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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I’m the author of this and would like to add that i had bullet points on each of these stories but that doesn’t bother me. This was also an experiment for me on writing an article and i’d like to know what you guys think.
Hey Brackette. Nice job researching and putting all this together!
I added some bullets, hope it is to your liking.
The Caretaker
Thanks. You didn’t have to do that. As i was writing it i put bullets but as soon as i put it on here they disappeared so thanks for adding them again.
i hope this doesnt sound stupid but.. after reading this hell instantly came to my head. Do you think its possible?
rebecca
Anything’s possible at this point, especially with the story from Hoer-Verde, Brazil.
Yikers. Creepy. I’ve never heard of people and things disappearing like that.
Sounds creepy…I’m new to this site, hello everybody.
Vanishing into thin air?
Anything is possible, I guess.
Nothing was found on the spot most of them disappeared on?
Sounds very, very spooky…maybe they were chosen by a higher entity for something.
Maybe God decided it was time for a talk…
There are millions of possibilities.
AN ENTIRE FLIPPING TRAIN DISAPPEARING WITHOUT A TRACE ON THE TRACKS?! NOW, THAT IS FREAKY!
How can an entire train disappear, with no trace on the tracks, without the paranormal researchers (What are we called again?) getting involved?
Surely the entity ( if there was one) that did that knew that somebody would find out?
Forgive me if I’m hyping you up, but why did they take a risk as to being discovered just to take a train off of the tracks?
Do they not care, did they have to take the risk for some obscure reason?
Is it even true?
im new too, hello to you.
Wow…
I’ve heard of some of the ones you listed in this article before and didn’t know what to think of it.
It’s just so incredible that stuff like this is happening and people continue to ignore it, simply dismissing it as fiction. This truly goes to show there is more to this world then we honestly know or maybe will ever know.
There could be so many explanations for this sort of phenomenon.
Scary stuff for sure!!
P.S. Nicely constructed article Brackette!!! It was an excellent read!!!
Caretaker, you should recommend this article to subscribers and add it onto the popular paranormal blog entries on the homepage. This article will truly be a hit!!
I’m currently at my school library and the lady next to me read it and asked me for the site
Brackette, that was very interesting and well written.
When i used to meditate, i used to feel very strange sometimes, like i was almost reaching another dimension, then one evening right in front of about 7 people, whilst 4 of us were playing Backgammon, i involuntarily dropped my head down and was in another place. I was watching people walk on a very dusty ground, which hadn’t seen a drop of water for ages. It felt like i was in this place for ages, but when i came round my friend at the side of me said it had only been seconds. Everyone was looking at me a bit weird, and i was a bit freaked by this sudden experience, especially as it was in front of people.
Nothing like that has ever happened since, but i’ll always remember it.
I totally believe the stories you wrote and i think one of the freakiest is the eskimo one, what the hell happened there????
I have something I feel is related to this, or atleast partly:
I see colors.
Not just those things you see on objects, I mean floating around, in different shapes.
Kind of what you get when you close your eyes, then press down on them, minus the pain and explosions, and I see it all the time.
There is a jagged red streak next to the screen right now, and now it’s half blue, half red.
When I look at someone, say my teacher, I can see an extra layer of some kind of material surrounding them…kind of like a dim white light.
The colors correspond to the moods people are in. Say my mom’s ticked off at me for something taht I don’t know about, I see red when I’m about to go in her room.
If somebody’s about to punch me, I get the urge to duck, even if I can’t see them.
Sometimes they gather in one spot, as if trying to show me something.
Right now I’m looking at the dresser, and they’re all gathered around it.
Am I nuts?!
For all those wondering, I haven’t been known to get hallucinations, illusions, and am not mentally ill, according to my birth record.
Back to the subject:
There is no salvation.
It could mean many things.
Maybe the inhabitants were forced to leave in a hurry.
The only real explanation I can think of is aliens, or some kind of illness.
Illness theory:
…ever noticed how the capital i looks like lowercase L?
I l….BAck to the subject.
Perhaps they were forced to leave because of an illness that threatened to wipe them all out.
When they left, they found that some of them still carried the disease or sickness.
They couldn’t get rid of it in time, and perhaps in about a week, they were all sick.
Maybe they thought that if they ever went back to civilization, they knew that they could start an epidemic, so, they sacrificed themselves. Perhaps they knew people would come searching, so they hid themselves underground, or in a tree, where the search party wouldn’t get sick. Seems like a logical explanation, no? It would explain the ‘There is no salvation’ on the board, would it not?
But the odds…
I have just invented another theory: bandits, perhaps?
A group of bandits chased them wherever they went, and slaughtered an entire village…Highly unlikely, but, as has been proven many times over on this site, NOTHING is impossible. There, also an explanation for the ‘There is no salvation’.
Alien theory:
Perhaps they were abducted by creatures from another planet.
This would not explain the writing on the chalkboard.
So that’s all that I will describe about it.
Zombies, maybe?
