- A friend or a loved one disappearing without explanation
is a scary thought.
However what you might not realize
is that these things happen all the time.
But what's more is that there are specific cases
that have happened in the past,
of individuals disappearing that were so especially strange,
so mysterious in nature,
that to this day not a single person,
including the authorities, has any idea
what happened to them.
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Here are the 10 most mysterious missing person cases.
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Number 10 is Susan Walsh.
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The disappearance of Susan Walsh is a puzzle.
The last time that she was seen was outside
of her home in New Jersey, in July of 1996.
No one knows what happened to her, but
what makes the disappearance so strange
is that Susan was an investigative reporter
and had been investigating an underground vampire
role play community at the time.
She had also previously written a story
about the Russian mafia trafficking individuals.
Some believe either the Russian mafia,
or someone from the vampire community in New York City
was trying to silence her.
Just two days before her disappearance,
Susan told a colleague that she had a stalker.
It was later revealed that inside her apartment,
the July page from the calendar had been torn out.
No one knows what was written on that page
and whether it pointed towards her eventual fate.
Number nine is Heather Teague.
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Heather Teagues disappeared on August 26, 1995.
Whatever happened to her,
Heather's suspected final moments are chilling.
A witness claimed to be using a telescope
and happened to see Heather sunbathing in her swimsuit
on the shore of Newburgh Beach
in Henderson County, Kentucky.
Some have speculated that the witness was spying on her.
But the witness told police that he watched in horror
as a man came out of the woods,
grabbed Heather at gunpoint,
and dragged her back into the treeline.
This was the last time anyone saw her.
Since then, Heather's family has been searching for answers,
but so far none have been forthcoming.
A string of bizarre events did follow Heather's abduction,
including a suspect committing suicide,
and discrepancies in police records surrounding the case.
Which to this day remains open.
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Number eight is Juan Martinez.
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The disappearance of Juan Pedro Martinez in 1986
is one of the most perplexing missing persons cases
of all time.
The disappearance occurred in Spain when Juan,
a 10 year old boy, traveled with his mother
and father across the country.
Juan's father was a truck driver and was transporting
20,000 liters of sulfuric acid at that time.
As Juan's father's truck descended down
a steep mountain road, his truck did not brake
and reached 140 kilometers an hour.
The truck was out of control, recklessly running
other traffic off the road.
Finally the truck crashed.
The passengers were killed either in the impact,
or by sulfuric acid, which poured over them
from the truck's trailer.
What makes the disappearance so strange is that
only two bodies were ever recovered.
And a witness claimed to see a passenger
stop at the crash and take Juan away.
He was never seen again.
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Number seven is Theresa Ann Bier.
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Theresa Ann Bier was 16 years old when she vanished.
She was last seen on June 1, 1987,
heading off to a camping trip with her friend,
Russell Welsh, a 43 year old man.
Their goal was to investigate Bigfoot sightings
and hopefully find evidence for the mythological creature.
Despite a 16 year old girl traveling
with a 43 year old man causing concern,
the two still headed into the Nevada mountain range.
When Russell Welsh appeared several days later,
he said Theresa had been taken by the Bigfoot creature.
Welsh was charged with child stealing.
But the charges were eventually dropped.
Police offered Welsh a deal, that if he admitted
to killing Theresa and told authorities
where he hid the body, they would give him a light sentence.
However, Welsh maintained that Bigfoot took her
and poor Theresa was never found.
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Number six is Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman.
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Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman
both disappeared in Welsh, Oklahoma
on December 30, 1999.
Ashley was celebrating her 16th birthday
with her parents and her friend Lauria.
During the night a fire broke out in Ashley's home.
The fire department discovered Ashley's mother's body
inside the home, but no one else.
An autopsy revealed that Ashley's mother
had been shot dead.
And that the fire had been started deliberately.
Bizarrely, the body of Ashley's father
was overlooked by police,
and eventually found at the scene by Lauria's parents.
