Welcome back everyone.
I noticed we hadnt really been giving you guys some proper mystery videos and I thought
that needed to change right now.
Today were talking about missing people - some of these people went missing long ago, some
of them only vanished in the past few years - but all of them left a hole in peoples lives
and one unanswered question - what happened to them?
Its a question youre going to ask yourselves when you hear their stories.
Nobodys been able to solve these cases, perhaps youll be able to shed some light.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Scary Missing Person Stories.
Starting off at number 10 we have The Lost Girls of Panama.
In 2014, 21 year old Kris Kremers and 22 year old Lisanne Froon went for a hike near a mountain
resort in Panama - they were never seen again.
They were visitors from the Netherlands.
Searchers found no trace of them.
A few months later, a member of an indigenous tribe found Lisannes backpack and some of
the girls belongings.
There was a camera in there which had pictures of the girls on their hike.
A US based team were tasked with determining if the girls had died in a tragic hiking accident
or were they victims of a brutal murder.
The pictures on the camera got stranger as they went on.
The pictures get darker as night falls.
The last simply shows darkness and rocks.
It was a total mystery.
The leading theory is that they fell off a cliff which injured one of them.
The uninjured one then waited with her friend for 8 days before leaving her.
The question was - why did she leave her friend?
Some people think that she was suddenly scared into leaving, perhaps by a jaguar.
In some cases, it seems the pictures have created more questions than answers ...
Moving on to number 9 now we have Rico Harris[a].
He's an American former professional basketball player who retired from pro play in 2000.
In 2014, he had relocated to Seattle with his girlfriend and applied for a job there.
He never arrived there.
The last time he was heard was from a voice message left to to his girlfriend in which
he told her he was going to check out the mountains.
The call was traced to the Sacramento area and his car was found abandoned in Yolo County
Park - yes that is a real place!
A massive search was launched for Rico but nothing came up.
It was even more baffling because Rico is 6ft 9.
Youd think that somebody would remember seeing a guy that tall - and they did.
A driver eventually reported seeing a 6ft9 guy walking down the highway a mile from where
the car was found - but this was a week later.
What was going on?
The search was relaunched, massive size 17 footprints were found in the ground that were
not there before.
They followed them but they led to nothing.
They just stopped.
What happened to Rico when he disappeared for a week and then what happened after where
he disappeared again, with his footsteps vanishing into thin air …
Next up at number 8 we have Ben McDaniel[b].
On August 10th 2010, employees in a Dive Shop in Florida found Ben McDaniels pickup truck.
He had been diving regularly at Vortex Spring but now, nobody could find him.
He was last seen 2 days before on a dive entering a cave 58 ft below the waters surface.
It was a notoriously hard to navigate cave that only experienced divers were supposed
to go in.
It was suspected that he had drowned but investigators couldn't find his body.
After the police stopped searching, Bens parents hired people to go in and look for his body.
One of the rescue divers ended up going missing and was never found again.
In the years since, the mystery has given way to some pretty dark rumours about Ben
faking his own death to get out of financial trouble.
This was disputed though by the fact that people saw him dive underwater.
So what exactly happened?
The mystery deepened a year later when the owner of Vortex Springs mysteriously died.
Bens parents are convinced that everything is related.
Moving on to number 7 now we have Susan Powell.
Shes an American missing person from Utah who disappeared on December 6th 2009.
Eyes turned to her husband Joshua as a person of interest in the investigation.
They had a bad marriage and he was reportedly abusive to her and controlling.
Before she disappeared, there were reports that Susan was fearing for her life.
Then, one night, Susan, Joshua and their two young boys disappeared.
A few days later, Joshua returned with the boys saying hed been camping with them and
claimed to have no idea where Susan was.
As the police investigated, Joshua behaved more suspiciously.
He eventually moved the kids away to live with his father.
In the end, he lost custody of his kids because his father was found in possession of child
porn.
And then, it got even more crazy.
During a supervised visit, Joshua grabbed his sons from the social worker and took them
to his house.
Negotiators tried to talk him out of there but it was no use.
Joshua eventually blew the house up, killing both he and the boys.
With their suspect gone, investigators had no more leads for the disappearance of Susan
and no hope of bringing justice to her and her boys.
Moving on to number 6 we have Jennifer Kesse[c].
Shes an American woman who disappeared in Florida on January 23rd 2006.
She left her work place that day after making several calls to family and friends - the
last one was at 10pm to her boyfriend.
The next morning, her boyfriend became worried when no text came through.
Her phone went straight to voicemail.
Her employer contacted her parents who drove 2 hours from their home to hers.
They found her car missing but everything in her condo seemed to be in place.
They found a wet towel and clothes laid out, suggesting that she had showered and prepared
to dress for work.
They found her car in a nearby parking lot.
