Every year, thousands of disappearances occur around the world. Some cases are discovered immediately or not long after, but some are lost forever. The most mysterious and confusing are the cases in which the victim suddenly disappears. This type of sudden disappearance usually leaves no clues.

Below is a list of 10 famous disappearances that left no trace:

1. Jim Sullivan with his prophetic song

In 1969, singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan recorded an album called UFO, which contained strange lyrics about leaving behind his family and being abducted by aliens. planet. Sullivan disappeared six years later without a trace, the only remaining evidence being his car abandoned in the desert. The lyrics have an eerie coincidence with the real scene that led to Jim’s disappearance.

American singer-songwriter Jim Sullivan became the focus of news in 1975 when he disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

James Anthony Sullivan (Jim Sullivan) became the focus of the news in 1975 when he disappeared under mysterious circumstances. On March 4, 1975, he left Los Angeles to drive to Nashville in a Volkswagen Beetle. The next day, he checked into a motel in Santa Rosa, New Mexico but did not sleep there.

The next day, he was still seen on a remote farm owned by the Gennetti family, more than 40 kilometers from the Santa Rosa motel. And from then on, no one saw him again. Not long after, his car was found outside the farm with the guitar inside.

2. After mentioning the strange flying object on the radio, Fredrick Valentich also mysteriously disappeared along with his plane

On Saturday evening, October 21, 1978, pilot Fredrick Valentich flew over Bass Strait in Australia. At 7pm, Valentich reported to Melbourne Flight Service control center that an unidentified aircraft was following him at an altitude of 1.37km. He said there could not be any civilian flights at that altitude. Valentich described the plane as being very large, with no name known, and appearing to radiate light with four landing lights.

Pilot Fredrick Valentich

Valentich reported that the plane was approaching him from the east. A moment later, he announced that the plane was “surrounding” him, it had a shiny metal surface and emitted green light. Not long after, he began having engine problems with the last radio signal coming out “Not an airplane”. The signal was then interrupted by an unidentified noise that sounded like a “metallic strike” before all signs of communication disappeared.

Immediately afterwards, a large-scale search at sea and in the sky was carried out, the search scale covered more than 1.6 km2 but to no avail. Valentich’s last radio call raised suspicions that this was an alien abduction.

3. Who snuck into the bedroom and kidnapped Madeleine McCann?

Madeleine McCann, 3, disappeared on the evening of May 3, 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment in Portugal. The girl’s disappearance has been widely reported by global media, but finding her whereabouts is still a question mark.

In May 2007, Madeleine McCann, her twins and their parents went on a summer vacation to Portugal. They went with a group of friends including other families. On May 3, Gerry and Kate, the baby’s parents, left their three children sleeping in their room while they went to dinner at a bar not far away. At 10 p.m., Kate returned to her room to check on the children and discovered Madeleine was not in bed. The baby is missing. In a panic, Kate told her husband and friends that someone had kidnapped their three-year-old child.

Patrol officers arrived at the scene around 11 p.m. that night. A large-scale search operation including police and members of the Ocean Club was fruitless.

Madeleine McCann, 3, disappeared on the evening of May 3, 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment in Portugal.

Madeleine’s disappearance attracted great attention and is one of the most talked about missing persons cases in modern times. A series of theories were put forward, with witnesses even claiming to have seen a man carrying a child walking towards the beach. McCann’s family and friends were thoroughly examined and unfounded allegations about her disappearance were dismissed.

To this day, Maddie’s whereabouts remain a mystery. Even an investigation and the police offering a reward worth nearly $15 million could not help Maddie’s family find her.

4. Ray Gricar disappeared without a trace and only his computer without a hard drive was found

Ray Gricar, the US attorney in charge of the “Sandusky Case”, mysteriously disappeared in 2005. His laptop was later found in a river but without the hard drive.

