The Mysterious Disappearance of Madeleine McCann Takes A New Turn

From the onset, the whole scenario around the mysterious disappearance of Madeleine McCann six years ago on May 3 2007, which was almost two weeks shy of her 4th birthday on May 12th, has been very bizarre and tragic. She was asleep in her parent’s apartment at the Praia da Luz resort town in Portugal, when she was purportedly abducted, and a man was lurking outside their apartment at the time of her disappearance. The Portuguese file on her case, oddly enough, had a short lifespan, closing just one year after little Madeleine went missing…because the Portuguese police felt there wasn’t enough evidence to support an abduction scenario. Furthermore, the Portuguese police did everything in their power to hinder the investigation, whether intentional or unintentional, such as focusing exclusively on her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, as their primary suspects, rather than following promising leads. 

Madeleine's parents talking to reporters on Madeleine's birthday in 2012, courtesy of the Huffington Post

Indeed, a British vacationer had a weird experience on May 7^th at the city’s marina when a woman asked him if he was going to deliver her new daughter, that wasn’t investigated. In early May, a smart little girl who looked like Madeleine McCann walked into a shop in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and told a woman there that her name was Maddy, and that the people who she was with had stolen her from her real parents. No, no investigation there. The Portuguese police received several leads from Morocco, such as the tip from a Swedish lady who told the Portuguese police on May 10th, that she spotted Madeleine at a gas station in Marrakesh, but the Portuguese police obviously didn’t believe it was a valid tip. 

Tragically, the Marrakesh lead might have been the best one from May 2007. On his deathbed, long time Scotland Yard suspect and convicted pedophile, Ray Hewlett, wrote his estranged son a letter, confessing to knowing what happened to Madeleine McCann. According to the letter, little Madeleine had been sold to a gypsy gang from Morocco, who were in the business of selling children to childless wealthy couples. Though Hewlett initially denied his involvement in the kidnapping when he was questioned in 2009, he was in the perfect position to kidnap little Madeleine McCann, because he was vacationing an hour away in Algarve  on the day of her disappearance.

Convicted Serial Pedophile Raymond Hewlett

Suspect's renderings, courtesy of ESPN

Thank goodness the Scotland Yard and U.K. Metropolitan police are also involved in the investigation, breathing life into an otherwise dead case. However, I’m a bit puzzled by one of the tips from 2008 that the Portuguese police allowed them to obtain.  That tip was the subject of an intense examination this month on an English and German television show, and is one of the most unhelpful tips the U.K Metropolitan Police could examine. The tip, which they didn’t have access to until two years ago because U.K. investigators were not granted access to the Portuguese files until recently, concerns a white man aged 20-40 years of age, with a medium build, medium brown hair, and brown eyes who was seen carrying a blond girl in pajamas around the Praia da Luz. That description fits the average male on the planet, so it doesn’t narrow down the suspects one bit. Even a Portuguese artist’s renderings of the suspect, is a little vague. Nevertheless, the Metropolitan Police were able to narrow down the possible suspects to 38 people, 12 of whom are U.K. nationals, and the rest from various places in Europe.

Madeleine McCann Using Age Progression, Courtesy of the Telegraph

Perhaps the case is taking a positive turn for the McCanns, because a man at a house party in upmarket Manchester, England boasted to an anonymous barrister that he had been “introduced” to Madeleine McCann on a mediterranean island. The barrister’s testimony, for whatever reason, is said to be a highly credible one. In fact, he was  risking his own reputation to disclose this piece of information, and that’s all he’s disclosing to the Sunday Mirror, because he doesn’t want to compromise the investigation itself. The man who boasted about being introduced to Madeleine McCann has since been introduced to a pair of handcuffs that the Metropolitan police slapped on him. The Portuguese police have subsequently, and miraculously, decided to reopen this case. Perhaps Madeleine McCann will be found after all.

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Death of the Sole Survivor of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

Yuri Yudin hugging Lyudmila Dublinina in late January 1959.  Photo is courtesy of St. Peterburg Times. 

