Speaking of mass disappearances, we inevitably think of the unforgettable Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 incident in 2014, where 153 compatriots are still missing, and no one is dead or dead.
The harsh reality is that for missing individuals, they are quickly forgotten by others except for their loved ones and friends, and over a longer period of time, even the mysterious disappearances themselves are forgotten.
Similar mass disappearances are not uncommon in the historical record, and even in the age of the Internet, where "eyes" and "ears" are everywhere, there will still be a group of people who have disappeared so plainly.
1. The Lost Indus Valley Civilization
The ruins of the two ancient cities of Mohenzo-Dhara and Harappa, both located in present-day Pakistan, represent the Indus Valley civilization that underwent dramatic changes from budding, flourishing to suddenly disappearing from about 3300 to 1300 BC.
According to the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata, these two ancient cities were the birthplace of the Indus Valley civilization, and modern archaeological research has found intricate drainage systems, brick baths and drinking water systems, as well as more than 40 human bones at the ruins of the ancient cities.
According to the scale of the two ancient cities, the total number of residents that can accommodate is at least 80,000 people, what force makes so many people suddenly disappear, not even the bones left? Historians have come up with ideas such as floods, plagues, and the sudden collapse of the domestic economic order, the most daring of which is the nuclear annihilation hypothesis.
British expert Lord David Davenport, a proponent of nuclear annihilation, spent 12 years studying the Indus Valley civilization and found that many parts of Mohenzo-Daro had traces of high temperature incineration and radiation residues, and some floor tiles had been melted into glass.
Combined with the relevant descriptions in ancient books, Davenport boldly speculated that the disappeared Indus Valley civilization was destroyed by a nuclear war, and this prehistoric civilization was far more developed than we think.
2. The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Anasazi Tribe
The Anasazi tribe is one of the most Chinese native tribes in North America, living in the so-called "Four Corners" region on the border of present-day Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico as early as 1500 B.C.
At the end of the 13th century, the Anasazi people abruptly abandoned their settlements, which included a number of buildings built under the cliffs up to 5 stories high, as well as more than 800 separate rooms.
Overnight, the whole tribe seemed to evaporate out of thin air, and no one knew where they had gone.
Today there are several North American Native tribes claiming to be descendants of the Anasazi people, and in the Navajo language "Anasazi" originally means "ancestors", according to the legend of these tribes, their ancestors "returned home".
The so-called "homecoming", interpreted as the Anasazi people as an advance party of alien civilizations to explore the earth, returned to their home planet, and archaeologists studying the ruins of the "four corners" settlement also pointed out that some strange lines and spiral markers in the local area are related to the stars of the universe.
3. A vanishing colony
Roanoke Island, north Carolina today, was one of the earliest settlements of British colonists and was founded in 1585.
After two years of hardship, the first colonists found the environment too harsh, so Governor John White personally took people back to England to ask for help from the government.
White returned to England, coinciding with the Anglo-Spanish War, and three years later he returned to the Roanoke colony with supplies, arriving in August 1590.
When White and his party came ashore, they found that the entire settlement was uninhabited, and they were greeted by a dead bone and the inscription "Crotoan" on a tree.
The inscriptions on the trees made the Crotoan tribes in the south of the colony the subject of greatest suspicion, with some believing that they attacked the settlements and killed everyone.
The problem is that Crotoan never acknowledged this speculation, and neither were those who had disappeared or their bodies ever found.
Other historians believe that White had been absent for many years, and that the colonists believed that the governor had abandoned them, so they sailed back to England on their own, shipwrecked on the way, and the ship and everyone else were buried in the deep ocean bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
4. The Mary Celeste
The Mary Celeste was a ill-fated two-masted merchant ship whose captain died on board during her maiden voyage and collided with other ships in the English Channel.
In December 1872, a Canadian merchant ship discovered the Mary Celeste floating aimlessly at sea, the captain of the ship's family of three and seven crew members were missing, but the hull showed no signs of damage, 6 barrels of alcohol in the cargo hold were empty, and the rest was well preserved.
Since the cargo is all there, the possibility of encountering pirates and robberies can basically be ruled out, and what is even more strange is that except for a captain's log, the whole ship has no piece of paper.
For many years, the fate of mary Celeste's people remained an unsolved mystery, and the ship became the prototype for many later legendary "ghost ships."
Maurice Jessup, who is obsessed with alien research, has pointed out in his book The Case of UFOs that the people on the Mary Celeste have been abducted by aliens, which has few supporters.
5. Monokular Giant Decline
The U.S. Navy coal carrier Cyclops was unscathed on several missions off the coast of Europe during World War I, and who would have thought that it would have been a victim of the Bermuda Triangle in the north Atlantic, where there was no war.
In February 1918, the Cyclops left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, headed for Barbados, and from there to Baltimore, with 306 crew and passengers on board, and 11,000 tons of manganese ore used in the production of arms.
Shortly after the Cyclops left Barbados on 3 March, it cut off communications with shore and did not send out distress or help signals.
A large ship of nearly 20,000 tons disappeared, and the United States searched several times near the waters where the Cyclops disappeared, and found no wreckage or clues, which is still the most costly non-combat accident in the history of the United States Navy.
