We see so many cases of people going missing all over the world.
In the woods and out there are people just vanishing,
seemingly into thin air and without a trace or shred of evidence left behind.
We aren’t talking here about cases that can easily be explained away
or where there may be some type of reasonable or rational explanation
for multiple people, families mainly, going missing all at the same time.
These are only some of the cases where entire families,
most of them just out together to make some memories and with every
intention of ending up back in their homes when the adventure was over.
Only they were never seen again.
They never ended up home.
Where they did end up and what happened to them has never been adequately explained,
if an attempt was made to explain it at all.
Come and take a walk with us again folks and this time keep your eyes
peeled and your ears open and see if anything here sounds familiar to you.
Perhaps you and your family were out one day doing the exact same thing
as the following people were and maybe you came across something strange too.
Only, in the end everything worked out for you and you made it back safe and sound.
Here are just a few examples of families of people vanishing without a trace.
John Roberts, Julie Englehart & Brook Roberts
John Roberts and his wife Julie Englehart, both 49 and their 11 year old daughter Brook
Roberts went missing on October 6th, 2019 from Hesperia, California United States.
The family had lived in Hesperia but in 2017 had moved to John’s hometown of Ozark,
Alabama and then back to Hesperia again in 2019.
The trio were staying in a Motel 6 while they looked for work and a more permanent residence.
Julie had a phone conversation with an unnamed relative on the 6th of October 2019 where she
stated she had found a job cleaning used trailers for an unknown business in the Hesperia area.
She also told the relative that the family was in the process of moving to Spring Valley Lake.
She was excited about the new job and the move and seemed to be in good spirits.
Nothing struck the relative as odd or wrong about the call and after a
brief conversation, they hung up and went about their respective lives.
Only this would be the very last time anyone had heard from any member of the family.
Julie was supposed to call the relative the next day but the call never came.
There is no further information about this case and no news since that last phone call.
The family’s whereabouts are still unknown to this day.
Detectives are seeking contact from anyone who may have any information on the whereabouts of John,
Julie, or Brooke and are asked to contact Detective Jason Schroeder at the Hesperia
Sheriff’s Station at 760-947-1500. Alan & Terry Westerfield
On September 12, 1964 brothers Alan and Terry Westerfield vanished without a trace.
Alan was just six years old and Terry 11.
On this day their step-father Carl Bock dropped the boys off in front
of the Broadway Theater on Hay Street in downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina.
The boys were planning on seeing a double feature but when Carl
went to pick them up at the agreed upon time, the boys were nowhere in sight.
It was just about dusk and there was no sign of the young boys.
Earlier in the day the boys’ mother, Margaret, had left them in the care of
their regular babysitter, a woman named Barbara Temple so she could go to work.
When she returned home, she found that Miss Temple had been dismissed by the
boys’ stepfather, Carl Bock, whom she was separated from at the time.
Carl explained he had dropped the boys off to see the double feature at the movie theater.
Upon hearing this the pair began to argue, which led to Margaret storming
out of the house and heading to nearby Fort Bragg to drink at the NCO club.
When she returned home it was one o’clock in the morning and her children still weren’t home.
Margaret then confronted Carl and he explained to her how he had gone to the theater at
approximately 7:45 pm to pick the boys up and bring them home but could find no trace of them.
He said he had waited there until about 9:30 before considering they
may have walked home or that she had picked them up instead.
Margaret immediately upon hearing this called the police and reported her sons as missing.
There were many discrepancies found in Carl Bock’s story including his
own girlfriend at the time who worked at the theater telling investigators
she did not remember seeing the boys at the theater that night.
At around 3:30 in the afternoon one of Terry’s friends came over and asked if
he could come out and play, to which Carl informed the child
that Terry was being punished and could not come outside right then.
Also, Miss Temple claims she insisted she stay with the boys until their mother Margaret returned
but he insisted even more that she leave and he would care for the boys until their
mother returned and eventually Barbara Temple gave up the argument and left as she was told.
Margaret, Carl and at least a dozen other people were brought in for
questioning but nothing ever came of any of it.
In the year 2000 when the case was being looked at again, it has been
reported that Carl Bock was brought in and was at first incredibly nervous.
However, when he was told he wasn’t being charged
with anything he became “arrogant and uncooperative” with authorities.
What happened to these two young boys?
While many believe their step-father was involved somehow in their disappearance
and that he was somehow looking for a way to get his revenge on their mother Margaret for
ending their relationship and while no evidence points towards anything he said
about dropping them off at the theater that night or picking them up could be confirmed,
the fact remains these two little boys have never been found.
