It would seem famous person- not a needle in a haystack. However, the fate of many famous people today remains a mystery, which leaves room for numerous versions.
Scientists and inventors
On September 29, 1913, the famous German inventor Rudolf Diesel boarded the Dresden steamship in Antwerp to go to London to open a new factory. In the evening, he locked himself in his cabin and seemed to be getting ready for bed... Subsequently, the inventor’s hat and cloak were found on the deck, but he himself was nowhere to be found. It is curious that for some reason the name Diesel did not appear on the passenger list; his wallet and all documents also disappeared.
According to one version, Diesel fell into the water from the deck as a result heart attack. On September 30, a man’s body was indeed caught from the water, but there is still no clear information that it was Diesel.
The Italian Ettore Majorana could probably become as famous as the author of the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein. However, fate would have it otherwise.
Ettore was born in 1906 in the city of Catania in Sicily. At the age of four, he showed phenomenal mathematical abilities: the baby could solve the most difficult tasks, and surpassed many adult mathematicians in this. His parents sent the child prodigy to a Jesuit school in Rome. After graduating, he entered the Lyceum, and at the age of 17 - the University of Rome, after which he ended up at the Department of Theoretical Physics, headed by Enrico Fermi.
Majorana was already called a “genius of mathematics and physics” in his youth. Fermi considered him the best of his students and entrusted him with high hopes. During his time at the Department of Theoretical Physics, Majorana proposed many scientific ideas that anticipated important discoveries. One of them was a hypothesis about the nature of the forces holding the atomic nucleus together. In addition, the researcher created theoretical model neutrino, invented mathematical objects (Majorana spinors), which at the end of the 20th century formed the basis of the theory of supergravity, and, finally, was the first to talk about the possibility of the existence of the neutron.
In 1933, a young man fell ill with gastritis. This affected him nervous system: he became very irritable, in conversations with friends and colleagues he often broke into a scream... It soon became clear that this mental disorder. Majorana stopped going to work at the University of Naples, where he taught, and spent almost all his time locked up at home.
In 1937 there seemed to be an improvement. Majorana returned to teaching, published a scientific article... But then he did a strange thing: he transferred all his money to an account in Naples and bought a ticket on a ship that sailed on March 25, 1938 to Palermo. However, when the ship arrived in Sicily, the scientist was not on board. A letter addressed to his family by Majorana was found in a Neapolitan hotel room. It read: “I have only one wish - that you do not dress in black because of me. If you want to comply with accepted customs, then wear any other sign of mourning, but no longer than three days. After this, you can keep the memory of me in your heart and, if you are able to do so, forgive me.”
Before Majorana’s relatives, friends and colleagues had time to get used to the fact that he had committed suicide, a telegram arrived from him in which Ettore asked not to attach importance to the previous letter. After some time, another letter arrived: “The sea did not accept me. I'm coming back tomorrow. However, I intend to leave teaching. If you are interested in details, I am at your service." But he never showed up...
The police conducted an investigation. There were people who claimed that they met Majorana in Naples after it became known about the disappearance of the scientist.
Only in 1950 new circumstances emerged in the case. Chilean physicist Carlos Rivera heard from elderly woman, from whom he rented housing in Argentina, that her son knew a man named Majorana. However, she could not provide any details. Another time, 10 years later, Rivera heard about Majorana from a waiter in an Argentine restaurant. The waiter said that he was a prominent physicist in Italy and sometimes visits this establishment... But just like the landlady, the waiter could not give any more information.
In the late 1970s, physics professor Erasmo Resami and Ettore's sister Maria again tried to find traces of the missing scientist. They met with the widow of the Guatemalan writer Miguel Angel Asturias, who said that in the 1960s she met Majorana in Argentina, at the house of sisters Eleanor and Lilo Manzoni, with whom he was friends. But later this woman flatly refused her words, saying that she had only heard about Majorana. The Manzoni sisters completely denied knowing the physicist. It looks like there was a conspiracy of silence here...
The mystery of the disappearance of the talented Soviet physicist Vladimir Aleksandrov, one of the authors of the “nuclear winter” theory, has not yet been solved. In 1985, Alexandrov was at a conference in Spain, where he gave a presentation. Just before returning to Moscow, he left the hotel for a walk - and no one ever saw him again. Many have no doubt that the scientist was kidnapped by representatives of the secret services.
Politicians and businessmen
Robert Macmillan was 48 years old, he was one of the co-owners of the largest publishing house Macmillan.
On July 13, 1889, MacMillan climbed to the top of Greece's Mount Olympus. Dozens of people saw him: for some time he stood at the very top of the mountain, waving his hand. But then he suddenly disappeared. A thorough search was carried out, but the publisher was not found either alive or dead.
In 1961, son famous politician and banker Nelson Rockefeller, 23-year-old Harvard graduate Michael Rockefeller, who was interested in ethnography and anthropology, went on an expedition to New Guinea. He was searching for the lost Asmat tribe. One of the shamans told him that he saw a mask of death on his face...
On the way, an overloaded catamaran capsized. Michael’s comrades managed to reach the shore, but he himself disappeared... For some reason, the more common version is that young Rockefeller was eaten by cannibals from the Asmat tribe than the seemingly more logical version of drowning.
