People Who Vanish

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue May 22, 2001 11:58 am

Well, yes, I was thinking about Foul, but also we should consider Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, and my grandfather's brother, whom (we were told, when we were very young) left the Ukraine, and went to a place called Missouri, from whence he was neither seen nor heard of, again.

Can anybody else think of people who have simply disappeared? Have you any theories why they disappeared, and have you ever tried to find them?

This topic area is infinitely expandable, and can include references to anybody in the past. It is also environmentally friendly, and your posts will do nothing at all to any trees.

Darkpoet · Post by **Darkpoet** » Tue May 22, 2001 12:02 pm

Fable, there is a new member named Witch king. When you were gone for the weekend. Guess who that was?

Craig · Post by **Craig** » Tue May 22, 2001 12:32 pm

asmilea airhart?

scully1 · Post by **scully1** » Tue May 22, 2001 1:46 pm

@fable -- this story is absolutely true. (I know all urban legends start out like that, but this one really is

I think this happened some time in the 20's or 30's. A relation of my grandmother's went out one day to pick...some kind of fruit, I think it was figs?? (They were farmers.) And she simply didn't come back. Her daughter went out to look for her when she had been gone an inordinate amount of time, and when she simply couldn't be found the police were notified. They came and brought their bloodhounds. They took the dogs up to the missing woman's room, to get her scent. The dogs went crazy, took off down the stairs and out of the house, to the tree -- and stopped there, barking up the tree and clawing at it. They wouldn't go anywhere else. After extensive investigations, the woman was never found and to my knowledge the case was never quite closed.

How's that for creepy?

scully1 · Post by **scully1** » Tue May 22, 2001 1:49 pm

Err...I just read your comment about trees...ironic, no?

Gruntboy · Post by **Gruntboy** » Tue May 22, 2001 1:57 pm

Lord Lucan.

Fable, are you doing your homework and popping on to the board to see if any of us know the answers?

Weasel · Post by **Weasel** » Tue May 22, 2001 2:43 pm

Amelia Earhart: Shot down during WW2

Jimmy Hoffa: Decided to feed the gators, just got too close and was eaten.

grandfather's brother, whom (we were told, when we were very young) left the Ukraine, and went to a place called Missouri: Hmmm this reminds me of a film....Deliverance (<sp?) starring Burt R.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue May 22, 2001 3:51 pm

Gruntboy wonders aloud:
Fable, are you doing your homework and popping on to the board to see if any of us know the answers?

Grunt, if this were a homework exam, given the subject, I suppose it would have to be for the FBI. (When I managed a public radio station back in the mid 1980's, one of my employees decided to divorce her husband and quit to join the FBI. I never realized how much patriotism and the divorce rate were interrelated.)

Darkpoet hints darkly:
Fable, there is a new member named Witch king. When you were gone for the weekend. Guess who that was?

GASP! You don't mean...we actually have JIMMY HOFFA as a poster! Neat!!

Oh...wait. It's Foul, right?

Actually, I'm very glad he's back (if you're sure it's him). I'm still trembling under the supposed revelation of Craigian mind control.

@Loner72, that was some story. Maybe she went to join my grandfather's brother, and they both opened a business in Missouri. Oddly enough, my wife's from St Louis, Missouri, and she got a kick out of my great uncle's disappearance.

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cheesemage · Post by **cheesemage** » Tue May 22, 2001 4:00 pm

Airheart=Well you see she decided to go looking for atlantis underwater in her plane
Hoffa= He's a speed bump down a International Highway

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue May 22, 2001 4:06 pm

By the way, my wife showed me around the hospital where she works as an Informatics Specialist a couple of years ago. It's rather ugly lounge/cafetaria bears a plaque indicating that it was built with funds entirely provided by the New Jersey Teamsters, with the proud signature (in bronze) of Jimmy Hoffa.

The Outsider · Post by **The Outsider** » Tue May 22, 2001 5:40 pm

Okay, here's a real one. Semi-recent, too.

Back in 1984 (okay, not that recent), I had just moved to Beijing with my family. This was a number of years before Tian An Men, so the government in power was especially nasty. For one thing, anything a foreigner did was recorded- but that's another story. What you do need as background is the fact that there was a law in effect then, that Chinese people who did not work in foreigners' hotels had no reason to go there, and thus were forbidden from doing so.

I don't think my family knew about this law.

Anyway, one day, my mother, sister and I are in the park, when we meet a young local university student. She wants to practice her English, so we (my mother, mainly) chat with her. The afternon wears on, and we invite her to the hotel for some tea etc. She does so. We chat some more, and make arrangements to meet the next day in the park.

Needless to say, the next day, she wasn't there.

The law was repealed a few weeks later, though.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu May 24, 2001 6:23 am

It's funny you should mention Jimmy Hoffa and dissapearences, i once called C Elegans C Hoffa and her spamsters as a joke and now she has disappeared, a spooky coincedence.

fable · Post by **fable** » Thu May 24, 2001 7:55 am

C Elegans didn't disappear; she voluntarily left because she couldn't accept a decision Buck made to close a particular topic. It was his choice, she recognized that--but it stuck in her craw. And I'm sorry to see she's gone, too, but that was her choice.

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu May 24, 2001 8:04 am

I kinda knew that, i was just pointing out an interesting coincidence.