Hey Thoughty2 here.
Every year 10 million Americans and 275,000 Britons mysteriously go missing.
But can someone literally vanish into thin air?
Science tells us no, but there have been many stories that say otherwise.
One of the most bizarre of these is The Legend of David Lang.
David Lang and his family lived on a farm near Gallatin, Tennessee in the United States.
In September, 1880 David Lang's two children, Sarah and George were playing in the front
yard of their family home.
Their parents, David and Emma came out of the house into the garden.
David headed off into the field towards his horses.
At the same time, a buggy carrying Judge August Peck was approaching, a friend of the family.
David turned to walk back to the house and waved to the judge.
A few seconds later, in clear view of his entire family and the judge, David Lang disappeared
in mid-step.
Emma screamed and everyone rushed towards the spot, thinking he had fallen into a hole,
but there was no hole.
They searched everywhere but David wasn't to be found.
A few months later the children noticed the spot where their father had vanished turned
yellow and wilted in a circle 4.6 m (15 ft) in diameter.
Several months later Lang's children heard their father's voice calling out for help
as they played near the spot, but eventually his voice faded away and they never heard
it again.
From humble farmers to Lords.
Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, popularly known as Lord Lucan.
Disappeared without trace on the 8th November 1974, after he murdered his children's nanny
in the basement of the Lucan's family home in London, by bludgeoning her to death.
He fled and was never seen again.
The authorities believe he drowned himself in the English Channel.
However there have been numerous sighting of him around the world, mainly in Africa.
An ex-detective, Duncan MacLaughlin, says he's collected sufficient evidence to prove
that Lorn Lucan infact fled to Goa in Western India.
A former drug dealer named Mark Winch handed photographs to the ex-detective of an elderly
man, taken in 1991, that showed an unmistakable likeness to Lord Lucan.
Mark Winch also explained to the detective how he had become friendly with the man in
the photographs whilst in Goa.
He said how the man was a well-spoken gambler who loved to play backgammon, a game which
Lord Lucan was famous for.
A single disappearance not enough for you?
How about the disappearance of an entire army battalion?
In 1915, during World War I. Three members of a New Zealand field company said they watched
from a clear vantage point as a large battalion of the Norfolk Regiment marched up a hillside
in Suvla Bay, Turkey.
The hill was shrouded by a low-lying cloud; the soldiers marched into the cloud without
hesitation.
They never came out.
When the war ended, presuming the battalion had been captured and held prisoner, the British
government demanded that Turkey return them.
However the Turks insisted the soldiers hadn't been captured and they had never so much as
made contact with the battalion.
If a whole battalion isn't enough for you, how about an entire village of 2,000 people
disappearing into thin air?
In Novemeber, 1930, a fur trapper named Joe Labelle travelled to an Eskimo village on
the shores of Lake Anjikuni in northern Canada.
Joe was very familiar with the village, he knew it had a thriving fishing community of
about 2,000 residents.
However, this time, when he arrived the village was completely deserted.
He found one fire still ablaze on which there was a pot of blackened stew.
When the authorities investigated their findings were rather disturbing.
No footprints of any of the residents were found, how did the vacate the village without
leaving footprints?
All of the Eskimos' sled dogs where found buried under a 12 foot snow drift, they had
all starved to death.
All of the residents' food and provisions were found undisturbed in their huts, as if
nothing had happened.
But there was one last terrifically unnerving discovery: all the Eskimo's ancestral graves
had been emptied.
Creepy stuff, but just as spine-tingling is the mysterious Stonehenge disappearance in
August, 1971.
One night a group of hippies decided to pitch tents in the centre of the stone circle and
spend the night.
They built a campfire and smoked a few joints of weed.
At 2am a powerful thunder storm quickly encroached upon the Salisbury Plain, home to Stonehenge.
Lightening ravaged the area.
Two witnesses, a policeman and a farmer, reported that the stones of the ancient monument lit
up with an eerie blue light that was so intense they had to avert their eyes.
They heard screams from the campers and the two onlookers rushed to the scene expecting
to find injured bodies.
But they found no one, the hippies had vanished.
All that remained were several smouldering tent pegs and a drowned out campfire.