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Jean Spangler was an American model, dancer, and small-part actress in early television and Hollywood movies. Her career began in , but she disappeared under the following year under mysterious circumstances. In fact, her case still remains open to this very day.

Spangler left her home in Los Angeles on October 7, around 5 pm, leaving her daughter with her sister-in-law. She claimed she claimed to have plans for meeting with her former husband concerning child support which was late and afterward would be heading to work on a movie which was doing a night shoot. She was last seen by a store clerk near her home.

The clerk verified that Spangler appeared to be waiting on someone. She was never seen again. Her sister-in-law reported her missing the very next day, filing a report with the police. These would point towards her lying about where she was going.

However, two days after her disappearance, her purse was found near a Griffith Park entrance with the straps torn loose as if someone had ripped it from her arm. Over a hundred and sixty people, including sixty policemen, searched the area, but nothing else was found.

Her friends had stated to police that Spangler was pregnant and perhaps had sought to get an abortion, although they were illegal at the time. Other rumors reported her fleeing the country with Mickey Cohen, who was a known mobster. None of these were ever proven to be true and her case remains open and unsolved. Of the thirty-six inmates who had tried escaping Alcatraz over the twenty-nine years it was in operation as a federal penitentiary, five are listed as missing, but they are presumed to have drowned, although no bodies were ever found.

Of the five were went missing, Frank Morris is one of the most famous. Morris grew up an orphan, spending most of his formative years in foster care. At thirteen, he was convicted of his first crime. He continued to break the law and was arrested for many crimes by the time he reached his late teens, such as armed robbery and narcotics possession.

Morris was considered extremely intelligent at the time, ranking in the top two percent of the general population with an IQ of He served time in several prisons and was eventually sent to Alcatraz in His inmate number was AZ Morris and three other inmates planned their escape, but only Morris and two brothers, John and Clarence Anglin, were able to carry out their plans. Prison officials believe the three drowned, but evidence over the years points to their survival. He went on to claim that he, his brother, and Morris had all escaped from Alcatraz in June , albeit barely.

He said he was eighty-three years old and had cancer. He went on to explain that Morris had died in and that his brother had died in Jim Thompson was an American businessman who revitalize the silk industry from Thailand in the s and 60s. After church that day, he decided to go for a walk and never returned.

An extensive search was conducted, declaring Thompson so be lost. More than five hundred people aided in the search, which officially lasted eleven days.

Nonetheless, he was never found, nor any clues to his disappearance. Bones were later found in in an area close to Cameron Highlands, but the remains were missing a skull. One researcher believes Thompson was the victim of a hit and run, with the perpetrator burying him in a shallow grave.

Richey Edwards was a Welsh musician in an alternative rock band called Manic Street Preachers in which he was both the lyricist and rhythm guitarist. He was cited by many as being the leading lyricist of his time. Edwards disappeared on February 1, , the same that he and a fellow band member were to fly to the US for a promotional tour.

On February 14, his abandoned car was found in a parking lot with a dead battery. Police say there was evidence that someone had been living in it, but it was never proven whether or not it was Edwards.

Other sightings have been reported over the years, but nothing concrete has been discovered. He was list as officially missing until when he was presumed dead. Philip Taylor Kramer was an American bass guitar player who played for the rock band Iron Butterfly and who later became an inventor and computer engineering executive. Kramer was supposed to have drove to the airport in LA to pick up a business associate and his wife, but called them instead to go directly to their hotel.

He told them he would meet them later. However, it appears that he was at the airport for almost an hour, but no one understands why. On his way back from the airport, he called his wife, telling her that he was going to kill himself. He was never seen or heard from again. However, nothing led to any discoveries as to his whereabouts, although there have been many conspiracy theories. His father was reported as saying his son would never commit suicide, saying that Kramer had told him a long time ago that if he ever said those words, that it meant he needed help due to threats.

Following an extensive search operation, it was found ten years later in Kuwait. A few hours after the second theft in , Egyptian officials and police believed that they had discovered the painting at the Cairo International Airport when two suspects attempted to board a plane to Italy. What was unusual about this theft was that it was carried out by one person instead of a gang of thieves, and all that was found at the crime scene was a broken padlock and a single smashed window.

The paintings themselves were also removed from their frames rather than being cut. In , a man who stated that he had thrown the painting into a rubbish container following the theft was convicted of the robbery. However, the credibility of this story is doubtful, and the painting is still lost. Painted by Johannes Vermeer in and depicting an ambient scene of a man and two women performing music, The Concert was part of a large art heist that took place in at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

In March of that year, a group of thieves entered the museum dressed as Boston police and claimed that they were responding to a call. The painting was sold in Amsterdam in and did not resurface for over years.

