide beach in 1966 after being seen with an unidentified man, in what remains Australia's most famous unsolved missing-persons case.
Vermont, United States
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Bennington Triangle
An area of southwestern Vermont, centered on Glastenbury Mountain, within which a cluster of people went missing between 1945 and 1950, a string of disappearances later popularized by author Joseph A. Citro.
Florida (representative point), United States
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Bermuda Triangle
A loosely-defined stretch of the western Atlantic between Miami, Bermuda, and Puerto Rico, popularly associated with a string of unexplained ship and aircraft disappearances since the mid-20th century.
Washington, United States
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D.B. Cooper / Tena Bar
A hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper parachuted out of a Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest with $200,000 in 1971 and was never seen again. Nine years later, a boy raking a riverside sandbar found part of the ransom cash, the only physical trace of the case ever recovered.
Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia
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Dyatlov Pass Incident
The unexplained deaths of nine Soviet hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in February 1959, found with unusual injuries after apparently fleeing their tent in freezing conditions, one of the most enduring unsolved mysteries in Russian history.
Outer Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery
All three keepers of a remote Scottish lighthouse vanished without a trace in December 1900, leaving an unlit lamp, a stopped clock, and an official inquiry that pointed to a freak wave rather than anything stranger.
Indian Ocean, International waters (southern Indian Ocean)
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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
A Boeing 777 carrying 239 people vanished over the Indian Ocean in 2014 after a still-unexplained mid-flight diversion, leaving one of the largest aircraft searches in history and only a handful of confirmed debris fragments.
Northwest Territories, Canada
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Nahanni Valley
A remote Canadian wilderness tied to the "Valley of the Headless Men," lost-mine legends, unexplained deaths, and one of the world's great protected river landscapes.

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Results · 13 mysteries

Amelia Earhart's Disappearance

Beaumont Children

Bennington Triangle

Bermuda Triangle

D.B. Cooper / Tena Bar

Dyatlov Pass Incident

Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Nahanni Valley