On April 15, 2005, District Attorney Ray Gricar took a day off. At 11:30 a.m., he called his girlfriend Patricia Fornicola and said he was driving on Route 192. When Gricar didn’t come home that night, his girlfriend reported him missing. The next day, investigators located the car driven by Ray Gricar in an antique store parking lot in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. The police found his cell phone but no laptop, no keys, and no wallet in the car.

Ray Gricar, the US attorney in charge of the “Sandusky Case”, mysteriously disappeared in 2005. His laptop was later found in a river but without the hard drive.

On July 30, 2005, a fisherman discovered his computer on the Susquehanna River, under a bridge between Lewisburg and Milton. The report shows that the computer had its hard drive removed. Two months later, someone else found a hard drive on the banks of the Susquehanna River, 90 meters from the location where the computer was found. Investigators believe it was the hard drive removed from Gricar’s laptop, but it was severely damaged and all data recovery efforts were unsuccessful.

Investigators later revealed that the web browsing history on Gricar’s desktop computer showed a series of searches such as “how to destroy a hard drive”. Some believe that his disappearance is related to the ‘Sandusky case’ that Gricar did not prosecute. This case targets Jerry Sandusky, accusing the Penn State assistant coach of inappropriate behavior with a boy on the team.

5. Jim Gray went missing on a sailboat in the Farallon Islands

Jim Gray, Microsoft scientist and Turing Award winner, left San Francisco Bay by sailboat to bury his mother’s ashes at the Farallon Islands. He was presumed missing when he did not return the same day. Although people organized the most thorough search and rescue operation in history, no one found Gray or the yacht.

On Sunday, January 28, 2007, American computer scientist Jim Gray took a short boat trip to the Farallon Islands near San Francisco to scatter his mother’s ashes.

On Sunday, January 28, 2007, American computer scientist Jim Gray took a short boat trip to the Farallon Islands near San Francisco to scatter his mother’s ashes. At 10:30 a.m., he called his wife, Donna Carnes, from his 12-meter yacht Tenacious . A few hours later, a naturalist from the Southeast Farallon Island found his sailboat. After that, Gray and his boat disappeared.

The San Francisco Coast Guard did not receive Mayday’s call. Even the emergency light, designed to send a signal back if it sinks, remained silent. No sailors in the area saw the boat, and no Tenacious vests, flashlights, or scrap pieces were seen washing up on local beaches. After 5 years of disappearance, Gray’s name was added to the list of people who died at sea on January 28, 2012.

6. Louis Le Prince on the train of no return

Mr. Louis Le Prince, a French inventor, is famous as the “father of Saturday art”. On October 14, 1888, he filmed the world’s first scene, Roundhay Garden Scene, with a single-lens camera he invented and patented.

On September 13, he boarded a train to visit his brother in Dijon and on September 16, he boarded a train from Dijon to Paris. But when the train arrived in Paris, Le Prince had disappeared.

In September 1890, Le Prince prepared to return to England to apply for a new camera patent, followed by a trip to America to promote it. Before the journey, he decided to visit friends and family. On September 13, he boarded a train to visit his brother in Dijon and on September 16, he boarded a train from Dijon to Paris. But when the train arrived in Paris, Le Prince had disappeared. Neither people nor luggage were on board.

The last person to see Le Prince alive was his brother. No one else had seen Le Prince on the Dijon-Paris train since he boarded; nor were any strange acts, robberies or accidents reported on board the Dijon-Paris. French police and his family conducted an exhaustive search, but Le Prince’s mysterious disappearance was never solved.

7. How did medical student Brian Shaffer leave the bar?

During spring break, on the night of March 31, 2006, Brian Shaffer, a 27-year-old medical student at Ohio State University, went out with his friends. After having fun in the bar, they went to another bar and seafood restaurant called Ugly Tuna Saloon. There he strayed from his group of companions and they never saw each other again.

When they didn’t see Brian in the crowd leaving, they thought he had gone home and forgot to announce it.

