Great Disappearances

[Mayerling]

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?

[Mayerling]

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

[Mayerling]

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.

[Mayerling]

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

[jmenges]

The Bender family of Cherryvale, Kansas (1873).

JM

[GUT]

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.

[Rosella]

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

[Chris]

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

http://www.atlantismanisa.com/ingilizce_yazilar/The_Sunken_Kingdom.pdf

[Ginger]

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.

[GUT]

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?

[GUT]

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

[GUT]

And of course little Madeleine McCann but I suspect the only mystery is "Who".

[pinkmoon]

Let's not forget the great D.B Cooper .

[sdreid]

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

[pinkmoon]

And how could we ever forget Spartacus. My goodness I could post on this thread for days, and may well do so.

I'm Spartacus!!!