Random Peple Who May Have Disappeared Into Another Dimension (10 items)

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  (#1) Owen Parfitt

  Owen Parfitt lived in the English town of Shepton Mallet and mysteriously disappeared some time in the 1760s. Parfitt was unable to walk on his own due to disease, so he lived with his sister, who took care of him and helped him move around the house.

  One day, Parfitt was sitting outside right by the front door, where he usually sat, and his sister came over to move him. In the chair, she found only the coat that her brother had covered himself with to keep warm. She thought perhaps that a neighbor had moved him inside the house, but when she looked, he was nowhere to be found.

  All the neighbors said they had not moved Parfitt and had not seen anyone else move him. No one ever saw him again. Because he was unable to walk on his own, we can only assume that Owen Parfitt was sucked into another dimension while he was sitting in his chair.
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  (#2) Brian Shaffer

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  Brian Shaffer was a medical student at Ohio State University who disappeared in April 2006. Shaffer met up with several friends at a bar one night and he was last seen sometime around 2 a.m., when witnesses saw him talking with two women at the bar.

  Some time after that, Shaffer's friends lost track of him. They realized that he was no longer in the bar, and so they left, thinking that their friend had just gone home. But Brian never made it home. In fact, he vanished, never to be seen again.

  The strangest part of this story is that this particular bar had security cameras at the entrance. The police found footage of Shaffer entering the bar, but there was no footage that ever showed him leaving. Investigators found no evidence of foul play.
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  (#3) Louis Le Prince

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  Louis Le Prince was the inventor of the motion picture, though Thomas Edison would take credit for this invention after Le Prince disappeared. Was a patent-greedy Edison responsible? Probably not.

  Le Prince mysteriously disappeared in September 1890. Le Prince had been visiting his brother in Dijon, France, and boarded a train to go back to Paris. When the train arrived in Paris, Le Prince did not get off the train.

  The train made no stops between Dijon and Paris, and Le Prince could not have jumped out the window of his compartment since the windows were locked from the inside. The police searched the countryside between Dijon and Paris anyway, but never found any trace of the missing man. It seems he just vanished.

  There is a possibility (which the police never considered) that Le Prince never boarded the train in the first place. Le Prince's brother, Albert, was the one who took Louis to the train station. It is feasible that Albert could have been lying and he actually slew his own brother for his inheritance money. But at this point, we'll likely never know.
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  (#4) James E. Tedford

  James E. Tedford mysteriously vanished in November 1949. Tedford boarded a bus in St. Albans, VT, where he had been visiting family. He was taking the bus to Bennington, VT, where he lived in a retirement home.

  Fourteen passengers saw Tedford on the bus, sleeping in his seat, after the last stop before Bennington. What doesn't make sense is that when the bus arrived in Bennington, Tedford was nowhere to be seen. All his belongings were still on the luggage rack.

  What is even stranger about this case is that Tedford's wife also disappeared some years earlier. Tedford was a WWII veteran and when he returned from combat, he found his wife had vanished and their property had been abandoned. Did Tedford's wife find a way to bring her husband into the next dimension with her? Stranger things have happened...
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  (#5) Thelma Pauline Melton

  Thelma Pauline Melton was a 58-year-old woman who disappeared while hiking with two of her friends in September 1981. The three friends were hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains on an easy trail that Melton was very familiar with.

  Melton was walking a bit ahead of her companions, so she was the first to round an upcoming bend. When the friends rounded that same bend, they found that Melton had vanished. Melton suffered from high blood pressure, so the possibility that she could have suddenly sprinted off is unlikely.

  No trace of Melton was ever found.
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  (#6) Prabhdeep Srawn

  Prabhdeep Srawn is a Canadian military reservist who disappeared on a hiking trip in Australia in May 2013. Srawn parked his rented camper and set off on the Main Range Walk in Kosciuszko National Park. A staff member called the police when he noticed that the vehicle hadn't moved for almost a week, though it only had a 24-hour parking pass on it.

  The bizarre part of this case is that two park rangers heard a voice that sounded like a cry for help coming from the area Srawn disappeared from. Despite this information, searchers couldn't locate Srawn, and the origin of the voice remains unknown. 
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  (#7) Elizabeth O'Pray

  Elizabeth O'Pray is a 77-year-old woman who lives in the Blue Mountains area of Australia and went missing in March 2016.

  O'Pray was walking on one of the trails in the Blue Mountains when she got lost. One day after her family reported her missing, rescuers were actually able to get a hold of her on her mobile phone, at which time she said she was okay but had no idea where she was. A few days later, both residents in the area and police heard screams for help, but still the searchers were unable to locate her.

  To this day, Elizabeth O'Pray has not been found. At the time she disappeared, she was apparently taking stroke medication, which can cause confusion and may explain why she got lost. But that doesn't explain how searchers were unable to locate her after speaking to her on the phone and hearing her cries for help. 
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  (#8) Martha Wright

  Martha Wright disappeared in 1975 when she and her husband Jackson were driving from New Jersey to New York. When they were driving through the Lincoln Tunnel, the couple had to pull over because there was a lot of condensation on their car windows. Martha wiped off the back windshield while Jackson took the front. When Jackson had cleared the windshield, he looked up to find that his wife was gone.

  There's nowhere that a person could have run to in the middle of the Lincoln Tunnel, and it's highly unlikely that someone in another car would have been able to pull over and snatch Wright without her husband noticing. It seems as though she just vanished from the spot where she was standing.

  Since there were no other witnesses, there is the possibility that Jackson Wright took his wife's life and made up the story about the tunnel to explain her disappearance. But if you wanted to cover up the slaying of your own wife, why would you tell such an implausible story?
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  (#9) Brandon Swanson

  Brandon Swanson is a 19-year-old college student from Minnesota who disappeared in May 2008. He was on his way home from a night out with friends and ran his car into a ditch. He called his parents and asked them to pick him up. This is where the story gets strange.

  Brandon told his parents his car went off the road near a town called Lynd, MN, and he was going to walk toward that town, where his parents would pick him up. However, as his parents approached Lynd, they saw no sign of their son or of his car. The car was later found near a different town called Taunton, MN, not even close to where Brandon said it would be. Brandon routinely traveled that particular route, so it's unlikely that he would have been wrong about where he was.

  Brandon was on the phone with his father for about 45 minutes as his parents were trying to locate him, when he suddenly said, "Oh sh*t!" and then the line went cold. Authorities postulated that Brandon fell into a nearby river, but when his parents called him back, his phone kept on ringing, which would not have been possible if it had fallen in the water. All those calls went unanswered, and Brandon has never been seen since.
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  (#10) Damian McKenzie

  In his book Missing 411, author David Paulides describes the mysterious case of Damian McKenzie. McKenzie was a 10-year-old boy who disappeared in 1974 while on a camping trip at Victoria Falls with a total of 40 students. The group was on a hike to the top of the falls when they noticed that Damian was gone. 

  According to one of the other kids who was on the same camping trip, searchers tracked Damian's footprints all the way up one side of the falls, but the footprints mysteriously stopped, as if something had snatched Damian up. No one saw any suspicious people in the area, and canine tracking dogs were unable to pick up a scent trail. The boy was never found.

  It's as if Damian was suddenly "beamed up," leaving an unfinished trail of footprints. 

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