When they reviewed the security footage - they saw their suspect - but the results were decastating.
The suspect was seen walking past a gate and despite the camera being so close, it only
took one picture every 3 seconds.
In every picture, the persons face was perfectly obscured by an object.
Police couldn't even tell if the suspect was male or female.
They described the suspect as the luckiest person of interest in history.
In the years since, the case has felt tantalizingly close to being solved, but it still remains
a mystery.
Moving in to number 5 we have The Sodder Children[d].
On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire engulfed the West Virginian home of the Sodder Family while
they slept.
The family had 9 children - the parents escaped with 4 of them - but the bodies of the other
5 children were never found.
The parents believed that the missing children had survived.
They never rebuilt their home and instead converted it into a memorial garden for their
missing children.
For years, they were convinced that the lack of bones meant theyre children were still
alive somewhere out there.
The plot thickened when police learnt that George Sodders truck wouldnt start that night
when he tried to drive it near the house and reach the second floor.
When they tried to call the fire department, their lines were cut.
Very suspicious.
The parents suspected arson and thought that the children may have been taken by the Sicilian
Mafia, perhaps in retaliations for Georges outspoken criticism of the Italian government
at the time.
The one surviving daughter and the grand children continue to search for the truth even to this
day.
Next up at number 4 we have Stacy Arras[e].
This is a strange one.
On July 17th 1981, 14 year old Stacy Arras and her father joined a group of 6 people
riding into Sunrise High Sierra Camp in California.
She told her father she wanted to photograph a nearby lake.
He declined to go with her but a 77 year old man said he would accompany her.
After a while, the man grew tired and stopped for a rest.
Arras continued to the lake by herself.
From back at the camp, the groups tour guide saw her standing on a rock about 50 yards
from the trail.
She was by herself.
That was the last time anybody saw her.
The only trace of her that investigators could find was her camera lense.
The case remains a mystery almost 40 years on.
How could someone so close to her group become lost forever so quickly?
Coming in at now at number 3 we have we have Bobby Dunbar[f].
This is a creepy and fascinating one.
It all started in 1912 when 4 year old Bobby Dunbar went missing on a fishing trip in Louisiana
with his family.
After an 8 month search, police found a man called William Walters who was traveling with
a boy that looked a lot like Bobby Dunbar.
Walters said the boy was a son of a friend and that his name was Bruce Anderson.
When Bobby Dunbars parents saw the boy, they said he was their Bobby and the boy was given
to them.
The town had a parade for his return.
During the trial that followed, a woman came to defend Walters and said that Bruce was
her son and she had given him to Walters to look after.
The court dismissed her testimony, possibly because shed hed 3 children outside of wedlock.
The case went cold but then, in 2008, 96 years after Bobbys disappearance one of Bobbdy Dunbars
granddaughters had a DNA test done.
She compared her result to the the DNA of Bobbys brothers - and they were not related.
This means that Bobby Dunbar was probably Bruce Anderson after all - and as for the
real Bobby Dunbar - that remains a mystery.
Moving on to number 2 now we have Madeleine McCann.
This may a familiar case to anyone from the UK.
In 2003, 3 year old Madeleine McCann disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Portugal.
Her parents were dining with friends nearby and head been checking on Madeleine and her
twin siblings through the evening.
Then, at 10pm, they returned to find that the twins were there, but Madeleine was gone.
Over the next few years, the British and Portugese police collaborated on a historically publicised
investigation.
In 2007, the Portuguese police listed Madeleines parents as suspects but later lifted it when
the case was archived.
Since then, the parents have been relying on private investigators and Scotland Yard
to work on the case.
They continue to investigate to this day, over 11 years after Madeleines disappearance.
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And finally at number 1 we have The Ghost Blimp[g].
On August 16th 1942, Lieutenant Ernest Cody took his crew out for blimp patrol duty from
San Francisco to the Farallon Islands.
Shortly after, they radiod in that they were going to investigate what looked like an oil
spill.
Hours later, their blimp was found over Daly City where, after sideswiping a few houses,
it came crashing down.
Bystanders rushed into the cockpit to find that nobody was there.
The crew was gone.
The Navy incestigated and found that no lifeboats or parachutes were missing - only some life
jackets were gone - but other than that, everything seemed to be in perfect order.
What happened?
Did the men just jump to their deaths?
If so, why?
Because this was during WW2, some thought that the Japanese had somehow abducted them
as they descended to inspect the oil spill.
As the press picked up on the story, it earned the nickname of -Ghost Blimp- … in the year
since, theories have even included UFO abduction …
Alright guys, thats all Ive got time for in this video, hopefully you all found that interesting
- you might even have your own theories on what happened to these people.
Ill be down in the comments section to discuss all of that with you - until then, thanks
as always for watching, my name is Danny Burke and Ill see you all in the next video!