HIGHLY unlikely, but has anyone ever seen this completely corny and crappy movie called resident evil? It SUCKS, but it has a point. If a type of creatures could exist, and were called zombies, couldn’t they wipe out a village?
There is a scene in this ‘future’ world, where the hunters go into a classroom, and see abandoned desks, blackboards, everything.
I find the resemblance to this thing in brazil uncanny.
It would explain the ‘there is no salvation’ thing, too.
Anybody care to add anything?
Blue jay
Some people might say you see auras or you may have the same thing as me which is synesthesia which is basically a screw up in the wiring of the senses, for instance i see colors when i hear sounds. There are different kinds, for me it’s a crossing of the wires with sight and sound but it can be with any of the senses like smell, touch or taste.
Bluejay,
I used to be able to see my aura around my hands if I put them against a dark background and then just looked slightly away from them. After a while a faint light used to appear all around the edges of my hands, if i kept my gaze fixed in a certain way. Then i’d lose it when i had to blink. It was amazing the first time i did this.
I haven’t done this in ages though.
Blue Jay,
how about write yoyr own story i this website? XD i’m interested in the color you see!
Back to the story, wow it’s really wierd. maybe all of them suddenly enter a door or someting that lead to another dimension or even the other world? like the spirit world or the dimension where the death spirit live in?
i think that the one that about 16 year old Charles Ashmore and the other sudden disappearance might enter a unseen door to another world/dimension
Your story reminded me of the disappearance of Ambrose Small from Toronto, Canada.
I read a book about haunted places, etc in Toronto that I bought while visiting Canada and they mentioned Ambrose Bierce in the story about Ambrose Small and quoted someone as saying, “Somebody is collecting Ambroses.”
Maybe there is some sort of connection that is being overlooked between all of these cases?? Who knows?? Maybe someday we will know!
these happenings are documented and i believe in alternate realities and anything is possible in this weird wonderful world we live in oh and by the way what is a bullet?
trolldoll1681
Bullets are the dots infront of the examples on the article.
Melissa:
I actually HAVE written something.
Guess I’m not a good author, as they haven’t published it.
Brackette:
I don’t think I have synthsieas…whatever it’s called.
When I hear a sound, colors don’t appear.
They are simply always there.
Thanks for replying, though.
Nice article, too.
Thank you all for replying.
Time stopping theory?
Think about this: If somebody stopped time, then restarted it, you wouldn’t know because you weren’t active during that nonexistent space of time created between the nanoseconds.
Doesm’t make much sense, does it?
Think about it though.
Got it?
Well, if an object were to have moved while time was frozen, then wouldn’t it appear to you as if it had ‘moved’? Teleported?
This may have happened to some people in this article…
Hey Blue jay
We receive a lot of submissions and so unfortunately it takes a little time to get to all of them. I do recall seeing some from you on the list. You will see some of your stuff on the site very soon!
Blue jay
Your welcome but just so you know, it doesn’t have to be sound (for me it’s sound) but it can be other senses. It can also be taste, feel and smell.
the charles Ashmore and David Lang cases are not true and only a varied version of the true tale of Orion Williamson disappearance – check out the link
http://www.prairieghosts.com/bierce.html
maybees
maybe watever happend at bermuda triangle, has happend at those points as well for some fraction of moment
maybe there wer really invisible aliens wch have selectively taken away ppl bcoz they dint attack the witness.
maybe there was some intense energy in the form of heat that it just could burn the body into tiny ashes very quickly
maybe there wer some radiations comming from some other galaxy wch have caused this effect
maybe all these things are made up on internet for publicity. after all u can`t just believe stuff on internet
and so on……….. as u keep thinkin
there has to be some expalantion. the explanation depends on the series of events the witness will observe wen he or she is not in the state of shock. after all are all these incidents real? if they are then there is some theory which can explain these events bcoz matter can neigther be created nor destroyed. so just dont worry
For Asian we believe and respect paranormal. The cases mention in our term means that they have been taken to another dimension where the Bunian lives. 1 day their live is 1 year our time. Most of the people abducted are nice,sincerely and good persons,
Wikipedia has an entry on Bathurst. Bones were found not that long ago when workers tore down a house near the inn he left. It is likely the diplomat was mugged and killed.
Arthur Borges
Those bones were determined to not be Bathurst.
fascinating. a couple of the stories i’ve heard of, i find it sad because where did they go? could it be that they are somewhere foreign to them and stuck there until God knows when. Its involuntary most of the time. I like this kind of stuff.
welcome we should explore the 4th dimension the same exact placea of these disapearances but ware we would go no one knows but Y was it them Y not someone else but wen god comes will we stiil c them or are they stuck in a disappearance 4 ever or will we c them in dreams or reality
So the majority of you guys seem to think they went to heaven or hell.
I believe they were shifted to another time or place, but i think that if they were indeed shifted into the past we would have known abt it, especially for the train.
What is really freaky though is when he 16 yr old boy who went to get water from the well screamed : Help, help, they’ve got me ! now what is THAT about ??
