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  • #16
    And of course little Madeleine McCann but I suspect the only mystery is "Who".
    G U T

    There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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    • #17
      Prime Minister Harold Holt, who was probably taken by a Shark in spite of all the conspiracy theories over the last 45 years.
      G U T

      There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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      • #18
        It probably doesn't fit Jeff's intent, but Dame Agatha Christie's missing 10 days was a disappearance that has never really been accounted for and held a nation in suspense. Why did she make it look like a possible death?
        G U T

        There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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        • #19
          Beverly Potts. There just doesn't seem to be any plausible solution to that case. The little girl vanished from the midst of a crowd of people, and nobody saw a thing.
          - Ginger

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          • #20
            To my mind, the mystery of Atlantis has been convincingly solved:

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            • #21
              It's purely local but the Beaumont children's disappearance is one of THE great Australian mysteries.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Rosella View Post
                It's purely local but the Beaumont children's disappearance is one of THE great Australian mysteries.
                G'day Rosella

                A couple of years ago there was a claim that one of them [the boy I think] had been found, but nothing came of that.

                Everytime I visit Glenelg I think of the poor family.
                G U T

                There are two ways to be fooled, one is to believe what isn't true, the other is to refuse to believe that which is true.

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                • #23
                  The Bender family of Cherryvale, Kansas (1873).

                  JM
                  Last edited by jmenges; 10-27-2014, 06:52 PM.

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                  • #24
                    Initial response is superb. Thanks for showing this was a potential Comstock Lode of questions.

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                    • #25
                      Originally posted by GUT View Post
                      G'day Jeff

                      Glad to see you included Charlis Kingsford-Smith.

                      I'll be back with some more.
                      Had to include the man who helped found Quantas. I mentioned another Australian mystery man on the other thread: Harold Lassiter, who died presumably still seeking the biggest gold reef in the world outside of Johannesburg.

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                      • #26
                        Originally posted by GUT View Post
                        Louis Le Prince

                        Got on a train and never seen again.
                        There was an interesting book about the Le Prince disappearance - THE MISSING REEL - which does look a bit at Thomas Edison as a possible suspect, but says there is no smoking gun.

                        Le Prince (for those who don't recall him) was one of the fathers of modern cinema cameras.

                        Another inventor - genius who vanished (suicide/accident/murder?) was the creator of the Diesel Engine, Rudolf Diesel, who vanished when on a cross-channel steamer in 1913 headed for England (possibly to offer his revolutionary engine to the British Navy, thus making him a target for Wilhelmine agents).

                        Jeff

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by GUT View Post
                          Owen Parfitt

                          The paralysed stroke victim in 1763, where [or more to the point how] did he go.
                          Conan Doyle wrote of the event in one of his last books. Did Owen get waylaid out of his chair and garden and were his remains discovered years later?

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by GUT View Post
                            Or David Lang who was said to have disappeared before the very eyes of his wife, children and his friend the Judge, in USA in 1800's, or was this just a cover-up by the judge and the family.
                            Some students on disappearances point out the Lang story sounds similar to a short account written by Ambrose Bierce about the disappearance of a man named Williamson in Kentucky in 1854 (Lang vanished in Tennessee) and also the disappearance of a boy named Oliver Larch, who vanished one night going to a well.

                            Jeff

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by GUT View Post
                              The Beaumont Children in Adelaide, but 'm afraid I think that the answer there is obvious.
                              Who were the Beaumont children?

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by sdreid View Post
                                In no particular order:

                                Henry Hudson
                                Indiana Dunes Women
                                Dorothy Arnold
                                Alois Brunner
                                Bela Kiss
                                Andrew Irvine
                                Jodi Huisentruit
                                Suzy Lamplugh
                                Jean Spangler
                                Vincent Mangano
                                Hale Boggs
                                Helen Brach
                                Lord Lucan
                                Felix Moncla
                                Glenn Miller

                                Locally:

                                Fay Rawley
                                Richard Griener
                                Walter Donley

                                Personal Friend:

                                Robert Beutel
                                Nice list, but who was Robert Beutel (if you wish to say)?

                                Jeff

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