Though this is not in the book, it is about a recent unusual disappearance,  so I decided to include  it. Thank you Tim Beckley for the tip. This is a great tragic story, it definitely ranks as one of the top 10 most gruesome deaths in history.  And it all begins with the death of the sole survivor of The Dyalov Pass Incident, Yuri Yudin,on May 2 of this year, 2013. He was all of 76 years old. 

Back during the Dyatlov Pass Incident, he was one of ten young students at the Ural Polytechic Institute in Sverdlovsk (which is now called Ural State Technical University), who was supposed to be going on a ski hike up Ural Mountain. Unfortunately, due to poor health, he was the lucky one who stayed back. The other students died on the pass on January 28, 1959 on the east shoulder of Kholat  Syakhl  Mountain which, ironically, is Mansi for Dead Mountain. It has since been renamed as Dytalov Pass after their group’s leader, Igor Dyatlov, who was a senior student and part of the radio technology faculty at the university.

Igor Dyatlov courtesy of www.centineladelsendero.com

Dyatlov was supposed to send their sports club a telegram upon their return to Vizhai by February 12, but he told Yudin that the trip could take longer, so Yudin didn’t contact the authorities right away when the ski hikers didn’t return. It was the relatives of the missing ski hikers who demanded that a rescue operation be launched, so on February 20th, professors and volunteer students scoured Dytalov Pass for their loved ones.  They were shortly joined by the army and police forces who used planes and helicopters to comb the area for the ski hikers or any evidence as to their whereabouts.

The Dyatlov Incident Tent was slashed with knives. Courtesy of  thevelvetrocket.com

Six days later, on February 26, they finally found their abandoned tent which was covered in snow. What was odd, was that it was still filled with the students’ belonging and slashed with knives. For whatever reason, the students may have been frightened, evidence pointed to them scrambling out of the tent in a frenzy and climbing up trees.

Georgyi Krivonischeko and Yuri Doroshenko dead. Courtesy of therealevidenceoftheparanormal.blogspot.com

The first five bodies were discovered that same day. The bodies of Georgyi Krivonischeko and Yuri Doroshenko, which were found near a pine tree, were stark naked except for their underwear, and their arms and feet were burned. The bodies of Igor Dytalov, Zinaida Kolmogorova, and Rustem Slobodin were found about 400 kilometers from the pine tree. It seemed to the investigator at the time because of their poses and foot prints in the snow, that they were rushing back to their tent.

Bodies of Lyudmila Dubinina. Courtesy of myonlinelessonplan.com

A few months later on May 4, the other three bodies were found deep in the woods. They were covered with four meters of snow in a stream valley. When the doctors examined their bodies, they were horrified by their condition. Lyudmila Dubunina and Alexander Zolotarev had broken ribs, Nicolas Thibeaux-Brignollel had a crushed skull with no broken skin, one of the women was missing half of her face including her eyes and tongue like a mutilated cow, and they were all drenched in radiation. If that weren’t strange enough, none of the students had any external wounds that would suggest that they were attacked by wild animals or other humans.

                 Bodies of  Alexander Zolotarev and  Alexander Kolevatov . Courtesy of myonlinelessonplan.com

Scientists who were studying the case came to the conclusion that the hikers were in no state to overcome an elemental force…whatever that elemental force was. Some people speculate that cattle mutilations are connected to UFO sightings in the area where they happen, and Ural Mountain is a hot bed of UFO sightings. On the day the students went missing, orange orbs were spotted in the area where they were camping. Unfortunately, it looks like the sightings didn’t disappear in the area after the incident because witnesses spotted three white orbs  just this year.  

As for the Soviet investigators, due to the lack of eyewitnesses and scant evidence, they concluded that “compelling natural forces” were the cause for the students’ deaths, which sounds eerily similar to the scientists’ deduction. Perhaps inspired by these compelling natural forces, the Soviet military barred access to the Dytalov Pass to anyone for three years after the incident. Yuri Yudin wasn’t about to accept their explanation at face value. He conducted his own investigation, suspicious that the Soviet military was directly responsible for the deaths of his friends. He pointed out that the military had done tests in that area and that they were more interested in how and why the students were in that area in the first place, rather than in the whys and the causes of their deaths.

