The Lost Expedition of Ludwig Leichhardt
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 On the morning of 3 April 1848, a forty-seven-year-old Prussian-born naturalist named Ludwig Leichhardt rode west from a sheep outstation on the Cogoon River and into the most thoroughly silent disappearance in the recorded history of Australian exploration. He led five companions, […]
The Disappearance of Agatha Christie
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Happened to Agatha Christie in December 1926? On the night of 3 December 1926, the novelist Agatha Christie left her Sunningdale home in Berkshire, drove south through the Surrey hills, and disappeared. Her abandoned Morris Cowley was found at Newlands Corner […]
The Vanishing of the USS Cyclops
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 On 4 March 1918 the collier USS Cyclops cleared the harbor at Bridgetown, Barbados, bound north for the Norfolk Navy Yard with a hold of 10,800 tons of Brazilian manganese ore and 306 souls aboard. She never arrived. No SOS, no debris […]
The Disappearance of D. B. Cooper
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Happened on Northwest Orient Flight 305 on November 24, 1971? A man calling himself Dan Cooper boarded Northwest Orient Flight 305 from Portland to Seattle on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 24, 1971, handed a flight attendant a note announcing a […]
The Lost Dauphin of France
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What the Surviving Record Actually Shows Louis-Charles de Bourbon, second son of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette, was born at Versailles on 27 March 1785 and became dauphin in June 1789 on the death of his elder brother. He was […]
The Disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Happened to Raoul Wallenberg? Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who shielded tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews in Budapest in 1944, vanished into Soviet custody on 17 January 1945. He was thirty-two. Soviet officials produced a single 1947 prison-doctor memo claiming […]
The Vanishing of Frederick Valentich
By Marcus Halloway · Published May 7, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Frederick Valentich (9 June 1958 to disappeared 21 October 1978) flew a rented Cessna 182L into Bass Strait at dusk on a Saturday and never landed. The aircraft, registration VH-DSJ, vanished after a six-minute radio exchange with Melbourne Flight Service in which […]
The Disappearance of Lord Lucan
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 The disappearance of Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan (18 December 1934 to last seen 8 November 1974), is, on its surface, the story of an English peer who vanished after a murder in his own house. Read closely, it is […]
The Disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 What Happened to Jimmy Hoffa on July 30, 1975? Jimmy Hoffa, the former Teamsters president, vanished on the afternoon of July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan. He had driven there to […]
The Princes in the Tower Mystery
By Emilia Wellesley · Published May 6, 2026 · Updated May 13, 2026 Last reviewed: May 6, 2026. What the Surviving Record Actually Shows In the spring and summer of 1483, the two young sons of King Edward IV of England, twelve-year-old Edward V (1470 to disappearance 1483) and his nine-year-old brother Richard, Duke of […]