In 1967, the whole world was shocked by an unprecedented incident involving Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. On December 17, he went for a swim in Melbourne Bay and... did not return. Versions have emerged that Holt was kidnapped by the CIA or Chinese intelligence services, and also that he deliberately staged his disappearance in order to escape with his mistress... The Australians even had a saying “Do Harold Holt,” which means “disappear under mysterious circumstances.”
Musicians and singers
Connie Converse was known in the late 50s of the last century as a talented composer and performer. She performed on the music stage New York, however, her work never received widespread recognition. In 1974, experiencing a personal and professional crisis, Connie fell into depression. One day she sent farewell letters to all her friends and relatives along with lyrics and recordings of her songs, after which she left in an unknown direction. If she committed suicide, there is no information about it.
Richie Edwards is a Welsh musician and rhythm guitarist for the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers, which was popular in the 1990s.
Edwards, like many creative people, was a mentally unstable person. He could intentionally hurt himself and suffered from depression, alcoholism and anorexia.
On February 17, 1995, Edwards' car was found abandoned in what was called the "last resort of suicides" - the Severn Bridge. Richie himself disappeared. They say that he was seen here and there, for example, in a hippie commune in Goa and on the islands of Fuerteventura and Lanzarote, but the information could not be verified. Richie Edwards was declared dead in 2008.
Job type: Objectives in Elea: Voeld
Required conditions: outpost on Voeld
Starting location: Voeld
How to get: talk to Priya Blake
Meet Priya Blake
Voeld: Initiative Outpost
Priya is in the same accommodation module (1) , which you enter after establishing the outpost and talk to the Edison hologram. She needs your help to find missing scientists.
Find information about missing scientists in the laboratory
When looking for clues, don't forget to pick up turian frigate model not far from the room with Priya. Follow the navigation marker.
Use the scanner to find the box in the laboratory (2) . Inside hand drill. On top of the box is data block. An important message contains coordinates.
Go to the coordinates of the last broadcast
Head to the area to the east (3) . A gloomy picture appears before you.
Examine everything and find evidence
Scan broken vehicles (3) and several corpses to obtain information that reveals they are the missing researchers. Death occurred as a result of defeat electric shock. The vehicle was destroyed by some kind of Remnant weapon. Examine the one lying nearby data block to get a plan of the scientists' route.
Follow the route planned by scientists
Follow to new nav point (4) south through the valley. As the Nomad's tires hit the frozen river, you see the Architect hovering above the kett outpost. The kett wisely left the area. In the battle with the Architect, you will have to rely only on your own strength and the abilities of your partners.
Defeat the Architect of Relics
Use heat lamps to keep warm during all stages of the battle with the Architect.
Talk to Priya Blake
After dealing with the Architect, return to the outpost and talk to Priya (1) . She heard the news of your battle with the giant Relic and regrets sending her people to their deaths. Comfort her.
Glory to them, who were not afraid to leave warm and cozy homes, hospitable tables and went into the unknown, risking their lives, with only one goal - to learn the mystery or bring others closer to solving it.
However, not all campaigns ended successfully. Many expeditions were inexplicably lost. Some could not be found; the found remains of others do not shed light on the reasons for their death, giving more mysteries than answers to questions.
Many missing expeditions are still the subject of investigation today, as inquiring minds are haunted by the strange circumstances of their disappearance.
In the footsteps of the lost Arctic expedition
Franklin's expedition was one of the first on the sad list of lost ones. served as the primary reason for equipping this expedition in 1845. It was supposed to explore an unknown section of the Northwest Passage, lying between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in a zone of temperate latitudes, approximately 1670 km long, and complete the discovery of unknown Arctic regions. The expedition was led by an English naval officer, 59-year-old John Franklin. By this time, he had already been a member of three expeditions to the Arctic, two of which he led. John Franklin, whose expedition was carefully prepared, already had experience as a polar explorer. Together with his crew, he set sail from the English port of Greenhithe on May 19 on the ships Erebus and Terror (displacing approximately 378 tons and 331 tons, respectively).
The Story of Franklin's Lost Expedition
Both ships were well equipped and adapted for navigation in ice, and much was provided for the convenience and comfort of the crew. Was loaded into the holds large stock provisions for three years. Biscuits, flour, salted pork and beef, canned meat, supplies lemon juice against scurvy - all this was measured in tons. But, as it turned out later, the canned food that was cheaply supplied to the expedition by the unscrupulous manufacturer Stephen Goldner turned out to be of poor quality and, according to some researchers, was one of the reasons for the death of many sailors from the Franklin expedition.
In the summer of 1845, relatives of the crew members received a few letters. A letter sent by Osmer, the steward of the Erebus, said to expect their return to their homeland in 1846. In 1845, whaling captains and Dunnett reported encountering two expedition ships waiting for suitable conditions to cross Lancaster Sound. The captains were the last Europeans to see John Franklin and his expedition alive. In the following years, 1846 and 1847, there was no further news from the expedition; 129 of its members disappeared forever.
