10 Disappearances That Are Still Unsolved

The most baffling thing about disappearances is that, until evidence of the victim's fate comes to light, the story never truly has closure. If someone is missing in a movie, he or she will be found somewhere by the end of the movie, but that's not exactly how it works in real life.

Here are some of the creepiest disappearances in history. Given the clues we have for these cases, closure may never come.


1. William Morgan

After being denied membership of the Free Masons in 1826, William Morgan vowed to write a revealing exposé of the fraternal religious society's secrets. The print shop charged with producing the text suspiciously burned to the ground. Soon after, Morgan himself disappeared. Ten Masons were convicted of kidnapping, though Morgan was never found. His disappearance led to the formation of the Anti-Masonic Party, which ran a presidential campaign against Andrew Jackson, whom the Masons elected.

2. Mary Little

In 1965, a 25-year-old Mary Little disappeared in Atlanta, Georgia. Her car was found in the same lot she parked it in to have dinner with a friend the night before, but her gas credit card history read that she had used it in two different gas stations. Her underwear was neatly folded inside the car alongside traces of blood. Both gas stations reported seeing a woman who looked like Mary along with two men.

3. April Fabb

April Fabb, a thirteen-year-old girl disappeared while riding her bike near her home in Cromer, United Kingdom, in 1969 with no evidence that she was kidnapped or would want to run away. She simply vanished.




4. Solomon Northup

Solomon Northup was a free man, captured and sold into slavery. After miraculously being freed, he wrote a memoir called Twelve Years a Slave, which later inspired the Oscar-winning film. Sadly, Northup only had four short years of freedom before he disappeared while on a book tour. Some say he was sold into slavery again. Others say he chose to go into hiding. Nobody knows for sure.

5. Diane Agat

In a convenience store in Odessa, Florida, that the 40-year-old Diane Agat was last seen in 1988. Three days later, her mother got a phone call from a lady who sounded like Diane, crying, "Help, help, let me out." She called the number back, but nobody answered. A few days later, a fingertip of Diane's was found in the same convenience store. Two weeks later, her folded clothes were found. The rest of her belongings were eventually found in a bag labelled "Diane."

6. Maura Murray



Maura Murray was a nursing student at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She ditched class one day and drive out of the university campus. She crashed her car somewhere in New Hampshire. The last person to see her was someone living in the area who asked Murray if she should call the police. By the time police arrived, Murray had vanished forever.




7. Béla Kiss



Béla Kiss told authorities before he left for World War I, that he had several drums of gasoline. When the authorities arrived at his home, they found the drums filled with the pickled corpses of 24 women, each had a slit in their throats. After the war ended, Béla Kiss was tracked down several times by authorities but always managed to escape. Once, he placed a corpse of soldier in his hospital bed to avoid the Serbian police. He was last seen working as a janitor in New York, but soon vanished after his identity was revealed.

8. MV Joyita



This one should creep out most people. It is a tale of of 25 passengers aboard a merchant vessel on the way to the Tokelau Islands. There was no distress, no storm, no other ship in the area, and yet everyone on board mysteriously vanished. The ship was found drifting at sea 5 weeks later. The creepiest part is that, there was almost no chance that the ship would ever sink due to its extreme buoyancy. Investigators are baffled as to why the passengers didn't just stay on the ship.

9. Agatha Christie

The mystery queen novelist Agatha Christie once disappeared for 11 days and her car was found dangling over the side of a cliff. Luckily, after an investigation which involved 1,000 police officers and volunteers, she was found in a hotel room. She never gave any explanation for her disappearance and some even insisted that she staged the whole thing herself.




10. Rebecca Coriam

In 2011, Disney Cruise Line worker Rebecca Coriam disappeared at sea. The last time she was seen was in security footage on the ship, in which she appears to be distressed by a phone conversation. Several crew members believe she went overboard, although Disney doesn't want to admit this. Since her disappearance, her bank account has been used, and there's been activity on her Facebook page. Is this a hacker, or is Coriam still alive?

It's baffling to think we will never know what really happened to these people. We can go over the clues as much as we want, but until the disappeared come out of the shadows and tell us what happened, their stories will always be incomplete.