No trace of them and no evidence showing one
way or another what possible fate could have befallen them.
To this day nobody has ever been charged with anything and police
are no closer to solving this, North Carolina’s oldest missing person’s case.
The Salomon Family
On October 13, 1982 Stacy Perman, one of the neighbors of the Salomon family,
called the police when she noticed the family’s pool was overflowing in their backyard.
She and her mother went and knocked on the door first
but when nobody answered they became concerned.
When the police walked into the home that day they were not expecting what they found.
There was no one inside the residence but everything seemed perfectly normal,
a bit too normal actually.
Even the bed in the master bedroom was made
beautifully and there seemed to be nothing out of place.
This was, of course, upon first glance.
As the investigators looked a little further,
they found 14 year old Michelle Salomon’s bedroom in absolute disarray.
Her bed frame was broken, the bedding was missing
and there were some spots of what looked like blood on her mattress.
Elaine Salomon, her husband Sol, their 14 year old
daughter Michelle and their 9 year old son Mitchell were all missing.
Upon interviewing friends and other family of the Salomon’s investigators found out that
Elaine Salomon never even made her bed to begin with, so the fact it was made so perfectly at the
time of the disappearance was deeply concerning, according to cousin and best friend Dorene Laffer.
After a brief but thorough investigation, nothing
was found that eluded to where the family could have gone and they were never found.
After suffering nightmares for years, Stacy Perman decided to investigate the mystery on her own.
She found a man named Harvey Rader, a man who had attended
a car auction with Sol the night of he and his family’s disappearance.
This man’s story was said to be riddled with inconsistencies and flat out lies.
Harvey was also somehow linked to three other missing persons cases.
At the end of the day however, no arrests have ever been made and
the facts, in this case, are few and far between.
Theories aren’t hard to come by but it remains to this day that the Salomon family disappeared,
seemingly without a trace and into thin air that night so long ago in October of 1982.
A whole family, a mother, father, son and daughter just POOF and gone….
How does this even happen?
We will let you be the judge. Simon Kadwill, Chantal McDougal & Daughter Leela
In July of 2007 Simon Kadwill, his wife Chantal, and their daughter all
vanished without a trace from their South Western Australian home in Nannup in Perth.
The family were renting a home and a man named Antonio Popic lived on the property in a caravan.
Chantal’s father, Jim McDougal, reported his daughter and her family missing in
October when he was told there had been no sign of them and nothing but a note
that said “Gone to Brazil” stuck to the front door of the rental home.
He stated, "After a few weeks I was a bit suspicious we didn't hear so
I actually contacted overseas where they were supposed to be
and there was no record so I got really worried and contacted missing persons.”
Antonio Popic had also gone missing, in November of that same year, a month after Simon and his
family were reported as missing, Mister Popic’s brother reported him as missing as well.
Investigators found that none of the four missing person’s passports had been used,
nor had their bank accounts or credit cards.
Nothing to indicate they were on a simple vacation as the note left on their front door had eluded.
Acting Sergeant Fiona Caporn said they had settled their lease and it seems
they left in quite a hurry but left no sign of where they could have gone.
None of the four had ever used their cell phones again either.
It is a huge mystery as to where any of them could have possibly ended up or why.
Sergeant Caporn stated, “As far as we know a couple of days before they went
missing they sold the car that Chantelle owned,
they left their property in their house at Nannup and they haven't been seen since."
Simon Kadwill is said to have been a very charismatic cult leader and
therefore the search for the family and their friend has led to investigations
into whether or not they had run off to join some kind of religious sect.
Though many reports have come in leading the police to think this may very well be the case,
no conclusive evidence has ever come to light making it a fact.
The police have also issued a national Missing Persons alert and have continued working on the
case and following up with any and all leads, regardless of how trivial, that come in still
to this day. What happened to this entire family and their lodger?
How could four people just vanish into thin air?
This case also has so much rumor and speculation surrounding it
but at the end of the day, when basing opinions solely on fact and evidence,
there is almost nothing to go by and their whereabouts remain unknown.
While all of the cases we have discussed here today contain different circumstances and the
people come from all different walks of life and time frames,
one absolute fact remains constant and the same,
every single one of them seemed to vanish into thin air never to be seen or heard from again.
The fate of not knowing is sometimes said to be worse than actually knowing the
friend or loved one has been deceased or what did actually become of them.
In these cases and so many more across the world,
rumor and speculation tend to twist the case and bend it one way or another
and sometimes even turn it into something which cheapens the memories of the missing.
What do you think happened to these vanishing families?
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