There are many strange stories of mysterious disappearances. Everybody knows about Amelia Earhart, the Mary Celeste, Jimmy Hoffa and maybe even Ambrose Bierce, and hot zones of strange activity like the Bermuda Triangle and similar locations like the Bass Strait Triangle, The Michigan Triangle and the Devil’s Sea but I wanted to investigate the more mysterious and strange disappearances. All of these stories are true and can be found on the internet for further investigation.
In 1815, a prisoner in a Prussian gulag, named Diderici was in a chain gang walking in the prison yard for the day’s exercise. As Diderici walked with his prison inmates, he slowly began to fade in and out of view. His body became more and more transparent until Diderici disappeared altogether, and his manacles and leg irons fell empty to the ground.
On September 23, 1880, David Lang was walking across the grounds of his farm to meet Judge August Peck, and Lang’s brother-in-law, who was approaching his farm in a horse and buggy. His wife and two children were watching their father walk across the field. When suddenly Lang vanished in mid-step and in full view of the judge and his family. The ground around where Lang had been walking was searched in case he had fallen into a concealed hole, but no trace was found. The story further states that Lang’s children later called out to him, and heard a disembodied voice calling as if from a great distance.
On December 1, 1949, a Mr. Tetford was on his way home to Bennington Vermont from a trip to St. Albans. Tetford was sitting on the bus with 14 other passengers. They all testified to seeing him there, sleeping in his seat. When the bus reached its destination, however, Tetford was gone, although his belongings were still on the luggage rack and a bus timetable lay open on his empty seat.
In 1975, Jackson Wright and his wife Martha was driving from New Jersey to New York City. According to Wright, he pulled the car over to wipe the windshield of condensation. Martha went to clean off the back window. When he was finished, Wright turned around to discover his wife was missing.
In 1873, James Worson of Leamington Spa, England, was a simple shoemaker who was known to brag about his running abilities. One day, James made a bet with a few of his friends that he could run non-stop from Leamington Spa to Coventry. James began to jog with his friends following in a horse-drawn cart. James did well for the first few miles. Then his friends saw him trip on something and fall forward – but never hit the ground. Instead, James completely vanished. A thorough search was conducted in the area, with hopes he had fallen into a concealed hole but he was never found.
On November 25, 1809 Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, was in the town of Perleberg Germany, while traveling to Hamburg from Berlin. Initially, Bathurst considered staying the night in Perleberg, but eventually decided to continue on to Hamburg. After ordering horses for their coach at a post house, he and his German courier, Herr Krause, had dinner at the White Swan Inn. Several hours later when the coach and fresh horses were ready, Bathurst left the inn, followed seconds after by Herr Krause. When Krause reached the coach he was surprised to find Bathurst was not in the coach and was nowhere to be found. It was thought that he had returned to the inn for some reason before entering the coach, but no trace of him was ever found, despite a thorough search of the area and the town and an extensive investigation and he was never found.
In November 1878, 16 year old Charles Ashmore left his house to fetch water from the well for his family in Quincy, Illinois. After many minutes of waiting, his father and sister went in search, fearing he had slipped in the snow or fallen down the well but he was nowhere to be found. The only sign of him was his footprints in the snow that led halfway to the well, then abruptly stopped. Then his voice pierced the night screaming “Help, help, they have me!” from overhead.
Multiple Disappearances
In November 1930, a fur trapper named Joe Labelle made his way on snow shoes to an Eskimo village, with over 2,000 residents, on the shores of Lake Anjikuni in northern Canada. When he arrived he discovered the village was deserted. All he found a pot of charred stew on a fireplace of cinders. An investigation was initiated. No footprints of any of the residents were found, all of the Eskimos’ sled dogs were found buried under a 12-foot-high snow drift starved to death, all of the food and provisions were found undisturbed in their huts. And the Eskimos’ ancestral graves had been emptied.
On February 5, 1923, six hundred inhabitants of the settlement Hoer-Verde in Brazil disappeared. The police thoroughly examined the small town. At the town school, they found a gun, which was apparently used the day before, lying on the floor and the words “there is no salvation” written on a blackboard.