Search
The first search group on the trail of the missing ships was sent at the insistence of John Franklin’s wife only in 1848. In addition to the Admiralty ships to search famous navigator in 1850, thirteen foreign ships joined: eleven of them belonged to Britain and two to America.
As a result of long persistent searches, the detachments managed to find some traces of the expedition: three graves of dead sailors, tin cans with Goldner’s mark. Later in 1854 by John Re, English doctor and traveler, traces of the presence of expedition members in the territory of the present Canadian province of Nunavut were discovered. According to the Eskimos, the people who came to the mouth of the Bak River were dying of hunger, and there were cases of cannibalism among them.
In 1857, Franklin's widow, after futile attempts to persuade the government to send another search team, herself sent an expedition to find at least some traces of her missing husband. In total, 39 polar expeditions took part in the search for John Franklin and his team, some of them financed by his wife. In 1859, members of the next expedition, led by officer William Hobson, found a written message about the death of John Franklin on June 11, 1847 in a pyramid made of stones.
Causes of death of the Franklin expedition
For 150 long years it remained unknown that the Erebus and the Terror were covered in ice, and the crew, forced to abandon the ships, tried to reach the Canadian coast, but the harsh Arctic nature left no one a chance to survive.
Today, the courageous John Franklin and his expedition inspire artists, writers, and screenwriters to create works telling about the lives of heroes.
Mysteries of the Siberian taiga
The secrets of the missing expeditions never cease to haunt the minds of our contemporaries. In today's progressive times, when man stepped into space, looked into the depths of the sea, revealed the secret atomic nucleus, many mysterious events that happen to people on earth remain inexplicable. Such secrets include some missing expeditions to the USSR, the most mysterious of which remains Dyatlov’s tourist group.
The vast territory of our country with its mysterious Siberian taiga, the ancient Ural Mountains, dividing the continent into two parts of the world, stories about numerous treasures hidden in the bowels of the earth have always attracted the inquisitive minds of researchers. Lost expeditions in the taiga are a tragic part of our history. No matter how hard the Soviet government tried to hide and hush up the tragedies, information about the disappearance of entire teams, surrounded by rumors and implausible legends, reached people.
The inexplicable circumstances of the death of Igor Dyatlov and his expedition
The name of Mount Kholat-Syakhyl (which translates as “mountain of the dead”), located in the northern part of the Urals, is associated with one unsolved mystery related to the missing expeditions to the USSR. It was not for nothing that the Mansi people living in these places gave the ridge such an ominous name: here many times people or groups of people (usually consisting of 9 people) disappeared without a trace or died for unknown reasons. An inexplicable tragedy happened on this mountain on the night of February 1-2 in 1959.
And this story began with the fact that on January 23, a detachment of nine Sverdlovsk tourists, led by Igor Dyatlov, set off on a planned ski trip, the difficulty of which was related to highest category, and the length was 330 kilometers. Nine again! What is this: a random coincidence or fatal inevitability? After all, 11 people were initially supposed to go on a 22-day hike, but one of them good reasons refused at the very beginning, and the other, Yuri Yudin, went on a hike, but fell ill along the way and was forced to return home. It saved his life.
The final composition of the group: five students, three graduates of the Ural Polytechnic Institute, a camp instructor. Of the nine members, two are girls. All expedition tourists were experienced skiers and had experience living in extreme conditions.
The goal of the group of skiers was the Otorten ridge, which is translated from the Mansi language as a warning “don’t go there.” On an ill-fated February night, the detachment set up a camp on one of the slopes of Kholat-Syakhyl; the top of the mountain was three hundred meters away from him, and Mount Otorten was 10 km away. In the evening, when the group was preparing for dinner and working on the design of the newspaper “Evening Otorten”, something inexplicable and terrible happened. What could have scared the guys so much and why they ran in panic from the tent they had cut from the inside is unclear until today. During the investigation, it was established that the tourists left the tent in a hurry, some did not even have time to put on their shoes.
What happened to the Dyatlov expedition?
The group of skiers did not return at the appointed time and did not make themselves known. The boys' relatives sounded the alarm. They began to contact educational institutions, to the camp site and to the police, demanding that search operations begin.
On February 20, when all the waiting periods had expired, the leadership of the Polytechnic Institute sent the first detachment to search for the missing Dyatlov expedition. Soon other units will follow, and police and military structures will be involved. Only the twenty-fifth day of the search brought any results: a tent was found, cut on the side, with untouched things in it, and not far from the place where they spent the night - the corpses of five people, whose death was a result of hypothermia. All tourists were in huddled positions from the cold; one of them had a traumatic brain injury. Two have traces of nosebleeds. Why couldn’t or didn’t want to return to the tent, barefoot and half-naked people who ran out of the tent? This question remains a mystery to this day.
After several months of searching, four more corpses of expedition members were found on the snowy bank of the Lozva River. Each of them had broken limbs and damage internal organs, the skin had an orange and purple tint. The girl's corpse was found in a strange position - she was kneeling in the water and had no tongue.
Subsequently, the entire group was buried in Sverdlovsk at the Mikhailovskoye cemetery, and the place of their death is marked with the names of the dead and with the screaming inscription “There were nine of them.” The pass unconquered by the group has since become known as the Dyatlov Pass.
