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and now today's video every now and then we could use a reminder that a lot of mysteries
do get solved given enough time and effort in the past we've examined a few disappearances
that seem like they would remain cold cases forever but they were ultimately elucidated
now it's time to take a look at a few more and some of them are even more bizarre than the first
number 8. the captain who was captured by pirates born in 1702 in marblehead massachusetts philip
ashton took to life on the open sea as a child therefore nobody was surprised when he grew up
to become a ship's captain in 1722 he commanded a crew of six aboard a schooner named milton which
he sailed to the grand banks of newfoundland to push for cod in port rose way milton was
approached by a merchant vessel and ashton realized only too late that the men who boarded
his ship were pirates in disguise and just like that ashton found himself a captive of ned lowe
one of the most sadistic pirates to ever sail the seven seas even so ashton resisted all enticement
to join lowe's crew the following year ashton was still a prisoner when the pirate ship landed on
route and ireland in the caribbean to collect water he was taken to shore to work and when he
saw his opportunity philip bashton ran into the thick jungle eventually the pirates left without
him the island was completely uninhabited and with the former captain basically marooning himself
with no supplies no food not even any shoes they assumed it would be the last time that anyone ever
heard of philip ashton that turned out not to be the case because he somehow survived 16 months
on the desert island until he was found by some english baymen who lived in honduras bashed had
lived with them until a brig from massachusetts called the diamond visited honduras bay at which
point the former fisherman finally secured passage home arriving almost three years after
being captured by the pirates 7. the air force officer who deserted in the early 1980s captain
william howard hughes jr was an important officer with the u.s air force who had top secret single
scope background investigation clearance then in july 1983 he disappeared after returning from a
business trip to europe none of his friends or family members had any clue what had happened
to him so in december of that same year he was officially declared deserter the commonly held
belief at the time was that hughes had either been kidnapped by the soviets or had willingly defected
to their side one intelligence officer said that hughes would have been worth his weight in gold to
the russians and in fact he was later investigated as a possible saboteur for several rocket ship
launch failures including the infamous challenger disaster as it turned out hughes did not sabotage
any rocket ships nor did he defect to russia he had just started a new life in california for 35
years he lived as barry o'byrne although everyone called him tim his neighbors all thought he was a
pleasant man who loved the san francisco giants and had no clue about his troubled past hughes
was finally found out while being investigated in a passport fraud investigation some of his
statements didn't make sense so eventually he came clean about his true identity as to why
he did it hughes put it down to depression about being in the air force and just wanting a simpler
life number six the screenwriter with the missing hands for three decades gary devore worked as a
scriptwriter in hollywood beginning his career with shows from the 1960s such as the newlywed
game and the steve allen show before specializing in action movies such as raw deal starring arnold
schwarzenegger in 1997 he was working on a remake of a 1940s film titled the big steel and had just
wrapped up some business in new mexico he jumped into his ford explorer and headed back home to los
angeles but he was never seen alive again devore's publicist thought this was all some kind of
publicity stunt his wife wasn't convinced and she contacted the police and put out a 100 000 reward
and even enlisted the help of a psychic but all efforts proved to be in vain as nobody could find
gary devore the mystery of his disappearance was solved in 1998 but if anything it only raised more
questions and amateur sleuth found his ford explorer in a california aqueduct with the
screenwriter's body in the driver's seat at first glance it appeared to be an accident except for a
few little details there were no signs of impact police had already checked the aqueduct during
their initial search and the writer's laptop and gun had been taken from the vehicle also his hands
were missing gary dewar's death was ruled a murder but the solution remains as elusive as ever 5.