In 1945, a train carrying hundreds of passengers traveling from Guandun, China, to Shanghai was lost halfway to its destination. The track was examined from Guandun to Shanghai with nothing found. There were no survivors or witnesses to explain it’s disappearance.
Almost disappeared
On December 8th Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B Cumpston arrived at the Victoria hotel in Bristol England for a short trip. Early in the evening they began to hear strange, loud sounds in their room. The sounds soon stopped so they returned to bed for the night but were awoken at approx. 3.00am by the same loud noises. The walls and floor appeared to start melting around them. They shouted out for help and could not help but notice how strange their shouts sounded, echoing weirdly and being repeated by unseen presences. Mr. Cumpston then told of how the floor suddenly opened up and how it felt as if he were being pulled into it. Mrs. Cumpston managed to pull him out and the two of them fled out a nearby window. They were panicked beyond belief and were under the impression that criminals had somehow attempted to kidnap them. They were arrested at a nearby railroad station by police for disorderly conduct.
In the past these disappearances might be explained by mermaids, fairies, werewolves and sea creatures, while today more stranger explanations are given like momentary black holes, alien abduction, tears in the fabric of reality, teleportation and being pulled into the fourth dimension. A more recent, and widely accepted, explanation is Reality Shifts. A reality shift is the sudden manifestation of objects appearing, disappearing, transforming and transporting. They supposedly happen all the time around us unnoticed, until one of the few shifts that happen that makes something noticeable disappear like a person or a train. But this is only the newest hypothesis, what do you think?
Written by Brackette, Copyright 2009 True Ghost Tales
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Here’s my theory:
I think they DID pass into the 4th dimension. It is said that if you skydive from the right height, and right angle, you can pass into another dimension. But think about ghosts and vampires, and all of this Paranormal stuff? Maybe once we die, we go INTO the 4th dimension, and once we’re there, we can travel between the worlds, but we show up as ghosts when we’re in our dimension.
Blue Jay: It’s called Synesthesia. Look it up.
I also think theres a 4th dimension.I agree with Serenity.Maybe its possible to go to 4th dimension at the exact time and place.But the next question that pops into my head ,whats the 4th dimension like?
Hey, i saw this movie a few months ago called The Girl Who Lept Through Time. It’s an anime movie made in japan or somthing. Anyway, it’s about this girl who can leap through time by running, then jumping really high into the air. then time pretty much rewinds back to whatever time in history you want. In the movie though, the first time that she ” time leaps” it was by accident. Maybe that’s what is happening to these people! (In case you were wondering, the movie is NOT a true story…but it could happen. You never know.)
blue jay, welcome! do u like this place?
i would never want to ee things like u blue jay . i’ll get scared.
I live in Brazil and I NEVER heard about this Hoer-Verde settlement here in Brazil. We have many stories and urban legends and this is not part of them! Can you give me sites or books which talk about this fact? I tried to search in internet and there´s no site with additional information, only the same text I found out here. This is really strange…
haha I love when these things get busted…
It did happen, but there never really is much info on it. I actually first heard about it when i visited a museum in Brazil maybe 8 years ago. But i agree there is never enough info on it.
this could be fake you know, since no info shows up on the internet
I would like to know more about Hoer-Verde. Can you tell me the name of the museum? So maybe I could search for information with someone there…
Patrícia
I’m sorry, i can’t remember. I’m not trying to make this hard for you but info on it is hard to find.
@uh
There is info for it on the internet, there just isn’t much.
THAT IS SO COOL. ITS AWESOME… AWESOME THAT YOU WROTE A BOOK ON THIS.
DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD im excited now.
It’s not awesome that people get taken away from their families to an unknown place of course but… ]: It’s just so interesting… Going to different worlds is so amazing… Do you think some of them might be going to good places? This is so cool btw. Love this stuff. YAY FOR YOU!