Unanswered Questions
What happened to the Dyatlov expedition? Until now, there are only numerous versions and assumptions. Some researchers blame the death of the squad on UFOs and, as evidence, cite the words of eyewitnesses about the appearance of yellow fireballs at Dead Man's Mountain that night. The state weather station also recorded unknown “spherical objects” in the area where the small detachment died.
According to another version, the guys went to the ancient Aryan underground treasury, for which they were killed by its guardians.
There are versions according to which the missing Dyatlov expedition died in connection with testing various types of weapons (from atomic to vacuum), with alcohol poisoning, with a ball lightning strike, with an attack by a bear and Bigfoot, with an avalanche.
Official version
In May 1959, an official conclusion was made about the death. It indicated its cause: some elemental force that the guys could not overcome. The perpetrators of the tragedy were not found. By decision of First Secretary Kirilenko, the case was closed, strictly classified and transferred to the archive with an order not to destroy it until special order.
After 25 years of storage, all closed criminal cases were destroyed. However, “The Dyatlov Case” ended up remaining on dusty shelves.
The missing schooner "St. Anna"
In 1912, the schooner set sail around the Scandinavian Peninsula and disappeared. Only 2 years later, navigator V. Albanov and sailor A. Kondar returned to the mainland on foot. The latter withdrew into himself, abruptly changed his type of activity and never wanted to discuss with anyone what happened to the schooner. Albanov, on the contrary, said that in the winter of 1912, “St. Anna” froze into the ice and was carried into the Arctic Ocean. In January 1914, 14 people from the crew received permission from Captain Brusilov to go ashore and get to civilization on their own. 12 died along the way. Albanov developed a vigorous activity, trying to organize a search for the ice-covered schooner. However, Brusilov's ship was never found.
Other missing expeditions
The Arctic swallowed up many: aeronauts led by the Swedish scientist Salomon Andre, the Kara expedition led by V. Rusanov, Scott’s team.
Other lost expeditions of the 20th century are associated with the tragic and mysterious circumstances of the death of the seekers of the Golden City of Paititi in the endless jungle of the Amazon. To solve this mystery, 3 scientific expeditions were organized: in 1925 - under the leadership of the British military and topographer Forseth, in 1972 - the Franco-British team of Bob Nichols and in 1997 - the expedition of the Norwegian anthropologist Hawkshall. They all disappeared without a trace. Particularly striking is the disappearance in 1997, when the technical equipment of the expedition was at its lowest. high level. They couldn't be found! Locals claim that everyone who seeks the Golden City will be destroyed by the Huachipairi tribe - Indians who guard the secret of the city.
Lost expeditions... Something mysterious and ominous lies in these words. These expeditions were equipped and sent in order to solve some problem or explain some mystery to the world, but their very disappearance became an incomprehensible mystery for their contemporaries and descendants.
If disappearance ordinary people often become mere statistics, then the disappearance of celebrities remains in history. Inventors, children of tycoons, politicians and pilots disappeared, giving rise to a trail of versions and guesses with their disappearance.
Roald Amundsen
The legendary Norwegian polar explorer, the first to conquer the South Pole, the first person to visit both poles of the Earth, the “Napoleon of the polar countries,” Roald Amundsen, in an interview on June 7, 1928, said about high latitudes: “I would like to die there, only let death come to me.” me in a knightly manner, will overtake me while fulfilling a great mission, quickly and without pain.”
The day before, his friend and companion on Antarctica expeditions, Sverre Hassel, died at Amundsen’s estate. Amundsen did not want such a death for himself. It was probably precisely because of his thirst for risk that Amundsen agreed to participate in the expedition to rescue his old enemy Nobel, whose airship crashed over drifting ice.
It was decided to carry out the search expedition on the Latam seaplane. At 16:00 on June 18, 1928, he took off from Tromsø, Norway, but within a few hours radio contact with the plane was lost.
After the disappearance of the polar explorer, different versions of what happened began to appear - from an accident due to technical reasons to the most incredible. The Norwegian aviator Riiser-Larsen in his memoirs talked about a certain fireman who claimed that he communicated with Amundsen during a telepathy session.
In August 1928, a seaplane float was found, and in October, a gas tank was discovered, identified as a Latham gas tank. Where Roald Amundsen and his four companions disappeared is still unknown. The last expedition to search for the polar explorer was carried out in 2009, but did not lead to anything.
Michael Rockefeller
Michael was not the “golden boy” of his father, the richest citizen in America. He studied at the university, served in the army - everything is like people do. And then, while his father was busy with politics (at that time he was the governor of New York), he went on an expedition to New Guinea.
The place, I must say, is quite exotic - the descendants of billionaires rarely come here. Michael was greeted with good will among the tribes; they willingly exchanged their ritual and everyday artifacts for the shiny rattles he brought.
But Michael, understandably, did not want to take the same type of samples. He wanted the rarest, and therefore the best and most expensive. Those valuable artifacts that Rockefeller Jr. dreamed of were in the lost tribe of asthmatics...
Before setting off on his final journey, Michael Rockefeller even visited a shaman. He told him that he saw a mask of death on his face. It is not known for certain what Michael thought, but probably something like “I’m going to a tribe of cannibals - they have a cult of death - their masks will become mine.”