Painted in , the painting is also amongst the most valuable missing artworks in the world. There have been recent developments related to the theft. In , the FBI claimed that they knew the culprits of the crime and that the theft was carried out by a gang rather than one individual.

However, there have been no other announcements about the case since then. The museum still displays the empty frames of the stolen paintings. One successful theft occurred in when The Nativity with St. Francis and St. The painting hung above the altar and was almost six square meters in size.

The thief must have removed the painting from its frame due to its size. The Oratory was also pillaged of other artworks, precious woods and benches inlaid with mother of pearl. The gentle giant vanished one night in , somewhere along State Route 16 near Sacramento.

The resulting manhunt gripped the press. But it only gripped them because Harris used to be somebody. Or maybe he used to almost be somebody. In , Harris played basketball for the Harlem Globetrotters, a team so famous that people still talk about them in the year Before that, he'd been a Top college basketball recruit. But drink kept him from reaching his potential, and he wound up out of basketball and working as a security guard in L. The final blow came in when he was fired for drunkenness.

He left his mom's L. His car was later found abandoned outside Sacramento. A profile in the L. Times recounts the strange details. Harris was known for disappearing for days on end, but this time he was in a weird mental state. A backpack and phone with video of him were found on the roadside, but when police searched the wilderness using a heat-vision camera, they found nothing. Days after Harris vanished, people were phoning in sightings of a giant person walking alongside State Route Human footprints were found in sand.

But not Harris. The L. Times suggests he was probably picked up as a hitchhiker. After that Canadian band Loverboy was one of the biggest rock band of the early '80s with hard-charging hits like "Hot Girls in Love" and "Working for the Weekend," which is still played on just about every radio station in the world every Friday afternoon.

Scott Smith was a founding member, staying with the group all the way until his mysterious and frightening disappearance at sea on November 30, , as per Rolling Stone. After playing with his band in Vancouver, B. As they sailed down the coast and neared San Francisco, the weather got rough, with the sea throwing up gigantic waves.

One of them, estimated to be about 20 -feet high, knocked Smith, 45, off the deck of the vessel and into the water. Coast Guard helicopters arrived within 20 minutes and dispatched two search boats, which scoured a square-mile area, to no avail. When fog and continuing high waves ended that search, Smith's family paid for a private search by a San Francisco company, and that, too, proved fruitless. Smith's remains have never surfaced.

At the time he went missing, Hale Boggs was one of the most famous politicians in America. While that's not the biggest job going that would be Speaker of the House , Boggs more than made up for his lower profile with a personality you could euphemistically call "colorful.

Edgar Hoover in Congress. He was thought to be an alcoholic. He became famous for doubting the lone gunman theory of the JFK shooting. So, yeah. Hale Boggs: kind of a big deal in Hence the nationwide shock when he disappeared. On October 16 that year, Boggs was in Alaska helping a fellow congressman's reelection bid. The two got on a light aircraft heading for remote Juneau. According to author Robin Barefield , they were never seen again.

The weather was terrible that day. As soon as Boggs failed to show in Juneau, everyone guessed what had probably happened. What was then the biggest search operation in U. But no trace of the missing aircraft or its occupants was ever found. To this day, there are some out there who think Boggs was killed for his work investigating the JFK assassination.

It's not like there could be any other explanation for a small airplane vanishing over water in bad weather, right? Sean Flynn was a guy who lived in the shadow of his father, Errol Flynn both pictured , the actor who swashed more buckles than anyone else in Hollywood history.

Sean Flynn tried to ape his celeb dad, appearing in 10 movies, eight of which bombed. His name would've been enough to make him famous anyway, even if something hadn't happened in the s that wound up becoming Flynn's big break: America went to war in Vietnam. Journalist Zalin Grant later wrote that Sean went to Vietnam to prove he was more than just a weak copy of his dad. That sounds kinda like becoming a lion tamer to prove you're not a crazy cat lady like your mom, but whatever.

Sean signed up as a photojournalist with Time and shot some harrowing scenes — like a Viet Cong getting strung upside-down from a tree and tortured — that won him fame in his own right. By , as The Independent recounts , he was working out of Phnom Penh to cover the war in Cambodia. They never came back, and no trace of them was ever found. No prizes for guessing the leading theory. The Khmer Rouge are known to have killed at least 30 foreign journalists in the war, and Sean was probably among them.