I always thought it was the third dimension, where people disappear out of no where.
Karen M.
We are in the third dimension.
What about the twilight zone, that was the third dimension
Do you believe everything Rod Serling says?
lol, that was the 5th dimension.
There are 11 dimensions, google string theory or m theory and hold onto your brain its deep. Parallel universes and all that. Which makes sense when you think in the context of the paranormal. Could just be shadows from a parallel universe.
then there is:
you owe it to yourself to at least should know of this story, as it was on Oprah, Unsolved Mysteries, America’s Most Wanted, KTLA, and in various newspapers even a congressman urged the FBI to look into his vanishing
Philip ‘Taylor’ Kramer rock star bassist & mathematical genius/aerospace engineer worked at Northrop on the MX missile project. A student of theoretical physics, he pursued particles and equations that he believed would someday permit objects to move faster than the speed of light “warp speed” making possible travel to the stars.
He vanished on February 12th, 1996. The circumstances surrounding it has been the subject of many tv shows. Just days before he disappeared, Kramer and his father believed they had worked out a mathematical breakthrough, says Iron Butterfly band co-founder Ron Bushy, “We’re talking ‘Beam me up Scotty’ time.”
This may be the key to cracking the light-speed problem. It could make possible instantaneous transmission of matter
and data to any point in the universe.
The Equation, his father Ray Kramer says, combines the work of science’s greatest minds: Newton, Einstein, Planck and Fermi. Relativity, quantum mechanics, quarks: It’s all here, but no one else has put it all together
In May 1999, two hikers discovered Kramers 1993 Ford Aerostar van at the bottom of a Malibu, Calif., ravine. Skeletal remains found inside and near the vehicle were confirmed through dental records to be those of Kramer.
CMF
Well, it sounds like he drove off the cliff.
Bracket so then I’m right,people disappear in the third dimension, if we’re in it!
Karen M.
Well…. Yeah.
this information was interesting and creeped me out as well..i dont think these people went to hell and or heaven.i think they simply vanished to another world..i guess yeah another dimension..why? who knows..how? no idea..was there a unexplainable energy thing going on at that time and place when each of them vanished then causing them to enter this whole diff world? absolutley no clue..but i would like to learn more and read more stories like this. im fascinated by it.at the same time weirded out..
wow! i just got done reading this and i find it rather fascinating, but also very confusing s well. i ask how does this happen? and why? i honestly believe that it could be alien abtuction, or maybe there are “chosen’” ones to slip into the fourth dimension?? i dont know but i do believe this could happen, questions is how? how does one just dissapear just like that?? very creepy.
I just don’t believe it.
None of it sounds possible,
and there are no recent cases
only from way back when with people who
are long gone and can’t tell their side of the story.
Nicely written. Sorry for the negativity.
Alexis
The reason why they’re stories from a long time ago is because there has to be time for them to be gone to make it a mystery. If somebody mysteriously disappears today then turns up tomorrow, it’s not so mysterious is it. There has to be time for the mystery to deepen.
The first thing that comes to mind for me is the heaven or hell theory. But my simple mind is limited to this, the “third” dimension.
What I believe is not relavant. What I observe is. This combined with the observations and studies of others suggest the following to me:
In most cases of people “disappearing” there is no witness to the actual event; only a person(people) that isn’t(aren’t) where they are expected to be. This doesn’t mean that they did not vanish, but it leaves to much room for other malicious yet explainable circumstances.
The cases that are interesting are when someone dematerializes or simply vanishes while someone that remain with us is observing. I’m sorry but I can’t take the word of a gang of prisoners or guards that this guy didn’t just escape and disappearing is the cover story. Again, that doesn’t prove that this account or others are invalid.
Overall you have to wonder if the current direction of some Theoretical Quantum Physicist are thinking in was spurred by trying to explain these vanishings or dematerializations; which again suggests that there is truth to the possibility of this phenomenom or there would be no money to pull from to support research in other dimensions.
It is curious, however, that there are not current open cases world wide of someone or something “dematerializing” in front of witnesses unexpectedly. If this is something that just “happens” there should be something going on right now even, or at least in the past 30 years, something that there are witnesses to the actually moment of disappearance. There can always be cover up stories though.
So until something vanishes right before my eyes (and Ideally another person of sound mind to confirm what I observe) I remain sceptical but open minded to the possibilities of our mysterious Universe.
Bracket
After I submitted the dang article I read the ending.. lol.. your right, but for a looong time there was mystery surrounding that guy not the least of which was him time traveling away!
Perhaps Kramer didn’t reach the required 88 MPH in order for his Flux Capacitor to work.
Has anyone considered the legend of the Native American spirit, the wendigo, in relation to the boy and the water? It’s said that the wendigo grabs its victims while they’re walking, pulling them along so that they have to run across the ground just to keep from being dragged. Their feet get hotter and hotter as they move faster, until they just burn away, and then the wendigo lifts its victim up into the air, screaming. The only thing they ever find of the victim is their footprints.
I think it’s something valid to look into.