An Interesting photo taken by one of the skiers. Notice the person or thing near the table. Courtesy of therealevidenceoftheparanormal.blogspot.com

According to RT News, when he was once asked what question he would have liked to ask God if he was allowed to ask him only one question, Yudin answered, “What exactly happened to my friends that night?”

I guess now that he’s in heaven, he has the answer that eluded him his entire life.

Part 2 Warning Stay Away from the Devil's Triangle Part 2

Discovering Atlantis

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What is in the triangle of the lost that is so ominous and, at the same time, so mystical? What can account for the disappearances of the Sandra or the City of Glasgow? What can account for the ghost ship that Samuel Otis saw? Perhaps that answer lies within the Bermuda Triangle itself and an ancient, mythological race called the Atlanteans. For years, most people expected the sunken city of Atlantis to be found in the coastal regions of Greece, since Plato claimed that it could be found lying across the Pillars of Heracles. However, the sleeping psychic Edgar Cayce predicted that Atlantis, or Poseidia as he liked to call it, would be discovered within the Bermuda Triangle near Bimini Island. That’s because, explained Cayce, it used to be one of the mountain tops of Atlantis.  

“Poseidia will be among the first portions of Atlantis to rise,” predicted Cayce. “Expect this in 1968-69.”

According to Chapter 20, some researchers discovered structures underneath the Bermuda Triangle near the island of Bimini in 1958, perhaps beating Cayce’s prediction by a decade . They described the location as being filled with highways, temple platforms, and stone walls. Some of the stone structures are similar to the stone works found in Peru, England, and Italy. And since they can’t remove stones from these structures because they probably weigh a couple hundred tons at least, divers did the next best thing and returned with fossilized roots growing on them. The roots carbon dated back to 12,000 years which is before the Hellenistic civilization and at the end of the Ice Age. The rest of the world was just hunter gatherers then.

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Bimini Road

In 1968, a part of Cayce’s predictions, perhaps, did come to pass when  Robert Angove, Jacques Mayol, Harold Climo, and Dr. Mason Valentine found a road near Bimini Island which is now coined the “Bimini Road.” However, researchers are split about the origins of the road. Some theorize that it was part of a structure, while others theorize that it's part of the Caribbean landscape…natural beach rock to be exact. Looking at the picture of the Bimini Road, myself, I say it looks structural in nature. The edges are all square, they line up in a straight line. You be the judge.

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Dr. Ray Brown's Crystal Sphere

Dr. Ray Brown made an even more monumental discovery near Bimini Island in 1970, according to Moyra Caldecott. He found structural remnants of a city as he was scuba diving. He wasn’t on a research mission to discover Atlantis, either. He and a crew were on a mission to find treasure in sunken Spanish galleons, but he was drawn to the area because it was highly magnetized.  Obviously, chances of finding treasure are substantially improved in a magnetized location. When he came out empty handed, he decided to return the next day with a fresh new crew and search again. This time, however, his head hit a propeller on a fishing boat which killed him instantly. If only for a brief moment. He was taken ashore and pronounced dead when he started jerking as if he was receiving an electric jolt, and his life-force returned to him.

Two weeks later he returned with, you guessed it, some new divers. This time, they were in the midst of a tropical storm that stirred up the seabed near Bimini island and uncovered a pyramid made of blue stone that resembled lapis lazuli. As he swam around it, he found an opening, and swam through it. He found himself in a chamber with a peaked ceiling akin to a pyramid. He also discovered a gold-colored metallic rod which hung from the ceiling, a perfectly round crystal sphere resting in a pair of bronze hands, and seven large stone chairs around a pedestal. The moment he grabbed the crystal sphere, he felt a foreboding presence in the room and heard a voice order him to leave and never return. So he put the crystal sphere in his backpack, and left. 

