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In this video we bring you three more extremely bizarre and unexplained disappearances.
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Now... We talk a lot on this channel about the
missing and sometimes we get lucky enough to talk about the found.
When someone goes missing the first few hours are absolutely
critical in determining where the person went or may have ended up.
There are so many people who have gone missing and who have returned or been found alive
who have had the most bizarre stories as to what happened to them while they were gone.
At the end of the day though we are sure, regardless of what they may have been through,
they and their loved ones are counting their blessings that they were ever found
at all- especially with how mysterious the initial disappearance was in the first place.
Be that as it may there are other cases, like the ones we will be discussing today,
where not only did the person go missing under extremely strange and mysterious circumstances,
even speculating as to what could have happened to them is near impossible.
They all were there one minute and gone the next.
While we may think we are used to this type of disappearance considering even
the name of this channel, guess again because the cases we are
going over today did not take place in the woods or forests or in any National Park.
They happened in broad daylight, right out in the open.
These types of disappearances, at least some may say, are even more terrifying and disconcerting
because it seems as though what happens to them could happen to any one of us at any given time…
not that we know what actually DID happen to them.
Today we are bringing you just three cases out of people who could have very
well legitimately just vanished into thin air and by all accounts- seemingly did just that.
Number 1 - Owen Parfitt
When Owen Parfitt would tell stories of his life, as he sat in his wheelchair
on his front porch in his old age, he would tell of so many wild adventures.
He claimed to have bedded more women than he could count, participated in battles against
pirates and so many other tales that seemed to be, possibly, a bit “tall.”
He knew the people who would sit and visit with him thought perhaps he was embellishing
his youth a bit, but that never stopped Owen from weaving a great yarn for anyone who would listen.
In the 1760’s Owen was crippled and said he owed that mostly to the glory days of his youth.
His favorite pastime was sitting out on his porch in his chair,
talking to anyone who would stop to listen and just being in the fresh air and sun.
Owen Parfitt lived with his elderly sister who was just a few years older than him
but who was able and willing to take him in and care for him as he could
no longer do a lot of things for and by himself.
They lived in a small cottage in a little village
called Susannah in Shepton Mallet in southwest England.
While there isn’t much information as to what happened to the now 60 years old
man to turn him into a virtual cripple, it’s said it weighed heavily on him as
he was a once vibrant and active man, not to mention extremely independent.
However, what happened to Owen could very well be
called his final adventure and it definitely had everyone talking.
We are obviously still talking about it to this day, centuries later in fact.
This is a tale Owen himself would have loved to tell.
Because of how long ago this all took place the dates are also hard to pin down.
Some say it happened in July of 1763 and others say it all went down during the summer of 1768.
Regardless of the date, one thing is certain, Owen Parfitt was there one moment and gone
the very next as if blinking an eye could cause someone to vanish into the air surrounding them.
One warm summer evening in the summertime of either 1763 or 1768, Owen wanted to go
outside and sit on his front porch. It was mid afternoon and a beautiful day by all accounts.
It was one of those days where people may actually wonder if anything bad could possibly happen-
but on this day something definitely did.
Owen wanted to get out of his wheelchair and sit
on one of the chairs his sister had on the front porch for days just like this.
Because of his own inability to get himself out of his chair and into the one on the porch,
Owen’s sister called on a neighbor to help her get him outside.
He needed to be lifted and carried out onto the porch and his elderly
sister certainly couldn’t achieve this all on her own but she was more than willing to
oblige her brother and so she and the neighbor got Owen comfortably outside
and into one of the chairs so he could catch some sun and breathe the fresh air.
The neighbor conversed for a bit and then went on his way and when Owen's sister
turned to go inside, her brother was sitting comfortably and placidly in the porch chair.
That was the last time she would ever see her brother.
Across the road, within earshot of him,
Owen could see some men working on a farm and they could certainly see and hear him.
Basically, if anyone approached Owen and tried doing him harm or abducting him,
not only would his sister just inside the front door have heard him but it’s
certain that these laborers also would have not only seen but heard it all happen right away.
But nobody saw or heard a thing when Owen suddenly disappeared.
A storm was rolling in and Owen’s sister went back
outside just a short time later to try and get him back inside.
It was said to be coming in quite quickly, this storm, and she was
obviously concerned with her brother being caught out there on the chair,
not able to move the bottom half of his body of his own accord.
However, once she was outside and on the front porch where
her brother sat just a very short while ago, she noticed he was gone.
Owen was nowhere in sight.
His unnamed sister asked the farmhands if they had seen or heard anything but
they all said they hadn’t and she went about searching for him on the property.
However improbable it was that Owen would have
been anywhere other than that chair on the front porch due to his conditions,
it was a much more reasonable thought than that he had up and somehow vanished into thin air.