When the bar closed at 2 a.m., Brian’s friends waited for him outside the bar. But when they didn’t see Brian in the crowd leaving, they thought he had gone home and forgot to announce it. Brian’s friends called him over the weekend, but he didn’t answer. On April 3, 2006, he was reported missing after missing his friends’ planned flight to Miami.

Police initially reviewed footage from a security camera installed outside the Ugly Tuna Saloon. The video shows Brian entering the bar, but there is no scene of him leaving the bar. He couldn’t get through any other exits, except a service door, which led to a construction site. Officers also viewed video from other bars to check if the cameras could explain how Brian left the Ugly Tuna. However, footage from cameras at three nearby bars showed no trace of Brian.

8. Until now, no one has heard any news about Judge Joseph Force Crater

Judge Joseph Force Crater was last seen walking out of a restaurant on August 6, 1930. The investigation into his disappearance led to a corruption purge in New York City of the Tammany Hall administration.

Joseph Force Crater was a New York City Supreme Court judge who disappeared in a political scandal. On August 6, 1930, he had dinner with his lover and a lawyer friend. Friends at dinner that night said that was the last time they saw Crater. Since then, no one has seen him again and the 41-year-old judge has disappeared from the streets of Manhattan near Times Square.

On August 6, 1930, he had dinner with his lover and a lawyer friend. From that day on, no one saw him again.

News of Crater’s disappearance spread widely on September 3 and sparked an intense manhunt and investigation.

During the investigation, it was discovered that, on the morning of August 6, 1930, the judge had deleted and destroyed various documents. He also moved two locked suitcases into his apartment and withdrew $5,000 from his bank account. The detective discovered that the safety box in the judge’s bank was completely empty. The police also could not trace the two suitcases that Crater brought to his apartment.

For the past 40 years, because investigators could not find any more clues, the case was at a standstill.

9. Former Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared into the water at Cheviot

Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, went swimming at Cheviot Beach and disappeared into the water. Although the government organized a large-scale search, no one found any trace of Prime Minister Holt.

Although the government organized a large-scale search, no one found any trace of Prime Minister Holt.

Harold Holt was the 17th Prime Minister of Australia but only held this position for 22 months before going missing while swimming. On the morning of Sunday 17 December 1967, Holt drove from Melbourne with his neighbor’s family. They saw a British yachtsman named Alec Rose sailing past Port Phillip Heads. At around noon, they drove to one of Holt’s favorite swimming beaches and attractions, Cheviot Beach at Point Nepean near Portsea, on the eastern arm of Port Phillip Bay.

That day the waves were very high and the sea rough, but Holt still decided to swim. While swimming, he suddenly disappeared from sight. Too startled, everyone immediately called for help. Soon after, a team of police, divers, helicopters, military personnel and local volunteers began one of the largest search operations in Australian history. However, no one found any trace of the Prime Minister.

10. Bison Dele and his ill-fated brother

Beginning in 1991, Bison Dele played basketball for five NBA teams. In 1997, he helped the Chicago Bulls win the championship. He retired in 1999 at the age of 30. After retiring from basketball, he learned to sail and bought a catamaran to go to sea.

On July 6, 2002, Bison Dele, along with his brother Miles Dabord, boarded a speedboat in Tahiti with two others. The only person to return alive from the trip was Dele’s brother, Miles Dabord. Dabord brought the boat into the port of Tahiti on July 20, 2002.

On July 6, 2002, Bison Dele, along with his brother Miles Dabord, boarded a speedboat in Tahiti with two others. The only person to return alive from the trip was Dele’s brother, Miles Dabord.

Two months later, police discovered that Dabord had used Dele’s passport for verification and had also forged a signature to buy $152,000 worth of gold. At the same time, Dabord called his mother, Patricia Phillips, saying that he would never hurt his brother but could not live in prison.

After that, Dabord, the only person who knew everything, intentionally overdosed on insulin and fell into a coma. He died on September 27, 2002, leaving behind the unresolved mystery of what happened to Bison Dele and two others on the boat.