5 UNSOLVED Disappearances That Shocked Our World
“We’ve talked a lot about people who went missing in the 1900s, but today let’s talk about some from way back in the 1800s and even earlier.
Even though these stories are filled with mystery and have become like legends, no one has been able to figure them out yet.”
5. Virginia Dare: A Statue With a Story
Virginia Dare was born on August 18, 1587, in Roanoke Colony. She was the first English child born in the Americas.
Her grandfather, John White, helped establish Roanoke Colony. But when he came back from a trip to get supplies, everyone was gone. The whole colony had vanished – people and buildings alike. Nobody knows what happened to Virginia and the others.
The only clue was the word “Croatoan” carved on a wooden post. Some think it refers to an island nearby, inhabited by Native Americans.
Every year, people in Roanoke Island have a fair to celebrate Virginia Dare’s birthday. In the Elizabethan Gardens, there’s a statue of Virginia as a grown woman, wrapped in a fishnet.
4. Keith Reinhard: Vanished From a Mountain
This story starts with a man named Tom Young, who went for a walk with his dog near Silver Plume, Colorado, in 1987 and didn’t come back.
Young had rented a shop in town, which he later rented to Keith Reinhard. Reinhard was fascinated by Young’s disappearance and started writing a novel inspired by it, with a character based on Young and Reinhard himself.
A year later, Reinhard went on a trip, shortly after Young’s body was found by hunters. Young had died from a gunshot wound to the head, believed to be suicide. Reinhard never returned from his trip.
3. Amelia Earhart: Lost for Decades
On July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart disappeared, which became one of the most well-known mysteries. She was already famous for being the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
She and her navigator, Fred Noonan, had embarked on a mission to become the first to fly around the world.
Researchers and historians are still trying to understand what happened to them. They started their journey from Lae in New Guinea, heading towards Howland Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean.
Earhart and Noonan disappeared somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. A search team looked for them for more than two weeks, but they couldn’t find any signs of them. Even after a court hearing two years later, there were still no clues about what happened to them.
2. Mansion Mystery
Ada Maria Redpath and her five children lived in Montreal and were set to inherit the Redpath sugar fortune. Their life was joyful until tragedy struck in 1901. Ada was found dead in her bedroom, and her 24-year-old son, Cliff, was also found fatally wounded. The coroner determined that Cliff had killed his mother before taking his own life with a pistol. The coroner believed Cliff’s actions were due to a temporary loss of sanity caused by an epileptic seizure.
For over a hundred years, Canadians have been discussing the case in detail. Doctors and staff found two guns at the scene. Some wonder if someone else was involved. People question why none of the staff helped or called the police. Investigators didn’t visit the house until a day after Ada’s death. People wonder what caused the delay. Both Ada and her son died within two days of the shootings.
Betty Shanks, aged 22, got off the train at Days Road Terminus in Grange, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on September 19, 1952. She was studying at the University of Queensland and started her walk home after leaving the train. But she never made it back.
The next morning at 5:35 a.m., a police officer who lived nearby found her beaten body in the garden of a house on the corner of Carberry and Thomas streets. This became one of the most famous investigations in Queensland at that time.
Despite many theories, no one has ever been found guilty of her murder, and the case is still a mystery. Several books have been written by authors trying to guess who might have done it, and many of these books have been published.
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