Strange History
Unsolved disappearances: History
Strange History pages that draw on Unsolved disappearances, each with the sources shown. Start with Amelia Earhart's disappearance, D. B. Cooper, the hijacker who jumped, The Bermuda Triangle, The Lost Colony of Roanoke.
Events · Unsolved disappearancesAmelia Earhart's disappearanceOn July 2, 1937, Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan vanished over the Pacific while trying to find tiny Howland Island, and the last words heard from her plane are still in a Coast Guard radio log.People · Unsolved disappearancesD. B. Cooper, the hijacker who jumpedIn 1971 a quiet man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a jet, collected $200,000 and four parachutes, and jumped out the back over the forests of Washington State. He was never found.Places · Unsolved disappearancesThe Bermuda TriangleA stretch of the Atlantic between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico is famous for ships and planes that vanished, but the U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and NOAA say it is no more dangerous than other busy waters.Events · Unsolved disappearancesThe Lost Colony of RoanokeIn 1590 John White came back to the English settlement on Roanoke Island and found everyone gone, with the word CROATOAN carved on a post.Events · Unsolved disappearancesThe Mary Celeste ghost shipIn December 1872 sailors found the cargo ship Mary Celeste drifting in the Atlantic, still able to sail and full of supplies, with all ten people gone and the lifeboat missing.
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