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24 celebrities who vanished into thin air

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A lot of people disappear every year, and no one noticed besides their close family and friends. But what people do notice is when a celebrity disappears all of a sudden. 

Yes! You read it right; few celebrities disappeared, and the world is just speculating what would have happed to them. Maybe they have encountered an accident, or perhaps they were never missing, who knows.  

1. Theodosia Burr Alston: 

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Hamilton is a new Broadway breathtaking screen sensation that is changing lives. In the play, Alexander Hamilton and Aeron Burr celebrated the birth of their children, but both of the children met a grim fate later on. 

Theodosia was defamed when Hamilton accused her of having an incestuous relationship with her father and helped her father to secede to the West. When in 1813, her son died, she was last seen boarding on a small boat at the port of Georgetown. 

2. Richey Edwards: 

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Richey Edward was a musician, lyricist, and guitarist of 1986’s punk band “Manic Street Preachers.” He was also famous for pulling off occasional stunts, and once in a live show, he engraved a phrase “4 REAL” on his arm with a razor blade. 

In 1995, Richey Edward disappeared and never showed up again. Many people presumed it was a publicity stunt, and some also concluded that he had committed suicide because his abandoned car was found near a bridge known for suicide jumps. 

3. Harold Holt: 

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He was Australia’s 17th prime minister and got missing when he went to a deserted beach for swimming on one fine day in December 1967. The most probable reason could be that he drowned, and his body was never found.  

There are some conspiracies associated with the disappearance of Harold like he was a Chinese SPY and returned to China, and the CIA killed him. 

4. Connie Converse: 

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She is an unknown and unsuccessful singer and songwriter of the 1950s. The world did not recognize her work; she was disappointed and quit music in 1961. 

In 1974, she loaded her car and told her friend that she was going away for a fresh start and was never seen again. The strange thing is that now she is considered the world’s first true songwriter. 

5. Jim Sullivan: 

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Jim Sullivan was an American singer and songwriter and started his career in the early 1960s. He was immensely talented, landed a contract with Nashville, Tennessee, and was just a step away from his big break but never made it. 

He disappeared without a trace in March 1975, and his car was found abandoned in New Mexico in front of Santa Rosa and his guitar in a nearby motel.  

6. Barbara Newhall Follett: 

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Barbara Newhall was a highly talented child, and she wrote a highly acclaimed novel just at the age of 13 years. One day, she would become America’s best writer, but unfortunately, when she was 16, her father ran off with a younger woman. She had to work as a typist to earn livings for herself and her mother. 

In 1939, after an argument with her husband, Follett took her luggage and disappeared in thin air.  

7. Fan Bingbing: 

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She is a Chinese popular and successful actress and has even made it to Hollywood. She was featured in one of Marvel’s creations, X Man: Days of Future Past. Fan Bingbing disappeared on July 1, 2018, after the Chinese government discovered that she is doing tax evasion. 

Most believe that she is in Chinese government custody and will be released after the tax issue resolve because the same has happened to another artist Ai Weiwei, who was missing for three months. Since then, Fan’s agent stated the actress had never been arrested, and she started communicating on social media again.

8. Rico Harris: 

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He was a promising basketball player and was a member of the world-famous Harlem Globetrotters. After indulging in alcoholism, his career went down, and he started working as a security guard in L.A. and eventually was kicked out from there for being drunk at work. 

After that, he was moving to his girlfriend’s house but never reached there. His car and other belongings were found outside of Sacramento, but Rico was never located. 

9. Antoine de Saint- Exupery: 

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He is a writer of the children’s famous book Le petit prince and was also an aviator. He used to do deadly and defying stunts with his plane. In World War II, he offered his aviation services to the France Air Force and was assigned a mission. 

On July 31, 1944, he was on a mission, but unfortunately, his plane crashed over the Mediterranean. The plane wreckage was discovered in 2000, but there were no traces of his body. 

10. Jim Thompson: 

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Jim Thompson was a businessman and former CIA agent. He moved to Thailand, revitalized the Thai silk industry, and became a wealthy socialite by 1967. The same year he went on a biking trip to Malaysia and is missing since then. 

There is a strong theory that he cannot die in the wilderness because he had surviving training. Something fishy has happened to him. 

11. John Bingham, 17th Earl of Lucan: 

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Jim Bingham, commonly known as Lord Lucan, was fed up with fighting his wife over the custody of their three children and planned a cold-blooded murder of his wife. In 1974, he tried to kill her wife in a darkened room but accidentally shot his children’s beloved nanny, Sandra Rivett. 

After this blunder, Lord Lucan disappeared and was never found. 

