Examples:
71 BC – Although he was presumed killed in battle, the body of the rebel slave Spartacus was never found and his fate remains unknown.[
1590 – The Roanoke colonists disappeared, becoming known as The Lost Colony, in 18 August 1590, when their settlement was found abandoned.
1826 – William Morgan (52), resident of Batavia, New York, disappeared just before his book critical of Freemasonry was published.
1900 – Three lighthouse keepers working on the Flannan Isles (off the northwestern coast of Scotland) disappeared in a mystery commemorated in the ballad Flannan Isle and the opera The Lighthouse.
1930 – Joseph Force Crater (41), an associate justice of the New York Supreme Court, was last seen on August 6 after a meal at a restaurant. Judge Crater was never seen or heard from again. (His mistress, Sally Lou Ritz (22), was said to have disappeared a few weeks later; however, this is false, as she was interviewed by police as late as July 1937.[36]) Crater’s disappearance, which prompted one of the most sensational manhunts of the 20th century,[37] was the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation. Crater was declared legally dead in 1939 and his missing persons file was officially closed in 1979; however, cold case squad detectives have investigated new leads as recently as 2005.[38] To “pull a Crater” became slang for a person vanishing.[39]
1953 – Henry Borynski, a Polish Catholic priest and outspoken Anti-Communist disappeared in Bradford, Yorkshire.[61]
1961 – Lucy Ann Johnson disappeared but was not reporting missing until 1965. She was found alive with a new family in 2013, and had been missing for 52 years.[64]
1978 - Eddie Aikau (31), an Hawaiian life guard and surfer. After the crash of the Hokule’a, Eddie paddled out to get help from the nearest island, Lanai, and was never seen again. The people aboard the Hokule’a were saved by air.
2007 - Jim Gray (63), database pioneer, Microsoft Research scientist, and Turing Award winner, left San Francisco Bay in his 12 m (39 ft) sailboat Tenacious to scatter his mother’s ashes at the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge 43 km (27 mi) away, and was reported missing when he failed to return later the same day. No Mayday call was heard, his distress radiobeacon was not activated, and, despite one of the most ambitious search and rescue missions of all time, no trace of Gray or his yacht has ever been found.[112] In 2012 he was declared legally dead.[113]
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