For years he kept the crystal sphere in his possession and had it till his death. Thieves kept stealing it, but, miraculously,  it always returned to him. He did heed the warning from the ghost and never returned to the structure again. Four of the divers he took with him, however, didn’t listen to the warning, and drowned as a result. They were the only ones, because there have been no more tragic and mysterious disappearances, or even deaths, in the Bermuda Triangle since he removed the crystal sphere from the structure. Maybe that voice he heard in the chamber was the voice of an angel who led him to the wreckage so he could remove it.  

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One of the two crystal pyramids 

This year, 2013, the oceanographer Dr. Meyer Verlag made another discovery of monumental proportions in the Bermuda Triangle. He discovered two crystal pyramids. According to the preliminary findings, they are made out of glass or a glass like material, and are entirely smooth and translucent. ADG UK states that they are larger than the great Cheops pyramid in Egypt, are 300 meters in length, 200 meters in height from the base to the tip of the pyramid, and are, approximately, 100 meters above the sea floor.

Scientists have hypothesized for years that the whirlpool, which swallowed many marine vessels, was caused by a strange energy source inside the Bermuda Triangle. Perhaps it was caused by the crystal sphere Dr. Brown discovered, or perhaps the whirlpool and its large surging waves were caused by the crystal pyramids themselves. Maybe the crystal sphere is an energy source that powers the pyramid.  It is theorized that the Bermuda Triangle is being protected by Atlanteans who considered it a sacred ground and everything that crosses it is considered an offering. Others suggest that the pyramids are warehouses for them or that they are Atlantean power plants which harness cosmic rays for energy. Then there are scholars, according to endalldiseases.com, who posit that the crystal pyramids could have been part of a mainland city that sunk into the ocean floor after a large earthquake changed the landscape of North America. 

When the news of this discovery first broke, it made rounds in the UFO community and Florida's media, but the rest of the commercial media world didn’t cover it for whatever reason. Perhaps it's still catching on. Whatever the reason may be for the lack of media coverage, whatever is at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle, is unveiling itself. It wants to be discovered. 

  

Part 2 Warning, Stay Away from the Devil's Triangle! Part 1

The Triangle of the Lost and the Bermuda Triangle

The Triangle of the Lost. It starts at port of Norfolk, Virginia, crosses the Atlantic Ocean to the 40^th parallel, then makes its way down to Venezuela and Trinidad, and then down to Florida. It is not a true triangle because its western edges are disrupted by Florida’s coastline. There isn’t much research information about it, either, because it’s more renown for the Bermuda Triangle. So, yes, a triangle within a triangle.  The Bermuda Triangle, itself, encompasses Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and Miami. And both triangles are certainly calmer than the triangle thousands of miles away across the other side of the planet in chopper, steeper water- The Dragon’s Triangle, which is a triangle on steroids. The Triangle of the Lost and Bermuda Triangle are located, instead, within a body of translucent, calm water and there are not nearly as many casualties to them (think hundreds if not thousands compared to hundreds of thousands that disappear into the Dragon's Triangle). Naturally, these triangles have sparked tales and superstitions of their own. One particularly prudent one being that pilots and sailors should avoid these triangles...at all costs.

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But not everyone adhered to that superstition. That certainly wasn’t the case for the Sandra’s overconfident captain in June, 1950, when he decided to brave the Florida coastline.  The ship, which was filled with 350 tons of pesticides, was sailing from Savannah, Georgia on a business venture to Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. The weather was perfect, the ship had up-to-date state of the art navigational equipment; it should have made its destination without a hitch. Instead, it vanished into thin air, and its disappearance took the U.S. Coast Guard off guard. They never received any communication from the captain that would indicate the Sandra was in trouble, which is peculiar.

“A ship’s captain usually has advance warning about a possible disaster,” said the spokesman for the U.S Coast Guard. “This occurs when you lose engine power, punch a hole in the bottom [of the ship], or something like that. A ship doesn’t sink in a moment or two. There’s always enough time to get a radioed messaged off before abandoning the vessel.”

