Jim Sullivan Was raised in San Diego, California.
As a teen he played quarter back for his high school football team.
After high school Jim made money playing music.
Jim was not the kind of person to work a 9-5 so in 1968 he, his wife Barbara and son Chris
moved to Los Angeles where she would work for capitol records and he could play the
night club circuit.
Eventually his playing got him to be a regular performer in “the raft” in Malibu, a hotspot
for Hollywood young guns.
Jim’s playing was not only top shelf but he was also charismatic and became friends
with stars like Lee Majors, Lee Marvin, and Harry Dean Stanton.
These friends were convinced Jim had the right stuff and would try to promote him.
As a result he appeared as an extra in the movie Easy RIder and performed on the José Feliciano television show.
In 1969 with the help of his friends he released his first Album, UFO.
And In 1972 he was signed onto Playboy records and released his second album, Self titled: Jim Sullivan.
Sadly neither record took off.
His album UFO didn't have any real advertising budget.
And while playboy was strong it wasn’t properly positioned to sell music.
So on Tuesday, March 4th 1975 Jim Sullivan left his family and home in California and started driving to Nashville.
The plan was for Jim to find session or song writing work and then send for his family.
The next morning, Jim was pulled over for swerving all over the road.
He passed the sobriety test, Jim wasn’t under the influence, he was tired.
He had driven straight through the night.
After passing the the sobriety test Jim Checked into La Mesa Motel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico.
Later on that day Jim called his wife Barbara and told her he was all right.
This was a little odd, Barbara has no reason to think Jim wasn’t all right, she saw him just yesterday.
Things just didn’t seem right.
Barbara tried to find out what was going on, Jim replied “You wouldn’t believe if I told you,”
this did not make her feel any better…
when she asked Jim if anything was wrong?
he replied ‘”Forget it.
Just forget I said anything...
I’ll call you from Nashville.”
Jim never called from Nashville.
Jim never officially checked out of La Mesa Motel. In fact, March 5th 1975 is the last time anyone reported seeing Jim.
His car was found abandoned about 25 miles south of the motel.
When the Police got involved they checked the motel.
The room was locked with the Key inside the empty motel room.
And the bed hadn’t been slept in…
In the course of the missing persons investigation one local claims they might have seen him
in the town liquor store buying Vodka.
A ranch worker, Pete Sena, says he saw Jim walking away from his car and offered him a ride.
It is believed he was the last person to see Jim Sullivan alive.
In Jim’s car the police found his wallet, money, guitar, clothes, reel-to-reel tapes,
cassettes, silver appointment book, and a box of Long Plays of Jim’s 1972 self-titled album on the Playboy label.
But the guitar is all anyone that new him well needed to see to know he wasn’t coming back.
The area was searched extensively, but no one found a even a trace of Jim Sullivan.
What ever happened to Jim?
Some originally thought he just got lost in the desert. Others say he might have been a victim of foul play.
and a few think thinkthis might have been an alien abduction.
It is interesting that his first album was called...
U.F.O.
The night of Friday April 15, 1988 was supposed to be a great night for the seniors of Linwood High.
Is was about 6:30 when Randy Leach left his house, about an hour before sunset.
He still wasn’t sure if he would be going to a pre-graduation party being thrown by
a new girl in his school.
The weather that evening was very nice.
Randy met up with a 30-year-old from town named Steve Daugherty.
The two of them went to a local auto shop that was restoring a red 1966 mustang for Randy,
it was going to be his graduation gift.
Randy decided he would go to the party after all, dropped of Steve Daugherty and made his way.
The party was attended by as many as 150 teens. By 10pm the party was going.
Everyone appeared to be having a good time.
But there are reports that the punch was spiked and some of the teens brought d**** to the party.
Some say Randy was drinking, others say he wasn’t.
With so many people at the party they are bound to see different things at different
times and a timeline can be very difficult to establish in this kind of environment.
But at a minimum his classmates still remember him being there.
At About 1:30 the party is winding down, Randy’s looking for his keys but isn’t very stable.
Again, we don’t know if this is due to alcohol, drugs or maybe just the late hour.
Randy’s friend John Burns tells him to not attempt to drive home, and instructs Randy to just relax for a bit.
John was driving some other students home first and told Randy he would drive him home too.
John made it back to pick up Randy at about 2:30 but both Randy and his car were missing.
John asked if anyone knew where Randy was, Mrs Erwin, who hosted the party,
said she last saw Randy around 2:05 waiting to use the bathroom.
She mentions he looked like he was under the influence.
John Reasons Randy must have driven himself home between 2:05 and his arrival.
Thinks nothing more of it and carries on.
On Saturday April 16th at 6am Randy’s parents realize he hasn’t come home yet.
They, along with Randy’s Uncle Richard, a police officer, go to the Erwin residence to see what's going on.
Richard is immediately uncomfortable with what he sees…
The place was clean.
Everything.
The party ended around 2am… only a few hours had passed.