the teenager who hid in the cupboard in august 1998 14 year old natasha ryan from rockhampton
queensland australia went missing after her mother dropped her off at school even worse
during the investigation into her disappearance it was believed that she became a victim of a
suspected serial killer leonard fraser known as the rockhampton rapist fast forward to 2003 during
fraser's trial by this point even though ryan's body had never been found everyone was convinced
that she'd been killed by fraser mainly because he had confessed to the deed on tape but as it turned
out not only did he not kill her but natasha ryan wasn't even dead police had executed a raid on
the home of scott black ron's former boyfriend and they found the missing teenager hiding in
the cupboard understandably the girl's family was shocked when they found out that natasha
was still alive they were even more shocked when they discovered that she had been living less than
two miles away all that time for almost five years ryan did not leave her boyfriend's apartment she
even had to spend hours at a time hiding in the cupboard when he had friends or family over as to
why she did it she simply said that the lie had become too big number four the girl who went to
north korea on november 15 1977 13 year old megumi yokota finished badminton practice at her school
and was headed back to her home in nagata japan even though she only lived a few minutes away
that time was all it took for megumi to vanish without a trace a search party looked everywhere
from the forest to the shoreline but could find no signs of a fighter struggle or a witness who
may have seen what had happened to the young girl in the year that followed a special kidnapping
unit set up shop in the yokota house and dedicated thousands of man-hours towards solving the mystery
of maguib yokota's disappearance but there was no success it wasn't until two decades later that the
yogota family received a shocking phone call from an official that they'd never met or spoken to
and he told them we have information that your daughter is alive in north korea as it turns
out both the japanese and south korean governments had been tipped off for years that north korea was
responsible for many kidnappings of their citizens but were hesitant to act on that information the
story of megumi yokota was first told by a defecting north korean spy who said that she
was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time the young girl had spotted two agents who were
waiting for a pickup boat and fearing that their cover might be blown they abducted her and took
her to north korea there she was taught korean and forced to teach japanese language and behavior
at a spy school it wasn't until 2002 during a historic meeting between kim jong-il and japanese
prime minister yunichiro koizumi that north korea admitted the deed they claimed responsibility for
13 kidnappings though many believe the number is much higher they also claimed that only 5 of the
13 was still alive unfortunately for the yokota family magumi was not among them their story was
that megumi yokota had committed suicide in 1994 due to depression but her family remains convinced
that this is just another lie number three the message that said stendets eta santiago 1745
as stendetz this was the last communication sent in morse code on august 2nd 1947 by an avro 691
lancaster aircraft flying for british south american airways from buenos aires argentina
to san diego chile the airship was a four-engine plane given the name stardust and was carrying 11
people on board crew included the message had been sent at 5 41 pm suggesting that it was
four minutes away from landing right on schedule except that it never landed despite an extensive
search at the time the wreckage of the plane could not be found and the fate of the stardust became
a mystery for over half a century during that time several ideas were put forward as to what had
happened to the airplane and its passengers this was just a few weeks after the roswell incident
so obviously some people thought that it had to be aliens the biggest piece of the puzzle was
the last word of the morse code stendetz what was that supposed to mean at first the airport
operator thought it was an error but the radio operator aboard the stardust repeated it twice
a lot of people noticed that stendetz is an anagram of descent a fault with the oxygen
supply could have led to the crew suffering from hypoxia which could have caused the operator to
unwittingly send a scrambled message others think that it was simply a mistake and that he wanted
to send stardust which is similar to stan deds in morse code both ideas are plausible but unlikely
given that the operator used the word three times a possible hypothesis is that stendetz was a
world war ii acronym that meant severe turbulence encountered now descending emergency crash landing
message aside we finally found out what happened to the stardust in 1998 when a
group of argentinian mountaineers stumbled upon the wreckage when climbing mounted to mangato
subsequently they found a lot of human remains which had been well preserved with ice and dna
tests confirmed their identity it seemed that the stardust crashed into terrain during a controlled
descent due to the plane getting caught up in a snowstorm while flying against the jet stream
it smashed right into the side of a glacier which caused an avalanche that buried the wreckage under
tons of snow number two the man who forgot who he was back in 2016 edgar lattalip was a middle-aged
man living in saint catherine's ontario canada who had been having these strange sensations all of a
sudden that he was living somebody else's life he tried to explain this unusual feeling to a social
worker who decided to google his name and was stunned to discover that edgar lattalip had been
the target of a missing persons investigation for 30 years that sensation edgar was experiencing was
him getting his memories back in 1986 the then 21 year old edgar lautelib lived in kitchener
ontario in a group home one day he boarded a bus to niagara falls and was never seen again
lattalip suffered from both developmental delays and suicidal tendencies so his family feared that
he died at the falls either following an accident or a suicide what had actually happened was that
latalip somehow sustained a head injury that was serious enough to cause massive memory loss
when he recovered he traveled to nearby some catharines where he began his second life just
80 miles away from his first one number one the man who testified at his own murder trial we
end with the most bizarre case in our video today that of an arkansas man who vanished was presumed
murdered and then showed up alive and well at his killer's trial and it only got more complicated
from there we begin in january 1929 when a man named connie franklin showed up in the town of st
james stone county arkansas soon enough he found work as a farm hand and started a romance with a
local girl named tiller rumina by march the two of them were ready to get married and that was when
franklin disappeared a few months later the young woman approached the police with a shocking story
she claimed that four local men had attacked her and franklin while they were on their way
to the office of the justice of the peace they dragged the couple into the woods where they raped
ramona and then beat tortured and burned connie franklin alive they then threatened to kill the
girl's entire family if she went to the police unfortunately there was no evidence to support
her story so a grand jury refused to indict the four men it wasn't until november 1929 that the
trial moved forward when a woman found a pile of ashes in the woods which contained bones that were
believed to be human the case took a strange turn in december when connie franklin showed up at his
own murder trial with a vastly different story to that of his former fiance he claimed that he
got drunk in celebration the night before his marriage the following day tiller got cold feet
he basically told her it was now or never and when she refused to go through with it
he simply left town now it's time for the second twist because tiller rumina her father and a few
other locals claimed that the new man was not the real connie franklin and they were half right in
the sense that he wasn't the man he pretended to be his real name was marion franklin rogers
he was already married with three children and he had escaped in 1927 from a mental hospital
of course none of this indicated that he was not the same person who arrived in st james back in
january just that he lied about his past the town was split on whether this man was the same connie
franklin as the first one but ultimately there wasn't strong enough evidence to convict so the
four men were acquitted of the murder so i really hope you enjoyed today's video thank you again to
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