An intense aerial and marine search was conducted, to no avail. They found nothing- no ship, no debris. According to the spokesman, there’s usually plenty of debris after a ship sinks. What’s more, the ship had plenty of life preservers, lifeboats, and other life-saving equipment. In short, it shouldn’t have simply disappeared without a trace, and because of the lack of evidence, they can’t even form a picture of what really happened to her. She was, just, gone.

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The City of Glasgow met a similar fate in March, 1954. Considered one of the best ships in the world at the time,  she had an iron hull for safety, several strong sails, and auxiliary power to power the ship when the wind died down.

“You’ll get there all right with time to spare,” said an agent for the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steamship Company in Liverpool, England to a hopeful Irish immigrant.

But The City of Glasgow and her 480 crewmen and passengers never made it out of the Triangle of the Lost. This was a particularly tragic loss too, because most of the passengers were European immigrants leaving their country in the hopes of pursuing a better life in America. Some of them even had anxious relatives waiting in Delaware Bay for them. However, as hours went by, they never appeared. They disappeared, instead, as they glided into the Triangle of the Lost like the Sandra. But this disappearance sparked a flurry of imaginative speculation about what happened to the ship and its 399 passengers and 81 crew members, such as being attacked by murderous pirates or being eaten by a native cannibalistic group. None theories of it panned out, however (or clearly).  

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There are people who made it out of the Triangle of the Lost alive, and one of them is Samuel Otis.  The 62 year old retired clerk from New York State was also adamant that he’ll never go through it again for a million dollars. The fishing trip that took him there started off well enough, and it was supposed to help him heal from his depression that was brought on by losing his wife and child to an automobile accident. That was the initial intent of his doctor. So he decided to sail to Miami on July 7, 1973 and fish along the coastline.

At night, he took refuge in a cove where he would eat his catch for the day, then go to sleep. On his third night, he camped out in a bay. He had just finished eating his meal and was putting out his camp fire, when a huge reddish- orange glowing ball of light the size of a ranch home materialized near his boat. According to Otis, the ball of light was so bright, he had to turn away from it. Naturally, he was scared out of his wits, so he scrambled for his boat as the ball of light followed him.

He had just reached his boat when, “The light dimmed and the whole thing took on the appearance of an old sailing ship,” claimed Odis.

And not just any type of ship either- a translucent ship through which you can see trees across the bay. Yet he insists the ship could be seen by anyone and he could see people in the ghost ship preparing for battle as it sailed passed him. Some sightings are impossible to confirm. When it reached the mouth of the bay, it turned south and headed deeper into the Triangle of the Lost. But what was the intent of the glowing orb? Was it trying to communicate a message to poor ole Otis? Perhaps it was warning him that he’d face something foreboding, if he were to meander through the triangle in his boat. Perhaps it was trying to scare him away from the area in general. He wouldn’t be the first scavenger in the Triangle of the Lost who was warned to stay away (read part 2 for that story). 

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Part 1 Chronicles of the Missing-The Troy Taylor Chronicles-Strange Events at Vermont

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Strange Events at Vermont

Since 1945, Taylor says that there have been multiple disappearances from Long Trail at Green Mountains in the Vermont area. He points out that what makes the disappearances from this area even more eerie, is the small size of the state.  No one should be missing from Vermont. Furthermore, he says that people who shouldn’t have gone missing from this area, such as tour guides, have gone missing.  What could possible cause the disappearance of people who know every nook and cranny of the Long Trail? As you see below, all the victims were Vermont natives. 

An older man who worked as a hunting and fishing guide, was the first person to have been reported missing from this trail. He was leading a group of hunters, when he turned a corner, and was never seen again. Despite a massive search which began with the hunters then extended to the state police, the National Guard, the Boy Scouts, and local residents, the guide was never seen or heard of again. 

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Just a year later, a beautiful young woman who was brimming with promise, vanished along that same trail. She was a college student at the local Bennington College, which is not far from the Long Trail.  She must have been either an ambitious athlete, or upset about something, because it was a very cold December day in 1946 when she decided to hike up the Long Trail. Her wealthy parents were prominent members of Vermont, so they were able to spend a lot of money on an investigation. However, their efforts produced just as much evidence as was produced with the hunting guide’s investigation. That is, none at all.