The indignation of local residents over the overcrowding of the catamaran also served as a gloomy omen. They warned Michael about possible trouble. Michael did not heed - and went swimming.
It ended almost fatally. The raft capsized and the people barely made it to shore. These places were also famous for their man-eating crocodiles, so Michael’s comrades were lucky. Rockefeller himself disappeared.
The official version of the reasons for the disappearance of the richest heir in the world has not yet been established. It is believed, however, that he was eaten by cannibals, asthmatics, to whom he went for artifacts.
If this is so, then this can be perceived as a final tribute - the cannibals of New Guinea eat a person out of great respect for him.
Raoul Wallenberg
This man was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2012 and is an honorary citizen of Australia, the United States, Hungary, Canada and Israel. The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg earned this honor because he saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from being sent to the camp. He was last seen in Budapest on January 18, 1945, along with his driver. Later, evidence appeared that the diplomat was seen in the Lefortovo prison by other foreign prisoners, and after that the new leadership actually confirmed that Raoul Wallenberg was in the Soviet Union as a prisoner. True, how the diplomat’s fate ultimately turned out remains a mystery. Wallenberg's trace was lost in 1947, when he was in one of the prisons.
According to the version described in the memoirs of KGB General Sudoplatov, Wallenberg was arrested on the personal order of Bulganin, and in 1947 he was killed on the orders of Molotov. According to the general, Raoul Wallenberg was given a lethal injection, and his body was burned in the crematorium of the Donskoy Monastery.
There is also a version that Wallenberg is still alive. Former prisoners of Ozerlag, Poles Tsikhotsky and Kowalski, claimed that they communicated with Wallenberg at one of the transit points. According to other evidence, he was also seen in other camps and the Vladimir Central. The Poles also claimed that he was alive in October 1959.
In addition, members of the Swedish commission who came to Moscow in 2000 regarding the Wallenberg case did not rule out the possibility that he might be alive.
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa was the epitome of what union bosses are usually shown in American films. He rose to prominence from the very bottom of the social ladder and in 1952 became the leader of the freight transport trade union.
By 1957, corruption in his department had reached such a level that the US Senate established a special committee headed by Senator John McClellan, but it was not until 1964 that Hoffa was able to get his hands on him. He would be sentenced to 8 years for attempting to bribe a member of the Grand Jury, in the same year he received another 5 years for fraud with funds pension fund. However, out of 13 years, Hoffa served only five - in 1971, Nixon, with his authority, reduced Hoffa’s sentence to time served.
Hoffa came out, was given a significant pension of two million dollars, but was prohibited from engaging in trade union activities.
Then Hoffa decided to start where he was coming from and planned to return to the Detroit organization. However, he did not have time to carry out his plan. On April 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace. He was last seen in a restaurant parking lot in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Township around 3 p.m. Before that, he called his wife from a payphone and said that he had been “dumped.” Found in the parking lot open car Hoffa, but there was no trace of him. The disappearance of Hoffa is still considered a “talk of the town” in the United States; the story is played out in films and TV series.
Sigismund Levanevsky
In 1937, at a meeting with Stalin, Sigismund Levanevsky stood up and said: “Comrade Stalin, I want to make a statement.” "Statement?" - Stalin asked. “I want to officially declare that I do not trust Tupolev, I consider him a pest. I am convinced that he deliberately makes wrecking planes that fail at the most crucial moment. I won’t fly on Tupolev aircraft anymore!” sat opposite. He felt bad.
This scene, described in the memoirs of another hero pilot, Baidukov, put the planned trans-Arctic flight in jeopardy.
They decided to fly on an experimental DB-1 aircraft. The next day after the launch, Levanevsky radioed about the failure of the right engine and bad weather conditions. He never made radio contact again. And no one saw him or the plane again.
There are different versions of what happened, but none of them have yet been confirmed. The search area for the aircraft will stretch from Yakutia to Alaska. Last year, an expedition from the Russian Geographical Society found the wreckage of an unknown plane in Yamal, but there is no official confirmation that it was Levanevsky’s plane.
Vladimir Alexandrov
Vladimir Alexandrov was talented person- in science and in life. He spoke English with the Texas accent beloved by Americans and was the life of the party. On business trips abroad, he did not live in hotels, but with his foreign friends. He was appreciated for his extraordinary charisma and openness.
Aleksandrov was a “nuclear winter” theorist. In 1983, he and a group of scientists presented a report in which he convincingly proved that even the use of 30% of those existing at that time would jeopardize life on Earth, and the planet would not be able to return to its previous state.
In 1985, Vladimir Alexandrov took part in a conference in Spain. Before returning to Moscow, he decided to take a walk, left the hotel and disappeared. No one saw him again. The main version of the disappearance is that the physicist was kidnapped by special services.
Louis Leprince
We all know that the first film was directed by the Lumière brothers, but this is not true. The first film, however, with a running time of just over two seconds, was shot in London by the French inventor Louis Leprince. The film was called Roundhay Garden Scene. It was released seven years (!) before the official birth of cinema.