Since the Cyclops happened to have disappeared in the Waters of the Bermuda Triangle, the reason for its disappearance is inevitably linked to the legend of this mysterious sea.
6. Disappearance of the village of Helvedy
In February 1923, more than 600 villagers in the Brazilian village of Helvedy disappeared overnight, with no valuable belongings taken with them or any signs of packing food.
The first to find the villagers missing were a few tourists, and as soon as they entered the village of Herverdi, they felt the eerie atmosphere, and the whole village was eerily silent, and even the birds and insects could not be heard.
Tourists called the police, and they didn't find much clue when they arrived, but they found the chalk-written line "No Redemption" on the blackboard of the village school, and they also found a gun nearby that should have been fired in the past 24 hours.
The investigation of the whereabouts of these more than 600 villagers is also limited to this extent, and some people believe that the political situation in Brazil at that time was turbulent and the internal military conflict was one after another, and these villagers were likely to flee their homes.
However, as long as it is carefully considered, the claim of fleeing is untenable, not to mention that the belongings and food of the villagers' homes have not been taken away, and the appearance of such a large group of people in other parts of the country is bound to leave corresponding records.
7. Lake Angie Kuni Incident
The mass disappearance of Lake Angiekune in Canada bears some resemblance to the disappearance in the village of Helvedy, when in November 1930 hunter Joe Labelle inadvertently walked into an Inuit settlement on the shore of the lake and found it abandoned.
The settlement was home to more than 30 Inuit people who seemed to be in a hurry, the cooking fire was not extinguished, the pots and the food inside had been charred, and the weapons, food and personal belongings in the tents had not been taken with them.
Labelle rushed to the nearest telegraph station and alerted the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who arrived only to find that the Inuit did not seem to be in such a hurry, as the graves around the settlement had been excavated and the bodies inside had been taken away.
On their way to the settlement, the police had stopped for tea at the home of local hunter Armand Laurent, who told them that a few days earlier a strange, gleaming object had flown over his house in the direction of Lake Angiekunee.
Since then, the Canadian police have conducted two large-scale investigations into the Angie Cunee Incident, but the results have been unsuccessful.
8. Disappearance of four young people in Sweden
Although only four people are missing, this is the largest disappearance in Swedish history, with four young people in Gothenburg disappearing out of thin air on July 29, 1965.
Guy Carlsson, Jan Orof Dalsher and Shel Oak Johansson, all working at a local shipyard, were seen by witnesses who said they had braved the rain that morning to drive a blue Volvo out of town.
The problem is that none of the three of them have a driver's license, which means that at least one of them is driving illegally, and although they all have misdemeanors in the police station, they have a good reputation among relatives, friends and colleagues, and they are relatively conformist young people.
Later that day, the Gothenburg police also received a report of the disappearance of Hübner Lundquist, who left his family with a postcard announcing his safety.
The location of Lundquist's final appearance coincided with the last place where the three men had appeared before, and the Swedish police linked the disappearance of four people, but their whereabouts have been unknown for decades.
9. The Mystery of the Australian Ghost Ship
The catamaran Kaz II was spotted by a helicopter in April 2007 when the 9.8-metre-long vessel was drifting off the coast of Queensland.
There were three crew members on Kaz II, Derek Batten, 56, Peter Tenstead, 69, and James Tensted, 63, all of whom live in the western city of Perth.
Upon closer inspection, it was found that apart from some damage to the sails of the Kaz-2, there was no sign of natural or man-made disasters in other parts, and the three people on board were unknown.
The strangest thing was that the dining table on the yacht had been set up and put on the food, and it was obvious that three people were preparing to sit down to eat, and one of the laptops on the ship was also turned on, without any signs of accidents.
Australian police conducted a thorough search of Kaz II, and also sent search and rescue ships and planes to repeatedly search the nearby waters, but the three people on board were alive and dead.
In the end, the police came to the conclusion that one of the crew members accidentally fell into the water, and the other two also fell into the sea while rescuing him, which was more like an excuse to close the case, lacking sufficient evidence to support and not convincing most people.
10. The Mystery of the Disappearance of the Ancient Ship Nina
Built in 1928 and made of fine peach wood, the Nina is a schooner with a glorious history, winning the New York-Spanish Sailing Race a month after launch and was the flagship of the New York Yacht Club.
The nina's last owner was American billionaire David Deckie, who sailed from New Zealand to Australia in the summer of 2013 with six crew members, including his own family.
However, the Nina did not appear at the scheduled time of arrival, and New Zealand immediately launched the largest maritime search and rescue in the country's history, with the result that neither the ship nor the people were found.
Since the Nina is a ship that is of great concern to sailing enthusiasts, the Dyche family also has the habit of publishing their travels on social media at any time, and their disappearance has attracted global attention and speculation.
One of the missing members of the ship, Danielle Wright, is the girlfriend of The Decker's son, David Deckie Jr., the only daughter of another rich family, and although the Detch family has disappeared completely, the Wright family has not given up on efforts to find the Nina.
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