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Today we are jumping into some scarier stuff.
It’s not easy to pull off a vanishing act when you’re a celebrity in the spotlight.
Just imagine how impossible it’d be for someone like Justin Bieber to vanish without
a trace; it just seems impossible.
But sometimes, the impossible happens.
Over the years there have been a handful of real celebrities who have vanished and still
have not been found.
Let’s get started with today’s list of Top 10 Scary Times Celebrities Disappeared.
10.
Starting off the list at number 10 is Bison DELL-Y.
Before he changed his name though he was Brian Williams, a 6 foot 11 man who played in the
NBA.
He was famously known for his skill and for being a little unusual.
But people were shocked when he ditched his $36 million dollar contract and the United
States at age 30 to go fire off bazookas in the desert for fun.
Like legit that’s what he did.
He moved to Lebanon and reported that’s what he did and he went on an epic journey
through Asia.
A Sports Illustrated profile details that while he was on his travels he became a beat
poet, writing verses inspired by William Blake.
He stayed out of the U.S for years, and caused chaos in Australia where he learned how to
sail and bought himself a boat named Hakuna Matata.
He told friends and family that he was going to sail it from Tahiti to Hawaii.
On July 7th 2002, the former NBA player set sail with his girlfriend, the ships’ captain,
and his older brother.
However, they never made it to Hawaii; Bison Dele, his girlfriend and the captain vanished
at sea; the only survivor was his brother.
Two months later, his older brother was arrested in Phoenix when he was trying to buy gold
with one of his vanished brothers’ checks.
He was released on bail but later committed suicide without any explanation as to why.
Sources were suspecting him of murdering the other boat mates, including his brother, saying
that he was always a violent guy who envied his brother’s success.
The bodies have still not been found.
9.
At number 9 is Sean Flynn, the actor who lived in the shadow of his father Errol Flynn, who
happened to have success that made Hollywood history.
The young actor, Sean, was trying to follow in his father’s footsteps and become a success
as well.
*insert image* But filmed weren’t much of a success and it was actually his work as
a photographer when he was assigned to cover America’s deadly wars in Indochina.
The dangerous assignment is what brought him fame, but it also led him to his death.
*insert image* On April 6th in 1970, the former actor and another journalist, Dana Stone,
disappeared without a trace after encountering a hostile checkpoint south-east of Phnom Penh.
The two of them never returned and no trace of them was ever found.
Back in 2010 there was a body found and forensics thought it was him, but it turned out to be
a false identification.
Since then the case is back to square one, without a trace.
8.
Sliding into the number 8 spot is Jim Thompson; he is the most famous and most significant
American to have ever lived in Thailand.
He was a former agent in the office for Strategic Services, basically the CIA.
But then he moved to Thailand at the end of World War 2 where he set up a silk business,
turning Thai silk into a global commodity.
He was known as the socialite, throwing huge parties for Bangkok’s rich civilians.
The wealthy influencer left Bangkok in 1967 to go on a hiking trip in Malaysia.
He stayed at a bungalow and one day he went for a walk and never came back.
*insert image of real bungalow* An article in Paris Review explains just how fishy his
disappearance was.
Jim Thompson was a soldier back in the day with lots of field experience and survival
skills in the wilderness.
He was also a big guy, which led people to believe if an animal got him, there would
be a trace of leftovers.
The problem was, he had a lot of enemies because of his business and success.
No trace of him was ever found and his Bangkok home is now a museum for the Thai capital.
Tons of tourists visit it and call it one of the “Top Choices to go and see.
Our most amazing top 10 host, Rebecca, has actually gone to it before and said it was
a really cool experience.
7.
Taking the number 7 spot is Patrick McDermitt, an American cameraman who was more famously
known for his relationship to Olivia Newton John than anything he did himself.
The two of them had an on-and-off relationship for years, and McDermitt made headlines in
2005 when he disappeared from a fishing boat off the coast of Los Angeles.
He wasn’t reported missing until a week after he disappeared from the boat and the
20 other passengers were all giving reports that conflicted with each other.
In 2008, it was declared that he most likely drowned, but then rumours began to fly saying
that he faked his own death to cash in on a life insurance plan and was actually alive
and living in Mexico.
He showed up in America’s Most Wanted and Dateline NBC ran an undercover special trying
to track him down.
In 2017, a photograph made headlines claiming that Patrick had been spotted in Mexico with
his German girlfriend.
They claimed that it was a 90 percent match, but turns out it was really just a Canadian
pub owner who looks like him.
*insert image* The Canadian, Wes Stobbe, says he saw the picture of him and his wife and
thought it was bizarre so he called in to settle the story.
The two of them said, and I quote: I guess it’s kind of exotic to be seen as a German
lover.
We got a pretty good laugh out of it anyways.
So, Patrick McDermitt is still missing and the case remains unsolved.
6.
In at number 6 is Scott Smith, the musician who was a founder of the Canadian rock group
called Loverboy.
The band was one of the biggest rock bands of the early 80’s with hits like Hot Girls
In Love, and Working For The Weekend, which is still played on radio stations all around
the world every Friday afternoon.
Scott Smith was one of the group founders who stuck with them throughout all the years
until his mysterious and frightening disappearance at sea on November 30, 2000.