No one knows why any of these people have disappeared on the Long Trail. What type of motive would someone have to kidnap these people, if they were kidnapped?  And who kidnapped them? Big foot? Taylor feels a serial killer could be responsible. However, he also points out that no evidence has been found to corroborate that theory, or any theory for that matter. You will be pleased to know, that you can hike up the Long Trail now, without disappearing. 

Part 1 The Chronicles of the Missing-The Troy Taylor Chronicles-Fact and Fiction Blend-Ambriose Bierce

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Fact and Fiction Blend: Ambriose Bierce 

I mentioned that writer Ambrose Bierce disappeared while searching for Orion Williamson in another blog. The hilarious author, who is assumed to have died around December 26, 1913 while investigating Williamson’s disappearance, is often being quoted by people who bring up his stories when they talk about mysterious disappearances. Unwittingly being brought up by people who discuss the mysterious disappearances of fictious characters and plots Bierce created, assuming that they were real. Is it any wonder that Ambrose Bierce disappeared when searching for Orion Williamson? In the Oliver Larch story, for example, kids leave footprints as they trek towards a well and vanish into thin air. When people rushed to see what happened to the children, their footprints continue then come to an abrupt end. However, it was also based off a true story in 1854, so with the wave of a pen, he embellished a true story and people ate it up as fact. 

As for Orion Williamson, Troy Taylor has his own version of events. Taylor points out that Bierce’s account is highly improbable, so Sean Casteel gives us Taylor’s account. According to the instructions given by Casteel, Taylor gives us more of his account of what happened to Orion Williamson in chapter 9. Neat, so I guess you’ll have to look that up. Meanwhile I’ll give you Taylor’s account of Williamson’s disappearance according to what is presented in this chapter. In Bierce’s account, Orion Williamson disappears right in front of his wife, son, and two neighbors. In Taylor’s version, the family (Williamson, his wife, and child) were drinking lemonade on their porch when the carriage went by with two of his neighbors who waved. Ok, so far the same except for the lemonade and waving.  Williamson runs into the field and disappears in front of friends, his wife, and his son. Check-that version’s still the same. Then they gathered 300 hundred people, including geologists, to conduct an investigation-check, still the same. In fact it’s all the same until he mentions that his wife discovered an odd circular patch of dead grass in the field where he disappeared. I assume. You’ll have to read chapter 9 to find out where the story deviates further. 

Though as a disclaimer, I should mention that this has nothing to do with the veracity of other stories that I review. Bierce was simply one of the most intriguing storytellers, so I just had to review this story. The other stories were not retold by Bierce or anyone else. And there is truth to the Williamson case, after all, because we haven't heard from Ambrose Bierce since he went to investigate the Orion Williamson story. Did he discover a universal ether? Was he sucked into a time portal which caused him to go into another dimension? Did aliens abduct him? I guess we'll never know for sure. Perhaps he was raptured. No, I don't think so. 

Part 1 Chronicles of the Missing-The Troy Taylor Chronicles-The Beautiful Socialite

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The Beautiful Socialite

Before there was Paris Hilton, there was Dorothy Arnold. The beautiful young woman with everything going for her-money, society, and a degree from Bryn Mawr, went shopping in Manhattan in December 1910, when she disappeared. It wasn’t a case where she was acting peculiar, not talking to anybody, and fading into the background like a ghost. The socialite talked with a lot of people who knew her that day. Clerks had spoken with her throughout the day that she vanished.

Strangely enough, her own family didn’t feel the need to immediately report her disappearance. Her parents and family kept it a secret and pursued a low-key investigation with Pinkerton Detective Agency. After thousands of dollars spent on locating her, the quiet investigation proved fruitless.

As awkward, and guilt filled as that anemic attempt seems (they were a very private family), the lawyer who they hired funneled thousands of his own hard earned cash into the investigation. You’re probably thinking, “Well, that’s a lawyer who’s vested in his client’s interest!” But, as it so happens, he escorted her to many functions, so he was emotionally attached to the case. He searched everywhere for her too…in hospitals, morgues, jails, and throughout the East Coast hoping that she had, at best, amnesia. The police even dragged the river when her family finally decided to call them on a hunch that she could have been killed in Central Park, and thrown in the river.