The sister got the farmhands and several neighbors to help her
search the rest of the property and beyond but it was all to no avail.
Owen was nowhere to be found and there was no rhyme or reason as to where he could have gone.
There was no trace of him either and this case still remains unsolved to this very day.
What in the world could have happened to Owen Parfitt on that warm sunny day so long ago?
There are some theories floating around, of course, but keep in mind they are just that
theories and there is no evidence to back any of them up.
There was also no evidence of foul play.
What do you think happened to Owen Parfitt?
Let us know in the comments below.
Up Next, the bizarre disappearance of James Tedford
In the 1940’s a 56 year old man named James Tedford (sometimes spelled Tetford) was living
a quiet and peaceful life in a small town in Franklin, Vermont named Fletcher Town.
James was a war veteran and his wife’s name was Pearl.
Pearl was much younger than James at just 28 years old.
Pearl and James were said to be a sweet couple,
even somewhat unassuming and they lived an uneventful and “normal” life…..
Until WW2 came along and James decided to go off for a second tour.
We should note here that when James left for his tour in the military,
he and Pearl were getting along great and by all accounts they were both looking forward to
the day when he would return home and they could continue on with life as they knew it and move on.
This is exactly what happened too when James returned from war.
He and Pearl seemed more in love than ever before and
were happy to have been reunited and James returned in one piece.
There were no signs at all that would account for what happened next.
It seems James Tedford isn’t the only one in this
story to have disappeared seemingly without a trace.
Shortly after returning home from his tour of duty,
James walked in his house to find an odd scene.
Pearl was nowhere to be found and she should have been there
and hadn’t mentioned she would be going anywhere.
She always let James know where she was going and when she would be back.
It seems however that perhaps Pearl herself wasn’t aware she would be
going anywhere either as there was a half prepared dinner out on the kitchen
counters - reasoning that Pearl herself had been in the process of putting it
all together and cooking it for the two of them when something interrupted her.
Because everything else was in order and despite this being very unlike his wife,
James didn’t panic at first and just assumed that she had stepped out, perhaps having
forgotten an ingredient for the dinner she was preparing or something of that nature.
He waited for her to return but she never did.
By the time nightfall rolled around and Pearl still hadn’t returned, James decided
to go and speak to some of his neighbors to see if any of them had seen her that day.
More than a few friends and neighbors told James they had seen Pearl at the local
Amoco station earlier in the afternoon and that she seemed perfectly normal.
She was her polite and friendly self to all who encountered her.
She was even said to have been in good spirits and not in the least under any duress at all.
The next day, when she still hadn’t returned and he hadn’t heard from her,
James finally notified the local police.
The authorities immediately went to the Tedford home to investigate and question James nut they
could find no trace of Pearl anywhere in the home or on the property and surrounding areas.
It was as though she were standing at the kitchen
counter preparing a meal for her and her husband and POOF!
Vanished into thin air.
The authorities almost immediately started to speculate that perhaps
pearl had run off on James but that didn’t make much sense as she hadn't left a note
and furthermore - why in the world would she leave behind the half prepared meal?
Also, her demeanor that day as described by people who knew her, some who knew her well,
didn’t lend credence to her having just got up and run off on her husband and her life.
Pearl was never seen or heard from again and this threw James into a deep depression.
He was almost despondent and missed his wife and mourned for her tirelessly.
He could never understand what could have possibly have happened to her to have made
her leave the way she did and with no evidence left behind either.
He would sit and stare at the wall,
almost non blinking for hours on end and went days without moving out of his chair.
Eventually it all became too much for James and he couldn’t stand to
be in the house he had once shared with his beloved and missing wife anymore.
In 1947 he moved to the Soldier’s Retirement Home in Bennington, Vermont.
It’s said that while here he made no attempt
to make friends and basically kept to himself all the time.
He did have a few relatives left but they lived about 8 hours away by bus in St. Albans, Vermont.
The trip was long and went through a pretty rugged wilderness area throughout route 7 at the time.
James did go and visit them every once in a while for a change of scenery but he was never
able to recover from Pearl’s vanishing and it was like he was a whole different person altogether.
How terrible to make it through two such incredibly dangerous,
terrifying and harsh tours of war, especially in those days, only to be personally ruined because
of a mysterious tragedy with a mystery that can’t be solved involving someone you love dearly.
In December of 1949, these relatives invited James to come and visit for a few days and he agreed.
James took the long trip and made it to his destination unharmed and,
physically at least, in good health.
It was the journey home that would become another
one of the mysteries of the so-called Bennington Triangle.
It should be said that James Tedford, at least sincerely losing his beloved wife Pearl,
was a sour and tempestuous, quiet man and the passengers who rode in the bus with him that day,
as he made his way back to the retirement home, said that was exactly as he seemed.