No more sugar for Kei…
lol’d at kei (:
but wow. thats amazing that these THINGS can have enough power to do that. i can see why they took the brazil. even though that could mean anything im a strong believer of god and heaven, though hell i dont believe would be able to do that. nothing i know of would even be close.
i think that maybe they never really got taken or disappeared…. cuz why? theyre obviously is no special thing that theyve done. or any reason. that could easily just happen to me at the same chances as anyone else. it could just be the way you are looking at them or possibly blackout. i do that sometimes and ill miss an entire minute and it appears thet the person disappeared, but theyve just moved ahead and ive missed it. or it could be something thats in your mind that noone really knows about.
something we do not know
this is so creepy..i had read of these before but i still wonder! how is it possible!!
I like your theory Serenity it sounds nice and safe, not scary at all.
Lori thanks for your Wendigo I will now probably have nightmares as I’m a bit of a wimp and things like that stay on my mind for months.
And Bracket, if someone vanishes and there are people watching why should it take years to become a mystery? The article is quite interesting but looking into each individual ‘happening’ on the Internet it looks like most of the disappearances have already been discounted as hoaxes!
Something I am happy about because if they aren’t, this would be one terrifying article.
i wish i knew were those people went 2
I’ve read about these and other’s. Have you read about the people who camped on the ground’s at Stonehenge? The entire camp was gone except for smoldering pins from their tent’s. I’m only concerned about those people who were taken and their well being. I pray that none of them are suffering in any way, and their ordeal was not to traumatic. I have no guess as to what is taken place, nor do I know who is behind these abduction’s. The fact that some are heard in the spot above where they were taken might be some clue as to where they are. And people must understand there is so much the American Government know’s but is so set on not telling us. I do Remember an event in which a town in Brazil was terrorized by some unknown craft. It kept attacking people and withdrawing blood with some sort of light beam. Curfews were set and people would actually not leave their home’s for anything.
The United States is more powerful then one would wish to think, I myself am an American and I really distrust my own government. Who are they to decide if people are able to cope with the infromation that Humanity isn’t alone. HAARP, Echelon, Area 51 and extraterrestrials are just the bottom of that list. One day it will become impossible to keep this from the world. In the mean time I hope people will continue to do their own investigation and seek the impossible, one day we may just find out what happened to these people and why.
You dont trust ur own government? I’m glad I’m Australian then.
“A reality shift is the sudden manifestation of objects appearing, disappearing, transforming and transporting. ” Most likely from eating to many magic mushrooms
Wow,when i done read whole this story.Honestly, i was little surprise with disappearance,and wonder if where i disappear into 4th Dimension?
I thinking this is could be supernatural doing thing or making prank happen to fool.Possible god make it fun of us….could be?
The stories of a single person disappearing are not that shocking, to be honest, as there are a vast number of things that could have happened to them. Anyone can add a ‘disembodied voice’ to a story to increase the shock value.
But the stories about entire villages disappearing.. quite disturbing, to say the least. I just can’t seem to wrap my mind around it. There doesn’t seem to be any way you can logically, rationally explain that. Alien abduction popped into my mind at first, but that doesn’t quite seem to fit. The idea of slipping into a 4th dimension is so eerie. None of us can even begin to imagine it, as our minds are programmed to operate in this dimension. I’d like to think that it’s just some neat alternate world, but my instinct is that it is something much more sinister. And the fact that there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to it, that these events just happen at random.. let’s just say that I am thoroughly creeped out now.
curioser and curioser. i have read about these dissapperances and i always wondered as to where they went whether it is to a different dimesion or a different reality we might nver know. i think that these people went in to a different world that is so unlike our own that mabe they just did not want to come back to a world that is full of evil and unspeakable horror. I don’t however think that the dissapperences are entirly random. they may have had something that only they counld offer whatever that is i don’t know.
If there is info, post links on here, this sounds far to fake. Isn’t the 4rth dimension time space anyway IIRC?
WOW! That sounds wierd how can a whole person just vanish like FREAKY!!!!
