Mysterious disappearances

Does anyone else remember staying up late and watching Strange But True when they were younger? You know, that one with the guy from the Antiques Roadshow and This Is Your Life presenting? If you didn't, or, you know, you did more with your Friday nights than me, Strange But True looked at bizarre or paranormal mysteries and was broadcast on ITV between 1993 and 1997. According to Wikipedia anyway.

It was a pretty smashing show, and in honour of the fact that I recently discovered that they show repeats of it The Paranormal Channel on Sky, my next couple of lists will be dedicated to looking at some of the stranger mysteries that have remained unexplainable throughout the annals (lol) of time.

Here's the first - the five most mysterious disappearances....OF ALL TIME!!!!

5 - The Time Tunnel

In at number five we have the bizarre incident that took place in the Lincoln Tunnel in 1975. On that particular night a man named Jackson Wright was driving with his wife from New Jersey to New York City. This required them to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel.

Apparently, once they were through the tunnel, Mr Wright stopped the car to remove some condensation from the windscreen, at this time his wife went to do the same at the back windscreen. So they could resume their journey. Obv. However, when Jackson turned around his wife had disappeared. Gone. Capoot. Etc etc.

A subsequent investigation found no foul play. Leading many to speculate that poor Mrs Wright had just vanished into thin air.

4 - The Norfolk Regiment

Three soldiers claimed to be witnesses to the bizarre disappearance of an entire battalion in 1915. The three men, who were members of a New Zealand field company said they watched from a clear vantage point as a battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside in Suvla Bay, Turkey. The hill was shrouded in a low-lying cloud that the English soldiers marched straight into without hesitation. And they never came out. After the last of the battalion had entered the cloud, it slowly lifted off the hillside to join other clouds in the sky. When the war was over, figuring the battalion had been captured and held prisoner, the British government demanded that Turkey return them. The Turks insisted, however, that it had neither captured not made contact with these English soldiers.

Sneaky.

3 - The Legend of George Lang

In this, most bizarre case which took place in Tennessee in 1880, two children, George and Sarah Lang were playing, in full view of their family in the front garden of their home. When heading back to the house, George literally disappeared in mid-step. The Lang family headed over in a terrified state, assuming that he might have fell down a well or something along those lines. But it was not to be, he had literally vanished into thin air.

And then, to make things weirder, a few months later the family found that, on the exact spot where George disappeared, the grass had turned yellow and wilted.

2 - The Stonehenge Disappearance

Stonehenge. Ancient burial ground, and topic of one of Spinal Tap's best song. True story. But anyway, in 1971 a group of students visited and never returned...

The pesky students perched a tent in the centre of the stones and built a campfire. Whilst there, they had a few spliffs and sat around smoking and singing. At about 2am however, a severe thunder storm reached the area, striking trees and even the Stonehenge monument itself.

Two witnesses, a farmer and a policeman, said the stones lit up with a blue light that was so bright that they both had to shield their eyes. They heard screams from the campers and the two witnesses rushed to the scene expecting to find injured – or even dead – campers. To their surprise, they found no one. All that remained within the circle of stones were several smoldering tent pegs and the drowned remains of a campfire. The students were gone without a trace.

1 - The Village that Disappeared

In at number one we have the bizarre story of an Eskimo village in Northern Canada. In November 1930, a "fur trapper" named Joe Labelle visited the area, which he and many in neighbouring towns knew as a thriving fishing community of about 2000 residents. When he arrived though, the village was absolutely deserted. All of the huts and storehouses were empty - only a pot of blackened stew remained. The authorities were notified and an investigation began. However, the investigation found that no footprints of any residents were found, all of the villages snowdogs had starved to death under a 12 foot snowdrift and no food or provisions had been removed from the villagers huts.

And perhaps most disturbingly, the Eskimos' ancestral graves had been emptied.

Any of y'all have any theories of what might have happened in any of the cases?
Let me know.


Cause it'll look better if I get comments and that, eh.

Brrap.