12. Amelia Earhart: 

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Amelia Earhart’s story is quite famous. She was an aviator and decided to fly around the world in 1937, but unfortunately, she had an accident. 

Her plane just not simply vanished, she landed on a small inhabited island because of low on fuel but never found help, and U.S. Navy did not find her plane and body. 

13. Glenn Miller: 

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Glenn Miller, a famous musician of his time, joined the army during WW II. Along with other young artists, he performed in front of the troops to boost their morale. 

In 1944, he was going to France for a performance when his plane disappeared over the English Channel, and the wreckage and the bodies were never found. 

14. Dorothy Arnold: 

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The disappearance of Dorothy Arnold is one of the great U.S. unsolved mysteries and talks of the town scandal in 1910. She was a 25-year-old aspiring writer, went outside to buy an evening gown but never returned home. 

Before she vanished, she ran into a friend and told her that she would go for a walk in Central Park.  

15. Bison Dele: 

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He was an NBA star, and his real name was Brain Williams. After leaving sports, he changed his name to Bison Dele to become a wealthy nomad. He bought a boat in 2007, named it Hakuna Matata, and sailed towards Hawai from Tahiti along with his girlfriend, brother, and captain but the Hakuna Matata never made it to Hawai. 

The only person that was found alive was his brother Miles Dobard. The police arrested him as a suspect in Dele’s murder, but Dobard also died while on bail. 

16. Joe Pichler: 

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Joe was featured as a child star in Beethoven movies and Varsity Blues, but he left acting to complete his studies. In 2006, he was planning to start acting again; one evening, he called his friend, who said Joe was heartbroken. Joe told his friend that he would call later but never did. 

After that, his car was found near a bridge and a suicide note in his apartment, but his body was never located. 

17. Jean Spangler: 

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She was 40’s actress and disappeared in 1949 when she was supposedly going to meet her ex-husband, but she never returned home. Her purse was found in a park with a note in it. 

The note was addressed to famous actor Kirk Douglas, and it said that Spangler is going to see a doctor. The Kirk refused any connection to Spangler or the note. One of Jean’s friends later says that she was going for an abortion. 

18. Sean Flynn: 

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Sean Flynn is the son of the famous Hollywood actor Errol Flynn. Sean also tries his luck in Hollywood but failed because most of his movies were big flops. Sean’s big break was his career as a photojournalist, and he served as a war photographer in Vietnam. 

On April 6, 1970, Sean Flynn and journalist Dana Stone went to the Viet Cong checkpoint to take some photographs, but they never returned. 

19. Michael Rockefeller: 

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Micheal Rockefeller was the son of Nelson Rockefeller, a former governor of New York and Vice president under Gerald Ford. He vanished when he was collecting some artifacts in New Guinea. 

His boat was found 12 miles away from the shore, but his body was nowhere to found. The government, later on, declared him dead by drowning. 

20. Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi: 

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She was the daughter of two famous Italian actors. Ylenia Maria went missing in New Orleans when she was on a backpacking journey in Central America.  

During the investigation, a security guard said that he had seemed someone matching the Carrisi description jumping in the Mississippi River while shouting, “I belong in the Water.” Read more about the next one.

21. Daniel Lind Lagerlof: 

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He was a Swedish screenwriter, director, and producer and got missing in October 2011. Lagerlof went to the Tjurpanna natural reserve near the cliffs for the location scouting of his next movie, Camilla Lackberg’s Fjallbackamorden. 

He never returned from scouting. No one witnessed the scene, so people presumed that he might be swept out to the sea, which happens regularly in this region.

22. Scott Smith: 

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Scott Smith was a founding member of the world-famous Canadian hard rock band of the early 80’s “Lover Boy.” their hits like “Working for the Weekend” and “Hot Girls in Love” are still on the playlist of many.  

Smith was an active member of the band, but he disappeared at sea one day on November 30, 2000, and was never found. He was presumed dead. 

23. “Sweet Jimmy” Robinson: 

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Sweet Jimmy is a retired American boxer and fought Muhammad Ali in Miami Beach on February 7, 1961.  But now, his whereabouts and location are unknown. 

A reported tried to find him, but Robinson had no known birth, full name, family, or public record. It all seems like that he never existed. 

24. Oscar Zeta Acosta: 

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Oscar Zeta Acosta was a lawyer and activist in the ’70s, and he was featured by Benicio Del Toro in his famous novel “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.”  Acosta lived a crazy life, and he enjoyed his life to its fullest. 

In 1974, Acosta mysteriously vanished when he was traveling through Mexico. His age at that time was just 39 years.