There was one suspect in the case. A man with a crush on Miss Arnold had been stocking her for years. He, however, had an alibi. When the story hit newsstands, tips came in from all over the country. She, or her dead body, never resurfaced.

Part 1 Chronicles of the Missing -Glenn Miller

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Glenn Miller

Glenn Miller, the American national darling of the Glen Miller Orchestra which created 70 top ten records in four years, disappeared over the English Channel on December 15, 1944. His orchestra, which was stationed in England during World War II, was heading to Paris on December 16 with his manager, Don Haynes, to put on a show for the troops. However, a Lt. Norman B. Baessell was leaving the day before, so they hitched a ride with him. Things were strange from the beginning of the trip. There was no room for Haynes on the plane, so he was left behind, and the plane only had one engine and no parachutes, which frightened Miller. However, the determined musician wasn’t frightened enough to abandon their plans. As they boarded the plane, Haynes was the last person to see them alive.

That certainly incites suspicion, doesn’t it? The last person to see the orchestra alive would incite suspicion, but I find what Baessell said prior to their boarding to be even more suspicious.  “What’s the matter with you, Miller? Do you want to live forever?” was the peculiar, ominous question he asked him.  Maybe he did kill him, maybe he didn’t. There’s not enough proof to entertain that scenario.

Numerous theories have surfaced regarding his disappearance. One of the most credible theories is that that Baessell’s plane, a Norseman, crashed into the English Channel because of iced-wings or engine failure. A bazaar, unlikely claim was made by a German journalist. According to that journalist, Miller arrived in Paris safely, but died in the company of French prostitutes. However, that theory has holes because he claims that the U.S military planted a plane and bodies in the English Channel as a cover up and neither a plane nor bodies were found. Then there are the two version of him dying from drugs. Many musicians die from some sort of drug overdose, but that’s a faint possibility because there’s no proof. A letter to the famed Glenn Miller conspiracy theorist, Dr. Chris Valenti, alleges that Miller died from gunshot wounds in Ohio in 1945. There's no proof for that theory either. Miller’s younger brother, Herb,  after years of silence, claimed that Miller died of cancer. He was able to produce a letter written by his brother in which he complained about feeling ill around the time that he disappeared. However, Little Herb couldn’t produce any information about his resting place. Perhaps he wanted to profit from a book deal or wanted Miller’s death to appear less scandalous. Or maybe he just liked spreading rumors because...

The most likely version of events is that he died while his plane was caught in friendly fire. Navigator Fred Shaw saw a Norseman plane downed when he was in the air on December 15. Because the airplane had already been reported, he was not debriefed, and he didn’t try to find out what happened to the casualties. He didn’t even make the connection between Glenn Miller’s disappearance and what he witnessed until he saw the movie “The Glenn Miller Story” in 1956. And he didn’t check his old logbook to compare the downing of the Norseman with what had been reported about Glenn Miller's disappearance for 30 years. Interested much, Shaw? When the British Defense Ministry investigated his version of events, they found that it had merit.  Even if Glenn Millers remains still haven’t been recovered.

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Part 1 Chronicles of the Missing -A Man Vanishes in Front of Family and Friends, Eskimo Inhabitants of a Fishing Village Vanish, An Australian Pilot Disappears

They Saw Him Disappear!

Modern science, specifically quantum physics, believes in parallel dimensions. For example, the ocean is separated from the world above. The fish cannot see us, though we can see them. If human beings were to enter that world, we would be the equivalent to extraterrestrials invading their terrestrial environment, if only for a brief second. In that light, quantum physics theorizes that there are alternative, phantom dimensions separated from our own by a thin veil. What is beyond that veil? Well, obviously spirits, angels, demons.  That veiled world is the reason that people sometimes feel dead loved ones around them. Or, perhaps, the reason why Orion Williamson’s family could not see him when he was crying for help, even though they heard his voice. That’s not a theory the book posits, but one that I posit, and can’t help positing when I read the story.