Despite a false identification in , his body has never been found. Antoine de Saint-Exupery is the guy who wrote " The Little Prince ," a children's book of such beauty, such power, and such simplicity that it's tempting to say no life can be declared complete until one has read it at least once. He was also a fanatical aviator, and a death-defying acrobat of the skies who once crash-landed in the Libyan desert and spent a week wandering, lost and on the brink of death, before being miraculously found by a passing Bedouin via the New Yorker.

After the U. Unfortunately, aircraft tech had kinda moved on since his heyday, to the extent that the great writer was more hindrance than help.

His second-ever mission for the Allies, he managed to crash into an olive grove. On his sixth, he wound up landing on Corsica instead of Sardinia, a mistake that left him stranded for several days. It didn't help that he got drunk and caroused before some missions. In short, he was a liability. All of which may explain what happened on his10th mission. He was never seen again. Although wreckage from his plane was recovered in , no body has ever been identified.

It's possible he survived the wreck, but it's probably more likely that he drowned. Were he anybody else, Michael Rockefeller's disappearance in would not have been big news. He would've just been another spoiled young man from the American elite who went looking for adventure and found too much of it. But he wasn't anybody else. He was Michael freakin' Rockefeller, scion of one of the most iconic families in American history, son of the famous Nelson Rockefeller.

It may have only been because of his name, but when Michael Rockefeller vanished off the coast of what was then Netherlands New Guinea, the world sat up and paid attention. Smithsonian has the whole story, and it's more strange and twisted than you can imagine. After an extremely privileged upbringing, Michael decided to take a trip way out into the Pacific to both collect primitive art and maybe find himself.

He wound up boating around New Guinea — the island today split between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea — having the sort of experiences most young men would kill for. He even made some friends among the local tribes. At least, he thought he did. On November 19, , Michael's boat overturned near the Asmat region of the island.

The boy swam to shore to look for help Nobody ever saw him again. While it's widely assumed he drowned, at least some members of local tribes have told stories indicating he was killed on reaching shore, his body cut up and the parts handed out as gruesome trophies. Imagine the chaos if Ivanka Trump one day just vanished. America got a taste of that back in She was never seen again. Atlas Obscura has the full story. At the time, Alston was as infamous as her father. Burr's duel with Alexander Hamilton had been brought on, in part, by Hamilton spreading rumors that the former VP and his daughter were engaging in some hot and heavy incestuous loving.

When Burr headed out West to establish his own breakaway nation, it was Alston who bankrolled his megalomania. When he was tried for treason she was there, and when he fled the country, it was with her help. All these shenanigans came at a cost. Alston was known to be desperately unhappy. After her father left the country and her son died, she slipped into an inescapable funk. When she vanished, it didn't take long for the public to put two and two together and make approximately five billion conspiracy theories.

Alston had run away to marry a Native American. She'd become a pirate's mistress and was still out there, riding the seas. The truth is probably more prosaic.

Alston was sailing through fierce storms in an area infamous for pirate activity. It doesn't take a genius to figure out she probably "vanished" to a watery grave.

Spoilers: Ambrose Bierce is definitely dead. The satirical writer vanished in , aged Unless he wound up like caveman Brendan Fraser in "Encino Man ," frozen in ice to be resurrected thousands of years later to teach two kids some amusing-yet-valuable life lessons, he's long gone.

Still, the mystery remains: how and where did he die? There are two ways of looking at that question. One is to take a broader view, in which case here's the answer. Bierce rode off into the carnage of the Mexican Revolution, despite not speaking any Spanish and not having a clear action plan. Gringos who didn't speak Spanish riding into the Mexican Revolution tended to end up either dead or briefly in terrible agony and then dead. Mystery solved. The letter of Pope St. Innocent I in also officially listed these books.

Although some discussion arose over the inclusion of other books into the Church's canon of Sacred Scripture after this time, the Council of Florence definitively established the official list of 46 books of the Old Testament and 27 of the New Testament. With this background, we can now address why the Protestant versions of the Bible have less books than the Catholic versions. In , Martin Luther translated the Bible into German. Many Church historians speculate that Luther was prepared to drop what he called the "non-canonical books" of the New Testament but refrained from doing so because of possible political fall-out.

Why Luther took this course of action is hard to say. Some scholars believe Luther wanted to return to the "primitive faith," and therefore accepted only those Old Testament books written in Hebrew originally; others speculate he wanted to remove anything which disagreed with his own theology.

Nevertheless, his action had the permanent consequence of omitting the seven deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament in Protestant versions of the Bible.