Have you ever known someone who has disappeared?

musicismylife78

Have you ever known someone that has disappeared? Like literally, someone you knew, a friend, a relative, whatever, disappeared, and was never heard from again.


Not the most uplifting of threads but its an interesting topic. Got to thinking about it after hearing the backstory for the new Mars Volta album, which is about 2 kids, high school kids that Omar and Cedric grew up with. I guess these two kids, went to a party, and then were never heard from again. Ever. Nothing was ever found. No body. No clues. No hints. Nothing. They literally disappeared off the face of the earth.

South of Seattle

I had a friend disappear. Don't think it was foul play or anything like that. He moved to Southern Oregon and dropped off the face of the earth though.

PJaddicted

My brother has done this on and off for the last 15 years, we never know if he is alive or dead, he is a drug addict alcoholic. Yesterday was his birthday......we have no way of contacting him so it goes uncelebrated.

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I had a friend who disappeared in college. No one knew where he was; he was just there one day and gone the next. Then, a few years later, I was walknig to class one day and saw him. Turns out he had run off with a cult. But now he's back, doing better (took awhile), and we're friends again.

DeLukin

My cousin disappeared when I was young. For years nobody never knew if she was abducted or just ran away. She was 18 at the time so I think there was always that nagging thought that maybe she just went out on her own... until a torso was found that matched her DNA. Sad...

My only real memory of her was she loved the Rolling Stones and would look you dead in the eye and sing. And it was like she was looking into your soul. Her flame was extinguished way too early...

mookeywrench

never personally knew him (obviously as you will see), but when my Grandpa's mom became ill and died, the next morning my Grandpa's dad went to work and never came home. He left behind my Grandpa and his (my grandpa's) 3 sisters.

Austicman

When my Dad's brother was 18 he just up and left the family home back in Belfast, NI. Nobody had heard from him for 15 years. Mum and dad emigrated in Australia about that time and still no one heard from him for another 30 years. About 10 years ago Dad got a letter from him saying that he was living in England and was well. He'd been travelling most of the time and had even made it out to Australia and had driven trucks here for a couple of years. Dad was in his early 20's the last time he saw him. He's 79 now. Would love to have the cash to send him over to see him again.

Cinnamon Girl

interesting thread. I dont have anything to add...but its really crazy reading all these stories.

adropinthepark

An aquaintance (minor drug dealer, but good guy) that used to hang out with my friends disappeared when we were all teens. It was surreal seeing his missing posters in coffee shops, etc. I don't know if anyone ever found him.

iamsam_pj

a girl i went to college with disappeared on her way to work a few years ago. the only thing that they were able to find was her abandoned car i believe. there aren't many clues/leads to her disappearance. it was really sad to see her parents standing on the street corners near where she disappeared with signs every day, hoping that someone passing by would have information.

stargirl69

My cousin disappeared in the late 70's.I was just a child but she always seemed really different.My lasting memory of her is she always wore an amazing pair of purple velvet knee high platform boots and had a huge poster of Janis Joplin on her bedroom wall.I thought she was really cool.

She had a baby but soon after the baby was taken into care,this confused me so much as I was only 8 at the time.I never saw the baby or my cousin again.
I was in my late 20's when my mum told me that my cousin had been a heroin addict and prostitute since her late teen's and had disappeared soon after her baby was removed from her.None of the family have heard anything about her in almost 30 years.If she's still alive she will be about 60 now.

acoustic guy

Wow, crazy sad stories. Now that I have children, things like this scare the shit out of me. I remember watching that movie "Vanished" with Keifer Sultherland and it freaked me out. If something happened like that to my wife or children, I would totally lose my mind.

WaveCameCrashin

I don't know anybody that's ever disappeared. However me and a friend did happen to stumble across a woman that did. She had been in the woods for about 2 weeks when we found her.It's a scene and a smell that I will never forget.

Riverrunner

Several years ago I saw an elderly man often as I walked my dogs past his house. He took off in the car one day and was not heard from. Several years later during a drought a pond started to dry up and they found his car with a skeleton and his billfold in it - several miles from his house. And the pond was a ways from the road too.

Last summer another elderly man disappeared while walking around his rural home. It was on the news for weeks as he was supposedly spotted at truck stops, in other cities etc. But then a great nephew was playing in a field a few weeks ago and found a bone. It was Mr. Harris. Apparently he got lost and/or died in the cornfield last fall when the corn was high. The combine must have ran over him without the driver knowing and scattered what was left of him over the field. Then many months later the boy and his dog found one of the bones. They had to look over a wide area to put all of the pieces back together.