See, in July of 1854, Williamson’s wife, son, and two other witnesses who were staring at him saw him vanish. Puff…In front of them! A party of 300 men were sent to comb the area for Williamson and expert investigators, including geologists, were hired to dig up the field so they can find irregularities with the landscape and especially the soil. The search party couldn’t locate Williamson and the experts’ findings were inconclusive…or at least it showed no irregularities. The only clue to his whereabouts was the cry I mentioned before.  What I didn’t mention, was that it was coming from the region where he disappeared. Eventually, though, his cry for help waned, until it disappeared altogether. The search for the hapless farmer also came to a halt when the search for him became futile.

But the mystery didn’t end there. Writer Ambrose Bierce also disappeared while he was sleuthing the area for answers to Williamson’s whereabouts. Perhaps in a mixed state of fortune, he unfortunately found what he was looking for…what they were all looking for. Perhaps both Williamson and Bierce were killed in a “universal ether,” that German scientist Dr. Maximilian Hern believed existed in that area. According to Hern, the ether can destroyed anything or anyone in an instant. But that doesn’t explain why both Williamson’s son and wife heard his cry for help after he disappeared. I, myself, wonder if Williamson could have been stuck in another dimension.  Perhaps that portal which opened for the Englishman in Bristol Hotel, opened up for Williamson as well, but managed to swallow him.  Whatever the case may be, the story goes more in depth in “Unexplained Disappearances.”

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Eskimo Village in Canada Completely Gone

Can you imagine walking into a city and finding the entire population of 2000 inhabitants having disappeared off the face of the earth? Well, that’s what happened when Joe LaBelle walked into the normally bustling Lake Anjikuni finishing village in Canada in 1930. But he had a glimmer of hope when he saw a flickering fire in the distance, so he went to investigate it. What he discovered was a large pot of blackened stew, but what he didn’t discover were footprints leading away from the village to the pot of stew.

He summoned the help of the Royal Canadian Mountain Police, but their search results were almost inconclusive. So were the results of a huge search party. But they were inevitably successful in finding remains…that of sleigh dogs which were buried under 12 feet of snow. Even more eerie, were the empty Eskimo ancestral graves.  It was surmised that whoever or whatever took the villagers, also dug up the graves, which were surrounded in iron strong ice, and therefore impossible to break by natural means. Indeed, it would have taken superhuman strength or a really strong saw. Perhaps the blue flickering light on the horizon held all the answers for the onlooking Mounties.  

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An Australian Pilot Disappears

On October 21, 1978,  20 year old pilot Frederick Valentich planned to fly from Moorabbin Airport in Melbourne Australia to King Island. It is considered the most disturbing case in UFO history, though I bet they can find another one if they search real hard. His flight began at 6: 19 P.M. in good weather and perfect visibility. But by 7:06 P.M., he radioed Melbourne Flight Service because he was being harassed by an unknown craft with four lights and having engine trouble to boot. He asked if there were other planes in the vicinity, but Melbourne Flight Service responded in the negative.

Matters got worse, of course, as an unidentified flying cylindrical object, started to play a cat and mouse game with him.  After discussing his objective to go to King Island with Melbourne Flight Service, he stopped speaking, and no one heard from him again. Furthermore, his plane didn’t arrive at its destination at 7:28 P.M. When the Royal Air Force went looking for Valentich and his plane, they couldn’t find a sign of him or the plane anywhere.

Several explanations for his disappearance, some of them lame, were offered. A more rational, though not plausible, excuse was that he mistook Otway Lighthouse for a UFO (as if it could navigate above and below him like he described). Less likely was a sudden spurt of freak weather. And the most ludicrous explanation of them all, though a very popular explanation used by military officials when explaining UFOs, was that the plane was brought down by a balloon. The UFO was a balloon, more specifically, helium balloons with filled with drugs.  It’s worth noting that his disappearance coincides with the biggest UFO flap in Australian history. 

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