Louis Leprince saw his main competitor for the priority of inventions of the American Thomas Edison. And if Leprince was forced to go into debt for further work, then loans fell on Edison like confetti. However, Leprince overtook Edison.
Before his disappearance, the Frenchman traveled to America, where he planned to find funding and, apparently, found it. Immediately upon returning from the States, he went to visit his relatives in Dujen, and from there he planned to go to Paris, take a train to London and patent his invention. In Dugene he boarded a Parisian train and... disappeared.
As usual, there are different versions of the disappearance: from a conspiracy of competitors (along with Leprince, his equipment also disappeared) to the fact that Leprince staged a hoax of his disappearance, since his developments had reached a dead end, and he had to pay his debts.
This story wouldn't be complete without one more interesting fact. In 1902, Alphonse, Lepres's eldest son, arrived in New York to meet with Edison. The next day he was shot dead in his hotel room. The door of the room was locked from the inside, but no weapon was found near the body.
Rudolf Diesel
The financial crisis of 1913 completely ruined the inventor Rudolf Diesel, but he still had hopes for successful outcome. On September 29, 1913, he boarded the Dresden steamer in Antwerp and went to London to open his new factory. No one saw Rudolf Diesel again.
There are several versions of the disappearance. According to one, Rudolf Diesel fell from the ship during a heart attack. The body of a man similar to him was caught on September 30, but there is still no clear recognition that the caught drowned man was Diesel.
There are several reasons for this. Firstly, the Diesel family somehow managed to sort out the financial issue. Allegedly, they sold the patents of the disappeared head of the family. However, even if everything was fine with the patents, why didn’t Diesel himself sell them to save his family from hunger? The diesel engine was no longer the “miracle of the century”. It was skillfully copied and its structure was known.
Secondly, a lot of witnesses were interviewed in the case of the disappearance, but only three of them were competent: two friends of Diesel and a steward. They are all unanimous in their testimony, but Rudolf’s friends could simply follow a prepared legend, and the steward was simply bribed.
The night before his disappearance, Rudolf Diesel locked himself in his cabin, finished preparing for bed (laid out his pajamas and hung his wound clock by the bed). His hat and cloak were found on the deck.
It is also significant that Diesel’s name was not on the list of passengers on the ship, and of the “things of Rudolf Diesel” found on the ship, there is not a single item that belonged to him with 100% certainty. No wallet, no passport, no notebook, no drawings.
Everything seems to indicate that the inventor never entered the ship, and all the witnesses, including Diesel’s children, could have been interested in hiding the truth.
Garig was born in Jerusalem on December 20, 1947. During his student years, he migrated to the homeland of his ancestors in Yerevan, entered the institute and immersed himself in the study of ancient languages. And in 1972 he managed to get to France, where he stayed forever.
Krikor was a poet, but he was not remembered for his poetry. Bohemia knew him as a fanatical collector: in addition to a huge number of paintings, he was the owner of one of the world's largest collections of icons. To the public, Garig was a generous philanthropist (thanks to his enormous fortune). A learned people They considered him a qualified art critic. In general, the public loved him.
Even Soviet patriots and pioneers treated him condescendingly, despite his flight. After all, Basmadzhan opened the Gallery of Russian Art on the Parisian Boulevard Raspail and often donated Soviet Union masterpieces of Russian artists, which he himself bought at auctions for serious money. So when he disappeared without a trace in the hot summer of 1989, many of those who knew him sounded the alarm.
In 1989, the millionaire received another invitation from the USSR Ministry of Culture. At such a high level, it was planned to transfer 5 unique canvases to the Soviet Union. Garig agreed. He just needed to pick up several paintings from Russia.
On July 27, Basmadzhan arrived in Moscow at the Rossiya Hotel and began preparing for official events. He still had time to meet with old friends, which is what he did. The son of his old friend and his wife visited the 703rd luxury hotel room. They remembered the past, planned the future... In the midst of the meeting, Garig caught himself. And muttering that he has a meeting with " important people", jumped out of the room.
At the same time, Basmadzhan did not forget to assure his friends that this would not last long, and they could stay and wait in the room. Haykaza Kochar, that same guest, saw his father’s friend leave with his eyes from the window of the 703rd. He noted that there was a suspicious guy standing at the entrance. A moment later, a beige Zhiguli drove up to the hotel. The collector immediately jumped out of the building. Another moment, and the car took off with gusto and sped off into the distance. The suspicious guy disappeared along with her. The man and his wife waited for a family friend until the evening, but Basmajan Garabed Krikor did not return.
The investigation was carried out by special services different countries. Adding to the strangeness of the case was a mysterious call on August 1st at the Rossiya Hotel. The unknown man asked the attendant if Mr. Basmadzhan’s belongings had arrived. Having received a positive response, he incognito asked to book room 703 for the collector for another week.
There were many versions. The most popular are murder and kidnapping. While the investigation was ongoing, it became clear that the missing person was far from being respectable, as many believed. It turned out that he was buying antiques in the USSR and illegally exporting them to Europe. He was engaged in speculation and financing dubious organizations in his historical homeland, which the Azerbaijani criminal world did not like very much. Therefore, the most likely reason for his disappearance is considered to be kidnapping. True, it is unknown whether the mafia had a hand or the KGB.