That's when things took an even darker turn,
when it was revealed that Ashley's father
had warned his brother that he was in a feud
with the local sheriff's department
over the wrongful shooting of his son.
And that if anything ever happened to him to blame them.
To this day, Lauria and Ashley are still missing.
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Number five is Bison Dele.
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Bison Dele played pro basketball for the Chicago Bulls,
as well as the LA Clippers.
However, one day he simply mysteriously disappeared.
After retiring, Dele took a boat in 2002
and sailed to Tahiti.
This included his girlfriend and a skipper to sail the boat,
along with Dele's brother, Miles.
However, ultimately only Miles ever came off that boat.
He was arrested for murder, but at first
claimed that Dele's girlfriend had been accidentally killed
and that Dele had murdered the skipper to keep it quiet.
He then turned on Miles who killed Dele in self defense.
Others believe that Miles, who committed suicide
before the case progressed,
had murdered them all over money.
Miles' lawyer later revealed that Miles had told him
that Dele and his girlfriend were actually alive
and that he'd helped them disappear.
Unless Dele one day emerges at some point,
we will never know the truth.
Number four is Brandon Lawson.
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After leaving his San Angelo home on August 9, 2013,
Brandon Lawson disappeared.
While investigators can not be certain
what happened to him, it seems clear that he encountered
something horrific in the woods.
His truck had broken down in the middle of the night,
and so Brandon called his brother to ask him
to come to pick him up.
When his brother arrived he found the truck
on a woodland road, but no Brandon.
The last anyone heard from Brandon was when he called 9-1-1
during the night, talking about running
into something in the woods and needing help.
That's when the call went silent.
And in a garbled message it sounded as if Brandon
had been caught by whoever or whatever was chasing him.
His body was never recovered.
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is Michael Dunahee.
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Michael Wayne Dunahee went missing on March 24, 1991.
He was only four years old at the time
and his disappearance puzzled investigators,
because of how many people were around him when he vanished.
Michael was seen at 12:30 p.m. having fun
and playing in a school playground
in Victoria, British Columbia.
Michael's father was nearby as they were both there
to watch Michael's mother at a football practice.
Suddenly Michael was gone and no one knew where he went.
It's estimated that he was just meters away from his parents
when he disappeared.
Despite a reward of $100,000 for information
on his whereabouts, no one came forward
and the police say they have no active leads.
Michael's disappearance shocked the city of Victoria,
but remains unsolved.
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Number two is Oscar Zeta Acosta.
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Oscar Zeta Acosta is most famous
for being the sidekick lawyer of famed journalist
Hunter S. Thompson.
Their drug-fueled adventures have been written about
extensively and famously captured in the film,
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
However, Acosta is also known for vanishing
without a trace in 1974.
It happened while he was on a trip to Mexico.
He had told his son that he was going on a boat trip,
but for who was on the boat, no one knows.
Some have speculated that it may have been drug dealers.
Acosta was known for mouthing off
and it may have been that he mouthed off
to the wrong people on the trip.
Another theory is that he had a complete
psychological breakdown while on the boat
and is a psychiatric ward somewhere in Mexico.
Either way, his disappearance has added
to his legend over the years.
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And number one is Sabrina Aisenberg.
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In November of 1997 in Valrico, Florida,
Sabrina Aisenberg was sleeping soundly in her crib.
By the morning the crib was empty,
five month old Sabrina had disappeared.
The police suspected her parents were involved,
but the parents claim someone had come into the house
through an unlocked garage door.
Someone who had been waiting for an opportunity
to take Sabrina.
The charges against the parents were dropped
and both of them believe to this day
that someone who couldn't have a child stole their baby.
At the time of this video, two separate women
have come forward suspecting that they may be Sabrina.
DNA tests are pending,
but until they are revealed, no one knows
what happened to Sabrina, as she lay there in her crib
at home where she should have been safe.
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