5. Jean Spangler
Jean Spangler, a small part movie and tv actress disappeared on October 7th, 1949. The part time model and dancer vanished after telling her sister in law she was heading out to meet with her former husband to discuss a late child support payment and then heading to a studio to film a night shoot for a movie. Her ex husband told police that he had not seen her the night of her disappearance and his new wife claimed he was with her the whole night. Two days after Spangler’s disappearance her purse was found near Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Inside police discovered a mysterious note addressed to a man named Kirk that read “Can’t wait any longer, Going to see Dr. Scott. It will work best this way while mother is away,“. The note, ending with a comma seemed to be unfinished. An exhaustive police search failed to uncover the identity of Kirk or the mysterious Dr. Scott. Friends of Spangler told police that she was 3 months pregnant and that she was considering getting an abortion which was illegal at the time. To this day Jean Spangler remains listed as a missing person.
4. Stratojet B-47 Bomber
Ok so this one is not about the disappearance of a famous person but rather a famous or infamous cargo. In March 1956 a Boeing B47 Stratojet bomber disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea while travelling from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida to Ben Guerir Air Force Base in Morocco. Aboard the plane were 3 US Air Force personnel and 2 nuclear warheads. Despite exhaustive searching the warheads were never recovered!
3. Frank Morris
Frank Morris was the alleged ringleader of a group of men who famously escaped from Alcatraz prison on June 11th, 1962. Using tools stolen from the prison yard the men slowly widened the ventilation ducts in their cells, creating an escape tunnel that lead to the roof of their cells. Here the men created a makeshift workshop where they fashioned life preservers from stolen raincoats and a raft from discarded rubber sealed together using heat from the steam pipes. On the night of June 11th, the men left their cells, placing paper mache heads they had created in their beds as decoys. The men made their way down to the water where they used the makeshift raft to escape. Despite no bodies ever being found, the authorities asserted that it was extremely unlikely the men survived the frigid and turbulent waters. However, in 2011 an 89 year old man named Bud Morris, who claimed to be the cousin of Frank Morris, said he had delivered bribes to the guards prior to the daring escape. More amazingly, Bud Morris claimed to have met with Frank in a San Diego park shortly after the escape. His daughter who was 8 at the time corroborated the story saying she could remember meeting with “Dad’s friend, Frank.”
2. Amelia Earhart
Famous female pilot Amelia Earhart vanished on July 2nd, 1937 while flying over the Pacific Ocean attempting to circumnavigate the globe. Earhart lost radio contact near Howland Island and a large search of the surrounding area was soon conducted by the US Navy. Soon after her disappearance, several theories surfaced suggesting that she may have been taken prisoner by the Japanese. One such rumor was fuelled by the fact that soon after her disappearance, the Japanese released the Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter aircraft which had several strikingly similar components to the aircraft Earhart was flying at the time she disappeared. It was also suggested that she was a spy sent to report on the Japanese and that she survived the flight, changed her name and moved to New Jersey.
1. The Babushka Lady
The Babushka Lady is the name given to the mysterious woman who was present at the assassination of JFK on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. In several photographs taken by other eyewitnesses, the Babushka Lady can be seen videotaping the assassination within meters of the motorcade. Unusually, the photos show the woman acting very calmly as she continues filming despite the surrounding eyewitnesses fleeing in panic. Despite exhaustive investigations, neither the woman nor her video footage have ever been officially located.
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