Agatha Christie
Her husband Archibald Christie was a military man. She doted on him. And he, a scoundrel, fell in love with another woman and left his wife. The nerves of the writer, who had recently experienced the death of her mother, could not stand it. Christy happened nervous breakdown, and the doctors placed her in a hospital, however, Agatha was soon released under the guarantee of a certain relative.
The author of numerous cunning plans naturally managed to escape. On December 3, 1926, Agatha Christie disappeared in her car in an unknown direction. And she didn’t even take the dog with her, which she never left. The car was found 14 miles from home. Everything indicated that a fierce struggle had taken place inside the cabin. The writer's husband was suspected of murder and arrested.
For several days, more than 500 people searched for the famous writer, but in vain. Most were sure that she committed suicide. Even Arthur Conan Doyle searched for her. True, his method would probably not have been approved by Sherlock Holmes. The writer got hold of Agatha Christie's glove and went with it to the occultist. He assured that her owner was alive. But I couldn’t determine the location. Of course.
On December 14, she showed up at a health resort in Harrowgate. The investigation never found out where she was. The writer herself also did not reveal the secret even in her 600-page autobiography. Doctors think that she herself does not know, since at the time of her disappearance she was in a state of passion.
Sigismund Levanevsky
Sigismund Levanevsky, Soviet pilot and one of the first heroes of the USSR, was a participant and initiator of several ultra-long flights across North Pole. Levanevsky received the Hero Star as a participant in the operation to rescue the crew from the Chelyuskin steamship. It is noteworthy that Levanevsky did not save a single person due to problems with the plane, however, Stalin personally included him in the list for the award. Since then, Levanevsky gained a reputation as the leader’s favorite, and all his life he tried not to disappoint him, performing more and more new feats.
The idea of ultra-long flights in those years, we apologize for the pun, was in the air: France was planning a flight from Paris to Khabarovsk, the Poles wanted to fly from Warsaw to Krasnoyarsk
In 1932, Andrei Tupolev developed an aircraft designed for long distances. Levanevsky immediately turned to Stalin to give the go-ahead for the flight Moscow - North Pole - San Francisco. In August 1935, a test flight took place towards the icy continent. Sigismund was in for a failure: during the necessary landing, his ANT-25 burned out.
After the accident, Stalin called all participants to his office with explanations. At this meeting, Levanevsky stood up and called the ANT-25 designer Andrei Tupolev a saboteur and accused him of deliberately making such bad planes. Out of surprise, Tupolev fell under the table in front of everyone. The designer lost consciousness from fear.
The scandalous meeting did not put an end to the expedition. Moreover, the organizers were allowed to go to the USA and look there for an aircraft capable of such a flight. But the Yankees had nothing better. As a result, Levanevsky made his next attempt on an experimental Soviet aircraft DB-1 (long-range bomber "Academy"). The route has also been changed. The pilot first had to fly to Alaska, and from there go to New York. On board the plane were furs, caviar, a certain valuable painting as a gift to the US government and, according to rumors, gold.
The flight was rough. Over Barents Sea there was heavy cloudiness, the temperature was minus 35 and a powerful headwind was blowing. The pilots could not see the surroundings; the cockpit windows were densely covered with frost.
After passing the pole, Levanevsky reported that the rightmost motor had failed. “Let’s put ice on it,” it sounded then. “We are descending”... “Everything is fine,” the last message was received and the Yakut station, exhaling, reported excellent news to the Kremlin. As it turned out, it was in vain. The DB-1 board never made contact again.
According to one version, Levanevsky managed to fly to the US coast (local Eskimos heard a noise similar to the noise of a motor boat). According to another, the plane deviated from its course and fell into Lake Sebyan-Kyuel in Yakutia; in 1982, an expedition was organized there by the newspaper “Soviet Russia”.
Richie Edwards
The guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers was creative to the tip of his guitar and regularly found himself on depression, binges and drug-fuelled flights with unicorns and sexy mermaids. That's why he disappeared often. Now on a binge, now on rehabilitation center, or even in the clinic.
But one day he disappeared for real. In 1995, before a grand tour in support of the new album, he and another member of the group threw a grand party in a hotel room. At seven in the morning, having come to his senses a little, Richie remembered about some business, which he immediately went to. I agreed to meet with a friend at the airport. But he didn't show up.
He checked out of a hotel in London, was then seen at his flat in Cardiff, Wales, then at a bus station in Newport. On February 14, a car was rented in his name, and on February 17, it was found abandoned near the Sovern Bridge, which is considered a popular suicide spot. This does not stop Richie's fans from believing that their idol is alive, just tired of fame. However, after his disappearance, the group’s fame only increased.
Vladimir Alexandrov
Back in 1972, Academician of the Computing Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseev noticed the young scientist Vladimir Aleksandrov and took him under his patronage. And then he assigned a task to him, which at that time was considered unsolvable. The newcomer needed to understand the idea of simulating the dynamics of large atmospheric blocks. Instead of, like many others, simply pretending to understand the topic, Vladimir was sincerely excited. And he was so successful in resolving the deadlock problem that he led the work on modeling global climate consequences nuclear war. This brought him worldwide fame. He was known throughout the world as the author of the “nuclear winter” theory.
