they vanished without a trace
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down ten of the most famous
disappearances in history number 10
Oscar Zeta Acosta you know him as hunter
as Thompson’s partner in crime as he
feared and loathed his way through Las
Vegas but Acosta or dr. gonzo was also a
lawyer activist and legend in the
Chicano community his unpredictable
nature and connection to drug culture
probably led to his 1974 disappearance
from Mexico after he told his son he’d
boarded a boat full of white snow no
trace of him ever turned up there he
goes one of God’s own prototypes a
high-powered mutant of some kind never
even considered for mass production too
weird to live and too rare to die number
9
raid Greek our months from retirement
this district attorney was working the
case that eventually became the Penn
State sex scandal then he disappeared
things they found undamaged car and
cellphone waterlogged laptop in the
river web searches on how to destroy
hard drives could have been murder
suicide or maybe he just bailed on his
life but since Greek art declined to
charge Jerry Sandusky twice a connection
there is unlikely but weird coincidence
number 8 Frank Morris and John and
Clarence Anglin officially know one
escaped the rock but after months of
preparation Frank Morris and brothers
Clarence and John Anglin crawled through
holes they dug in their cell walls and
braved the water surrounding Alcatraz
using lifejackets and rafts they crafted
from raincoats all three probably
drowned but their bodies were never
located later investigations and the
1979 film Escape from Alcatraz
they could have survived wonder if they
made it round
yes sir number seven flight 19 cases
like these make it hard to deny the
Bermuda triangles existence a grouping
of five torpedo bombers was on a
training exercise over that mysterious
area near Florida when it became evident
via radio transmissions that the 14
Airmen had lost their way no wreckage
was found but that’s not even the
weirdest part the plane that was sent to
search for flight 19 also disappeared
losing 13 more number six the crew of
the Mary Celeste this is one of the
greatest nautical mysteries ever a ship
in near-perfect condition with plenty of
supplies and the belongings of its crew
aboard is discovered unmanned in the
Atlantic theories about this archetypal
ghost ship range from pirates to aliens
to the Bermuda Triangle but the most
likely scenario involves a phantom
explosion of its cargo of alcohol
barrels whatever happened the crew never
surfaced number 5 ambrose bierce known
as bitter beers this american journalist
was famous for his sardonic writings
colored by themes of death and horror no
one thought twice when the 71 year old
civil war vet traveled to witness the
Mexican Revolution firsthand his last
known correspondence was a letter where
he said as to me I leave here tomorrow
for an unknown destination leading some
to conclude he committed suicide
number 4 the Lindbergh baby just because
this case was solved doesn’t mean it had
a happy ending
when famed aviator Charles Lindbergh’s
20 month old son was snatched from their
home it became one of the century’s most
infamous crimes the pricey ransom was
paid
but the Lindbergh baby was found dead
two months later Bruno Hauptmann was
captured tried convicted and executed
for the crime but proclaimed his
innocence until the day he died
number 3 DB Cooper here’s what we do
know a man using the name Dan Cooper
claimed to have a bomb aboard a Portland
to Seattle flight he demanded 200 grand
and
and when his requests were met they left
for Mexico but during that flight
Cooper exited the plane some of his cash
turned up on a riverbank in 1980 but
otherwise no trace of DB Cooper ever
materialized and his identity remains a
mystery number 2 Amelia Earhart this
aviation and women’s issues pioneer was
an international star when she went
missing after departing New Guinea with
navigator Fred Noonan Earhart
disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on
her round-the-world flight some presume
she sank others suggest she lived
through the crash but perished later
others claims she was a spy and others
still say she faked her death to escape
Fame but her fate has never been
confirmed number 1 Jimmy Hoffa play with
fire get burned that’s what happened to
this Teamsters boss and mob fraternize
ER after four years in prison Hoffa was
back to his old tricks and in 1975
vanished while awaiting a settling of
accounts at a Detroit Area restaurant
though his body’s still missing theories
have swirled that he’s buried at any
number of random locales including
Giants Stadium one thing certain will
probably never know I think it’s quite
conceivable that there is a little
feeling that maybe there’s a possibility
that he may not resurface again do you
agree with our list which do you think
was the most iconic disappearance in
history for more top tens about your
favorite mysteries be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down ten of the most famous