I enjoyed reading this article..made me wonder if someone or something goes into another dimention; can they or it come back here or is it there for good? I also am wondering how many other realms there are ??
I found this site in wiki when searching about david lang, and the story appears to be a hoax. Same with Charles Ashmore.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Lang_(missing_person)#David_Lang_and_Oliver_Larch
“The fact that some are heard in the spot above where they were taken might be some clue as to where they are. ” – Tommy
Tommy: Yeah like in the article, or story, the evidence states that the children of the father or whatever that dissapeared from going to the well heard him say they have me and all that stuff, it makes me think that maybe he dissapeared in like a different dimension that is parallel to this one but its all relatively the same so they could hear him, or it hasn’t manifested him enough for him to be completely blocked out by this dimension you know?
“HAARP, Echelon, Area 51 and extraterrestrials are just the bottom of that list.” – Tommy
To Any Whom It Concerns: What IS HAARP, Echelon, and Area 51? i’ve never really understood any of that.
I’ve read about stuff like that my whole life. I’ve always found it interesting. It’s kind of like reading a novel with the last chapter removed, there’s never an ending, just people throwing ideas into a hat. I’ll probably keep reading about it as long as it happens though.
This may soundcrazy but I believe that these people were abducted by demons, aka UFOs
Dave:
Crazy as that may sound I have considered the possibilities of that line of thinking. There is a certain amount of logic to Demons being an explaination for “UFO/Alien” or “Ghost/Paranormal” events. Of course this would not occur to someone if they do not have a fundamental belief in the existance of Demons or are at least open minded enough to consider the possibility.
I have my doubts about the “demon” theory. Otherwise people would be dissappearing before my eyes all the time. And if it was ufo’s, then they didn’t think it out very well. It would be much easier to take people when they’re by themselves or asleep, you know, indiscreetly. If they wanted people to see them take someone on the other hand, there’s also better places to do that. Like in the middle of a crowded mall, or a running back during monday night football, or a congressman addressing congress while on c-span. I do find an interest in reading about things like this though and it makes for good copy. Maybe it’s a publicist
Wow… My only hope is that they somehow tore thru the veil and into the spirit world where they were taken care of. Pretty messed up stuff eh? Wherever they went, God wouldnt let them be stuck there forever! By the way, to the rude commenters and religion haters, shaddap I’ll probably never see ur comment, get over it. XD
Kuva \|/
first of all i’m never rude second i don’t like organized religion and i don’t believe in “GOD” so u get over it , anybody has the right to say what they feel, there is no right or wrong in here!!!! get it good!!!
Funny how anti-religious nay-sayers are always so rude and have a violent tone about them.
well maybe these wer good people and god wanted them to go right that sac. or maybe they all had a deal with some1 that had a very great power sooo they made the wrong move a nd had to pay a price. this could be some way of protection 4 thu families
well i am a 5th grader named emly me and my frind can see the hgost every day fridays 13 is very bad for me and westen bung of them weel can had sead them to the lite
hey! please show more evidence of ghost appearance…..
I agree with Tommy.I am from the United States , I Love my country very much ,but our government is not very nice in many aspects especially when it comes to cover-ups if you were from here you would understand.
Here is a short story that was not mentioned and I’m not sure of it’s validity but I read it a long time ago.A family in spain had guest visiting for the holidays they all had a wonderful time and when the evening was over two of the families got into their cars to go home ,as the car in front was driving a deep fog came from out of nowhere and suddenly engulfed the car which was unusual since it was clear everywhere else, and as it went through the fog the car in back also passed through it and when it came through they saw that the first car was gone just that quick and all was clear again no one could understand what was going on or knew what to do about it (there were no cell phones at the time this story took place.)however the second car did phone the host of the party once they reached their destination to let them know what had happened. A few days later the people in the first car telephoned to say they didn’t know how or why it happened but they were driving along a sudden fog came down,they couldn’t see but the next thing they knew they were driving along a road in Mexico! This is suppose to be a true story.Thanks for letting me share it with you.