It was after his research and calculations that the danger nuclear weapons was no longer perceived by the world as, for example, a possible attack by aliens who are capable of destroying all life on Earth. Humanity clearly saw what would happen in the event of a war between the USSR and the USA, which would develop into a nuclear disaster.
The government of the Union did not doubt the scientist’s devotion, and therefore regularly approved his trips to all sorts of international conferences, where Alexandrov made fiery and frightening speeches. A big plus was the fact that he spoke English perfectly (for some reason with a Texas accent). In 1983, he convinced the whole world that even the use of just 30% of the nuclear weapons available at that time would put the life of all humanity under a big and fat question.
And this was very inconvenient for the nuclear powers. The defense ministers of these countries actively convinced their compatriots that if such a war broke out, nothing would threaten the Earth. It will be the same war as any other, only a little brighter and hotter. But unlike Aleksandrov, they had neither evidence nor even theoretical calculations...
In 1985, Alexandrov was again sent on a business trip overseas. As always, having successfully presented at a scientific conference in Cordoba in Spain, the scientist went to rest at the hotel. A few hours before flying to Moscow, he decided to take a walk through the streets of sunny Madrid and disappeared forever. How, where and why it was not possible to find out.
The story itself is very confusing. How could a prominent scientist associated with nuclear issues disappear without a trace? And in general, leave the hotel without being accompanied by comrades from the KGB.
Dorothy Arnold
More than 100 years have passed since the disappearance of the American socialite, and the mystery has not been solved. Neither money, nor hundreds of journalists who loved her very much for regular news events, nor serious family connections helped to find Dorothy Arnold.
The girl's father was the American perfume magnate Francis Arnold. And he was probably very proud of his daughter. Because she loved to study. She graduated from a prestigious college and even mastered several languages. This is somehow not secular... In addition, Dorothy differed from other secular slackers in her decent behavior. The girl did not allow herself any love affairs (as was believed before her disappearance), although she was at the most suitable age for this. The future heiress of millions was 26 years old.
On December 12, Dorothy woke up at 11 am. Having cleaned herself up, the girl went down the stairs from her room to the first level of a huge apartment in Manhattan. She warned her mother that she was going to buy a cocktail dress for an upcoming party from her sister Marjorie.
Dorothy had $61 with her. Apparently the party was very important for the socialite if she intended to spend more than half of her monthly allowance on new clothes. Her father gave her $100, which was very good at that time.
That day the girl met with several acquaintances. Then I walked to the pastry shop. Then I went to the bookstore. I left it with the book “Notes from a Busy Girl.” After which I went to travel agency, where I inquired about flights from America to Europe. Since then, no one has seen her again.
Dorothy's family contacted the police only six weeks after the disappearance. Before this, the best private detectives were looking for the girl: hospitals, morgues, as well as all the reservoirs of Central Park were examined. The police were also tasked with finding a certain man named John Grisham. As it turned out, a month before her disappearance, Dorothy ran away from her parents to Philadelphia, where she lived for a week with 40-year-old engineer John Griscom. When the couple ran out of money, the girl pawned the jewelry at the pawnshop. This allowed the police to find Griscom. He was in Italy at that moment. A relative of the Arnolds went to his hotel and threatened him if John did not tell him where Dorothy was. He responded by saying that Dorothy was depressed because of that. that several literary magazines refused to publish her story. Griscom suggested. That she could have committed suicide.
Then two more versions appeared. One: Dorothy slipped and fell and lost her memory. And another: socialite had an unsuccessful abortion, from which she died, and her corpse was buried (one former criminal said that he was paid $150 to dig a grave in the basement of a residential building and bury in it a girl who looked like the wanted rich woman).
After completing the case, which ended in nothing, it became known that Francis Arnold's search for his daughter cost 100 thousand dollars.
Owen Parfitt
All his life, sailor Owen Parfitt traveled the world, even being captured by pirates. Because of this, Shepton-Mallet returned home to his native village with numerous injuries. His older sister, Susanna, took care of him. Yes, it was not difficult. The 60-year-old former sailor spent most of his day in a wheelchair on the porch of his house. He loved to talk heartily about his adventures.
June 7, 1763 was to be as boring and endless as the previous few years. By evening it became clear that a hurricane was brewing. The sky was overcast and the wind was blowing up in earnest. Farmers were in a hurry to remove the hay and herd the scurrying chickens. Their children and wives helped them. Owen's sister, looking out the window, put aside her knitting, and went to her brother to move him into the house. The woman was not capable of this on her own. Her neighbor always helped her cope with this undertaking, and she went after her. The old man shouted after her to take her time. He wanted to catch the rain.
When the women walked toward the house, talking, they clearly saw a man in a stroller on the porch. At some point they got carried away and, turning to each other, stopped. When the elderly ladies continued their journey, they were surprised to notice that there was only an empty wheelchair, with Owen's greatcoat hanging from the armrest.
A lengthy search for the former sailor ended in vain. Numerous neighbors assured that they had not seen any strangers.