disappearances in history number 10
Oscar Zeta Acosta you know him as hunter
as Thompson’s partner in crime as he
feared and loathed his way through Las
Vegas but Acosta or dr. gonzo was also a
lawyer activist and legend in the
Chicano community his unpredictable
nature and connection to drug culture
probably led to his 1974 disappearance
from Mexico after he told his son he’d
boarded a boat full of white snow no
trace of him ever turned up there he
goes one of God’s own prototypes a
high-powered mutant of some kind never
even considered for mass production too
weird to live and too rare to die number
9
raid Greek our months from retirement
this district attorney was working the
case that eventually became the Penn
State sex scandal then he disappeared
things they found undamaged car and
cellphone waterlogged laptop in the
river web searches on how to destroy
hard drives could have been murder
suicide or maybe he just bailed on his
life but since Greek art declined to
charge Jerry Sandusky twice a connection
there is unlikely but weird coincidence
number 8 Frank Morris and John and
Clarence Anglin officially know one
escaped the rock but after months of
preparation Frank Morris and brothers
Clarence and John Anglin crawled through
holes they dug in their cell walls and
braved the water surrounding Alcatraz
using lifejackets and rafts they crafted
from raincoats all three probably
drowned but their bodies were never
located later investigations and the
1979 film Escape from Alcatraz
they could have survived wonder if they
made it round
yes sir number seven flight 19 cases
like these make it hard to deny the
Bermuda triangles existence a grouping
of five torpedo bombers was on a
training exercise over that mysterious
area near Florida when it became evident
via radio transmissions that the 14
Airmen had lost their way no wreckage
was found but that’s not even the
weirdest part the plane that was sent to
search for flight 19 also disappeared
losing 13 more number six the crew of
the Mary Celeste this is one of the
greatest nautical mysteries ever a ship
in near-perfect condition with plenty of
supplies and the belongings of its crew
aboard is discovered unmanned in the
Atlantic theories about this archetypal
ghost ship range from pirates to aliens
to the Bermuda Triangle but the most
likely scenario involves a phantom
explosion of its cargo of alcohol
barrels whatever happened the crew never
surfaced number 5 ambrose bierce known
as bitter beers this american journalist
was famous for his sardonic writings
colored by themes of death and horror no
one thought twice when the 71 year old
civil war vet traveled to witness the
Mexican Revolution firsthand his last
known correspondence was a letter where
he said as to me I leave here tomorrow
for an unknown destination leading some
to conclude he committed suicide
number 4 the Lindbergh baby just because
this case was solved doesn’t mean it had
a happy ending
when famed aviator Charles Lindbergh’s
20 month old son was snatched from their
home it became one of the century’s most
infamous crimes the pricey ransom was
paid
but the Lindbergh baby was found dead
two months later Bruno Hauptmann was
captured tried convicted and executed
for the crime but proclaimed his
innocence until the day he died
number 3 DB Cooper here’s what we do
know a man using the name Dan Cooper
claimed to have a bomb aboard a Portland
to Seattle flight he demanded 200 grand
and
and when his requests were met they left
for Mexico but during that flight
Cooper exited the plane some of his cash
turned up on a riverbank in 1980 but
otherwise no trace of DB Cooper ever
materialized and his identity remains a
mystery number 2 Amelia Earhart this
aviation and women’s issues pioneer was
an international star when she went
missing after departing New Guinea with
navigator Fred Noonan Earhart
disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on
her round-the-world flight some presume
she sank others suggest she lived
through the crash but perished later
others claims she was a spy and others
still say she faked her death to escape
Fame but her fate has never been
confirmed number 1 Jimmy Hoffa play with
fire get burned that’s what happened to
this Teamsters boss and mob fraternize
ER after four years in prison Hoffa was
back to his old tricks and in 1975
vanished while awaiting a settling of
accounts at a Detroit Area restaurant
though his body’s still missing theories
have swirled that he’s buried at any
number of random locales including
Giants Stadium one thing certain will
probably never know I think it’s quite
conceivable that there is a little
feeling that maybe there’s a possibility
that he may not resurface again do you
agree with our list which do you think
was the most iconic disappearance in
history for more top tens about your
favorite mysteries be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
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