Him and his band played together at the benefit for the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation in Vancouver,
BC, and afterwards him, his girlfriend, and 2 friends set out for Mexico on a 37 foot
sailboat.
As they sailed down the coast, around San Francisco, the weather got rough and apparently
through Smith off the boat.
His friend and travel companion Bill Ellis told the Ottawa Citizen that they think a
20 foot wave knocked him off; he said: we turned back around but couldn’t find any
of the debris or cushions or the man-overboard pole.
Coast guard helicopters arrived within 20 minutes dispatched two search boats, but found
nothing.
Smith’s family continued to pay for a private search company, but his remains have never
surfaced.
5.
Half way through at number 5 is Lord Lucan, who was famously known in London for being
a part of the wealthy aristocracy and was a gambler in the social scene.
However, one thing he is also famous for is murdering the wrong person.
You know when you mistake a stranger for someone you know; well he did that, except 1000 times
more extreme.
In 1974, he brutally murdered his wife Veronica in her home in London.
He hated her because they got divorced and she won custody of their kids.
However, Veronica was in a dark room and he actually murdered Sandra Rivett, his children’s
beloved nanny.
The case was a media sensation in Britain and after the murder happened, Lucan vanished
and was never found.
He wasn’t even declared as dead until 1999, and his son wasn’t allowed to inherit his
title until 2016.
Many rumours have gone around about what happened to him.
Some say he drowned himself in the Newhaven Harbour while others say he is hiding in Africa.
He has never been found; it’s like he disappeared into thin air.
4.
Taking over the number 4 spot is Oscar Zeta Acosta, an American attorney, politician,
novelist, and activist in the Chicano movement..
He was also known for how he relentlessly consumed pills, booze, and other drugs.
His close friend, and American author, Hunter S. Thompson says he took everything in titanic
quantities that even he couldn’t keep up, which says a lot.
*insert image* It was in May 1974, where he visited his ancestral home of Mexico, and
then vanished.
The LA Times reports that his buddy hunter spent years on and off, searching for his
friend.
With nothing to be found, he later claimed that Acosta was probably killed in a drug
hit or a political assassination.
No body was ever found and the evidence shows that it’s like he just disappeared into
the night.
Hunter went on to write a documentary called Dr. Gonzo, which captures the politician’s
wild ride of life.
3.
Alright guys, at number 3 is Richey Edwards; the celebrated Welsh musician who was the
lyricist and guitarist for the band The Manic Street Preachers.
He made a name for himself in 1991 when he was asked about his commitment to Punk music.
In front of the interviewer, he grabbed a razor blade and carved the words 4 real into
his arm.
The injury took 18 stitches to patch up.
People close to him have reported that he often spoke about depression and self-harm,
but often said suicide was never an option for him.
So, when he went missing on February 1st 1995, people thought suicide right away.
His car was found near the Severn Bridge, which is also a popular and known location
for suicide.
However, over the next few weeks after he went missing, there were reported sightings
of him in various places, but he was never found.
His missing persons case was left open by his family for 13 years until November of
2008 when he was declared presumed dead.
2.
In spot number 2 is Joe PITCH-LER, an American former child actor who has been missing since
January 5th 2006.
The young actor vanished one day and was never to be heard from again.
His roles were made up of a variety of commercials and his recurring role as Brennan Newton on
the 3rd and 4th movie in the Beethoven film series.
His last film appearance was in Children on Their Birthdays which came out in 2002.
The following year he returned to his hometown with his family and then graduated from high
school in 2005.
It was in 2006 that Joe returned to LA again to continue with his acting career.
At the time of his disappearance he was living on his own and was working a full-time job
as a telephone technician at TeleTech.
In the night of his disappearance, he was last heard from at 4:15am when he talked to
a friend on his cell phone, and was never heard from again.
It was reported that he was last seen playing cards with some friends and was in good spirits.
4 days later his vehicle was found behind a restaurant, which had all his belongings
in it besides his keys and wallet.
When searching his apartment, it was found unlocked with all the lights on.
His case is still a mystery to this day.
1.
Taking our number 1 spot is Rico Harris; if you’ve heard of him it’s probably because
his disappearance became huge headlines when he vanished back in 2014.
He disappeared somewhere along State Route 16 near Sacramento.
The manhunt blew up in the media and it was because Rico used to be a somebody, he made
a name for himself in the sports industry.
In 2000, Harris played basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters, a team which is very
famously known if you’re an intense sports fan.
Before joining the team, he was one of the top 100 college basketball recruits.
Unfortunately, drinking kept him from reaching his potential basketball success, and he ended
up working as a security guard in LA instead.
He reached his all-time low when he was fired from that job for being drunk; it was that
day that he left his moms LA house to drive to Seattle and stay with his girlfriend.
His car was later found abandoned outside of Sacramento.
The strange details were explained in 2017 by the LA times, saying that a backpack and
a phone, which had a video of him on it, were found on the roadside, but police found nothing
else.
Days after he vanished, people were phoning in saying they kept seeing a giant person
walking alongside State Route 16.
Human footprints were found in the sand, but no Harris.
Alright guys, there’s our scary list for today.
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