Nothing was amiss as far as what the authorities could gather when they started investigating how
James Tedford, an old veteran on a bus packed with people could literally evaporate into thin air.
But let’s back up just a moment. James never returned to the retirement home
and his absence was immediately noticeable.
The staff and some other residents knew when he was expected to be back and grew
immediately concerned when he didn’t show up because he was nothing if not punctual.
The fifteen other passengers on the bus that day and the bus driver confirmed he had gotten
on the bus and even showed the investigators where he was sitting during the long trip back.
All of the cash he had on him at the time, his luggage and all of the rest of his belongings
were left stowed away on the bus. The only thing that was missing was james.
His belongings being left behind was more
confirmation that he had in fact boarded the bus and took a seat.
According to multiple witnesses, James was last seen sleeping in
his seat on the bus and hadn’t gotten off at any of the stops along the way.
The bus driver attested to this and said he always took notice of
the passengers who got off the bus at the stops,
especially when there were only fifteen of them on a bus that held many more seats.
However, it’s also said that aside from his boarding, taking his seat
and then being seen sleeping soundly, James was pretty nondescript and there
was no other reason for anyone to notice him or pay attention to what he was doing.
Even still, if he didn’t get off of the bus at any of the stops, how did he get off then?
He certainly wasn’t able to get out or off of a moving bus without being noticed.
It was also snowing very heavily at the time of the trip and disappearance.
James Tedford is another person who seems to have been here one minute and gone the next.
How does a whole person, a grown man who was tough and gruff and made weary by life,
who kept to himself and greatly missed his beloved wife - who also went missing mysteriously and
seemed to vanish - just disappear into thin air while on a crowded bus in front of 16 witnesses?
It should also be mentioned this disappearance took place
in what is known today as the Bennington Triangle.
The Bennington Triangle claimed a known total of five people between the five short years of
1945 and 1950 and the disappearances and strange happenings continue to this day.
And finally we have the odd story of Martha Wright...
This next story really doesn’t have much to it, unfortunately as many people find
it to be an extremely fascinating case of an instantaneous vanishing.
Another example of a disappearance that happened in a crowded place
in broad daylight within sight of many witnesses.
No rhyme or reason, no explanation…
nothing but confusion, suspicion and possibly fear left in the wake.
Here is the little bit that we do know about the strange vanishing of Martha Wright.
Sometime in the winter of 1975 Martha Wright and her husband Jackson were driving in the Lincoln
Tunnel when their windows became too fogged up for either of them to be able to see out of.
Obviously this was a problem for Jackson who was the one driving and the couple decided to
pull over and get the fog off the windows so they could continue on their journey.
Jackson took his arm and cleaned the windshield with the sleeves
of his jacket and sent Martha around the back of the car to
clean the side windows on the one side and the rear window as well.
When Jackson Wright was finished with the windshield and side windows,
he looked up and Martha was nowhere to be seen. She was simply gone.
As you can imagine if you have ever been in the Lincoln Tunnel
or somewhere like it- there isn’t anywhere for anyone to really go.
To pull over in the tunnel in general some may say is a dangerous thing to do as there isn’t much
room for such things and it’s normal for traffic to be moving at quite a swift pace as well.
There were no other cars stopped and upon further investigation witnesses came forward
and did say they had seen Martha wiping the back windshield of the car that day.
This was to combat some speculation that she hadn’t been in the car at all and that this
insane and illustrious, almost unbelievable story was something Jackson concocted after
doing something nefarious to his wife and as an attempt to conceal his crime.
Some wonder though, does it make sense that this suspicious and almost nonsensical story
would be used to try and throw the police off the scent of a murder?
It’s unlikely according to most people.
Martha was never seen or heard from again and most people to this day believe she disappeared.
After all, wouldn’t Jackson have been able to come up with SOMETHING a bit
more realistic than “she vanished into thin air in plain sight of everyone driving by”?
Also, there were quite a few witnesses as stated before who claimed they had seen Martha there
that day, at that time and in that spot, doing exactly what Jackson had said she was doing.
Could she have vanished and went into another dimension? Could she have been abducted by aliens?
Did she step into some sort of time glitch or glitch in
the matrix as we like to call it these days?
We will most likely never know the answers and our imaginations
are left to run wild with theory and speculation as most of us can’t even
imagine where she or any of the others we discussed in this video could have gone.
Well friends... there you have it!
What do you think of these strange and bizarre disappearances?
I look forward to your comments... but please, as always, keep it friendly and respectful!
Until we meet again; be good to yourselves and each other - stay safe out there!
Try not to disappear!
As for me... I'll see you a little farther on down the trail!
I'm Steve Stockton and I'll talk to you next time!
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