It wasn’t just the cups, cans and plates either, the ground had been swept and raked.
Someone, after John left at 2:30, went outside and swept and raked the ground…
Randy’s family notifies the local Sheriff’s Office and a missing persons case is opened for Randy Leach.
A detective working with the Leavenworth County Sheriffs Office noted it’s odd with that
many people and the community being so close, that no one knows anything.
It is, especially when you consider Randy was a High School athlete, standing at 6' 2" tall and weighing 220lbs.
It’s been over 30 years... So what happened to Randy?
There are 3 possible scenarios that have been given attention.
The first is that Randy was under the influence and either crashed or just drove away.
There is no evidence to support this theory.
The roads people assume Randy would have taken have all been searched, along with the the areas waterways.
The car was never found.
The second theory is that Randy accidentally witnessed a drug deal and was killed as a result.
The investigation has produced sufficient evidence to suspect Leach was the victim of foul play.
But There’s not been much evidence to suggest Randy’s disappearance was due to drug crime.
Years later Steve Daugherty, the same Steve that was with Randy the night of the party,
found a severed foot in a tennis shoe on the banks of the Kansas river.
Randy’s family had it tested, it wasn’t Randy’s The third theory is that Randy was
the victim of a satanic Ritual.
While the most bizarre scenarios often get the most attention strictly because they make
eye grabbing headlines, many strange things did happen in the aftermath of Randy’s disappearance.
There was a cave east of the Erwin property where a witness claims to have been held captive
there and _______.
The witness says between d*** doses they had a few moments of clarity here and there and
they claim while being threatened they were told a body hanging in the cave was Randy Leach.
The police report says the cave was checked and no evidence of Randy or the car was found.
The official story is the witness was hallucinating.
The cave has since been destroyed.
It’s also strange The house where the party took place wasn’t just cleaned immediately
after a party in the middle of the night but the house caught fire and burned to the ground not long after.
The more bizarre theories were given even more credibility when a man from Topeka Kansas
volunteered to help in the search for Randy.
Later on he and his wife were found dead.
The police ruled it a m_____ s______.
I don’t know that I believe that Randy was the victim of a satanic ritual but I agree
with the investigations findings that Randy was the victim of foul play.
And personally, I think the person or people who are guilty might be powerful enough to
have a cave destroyed, a house burned down and have other people’s deaths look like m_____ s______.
Scientist Carl Robert Disch was part of a team investigating radio noises for the National Bureau of Standards.
He was an ionospheric physicist at Byrd Station, Antarctica.
He wasn’t alone, there were other scientist, but not many.
On the morning of May 8th, 1965 Carl was in the radio noise building
and said he was goin to the main complex.
It was a little more than 1 and a quarter miles away.
Carl walked out into a Polar morning and into missing person history.
Now Weather in Antarctica can be deadly.
Blizzards can reduce visibility to near zero and temperatures in the negatives are common.
To ensure the safety of the scientist there was a rope that went from the radio noise
building all the way to the main complex.
So in the event of a terrible storm you wouldn’t get lost.
Carl had made this trip 25 times before, so when he didn’t arrive at the main complex
within an hour the other scientist new something was wrong!
It was minus 45 degrees outside.
The other scientist organized a vehicle search party and began searching for Carl.
At 11:30 they found tracks left by Carl, they were 4 miles away in the wrong direction.
It had been over 2 hours since anyone had seen him but they couldn’t pursue.
The vehicle needed to refuel first because it was searching since 10am.
When they got back from refueling they couldn't find his tracks.
The harsh winds completely erased them.
They continued searching in the 35 mile an hour winds until returning to base at 6pm.
By 8pm they formed a human chain to investigate the area where Carl's tracks were found.
They didn’t find anything.
They tried firing flares, hoping Carl would see them but the weather reduced visibility
so much that the flares weren’t helping.
The search continued over the next few days but continued to be attenuated by the extreme
weather and shorter days and the temperature dropping to as low as minus 79 degrees.
No trace of Carl was ever found and he was presumed dead.
They had a funeral service for him on May 14th in his home town of Monroe, Wisconsin.
This is normally where a missing persons case would end but in Carls case things only became stranger.
Because his body and tracks were never found some believed he simply ran away.
This is incredibly unlikely. But it is strange that his body was never recovered,
when you consider the search that was performed.
Even if he fell an froze to death in the snow the human chain should have found him.
A few days after his disappearance a husky he was close to also mysteriously disappeared
And 6 years later some believe he sent a message to the McMurdo Message Center.
The author of the message outright claimed to be Carl Disch.
The message said the event was not accidental, but the completion of his well thought out plan to get away from people.
The message went on to say he was able to get the dog to him by offering it canned Oysters and barbecue sauce.
It is believed this transmission is a hoax because surviving in such harsh conditions
even with gear rated for the Antarctic for years seems very unlikely.
A big part of me recognizes the truth in that statement but another part of me likes to imagine...
Carl and his Husky enjoying the silence in somewhere in Antarctica.
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